BROADLAND ADVENTURE. de Day, J. Wentworth - 1976

Country Life Limited, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1951. First Edition. 189 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic frontispiece almost detached but still present. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Heavy cracking to front hinge, causing board to be loose. Cracks to guttering, exposing netting. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Plates are lightly tanned. Boards have moderate shelf-wear, with noticeable bumping to corners and some scuffing and brown markings to surfaces. Lettering is slightly dulled. Spine has moderate crushing to ends, with some splits, and noticeable scuffing. Lettering to spine is mildly faded. Faint white marks with minor water staining overall. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning.

Country Life Ltd., London, 1951, 189 pages, 6.25" x 9.5", Near Fine Hardcover / no dustjacket, The Norfolk Broads, it's people, characters, wildlife and it's rivers. James Wentworth Day (1899 – 1983) was a British writer and broadcaster, of the Agrarian Right school.

London: Country Life Ltd., 1951. Cloth. G to Vg/Good. Bound in green cloth, with unclipped dw, b/w frontis plate, "The author in a flight-pit on the Waxham marshes", 28 b/w plates, map, 189pp. "here is a book about . the Broads, which includes great meres, a salt water estury, immense reed beds, endless vistas of cattle marshes and snipe bogs. "Two parallel very thin, faint lines across the front board. DW has been repaired.

Country Life, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 189pp, not price clipped, no inscriptions, illustrated. Slight rubbing to wrapper especially top and bottom of spine but no tears or fading, wrapper now in clear protective sleeve. Very nice condition internally with minimal wear, no turned over page corners etc just slight browned to front and rear prelims and very slight spotting to edge of text block

London, United Kingdom: Country Life Limited, 1951. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. FIRST EDITION. The leading page edges are stained red. Previous owner's label and name on the front endpapers. Numerous full page illustrations. No DJ is present. 189 pages.

London: Country Life, 1951. VG+/VG. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. Illustrated with photographs and a map. The author waxes lyrical on the history and natural history of the Norfolk Broads. With Index. D/w has wear and small losses to head and tail of spine, and corners of the d/w; else a very good plus copy, in a very good d/w, of the first edition, first printing. NO inscriptions. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.. First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Very Good Plus/Very Good.

Country Life,, [1951]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 27 plates on 16, free endpapers lightly offset; cloth, a very good copy. Vivid descriptions of the Broads and Broadsmen of East Norfolk, with much evocative detail of days spent in sporting and natural history.

London: Country Life Limited, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. About fine but for prev. owner insc., and a bit of cupping to boards, in jacket with lightedgewear, and a bit of fraying at spine top. A nice copy. Photographs. 189 pages..

Very good in very good dustjacket. Not price clipped.

Country Life Ltd, 1951. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1951 first edition hardback in very good condition. A few slight foxing marks to inside cover. No other marks, clean and bright, tight binding. The green cloth boards have light shelf wear. Alas no dust wrapper. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.