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Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 64mo - up to 3" tall. A collection of 12 miniature photographs in an attractive card wrapper. All 12 photos are in very good condition being clean, bright and clear. Undated but c. 1930s. Photos are: Rydal Water, Grasmere from Red bank, Buttermere, Coniston Lake and Village, Windermere Lake and Langdale Pikes, Kirkstone Pass & Brothers water, Waterhead lake Winderemere from Loughrigg, Bassenthwaite lake and Skiddaw, Keswick and Derwentwater, Thirlmere & Helvellyn from western road, Bowness and Belle Isle from Furness Fells..

Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 64mo - up to 3" tall. A collection of 12 miniature photographs in an attractive card wrapper. All 12 photos are in very good condition being clean, bright and clear. Undated but c. 1930s. Photos are: Rydal Water, Grasmere from Red bank, Buttermere, Coniston Lake and Village, Windermere Lake and Langdale Pikes, Kirkstone Pass & Brothers water, Waterhead lake Winderemere from Loughrigg, Bassenthwaite lake and Skiddaw, Keswick and Derwentwater, Thirlmere & Helvellyn from western road, Bowness and Belle Isle from Furness Fells..

York: Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 1968. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of this catalogue. 40pp. Illustrated with drawings..

London: Burrup, Mathieson & Company Ltd , Issued By The Climbers Club, 1926. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A good clean copy in original black boards that show some discolouration, internally very clean. Previous owners name "Victor Lever 25/8/28" to fep. 157pp illustrated with 12 photographic plates, 9 diagrams and 3 sketch maps..

Edinburgh: W & R Chambers Ltd, 1833. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A good copy bound in green half leather with marbled paper covered boards, some minor rubbing to the spine but a good sound copy. Internally clean and bright, however title page and frontispice browned. 328pp. illustrated with 28 woodcuts and plates..

London: B.T. Batsford, 1913. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A very good copy of this volume in the fellowship Books series edited by Mary Stratton, 60pp. Blue cloth with gilt title to cover..

London: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy bound in black buckram. The Folcroft facsimile reprint which includes an important bibliography, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1927 first edition. An informative guide to the country poet slain in the First World War. 328pp..

London: Richard Phillips, 1806. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A good copy in contemporary calf with wear to the spine and some scattered foxing. 312pp. with folding coloured plan frontispiece, 2 further folding plans and i full page + many line engravings in text. The title page dated 1806 with a Dedication dated 1809.Alfred Crocker (1742 - 1821) was the surveyor and printer master of the Bluecoat School, the mathematics school at Christ's Hospital especifically for training boys in naviagtion for the Royal Navy..

London: J Johnson Etc., 1805. Book. Very Good. Hardback. 18th Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for FC and J Rivington; G Wilkie; Longmans & Co Etc, London, Sympathetically rebound in half calf with marbled boards New endpapers. Gilt title and decoration to spine. A very attractive copy..

Wakefield: William Nicholson & Sons Book. Good. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt titles to spine, black titles and decoration. 382pp plus 2p Nicholsons catalogue. Col. Frontis. Appleton family signatures to front pastedown ffep. Some staining to front pastedown and ffep. Undated, c1890..

Edinburgh: T. Brown & A. Constable, 1802. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A good copy in contemporary calf with red leather title label to spine. Contains tables for finding the content of a piece of land by pacing or by dimensions taken on the spot. Lacks ffep, but still a sound copy. 180pp. Previous owner's name written to dedication page and some added notes to p166 and to blank rear endpaper..

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1914. Book. Illus. by Haselhurst, Ernest. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good bright copy of this elusive first edition, first issue. Blue decorated boards, teg slight bump to top corner, map endpapers. Neat previous owner's name to half title. This is Andrew H. Dakers, who was Henry Williamson's literary agent, this volume from the estate of Henry Williamson. The six tipped in plates with tissue guards are correctly signed 'E.W.Haslehust' but the artist's name is spelt incorrectly on the List of Illustrations page "Hazlehurst". In Pursuit of Spring was Thomas' final work of prose and provides a delightful account of his week-long bicycle ride from central London out into the Quantock Hills in Somerset undertaken in March 1913, its publication was to lead Robert Frost to suggest that Thomas should write poetry. 301pp..

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in a good price clipped d/w. Previous owners small label to fep. 302pp. An interesting collection of letters between two literary friends..

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1917. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A good copy of the first edition. In original cloth that has some darkening to spine, Edges of boards and endpapers show some damp staining but not effecting the text. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Small label of previous owner to fep..

London: Henry Colburn and Co, 1821. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy, bound in tan half leather with paper covered boards, Some wear to lower edge of front board (see image). Minor scattered foxing to early pages, otherwise clean and sound. 378pp + 4pp advertisements. List of subscribers. Lacks the three plates. A significant contemporary source for the history of fruit growing in Britain. Fifty species are dealt with here each selectively but extensively described in reference to the literature of horticulture and botany and with observations from the authors own experience..

London: John Harding, 1809. Book. Good. Hardcover. Third Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 3rd edition (enlarged), xiipp +230pp 1 engraved plate frontispiece of tools but lacks title page, In contemporary quarter leather with marbled boards, a good sound copy. Owner's name to page of testimonies with a few contemporary ink notes. Some browning to paper but a good copy. William Pontey, British ornamental gardener, planter and forest pruner to the Duke of Bedford. "The Author gives Directions and Designs in every Department of Ornament Gardening; and, likewise, Instructions for the Management of Timber Trees generally, as well as the Objects of the present Treatise, in every Part of Great-Britain.".

London: Duckworth, 1914. Book. Very Good. Hardback. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A copy bound in full calf tree-bark with gilt decoration to the spine. aeg. Marbled endpapers. Front board detached. 58pp..

London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1932. Book. Illus. by Daglish, Eric, Fitch. Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A good copy in red cloth that has some fading to spine.Some scattered foxing. An attractive production with frontispiece and engraved illustrations by Gaglish.281pp..

London: Short Books, 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, as new copy of this Wiltshire Clergyman's daily newsletters of reflections and uplifting stories to stay in touch with his parishioners during the spring of 2020. 284pp.

London: Bodley Head, 1978. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Bodley Head edition of this great classic story. Here illustrated with coloured photographs. Introduction by Richard Willamson and an appendix with the original ending. .