Bartram Deakin Compiler (3 results)

Condition: Good. 1947. First Edition. 247 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Hard Back. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. ALDIN, CECIL , (illustrator). 1st Edition. Apple green cloth with dark blue lettering to spine and country scene to front board. 248pp. 14 plates being 7 line drawings by Cecil Aldin reproduced from Berkshire Vale by Wilfred Howe-Nurse and 7 b/w photos. Anthology of country prose, poetry, stories and essays collected in categories :- The Farm and Garden, Field Sports, The Countryside, The Angler and the Running Stream, Country Folk, Games and Man's Best Friend by an extensive number of writers including :- Vita Sackville-West, Hilaire Belloc, Wilfred Howe-Nurse, Richard Jefferies, W H Hudson, Mary Webb, G K Chesterton, Siegfried Sassoon, E V Lucas etc etc. with acknowledgements and preface by the compiler Bartram Deakin. The copy here offered for sale is inscribed and signed by Deakin in ink to B L B Hutchings and dated Oct 1955 to the front free end paper.Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/Good (Book- Light shelf wear to extremities of boards, offset browning bands to free end papers, author insc. as above. Dust Jacket- Heavy rubbing to extremities with chips/ loss and tears- max 2 cm approx. non price clipped cover-,12/6. Despite stated faults still quite presentable in a removable proprietary protective sleeve . No other notable defects to book or jacket). Signed Copy.

1st ed. "Mr. Deakin presents a panorama of the countryside, a picture of the country as it is today as well as the rural life of yesterday." Pp. 248, 14 illustrations, inscrip. to fep, uneven toning to endpapers. Green cloth, illustrated d/w has small losses. G+/G.