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J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1934. Hardcover. Good. 1934. First in Memrial Edition. 212 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier tanning to endpaper & pastedowns. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Moderate foxing to text block edge. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Spine is heavily tanned. Book has forward lean.

Hodder and Stoughton,. Hardback. viii,272pp.+ publisher's ads. A collection of essays and sketches on Somerset life especially traditional crafts and their practitioners. Rayomond was a novelist and his work is highly readable and entertaining. Bound in full green cloth with a rather Art Deco illustration of a stylised landscape to the front in cream and light blue. Gilt titles to the spine. Laid-in is an article from the Exmoor Review 1974 on the subject of Waler Rayond and the unwarranted disregard of his work. Cloth is very clean but the spine is faded, rubbed to edges with some tiny splits and chips to the spine ends. There is a one inch split from the head of the spine down the front joint. Interally the front hinge is spliting across teh endpapers but the binding is otherwise sound. From the Exmoor Society Library with the library name plate and those of two previous owner's to the endpapers. No other library marks. Good copy . Hardback. 1907.

First edition, Hodder and Stoughton, London: 1907.. 272 + 8 pages of publishers adverts, original cloth, small snag to head of spine, few spots to prelims and fore- edges. A series of essays on various Somerset characters and craftsmen. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include SOMERSET - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) ----

London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and shadow-stained. Bumped corners. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains very well-preserved overall. Physical description; viii, 272 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; ""These essays and sketches have appeared as detached papers in various periodicals."" Contents; An old stone-cracker -- One of the old sort -- ""My sheep"" -- Farmer John Buck -- Two tramps -- The hurdle maker -- Young Bob Pattimore -- Noah Pike wheelwright -- The ""Strapper"" -- The drover -- Tranter Luckstone -- The old poacher -- A gamekeeper -- The carter -- The snail merchant -- An old ""projicker"" -- The old mole catcher -- The truffle hunter -- Sol Pride, the dealer -- Lord Hammerdown -- Heading and ditching -- Threshing -- Bird-charming -- The oldest inhabitant -- Another miller's daughter -- Cider-making -- Autolycus, 1900 A.D. -- Over a pair of bellows -- A small holder -- My… Leer más

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hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.