The Open Air

Lutterworth Press, 1948. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1948. First Edition Thus. 299 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white wood engravings. Clean pages and wood engravings with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed green. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight… Read more about this item

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. Book. Illus. by Ruth Dollman. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp.234; colour frontispiece with tissue guard, further eleven colour plates. Publisher's olive green cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine and gilt vignette to the front board; good and strong with a little rubbing to edges, head/tail of spine lightly rubbed. Contents clean… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus, 1912. Hardcover. Good. 1912. Fine Paper Edition. 234 pages. No dust jacket. Blue embossed cloth with gilt lettering. Moderate foxing and tanning to text block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with light scuffing and marking overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and… Read more about this item

London, Chatto & Windus 1885 (1st.).. Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Nice light brown cloth with illustration of trees on a hill on front cover, also on spine (in blue). Navy blue endpapers In good condition. Spine darkened, small nicks to ends with partial split to middle at top. Neat inscription to endpaper/half-title, “Michael Royde-Smith.” One very small nick… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1912 limp red grained leather gilt device to cover, gilt titled and panelled spine, all edges gilt, dec endpapers, rubricated title, assumed first thus, gift inscription dated 1914 to reverse of fep, 234pp + 1pp adverts (500 gram rate). First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall.

Chatto & Windus. Good with no dust jacket. 1908. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with gilt titles and decoration, boards bumped at top corners, spine tanned, page edges foxed, gift inscription on second front endpaper otherwise no inscriptions. xii + 234 pages, 12 colour illustrations on plates by Ruth Dollman, illustrated… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1885 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A first edition of this compilation of essays by English nature writer, Richard Jefferies. First edition, in the publisher's original cloth binding with a tree motif to the front board. Written by English nature writer, John RIchard Jefferies, who was known for… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company , 1908. Hardcover. Ex-Library. A collection of papers originally published in the Standard, English illustrated magazine, Longman's magazine and other periodicals .Includes 12 color illustrations [including frontis with tissue guard], by Ruth Dollman. Gilt debossed title, author and nature scene on front cover panel. Ex-library with minimal markings. No dustjacket.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1948 Book. Good. Green Cloth Boards. Reissue. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Collection of essays on rural life by the English nature writer Richard Jefferies (1848-1887), first published in 1885, shortly before the onset of his last illness.195pp.Gilt lettering to spine. Slight bumping to spine and corners and foxing to edges, otherwise good… Read more about this item

London: J. M. Dent and Sons , 1920. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good Only. 7" by 4" . None . Pocket sized short story anthology by Richard Jefferies illustrative of country life, complete with the very scarce dust wrapper for this edition. A collection of essays concerning natural history and rural life. Written by Richard Jefferies, originally published in… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. hardcover, 270 pp. plus 32 pages of ads. Some light wear to the spinal extremities, slight darkening to the spine, still a very good plus copy with clean text and tight binding . Tan pictorial cloth, no dust jacket.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1948. Uniform Edition. 195 pages. Grey dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus. 1913. Early edition. Early edition. Original pale green cloth with titles in dark green to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 12 colour plates by Ruth Dolman. A very good copy, the binding square and firm. The contents, with a previous owner's name in pencil to the front free endpaper, some foxing to the early… Read more about this item

London: Lutterworth Press, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Introduction and notes by Samuel J. Looker. Illustrated from wood engravings by by Agnes Miller Parker. Front pastedown with bookseller ticket, boards and spine slightly rubbed, very good, lacking the dust jacket.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1893. Hand-Made-Paper Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 12mo 6 3/4 - 7 3/4". 270 pp. Binding firm. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Edges browned. Top edge gilt in good condition. Covers slightly marked. Corners slightly bumped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Natural History &… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1908. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine with a gold medallion decorating the front board; green topstain. With pictorial endpapers and pastedowns, a color frontispiece, and eleven additional color plates by Ruth Dollman. A reprint of Jeffries' collection of fictional essays on the beauty… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus, special edition on handmade paper. Brown polished cloth over beveled boards. Owner name on front fly and a contemporary Belfast bookseller ticket on on front pastedown. Binding with a toned spine end modest wear, endleaves with some tanning and a bit of foxing, very good or better.… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus, 1909. Hardcover. Good. 1909. Fine-Paper Edition. 234 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light crushing to spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus,, [1937]. 8vo., First Edition thus, neat signature on front paste-down, pencilled annotation on rear free endpaper recto; original green cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy. With the 16pp of publisher's advertisements as called for. Attractive edition in smaller format. Miller & Matthews, B23.25.

London: Chatto & Windus. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's inscription. Rubbing to leather spine and along corners of boards. 1/4" split to front hinge. ; vii, [1], 234 pages. Red leather boards with gilt decoration on spine. Gilt page edges. Page dimensions: 157mm x 196mm. Selected contents: Saint Guido; Golden-Brown; Wild Flowers;… Read more about this item