Crossing's Dartmoor Worker Tapa dura - 1992

Hardback. Very Good.

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,facsimile,1st edn thus.[William Crossing, who died 1928, wrote articles for local newspapers about Dartmoor,circa 1903.This collection was first published in book form in 1966 by Le Messurier,who also collected the contemporary photographs.This new facsimile edn is introduced by Crispin Gill,also a local West Country historian and writer.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price -clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's printed price but an adhesive price label to rear panel.Bright, crisp, clean,glossy colour pictorial artwork illustration by Brian Ainsworth, with brown+black lettering to front panel,publisher's book advert to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - virtually as new,apart from ubiquitous but light fading/sunning to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges,bright,crisp and clean with NO dust-soiling,NO foxing/ spotting,thumbing/grubbing or blemishes of any kind - immaculate; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and… Leer más

Newton Abbott: Peninsula Press, 1992. Reprint. Red Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 162 pp, gilt titling to book spine, clr dj, a facsimile of the first edition, contents clean and tight with b/w photos throughout, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket.