Sunset Beyond by Lea Alec (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, VG ex school library with VG purple pictorial dj in mylar. English farm novel of the 1880's. 157 pp. A dramatic story of the longest day of a boy in England; full of the atmosphere of Dartmoor. Peter is bewildered on the foggy moor.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair+. Reprint. Matt paperback. Good condition. Children's story. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First British Edition. Library tape marks to boards and pastedown. Front endpaper missing. Internally in Good condition. Dustjacket is unclipped and protected by removeable library clear cover but is adhered to pastedown. Overall a very acceptable reading copy of this children' novel about a 19th century faming family set on Dartmoor. Ex-Library.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Puffin 1973 first thus. Softcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Paperback: cover edges are slightly rubbed, corners are lightly bumped, scribbles on the half title, endpapers and foredges a little foxed, paper is browning, else g. 140pp. Young Peter is tasked with bringing the cows home for milking while the rest of the family are carrying in the hay before a storm. But the cows aren't to be found, so he went searching on Dartmoor in one of its treacherous summer fogs .…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. 160 pages. Dj chipped. Ex-library'On the skirts of the moor' or 'on the edge of the beyond' people said when t hey talked about Sunset Farm, and to young Peter Varden who lived at Sunset Farm the words held a special fascination. There was his home, so familiar, safe and hardworking, and only just beyond it the vast, treacherous tract of Dartmoor, s o bleak and threatening in winter or enveloped in one of its sudden and bewilder ing mists.Peter's own great singlehanded struggle with Dartmoor came when he was still a little boy. It was haymaking time, a boiling hot day 'with a temperatur e', as Peter's sister Beth put it. Anyone could see that it was going to rain, a nd the best hay would be ruined unless the entire family worked like demons to g et it in.So it was that Peter was sent alone for the very first time to fetch th e cows home for milking, and when he couldn't find them he went looking on the o pen, dangerous moor. Here, instead of a sunset there seemed to be something evil and threatening, and Peter could see nothing. No tors, no skyline, no cows, not hing. He was lost in a grey swirling, Dartmoor fog.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1973 Puffin Paperback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good clean tight binding with wonderful cover design as shown.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good DJ. First edition. Rubbing to cloth edges, slight bumping to corners. Creasing to dj edges, sunning to dj.