Alec Lea (28 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Brown cloth binding. Color illustration on dj by Diane deGroat. Dj in mylar wrap. 134 pages. Chapter book. Int. good. Usual library markings and flaws.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Corners barely brushed, text is tight and presentable, with brown marks in frt & rear hinges (endpps). Text crisp and unmarked save for tidy name on upper tip of title pg. DJ in new mylar bumped at head of spine but no rubs, chips or tears. 134 pp. A Scottish boy accepts responsibility for raising a calf from birth, a task which helps him adjust to the eventual loss of the family's dairy farm. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, VG ex school library with VG purple pictorial dj in mylar. English farm novel of the 1880's. 157 pp. A dramatic story of the longest day of a boy in England; full of the atmosphere of Dartmoor. Peter is bewildered on the foggy moor.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair+. Reprint. Matt paperback. Good condition. Children's story. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Slightly smaller book, brown cloth lightly rubbed overall, title embossed at top front, gilt lettering bright on spine, 134 heavy pages. DJ heavy paper with beautiful color-illustration of boy resting on calf's side amid straw on front, spine and back. DJ badly worn and torn at edges. Poor DJ/Good book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dustjacket in mylar, usual library markings. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First British Edition. Library tape marks to boards and pastedown. Front endpaper missing. Internally in Good condition. Dustjacket is unclipped and protected by removeable library clear cover but is adhered to pastedown. Overall a very acceptable reading copy of this children' novel about a 19th century faming family set on Dartmoor. Ex-Library.…

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Rob decided to call the newborn calf Temba Dawn for she had been born early on a frosty September morning on their farm in Scotland." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Record # 400988.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bodley Head (1974). Hardback. Some light wear to dustjacket commensurate with age but no rips or tears, and book overall remains in very good condition. Dispatched from UK within three days.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Puffin 1973 first thus. Softcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 184pp, text clean and sound, signed by the author on endpaper with gift inscription, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0234778849. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. uk1st.edition.1st.printing/vg hardback in vg dustwrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Paperback: cover edges are slightly rubbed, corners are lightly bumped, scribbles on the half title, endpapers and foredges a little foxed, paper is browning, else g. 140pp. Young Peter is tasked with bringing the cows home for milking while the rest of the family are carrying in the hay before a storm. But the cows aren't to be found, so he went searching on Dartmoor in one of its treacherous summer fogs .…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. dj (price unclipped) slightly rippled and lightly marked on the reverse, brown cloth slightly stained on top front corner and top back edge, page edges stained and a bit rippled, a couple of pages have darker stains, name on front flyleaf, else g. 8vo, 134pp. Reinforced binding. Set in Scotland - the relationship between a boy and his own calf.…

First edition. Hardback. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in Very Good clean condition. Story set near Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Gift inscription on front end paper. Jacket supplied in a new removable clear cover. Securely ppackaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A farming story set in the North east of Scotland. Signed by the author on front free endpaper: "with best wishes from Alec Lea". No other inscriptions. Slight damp staining to back of dust jacket and back endpapers. Signed by Author(s). …

Original Yellow Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1974. 134pp. Canada born writer and farmer who eventually settled and farmed in Aberdeenshire. "Rob decided to call the newborn calf Temba Dawn for she had been born early on a frosty September morning on their farm in Scotland." UNCLIPPED dust jacket in excellent condition, with minimal shelf wear and all edges neat and clean. Jacket design by David Knight. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR "With best wishe to Guy Newbury from Alec Lea" to the front free end paper. No other marking, underlining, or inscriptions. An excellent copy. SIGNED COPY.…

Original Brown Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1974. 134pp. "Rob decided to call the newborn calf Temba Dawn for she had been born early on a frosty September morning on their farm in Scotland." UNCLIPPED dust jacket in very good condition, with minimal shelf wear and all edges neat and clean. Small tear to middle of spine. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR "With best wishes, Alec Lea" to the front free end paper. No other marking, underlining, or inscriptions. A very good copy. Signed by the author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. First Edition. 134 pages, cloth. FINE in soiled dustjacket. Story of a ten year old boy living in Scotland who father promises him a calf for his birthday. Rob promises to care for her forever, even when the farm is put up for sale.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. 160 pages. Dj chipped. Ex-library'On the skirts of the moor' or 'on the edge of the beyond' people said when t hey talked about Sunset Farm, and to young Peter Varden who lived at Sunset Farm the words held a special fascination. There was his home, so familiar, safe and hardworking, and only just beyond it the vast, treacherous tract of Dartmoor, s o bleak and threatening in winter or enveloped in one of its sudden and bewilder ing mists.Peter's own great singlehanded struggle with Dartmoor came when he was still a little boy. It was haymaking time, a boiling hot day 'with a temperatur e', as Peter's sister Beth put it. Anyone could see that it was going to rain, a nd the best hay would be ruined unless the entire family worked like demons to g et it in.So it was that Peter was sent alone for the very first time to fetch th e cows home for milking, and when he couldn't find them he went looking on the o pen, dangerous moor. Here, instead of a sunset there seemed to be something evil and threatening, and Peter could see nothing. No tors, no skyline, no cows, not hing. He was lost in a grey swirling, Dartmoor fog.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1973 Puffin Paperback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good clean tight binding with wonderful cover design as shown.

Condition: Collectible; Like New. First Printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. A very fresh copy, with NO marks or flaws. The jacket is sunned very faintly along spine; otherwise Very Fine.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good DJ. First edition. Rubbing to cloth edges, slight bumping to corners. Creasing to dj edges, sunning to dj.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read copy. Colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

First Edition. Two young lovers on farms in Dartmoor are separated for 50 years from before the first world war until after the second. This novel tells the story both of the people involved and the farm setting. VG in VG price clipped jacket.

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