Linhay Downs by Williamson (63 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Bumped front corner. Previous owner's ink inscription. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Condition: Fair. 1934. First Edition. 315 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Front free endpaper cut out. Pencil inscription to half-title page. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Condition: Good. 1944. Reissued. 315 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Bookseller sticker stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Dust jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Front panel detached from spine. Minor tanning to jacket and in plastic wrapper.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A Christmas card has been pasted to both sides of the front blank flyelaf. Previous owner's ink inscription. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A clean, tight, limited edition (455/500) hardcover in good condition; clean bright text-block, boards with shelf wear and rubbing, mild wear at extremities. No DJ. Initialed by the author.

Cloth. Condition: Vg. No Jacket. First Edition. 315pp. Plates. Neat name & date fr.fly. Bookseller's label fr. e/paper. Cloth faded espec.at spine. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No D/J. First Edition. A fair copy. Marks and rubbing to boards with fading to spine and edges of boards. Previous owners signature to ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Excellent essay collection from Williamson, ranging far and wide: "He tells of many places and people and animals, trout, turtles, alligators, white herons and rattlesnakes, always with a freshness and vigour." Illustrated with photos including portrait frontispiece. Gift plate to fep but otherwise all in VG, clean and bright internal order. Light shelfwear and patchy fading to teal boards with gilt titling to spine. Good unclipped d/j, a little marked, toned to spine with small loss at foot, now in removable protective sleeve. 8vo. 315pp.

First edition in the L&L series. Plates. 8vo, original cloth, small inscription on front free endpaper, prelims. foxed. Good in the edge worn price clipped dust jacket.

Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. Reissue in 'The Life and Letters' Series, no. 92. Green cloth with gilt; B&W illustrations. Owner's name on front free end paper; some page light foxing; binding tight; cloth on spine faded, with wear at head. Photocopied dust jacket, with interesting comment by previous seller, on protective film.

No Binding. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. Blue cloth titled in gilt on spine, b&w frontis and illstns. Cover is faded at spine and around edges of boards, tilted, tight bindings. Internally very tidy, just a small inscription in the front endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 314pp. Full green buckram lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece and seven photographs. Some fading to the board edges as is customary with this production, and a little chafing to the buckram in places. A very good copy, particularly crisp internally. Former owner name inked to the front pastedown, and also a tiny dealer plate. No dust wrapper. Some fifty essays, reviews, studies and other short pieces, including a section devoted to Williamson's travels in North America and passages from 'The Sun in the Sands' which do not appear in the 1941 book of the same name.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Previous owners inscription. Physical description; 315p,[8]p of plates : ill, ports ; 20 cm. Subjects; Voyages and travels. Natural history. Outdoor books. England Description and travel. North America. Travel Personal observations. 3 Kg.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G: in good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Cover faded. Previous owner inscription to fep. 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 315pp.

8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 9 plates on 7; neat contemporary signature on front free end paper, green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, backstrip lightly faded, else a very good, clean copy. Nearly fifty essays, reviews and other short pieces. Matthews A20/1938.

1944 reissue with B&W illustrations, tightly bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine; spine and front top edge browned; bottom of back panel lightly creased. Dust jacket price-clipped and discoloured, especially spine; protected by removable clear film. A little scattered foxing to page fore-edges; a few small discolouration spots; otherwise, a good, tidy copy. Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Limited edition of 530 numbered copies initialled by the author - Henry Williamson of Tarka the Otter fame. This is number 444. Original pictorial boards binding in fine condition. Text very good+ with light age-browning of the front and rear free end papers and a little on the title page and following leaf. See photographs attached. (BMGAS). Initialled by author.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Previous owners inscription. Physical description; 315p,[8]p of plates : ill, ports ; 20 cm. Subjects; Voyages and travels. Natural history. Outdoor books. England Description and travel. North America. Travel Personal observations. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Limited edition. Book has chipping to the top and bottom edges of the spine. Very good- unclipped DJ which is protected in a clear sleeve has small pieces missing on the top and bottom edges of the spine. There is slight discolouring to about half of the front and back endpapers. Number 268 of 530 copies initialled by Williamson. Nos. 1-500 only were for sale and Nos. 501-530 for presentation. Consists of two stories: The Linhay on the Downs and The Firing Gatherer. Both stories had appeared previously in literary journals: 'Linhay' in the Atlantic Monthly (October 1927). It was then printed as a limited edition as No. 12 of the Woburn Books series in 1929. ***** Free shipping available to UK buyers. For customers located outside the UK, if the actual cost of shipping your order is lower than the price paid, then a refund of the difference will be issued. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Green covers with bright gilt titles to spine.Water marks to rear cover No internal marks or inscriptions. DJ has same watermark on rear, is browned on spine and has internal repairs to spine area with some lose to the base.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 315pp divided into three parts - Part 1. England - Part 2. Essays on books and authors, got together while awaiting passage to America, - Part 3. America. 315pp with black and white plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 530 numbered copies, each one initialled by the author (this being #56). Slim 8vo. 26pp. Decorated paper-covered boards with pattern motif repeated on front and rear endpapers. The binding just a fraction tender at two gatherings, and with a little quite light partial toning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in dust wrapper, split into two parts at the spine fold, with a single small edge-nick and some light toning. The first bookform appearance of these two Williamson stories, the first of which was originally printed in the periodical 'Atlantic Monthly' in 1927, with the second first appearing in 'Time and Tide' the same year. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 314pp. Full green buckram lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece and seven captioned photographs, mostly taken by the author. Although prone to fading, the green buckram covers of this copy are exceptionally well preserved, although the backstrip exhibits some inevitable fading. A hint of very light spotting to the free endpapers and to the margins of a few preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Some fifty essays, reviews, studies and other short pieces, including a section devoted to Williamson's travels in North America.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK Edition. Pp. 26. One of 530 signed limited editions, this being #281. In original jacket, internally clean, light off setting to end pages, tight binding. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 315 pp, frontis, b/w plates. Price-clipped dj dusty, chipped and torn. Boards have shelf and edgwear, bumped corners. Spine slanted, hinges weak. Previous owner's pastedown to ffep - interior is o/w unmarked and solid.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Type: Book 1st printing. DJ restored and shows wear with some small losses.

8vo, (207x140mm), 315p. 7 plates. A good copy in original green cloth, lettered and blocked in silver-gilt, dustjacket. Re-issued in the publisher's 'Life and Letters' series; printed in Oxford by the Alden Press on John Dickinson paper.

1st edition. Limited edition to 530, of which this is no. 512. Very good copy in the original paper-covered boards with paper labels. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. SIGNED by the author. Physical description; 26 pp. ; 21 cm. Subjects; Natural history ; Outdoor books. 3 Kg.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited/Numbered. Two short stories or vignettes, one of sheltering from an apocalyptic storm in an old farm building; the other of a beachcomber. Limited edition, number 370 of 530 initialed by the author; number 12 of the 'Woburn Books'. Hardcover, printed paper-covered boards matching the jacket. Light wear, spine of book & jacket faded, endsheets tanned; jacket shows light chipping, spine partly split; corners lightly bumped. Text clean; 26 pages + HW owl sigil. Size: 6" by 8¼". Signed by Author.

Green hardback board cover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition (458/530). VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. Browning to feps. Uncut pages. 200mm x 150mm (8" x 6"). 26pp. Initialled by author on limitation page.