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  • A.G. Street & Denys Watkins-Pitchford ( Illustrator )

    Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949

    Seller: Red-books ( Member of P.B.F.A. ), Hanley Swan, United Kingdom

    Association Member: PBFA

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    Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Dustwrapper, has significant creasing and wear with small chips to upper and lower edges and to edge of spine.Front flap has become detached and has been reattached with archive tape, wrapper has been internally reinforced with special non acidic archive tape and is in clear removable protective sleeve. No inscriptions, illustrated. Text is clean with little wear, end papers are spotted as is the edge of the text block. Heavy book, wil require additional postage outside the UK.

  • Street (Arthur George). (1892-1966). Watkins-Pitchford (Denys J.), Illustrator.

    Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1949., 1949

    Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom

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    (Hardcover, 1949). 1949 1st edition. Ppviii,181. 8vo (161 x 218mm). B/w photograph plates. B/w wood engravings by Denys Watkins-Pitchford ("BB"). Green cloth, spine titled in silver. Foxing to edges and end-papers. Good-plus in dust-wrapper. This is a nice collection of articles by A.G. Street, both from wartime and from the 1930s, some of which originally appeared in The Farmers' Weekly, The Strand Magazine, Men Only, Country Life, and The Field. Illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, 'BB'. Contents include; Hedges; Sheenin'; Follies; Farming talk; That little brown bird; In praise of November; The clump; The saddle room; A home in the country; Farming as she is done; Daedalian delights; Haymaking; Newcomers; The willow tree; Selfish holiday; Country blessings; Shadows of the past; Ricks; The farm sale; Daisy Field; Dogs; January cock pheasant; Clothes prop; Bertie's bow tie; March hare; The past master; Carpe diem; A great farmer; Stubble duck; Nor during September; I'll tell 'ee; What? Rabbits that size? Fox-hunting is dying on its feet; The Old Brigade. *Although information in the book states that it was first published in 1949, there is evidence pointing towards an earlier edition in 1948. .