Massingham Editor (21 results)

Trade paperback. Condition: As New. Deer, the world's most charming garden destroyers, are on the loose everywhere. In this simple-to-understand guide, Hart evaluates commercial and homemade deterrents, describes crucial seasonal changes in deer diet and behavior, and tells how to identify deer damage. 75 drawings.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Text Figures (illustrator). Copyright Date: 1985 Octavo, , PP.361, A Selection Of Whites Writings A Godine Country Classic - First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Macmillan, London, 1926. Hard cover, blue boards, gilt titles. Book condition : Very good. Very clean unmarked text. Spine mild bumping . Previous owners signature inside cover. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #GR022440.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. Boards show at corners. Spine ends frayed. Former owner's name on front paste down and front fly leaf. Text clean, binding sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Maroon cloth spine with red illustrated boards. Clean pages. There is a pencil note on the bottom of the title page. There is a school stamp on the front end paper. The back hinge is pulling from the staples, however the cover is firmly attached. The cover has corner wear and a small fade strip along the top front, along with a few very small soil spots. The copyright page states: Special edition containing the old Civil War songs that have survived. These have the music arranged for the first time for mixed voices and in the proper key for young voices, also the state songs of Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Maryland.

Cloth and Paper Covered Boards. Condition: G+. No Jacket. None Stated. 415 pp, the book and contents are clean and solid, the fore edge of the pages is lightly wrinkled with a small scratch, the endpapers both have some browning, the front free endpaper has the owner name and a Christmas, 1927 gift inscription, the covers are tight and clean with a little wear on the corners.

1st edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: v, [1], 178 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Contents: The rural tradition, by Edmund Blunden.--Work and quality, by H.J. Massingham.--Agricultural and industry, by B.D. Knowles.--Self-sufficiency, by Philip Mairet.--Feeding ourselves, by Philip Oyler.--Farming is the feet of the nation, by L.F. Easterbrook.--Is modern farming unsound? By C.H. Jones.--Mechanization and the land, by J.E. Hosking.--Health and fertility, by Lord Northbourne.--Grassland and livestock, by Michael Graham.--Forestry and husbandry, by Rolf Gardiner.--The small farm, by Adrian Bell.--Industrialism comes to the village, by C.H. Warren.--The future of the estate management, by the Earl of Portsmouth.--List of books (p. 172-178). Subjects: Agriculture Economic aspects Great Britain. Country life Great Britain. Country life. 3 Kg.

Illustrations Editor: Hilde Kurz (illustrator). HB n/d presumed first Spring Books edition which is 1958, handwritten date o/p Xmas 1958. Black cloth boards. Gilt titles spine. 24.8 x 17cm. 505 pages. b/w frontis. b/w illusts. Includes a one page handwritten letter from P (Pauline), dated Dec 25th 1958, which relays some basic psychology conditioning thoughts and ends with an instruction to pay particular attention to her favourite snow poem on page 484. Condition: Boards sunned on spine and top edge. Rubbed top and bottom of spine. o/p owner initials top right near seam dated Christmas 1958, New York. e/ps even ghosting. Internally clean, little wear, binding firm, good colour. Good + condition.

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered black to spine, lacking dust wrapper, a faint stain to the fore-edge else a tightly bound copy, bookplate and previous owner details to front pastedown, the text otherwise clean and unmarked, coloured frontis, b&w plates, 154pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair Dj. Illustrated (illustrator). 15 essays by various authors.

1st edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: v, [1], 178 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Contents: The rural tradition, by Edmund Blunden.--Work and quality, by H.J. Massingham.--Agricultural and industry, by B.D. Knowles.--Self-sufficiency, by Philip Mairet.--Feeding ourselves, by Philip Oyler.--Farming is the feet of the nation, by L.F. Easterbrook.--Is modern farming unsound? By C.H. Jones.--Mechanization and the land, by J.E. Hosking.--Health and fertility, by Lord Northbourne.--Grassland and livestock, by Michael Graham.--Forestry and husbandry, by Rolf Gardiner.--The small farm, by Adrian Bell.--Industrialism comes to the village, by C.H. Warren.--The future of the estate management, by the Earl of Portsmouth.--List of books (p. 172-178). Subjects: Agriculture Economic aspects Great Britain. Country life Great Britain. Country life. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Undated, circa 1920's. Edges of boards have wear, spine cloth is faded. Name stamp inside, pages browning with age but overall clean.

Condition: Good. Title: Manchester University Poetry No. 5 1957Author: H W Massingham (editor)Publisher: Manchester UniversityPublication date/edition: 1957Binding: Paperback bookletIllustrated: NoPages: 28 Description / Condition: Paperback booklet wear, discolouration grub and scuff marks to cover, rust marks from staples, pages in good condition, shipped from the UK Please see pictures for further information.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.x; 45-88; xi-xiv. Publisher's card wraps printed in red and black, price of one shilling net to upper. Some spotting to edges and covers, staples rusted, lightly handled. Very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 41-80; xv-xxvi. Publisher's card wraps printed in red and black, price of sixpence net to upper. Some spotting to edges, lightly handled, sunned to spine, pen marks to upper, corner of rear cover lost. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Navy Blue cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 195 x 135 mm approx. 132 pp Portrait frontis. with tissue guard + all other illustrations as called for. First Edition 1922. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Good (Book- negligible shelf wear, hint of foxing to fore edge of book block. No previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- rubbed with some loss to extremities - max 9 x 20 mm approx at tail of spine/ fold to front panel, minimal shelf soiling else remarkable for a 100 year + dust jacket. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve to which pieces of manila paper have been inserted to mask the stark white of the backing paper so as not to offend the eye on the bookshelf).

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 278 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Two volumes, first editions with the wood engravings of Ravilious. Large octavo. Buckram boards. Bookplate of previous owner to pastedowns. The whole in very good condition. Clean and tight. Pages Vol. I, 311 and vol. II, 356. Folding map to rear of volume 2, being Selborne in 1842.

First edition, 8vo, 110pp., title page and first few leaves soiled, dog-eared and creased, stitched as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Eric Ravilious (illustrator). First Edition. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. PP.361. This selected edition published by Breslich & Foss 1983 with 22 Eric Ravilious Wood Engravings printed by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press). Slight discolouration to page edges, otherwise near fine. Contents include: Selections from The Natural History of Selborne; The Antiquities of Selborne; The Naturalist's Journal 1789 - 93; The Private Letters and two Poems. There is a paperback edition without illustrations of the same title. An extremely rare Ravilious item.

12mo, 4 pp. 61 lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. An impressive letter applying for work. He does not expect Massingham (addressed as 'W. H. Massingham') to remember their meeting 'in the Lobby' when he was 'chief reporter on The Sun', while at the same time holding 'a Parliamentary engagement on the staff of the C. N.' Gives details of his subsequent employment, including joining the editorial staff of the 'Manchester Guardian' ('principally to look after their weekly paper which was in a sad way. I prolonged its existence rather than gave fresh life to it & in May last it died.') For the last four months he has been 'in Asia Minor & Syria seeing something of the disturbed country - an interview of mine with Sir Phillip Currie is to appear in the English Illustrated - & getting material which I hope may be useful to me'. He is 'now back in London extremely anxious to get back in the Press Gallery'. A 'descriptive writer' is more than he can hope for, and he would like to 'secure a sessional engagement on the reporting staff of the Daily Chronicle'. He is a 'verbatim note taker' and 'a good summary writer', and is 'well acquainted with Parliamentary work'. Names six individuals 'who know what sort of journalist I am', including Clement Shorter and T. P. O'Connor. As 'a young man & a Radical', he would 'prefer the Daily Chronicle, especially as it is also a literary paper'. Being 'a magazine writer' does not prevent him from 'being a reporter'. He is 'no novice to Parliamentary reporting for it is only eighteen months since I left it'.