Tarbat Alan (22 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. paperback, pictorial card covers, lightly rubbed to some extremities, paper a little age-toned, the binding is tight and the text clean and unmarked, illustrated, 112pp.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Shireways. (There is no volume number. So, this is possibly the first issue). Paperback in good condition. Covers are scuffed and marked. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block and page edges are tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Shireways Number 4. Paperback in good condition. Covers are scuffed, marked and sunned. Edges and corners are bumped and rubbed. Page block and page edges are tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Shireways Number 2. Paperback in acceptable condition. Rear cover and spine surface are absent. Booklet has been stapled. Front cover is sunned. Edges and corners are bumped and rubbed. Page block and page edges are tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Shireways Number 3. Paperback in good condition. Covers are scuffed, marked and sunned. Edges and corners are bumped and rubbed. Page block and page edges are tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Pbk, 108p., sketches by Ernest Jones and E.N. Richards. Bristol: Rankin bros, n.d.[194-?]. Stories and beauties of the little towns and villages of the West Country. Notes on Glastonbury, Norton St Philip, Bridgewater, Montacute, Caryland, Berkeley, Quantocks, Croscombe, Weston Ways, Bradford-on-Avon, Pilton and Priddy, Shaftesbury, Salisbury . etc. A clean unmarked copy in very good condition. c143 / m4774. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition. Stories and Beauties of the Little Towns and Villages of the West Country, Green pictorial card wraps. B/w illustrations. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 123 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are slightly bowed.…

First Edition. Condition: vg++. vg++ 1st edition 1948 paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

First Edition. Condition: vg+. vg+ 1st edition 1948 paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

First Edition. Condition: vg. vg 1st edition 1948 paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Paperback. Condition: GOOD. . Rankin Bros, clean copy, light wear no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981�x.

Paperback. Condition: good. . Rankin Bros, no number stated, light wear to covers, clean copy, binding tight, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Paperback. Condition: good. . Rankin Bros, clean copy light wear to covers, no markings, binding tight, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Paperback. Condition: good. . Rankin Bros, light wear to covers, clean copy binding tight, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback, No D/J. Green boards have bumping to spine and corners and are stained, light staining to inside boards front and back, o/w internally v/g. Outside long edges are rough.

(8) pages, original wraps, partly faded. Loosely inserted is a handwriten compliments slip, signed by the author, dated June 8th, and with his address in Wells. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ). …

19pp, original printed wraps, partly faded, loosely inserted is a signed handwritten letter from Tarbat, 8vo, on 4 sides. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include SOMERSET - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ).

Illusts, 108pp, 12mo, original pictorial card covers, one corner slightly creased. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include WEST COUNTRY - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. The scarce first edition of this collection of poetry in the original 1930s dust wrapper. First edition of The Rider of Mendip and Other Poems by Alan C. Tarbat in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper.A scarce work with only five copies held in libraries.With a foreword by Elizabeth Goudge, the award winning children's fiction writer, best known for works such as 'The Little White Horse' which won her the Carnegie Medal in 1946 for British children's books.Alan C. Tarbat was an amateur poet, playwright, and short story writer from Somerset, who worked as a schoolmaster at Wells Cathedral for most of his life.Most of his lovely poetry reflects to his early life in the English countryside, in places such as Fareham, Hampshire, and Devon.Prior owner's book plate to the first pastedown. From the library of L. E. J. and M. A. Brooke. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. There is some slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. To the dust wrapper, there is some light wear to the extremities including some creases and a few small tears. The dust wrapper is also slightly age toned with some light marks. Prior owner's book plate to the first pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with the occasional spot. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Not dated, late 1940s/early 1950s, 108pp + 112pp + 104pp + 102pp, illustrated with sketches & photographs, card covers. Near fine, with just a touch of wear and 1/2" of loss to the spine covering of Volume 4. A delightful set of booklets with articles on towns & villages in the West Country, including Glastonbury, Berkeley, Bradford-on-Avon, Dunster, Sherborne, Taunton, Weston-super-Mare, Clevedon, Bruton, Puddletown etc, reprinted from Bristol Evening World. Tarbat was a master at Wells Cathedral School. Uncommon, a full set is exceptional. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Very fine and clean copy.