Thatching and Thatched Buildings by Michael Billett - 1982

Transatlantic Arts, 1979. hardcover. ACCEPTABLE/ GOOD. 5x0x7. 208 mostly clean, unmarked, tight pages with pale spotting on first and last few pages; gift inscription on front flyleaf; soiling on outer edges of textblock; cover is clean and sturdy; dust jacket has light shelf and corner wear, soiling on flaps, and yellowing on back

Robert Hale & Company, 1979. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Transatlantic Arts, 1979-07. Hardcover. Good.

London: Robert Hale. 208pp hardback, blue boards gilt in wrapper, illustrated, neat ownership signature few signs of use . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1979.

London: Hale. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0709172052 . 1st edition, 224pp, illustrated, bound in blue cloth with VG dustwrapper; Octavo .

Robert Hale, 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Firmly bound and carefully read. Both book & unclipped jacket are in VG clean condition but the lettering on the spine of the jacket is faded (still legible), Bo inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Illustrated in b/w with drawings/diagrams & some photos.

London: Robert Hale, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 208pp. Numerous line drawings, illustrations. Very good/near fine. Several text pages of otherwise-fine volume have a few inoffensively lightly highlighted single words; ownership initials on front pastedown. A tight and nice first edition of this focused and well-illustrated history and how-to.

Published by Robert Hale, 1979. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. B/w photos. Foxing/brown marks to endpapers, outer page edges and a few page margins. Wrapper is price-cut with some foxing to flaps; faded to spine, with edge-creasing.

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1979* Publisher: Robert Hale. * Binding and cover condition: Pale blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, rubs or other visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing a thatcher on a roof. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £5.50. Re/white titles to spine & face. No other visible faults. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight spotting to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Two 8pp. blocks of b/w photos & line drawings throughout. * Pages: 200 pp. text. ix pp. index blank pages at rear.* Description: The initial chapters of this book describe the development of thatching through the ages, the plant materials used and the various types of buildings covered by thatch which can still be seen in rural England. The numbers and variety of people who… Read More

London England: Robert Hale, 1982. Hardback. Contents: Historical Development of Thatch and Thatched Buildings. Thatch Materials. The Craft of Thatching. Thatchers. Living in a Thatched Building. Thatched Buildings in the West Country - Devon, Cornwall, Somerset. Thatched Buildings in East Anglia - Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridge. Thatched Buildings in the South and South-East - Dorset, Wiltshire, Avon, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Greater London and Surrey, Sussex, Kent. Thatched Buildings in the South Midlands - Oxford, Gloucester, Warwick, Hereford and Worcester, Hertford, Buckingham, Bedford, Northampton. Thatched Buildings in the North Midlands and the Northern Counties - Salop, Stafford, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Lincoln, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Cheshire, the Isle of Man. Index. Illustrated. 208 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all… Read More