Wood Magic

New York: Third Press Review of Books. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. 1st Thus. Hardcover. 0893881775 . DJ shows light shelf wear, light chipping. Price-clipped, with previous owner's bookplate pasted on FFEP. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8.9 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 271 pages; This… Read more about this item

Green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine. Black tree branch on the front board. A lovely set, of which 500 copies were reputedly published. A novel for children, with a printed dedication to the author's son Harold (i.e., Richard Harold Jefferies). This publication marks the first appearance of Jefferies' character 'Bevis' who would appear again the following year in… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, Petter, Glapin and Co. 1881. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Two volumes. Publisher's original green cloth illustrated in black to the upper board and spine, titles in gilt to the spine. Black coated endpapers. Publisher's catalogue to the rear in the earliest state (dated 6G-581). A good copy, the binding uniformly rubbed and worn… Read more about this item

Longman Green & Co., 1899. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1899. New Impression. 379 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front free endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing… Read more about this item

UK: Cassell, 1881. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Edition 1st Issue1881. Presentation copy, inscribed to volume I title verso: "Mrs Rbt. Billing, with her Fathers best Love, Jas. L. Jefferies, June 8th, 1881". From the The Hugoe Matthews collection. Hugoe Matthews (1938-2011) was an authority on the… Read more about this item

New York: The Third Press, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition by this publisher, originally published in 1881. Introduction by Richard Adams. Octavo. Very faint splash on the foredge, corners a little bumped, very good in a good dustwrapper with a label shadow and small stain on front panel.

US: Third Pr Review of Books, 1974-12-01. rep. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 271 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 464435

London: Longmans Green & Co, 1924 Book. Good. Red Cloth Boards. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Novel first published in two volumes by Cassell in1881, featuring a child-hero, Bevis, who roams the countryside in contact with birds and animals who speak to him. Reprint of single volume edition. 379pp illustrated with tissue-guarded black and white drawing to… Read more about this item

Longmans, Green & Co., 1899. Hardcover. Good. 1899. New Impression. 379 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Clean pages with noticeable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with visible thumb-marking throughout. Notable scuffing to front endpaper. Pencil inscription to front endpapers. Boards have light edgewear… Read more about this item

Wordsworth Classics, Great Britain, 1995. Softcover. Good Condition. Bevis is a small and solitary boy who lives in a magical world of talking animals. He becomes involved in feuds and intrigues of the farmyard and woodland animals in an attempt to dethrone their king, Knapchack the magpie. 263 pages. Foxing to endpapers and page edges.… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". E. V. B. . A leather bound edition of this work of children's nature fiction by Richard Jefferies, with 'The Lay of the Minstrel' by Sir Walter Scott bound to the rear of the text. Bound in half-calf with cloth boards.Illustrated with a frontispiece and… Read more about this item

London; New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1881. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 263 pages. Subjects: Children's stories. Country life England; Fiction. Animals; Fiction.

London : Longmans, Green and Co. , 1912. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". none . A charming new edition of Wood Magic a fable by the esteemed nature writer Richard Jefferies. A new impression of Wood Magic: A Fable, which was originally published in two volumes with this volume reprinted from the original one.Richard Jefferies was… Read more about this item

Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.. Pages browning, first page brittle, contents clean, 263pp. . Very Good. Hardcover.

London : Longmans, Green and Co, 1907. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 379 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. Subject; Children's stories.

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1995-12-31. Paperback. Very Good. 7x9x1. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelving wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1995. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1995. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin 1881, 1st Edition. (Decorative cloth) Good. 2 vols. - 235 & 263 pp. Decorative, Oriental-flavoured, black / gilt printed dark green boards showing not inconsiderable edge wear and rubs. Hinges variously open, tender, or started. Endpapers and prelims loose, but all present. Staining to fore-edges. Former owner's pencilled name or initials on… Read more about this item