A Field Full of Folk: A Village Elegy Tapa dura - 1995

Hardback. Very Good.

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Aurum Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 1854103342 . Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. viii + 184 pages, illustrations in the text .

Aurum Press, London, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. In the early 1960s, Charles Moseley and his wife purchased a run-down cottage in a remote Cambridgeshire hamlet (Reach). Their new home was no picture book English village. The people, earning a hard living from their small farms and ancient machinery, treated the Moseleys kindly but with condescension. Thirty years later, Dr. Moseley has written a warm, enchanting, eloquent account of how this dour place won his loyalty and, ultimately, his love. He describes the troubles and triumphs of restoring his cottage, the satisfaction of growing his own food, and the gradual mastering of ancient skills. The book, titled “A Field Full of Folk: A Village Elegy”, is a record of an East Anglian village community and an evocation of a way of life that, within a single generation, has vanished from the English countryside Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Leer más

London, England: Aurum Press, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. British First. Some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white drawings by the author..

London, U.K.: Aurum Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. AS-NEW/NEAR-FINE First Edition, 1st UK Printing. A flawless unmarked HC in a nearly perfect unclipped DJ. 5.5" by 9", 184 pages, illustrations by the author. - The author's warm memoirs of life in the 1960's in a cottage in a remote Cambridgeshire hamlet.