Rain Clouds by Smith David (11 results)

Condition: Good. 1943. First Published. 168 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout with photographic plates to page 24. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscription and sticker to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges.

First edition in this form. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 168 pages; Description: viii, 168 p. : front. Ill. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Smith, John Edward, 1862- --Agriculture --England --Essex. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition. Second printing. A VG copy in a NF dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Scarce. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. J. K. Popham, illustrator (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition, inscribed and SIGNED by author. Clean light blue-gray cloth boards with blue lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper: "To Ursula and John, Hoping that the weather will always keep fine for them, and wishing them safe "arrivals" and safe "homecoming." - From David Smith - October 1943." Illustrated with photographs, charming drawings by J. K. Popham. 168 pages. Signed by Author(s).

First edition in this form. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 168 pages; Description: viii, 168 p. : front. Ill. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Smith, John Edward, 1862- --Agriculture --England --Essex. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. J.K.Popham (illustrator). First Edition. 168pp, bw illust. Dustwrapper is edgeworn with some loss to spine (several small holes). True first edition is quite hard to find especially in a dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Popham, J.K. drawings (illustrator). 168 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white sketches, reprint. The jacket is chipped at the edges and its spine suffers from loss at both the head and tail; there are two ownership signatures on the front end paper and the pages are lightly tanned, else clean, unmarked and solid. "The best part of this pleasant book concerns arable farming during the last quarter of the 19th century in a part of East Anglia famous for its strict attention to the rules of good husbandry. Reading these pages we are back in the days when women went stone- picking for a penny-farthing a bushel, when beer was brewed on the farm and was food as well as drink, and when cottagers looked to their gleanings for a good part of the winter's supply of bread.John Smith, the farmer whose story his son here set down, has a clear memory for all the farm details of those days. ." (Spectator Archive 1944 review).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. J K Popham (illustrator). 1st Edition. Third printing of first edition in VG condition throughout. Light green boards with blue titling to spine. In unclipped d/j (including 'cheaper edition' sticker to inside flap, a little worn to edges and with one or two closed tears. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends of Morston Church (reg.1099831).

8vo. pp viii, 168. Original publisher's pale blue-grey cloth lettered blue at spine. Copiously illustrated in black & white throughout. Near very good indeed in slightly worn and faded, very good dust jacket, with slight edge-chipping and nicking.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp viii, 168. Original publisherÕs pale blue-grey cloth lettered blue at spine. Copiously illustrated in black & white throughout by JK Popham. The publisher's own retained copy with their stamps on front endaper reading Ôfile copyÕ and a note on a label saying the book was published on Sept 2nd 1943 at 10/6 and another note about a re-publication in 1951. Near very good indeed in slightly worn and faded, very good Fine in fine d/w. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Popham, J. K. (illustrator). Reprint. v-viii, 168pp; b/w plates, illustrated; d/j edgeworn and dusty, small green sticker inside. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.