Quiet Fields by B B (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 206. "Beautifully written and sweeps the reader to a bygone time in a quiet and beautiful countryside setting that the author knows intimately." Original publisher's cloth binding in green, lettered gilt at spine. Dust jacket in White, lettered black with a illustration classic country landscape. Black and white lyrical illustrations of the countryside by the author, D. J. WatkinsĞPitchford. ISBN:0718120396./Denys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE was a British naturalist, children's writer, and illustrator who wrote under the pseudonym "BB" and also used D.J. Watkins-Pitchford. Fine in fine dust jacket. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Reading copy, an ex library hardback with 2 pictures stuck on the half title page and the title page verso, in a price clipped dustjacket which has marks where the library label has been removed. 206 pages, scraperboard illustrations throughout.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1981). 1981 1st edition. 8vo (137 x 222mm). Pp206. B/w scraperboard illustrations by the author. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight tanning to edges but very good in slightly used dust-wrapper. BB's diary of a year in the countryside. "This book might be termed the weekly diary of an idle man, one who has nothing better to do than jot down descriptions of a full year's rambling in the woods and fields; descriptions of the most trivial things, such as a passing effect of light, the shapes of ripples in a pond, dark trees against the sky at evening, all commonplace things which perhaps a great number of people would not notice. Yet is is these little things which make the passing days of a field naturalist intensely enjoyable, the very stuff of life itself." (BB). .

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 205pp. B/w illustrations (both full page and within text). Not library copy, no inscriptions. (13/3).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. price clipped dust wrapper. No inscriptions.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR First edition, 206 pp, SIGNED D.J. Watkin Pitchford on title page, illustrated with black and white woodcuts, dust jacket, with price. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. BB (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1981 M. Joseph Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression.Near Fine binding in very good unclipped dustjacket. Jacket design & illustrations by " BB " :Former Owners Bookplate inside.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original forest green cloth effect covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8¾'' x 5¾''. Contains 206 pp with full-page and vignette scraper board illustrations throughout. Dusty page edges. Very Good condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. RURAL VILLAGE LIFE.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. D J Watkins Pitchford (illustrator). First Edition. 1st Edition 1981. Signed by the author to the endpaper. Uncommon signed. B/w scraper board illustrations by the author. Book is very good with lightly rubbed edges. Contents good with a small name to the endpaper as well as BB's The wrapper is very good with edges rubbed and a small tear to the bottom.Rear edge of wrapper stained. Morel images can be taken upon request. RefA1234. Signed by Author(s).