Summer Nene (15 results)

Hardback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Watkins-Pitchford, Denys (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition. Green cloth, gilt title. 160pp. col. frontis.; b/w illus. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket with 1 1/2 cm tear and associated crease to top of front panel, small hole near rear flap, and a little rubbing to lower front corner. DJ now in paper and clear plastic protective wrapper. End papers and top edge are lightly coloured green, other edges very slightly tanned and foxed. Greetings dedication to front free end paper, o'wise contents are very clean and fresh. A lovely copy in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Some rubbing, creasing and wear to wrapper which has sveral small tears to edges which have been internally repaired with special non acidic archive tape, no fadig or loss. Wrapper now in special clear removable protective sleeve. Not price clipped, no inscriptions, excellent scraperboard illustrations and colour frontespiece, contents have very little wear, no faults noted. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1967). 1967 1st edition. Tall 8vo (155 x 252mm). Pp158. Colour frontispiece & b/w scraperboard illustrations by the author. Mottled green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good in edge-frayed dust-wrapper. "BB" takes his family down the River Nene in the motor cruiser, Jolly Enterprise. "The names of the riverside villages convey the magic of the English countryside - Wadenhoe, Titchmarsh, Water Newton, Tansor, Fotheringhay, Cotterstock, Orton Waterville - and Denys Watkins-Pitchford's exquisite engravings evoke the flora and fauna, the backwaters and locks, churches and watermills, which formed the setting for this voyage." .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1967). 1967 1st edition. Tall 8vo (155 x 252mm). Pp158. Colour frontispiece & b/w scraperboard illustrations by the author. Mottled green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good copy in unclipped dust-wrapper. "BB" takes his family down the River Nene in the motor cruiser, Jolly Enterprise. "The names of the riverside villages convey the magic of the English countryside - Wadenhoe, Titchmarsh, Water Newton, Tansor, Fotheringhay, Cotterstock, Orton Waterville - and Denys Watkins-Pitchford's exquisite engravings evoke the flora and fauna, the backwaters and locks, churches and watermills, which formed the setting for this voyage." Despite the river setting, there are few mentions of angling. .

Dark Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. D J Watkins Pitchford (illustrator). New Limited Edition. NEW LIMITED EDITION OF 600 COPIES, this copy number 140, signed by the publisher, 158pp, illustrated with woodcuts by D J Watkins-Pitchford and a frontispiece photo of him, patterned endpapers, original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to upper board, dust jacket in excellent condition, unclipped. Denys Watkins-Pitchford used the pseudonym BB for his writing, but his real name for his famous wood engravings. His books on the English countryside, as well as his children's books, with his beautiful black and white engravings have bought him a devoted following. Size: 8.5 x 6 Inches. Publisher. BB, Natural History.

pp.ix, 158 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw. A limited edition of 600 signed copies, this being copy No. 189. "the story of a leisurely voyage down a Midland river, which began in May.It finishes in the gold of October when the swallows have gone and the stubbles are bare, but when summer lingers in a last farewell".

Hardcover. Kaye & Ward, 1967, Hardcover, No Jacket, Illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, Good, slight lean, dusty page ends, owner's details on front endpaper,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. BB (illustrator). First Edition. Book measures 25.5x15.5.cm.158pp, illustrated. Bound in original publishers green fleck cloth, with gilt lettering. Binding in very good clean near fine condition. Dust jacket rubbed, some abrasion wear on edges, a few short closed tears. Jacket in good clean condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A good clean copy. Size: 8vo.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. A VG+ copy in like D/W with a crease to the bottom edge that stretches right round the D/W. This was caused by an ill-fitting D/W protector put on by a former owner. This has now been removed and replaced with a modern mylar-style cover. Quite a nice copy.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. BB, (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. BB forsakes his familiar caravan and Landrover and embarks on the motor cruiser Jolly Enterprise on the quiet byway of the River Nene in Northamptonshire. Green mottled boards, gilt title to spine. Green endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Colour frontispiece. 158 pages. 10 x 6 inches. Bumping to base of spine. Foxing and browning to outer page edges and prelim pages. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few small nicks and chips. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, some foxing to page edges, half title page and frontispiece verso, no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is a small mark at front foldover. 158 pages, colour frontispiece, scraperboard illustrations in the text by the author.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Kaye & Ward 1967). First UK Edition. SIGNED COPY. Colour frontispiece. Lovely b&w illustrations throughout. Publisher's green cloth hardcover lettered in gilt to the spine. A VG++ copy (a neat former owner's name to the front free end-paper; several foxing spots to the fore-edge) in mylar-covered illustrated dustwrapper. The VG++ dustwrapper is priced 30s net to the inside flap as called for and is a particularly lovely with NO FADING to the spine and with NO CHIPPING. Signed by the Author to the title page. Signed copies are quite scarce these days. Photographs/scans available upon request. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. Flat signed by the author on the title page. First edition, first impresion.