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Jonathan Cape, London, 1938, First edition in the L&L series. Plates. 8vo, original cloth, small inscription on front free endpaper, prelims. foxed. Good in the edge worn price clipped dust jacket.

Jonathan Cape,, [1938]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 9 plates on 7; neat contemporary signature on front free end paper, green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, backstrip lightly faded, else a very good, clean copy. Nearly fifty essays, reviews and other short pieces. Matthews A20/1938

Jonathan Cape, London, 1934. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 314pp. Full green buckram lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece and seven photographs. Some fading to the board edges as is customary with this production, and a little chafing to the buckram in places. A very good copy, particularly crisp internally. Former owner name inked to the front pastedown, and also a tiny dealer plate. No dust wrapper. Some fifty essays, reviews, studies and other short pieces, including a section devoted to Williamson's travels in North America and passages from 'The Sun in the Sands' which do not appear in the 1941 book of the same name..

London: Cape, 1934. First Edition. . Cloth. Vg/No Jacket. 315pp. Plates. Neat name & date fr.fly. Bookseller's label fr. e/paper. Cloth faded espec.at spine. Size: 8vo

Jonathan Cape, London, 1934. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 314pp. Full green buckram lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece and seven captioned photographs, mostly taken by the author. Although prone to fading, the green buckram covers of this copy are exceptionally well preserved, although the backstrip exhibits some inevitable fading. A hint of very light spotting to the free endpapers and to the margins of a few preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Some fifty essays, reviews, studies and other short pieces, including a section devoted to Williamson's travels in North America..

London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good/Very Good. 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket in clear protective sleeve a little loss to edges, corner clipped from flap. Original cloth boards with bright silver titling on spine, very minor wear. No ownership marks. Frontis plate. Foxing spots on title page and page tips. 9 further illustrations on plates. 315 pages clean and tight. `Here is another volume of Henry William-son's tender, illuminating studies of life in the English countryside. Mr. Williamson satisfies both townsman and countryman. He knows his fields and woods, understands and perfectly renders back that mingled charm of colour, scent and shape which is the English countryside. He knows, too, how to translate the hidden life of birds and beasts. .

London, Jonathan Cape 1934.. 316pp. 8vo. Original cloth, backstrip and edges a little faded in foxed dustwrapper, with a few small pieces missing on backstrip and upper dustwrapper. Black and white frontispiece and plates. A very good copy.. First edition.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. Type: Book 1st printing. DJ restored and shows wear with some small losses.

Jonathan Cape, London, 1934. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 314pp. Full green buckram lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's top edge stain, which is somewhat faded. With a frontispiece and seven photographs. The buckram faded at the backstrip, and with just a touch of further fading to the board extremities. Just a touch of bruising to the backstrip ends. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, somewhat toned, dust soiled, rubbed, nicked, torn and edgeworn. Some fifty essays, reviews, studies and other short pieces, including a section devoted to Williamson's travels in North America and passages from 'The Sun in the Sands' which do not appear in the 1941 book of the same name..

Elkin Mathews & Marrot 'The Woburn Books', London, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 530 numbered copies, each one initialled by the author (this one being #111). 8vo. 26pp. Decorated paper-covered boards with similar motif repeated on front and rear endpapers. A small bump to the tips of two corners and a little light browning to the free endpapers (as is common with this series). A very good copy in dust wrapper, with some spotting to the front panel, and a little darkening to the spine panel which is also lightly chipped at the ends with several tiny fractions of loss. The first bookform appearance of these two Williamson stories, the first of which was originally printed in the periodical 'Atlantic Monthly' in 1927, with the second first appearing in 'Time and Tide' the same year..

Jonathan Cape,, [1934]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 9 plates on 7; green cloth, gilt back, green top (faded), covers unevenly faded else a bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age soiled dustwrapper. Collects nearly fifty essays, reviews and other short pieces. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Gretton, 20; Matthews A20.

London: Jonathan Cape , 1934. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Unnamed . The first edition of this charming work by Henry Williamson containing a miscellaneous of wildlife writings such as essays, reviews, and short pieces of writings. . The first trade edition of this excellent work by Henry Williamson. A remarkable miscellany of writings such as essays and short spieces, in which Williamson takes the reader with him across England and America. With various writings on walks alongside the riverbanks and sea-coasts of Devon, on Salisbury Plain, in London, in the Midlands, and in the Black Country; then across the Atlantic, in New York, Georgia and Florida, up into New England and Canada. He tells of the many places and people as well as animals such as turtles and alligators, with a freshness and vigour that makes this one of Williamson's outstanding works. With the unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven photographs in black and white. In the… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Sunnibng to the spine and edges of the boards, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a tiny spot and ink stroke on the front panel.