Village Diary by Miss Read, First Edition (41 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Condition: Good. 1957. First Edition. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. MENDED BETWEEN PAGE 64 & 65, OTHERWISE WOULD BE VG, VE BROWN COVER; NO DJ; DJ FLAPS PASTED INSIDE FRONT COVER AND FFEP; ILLUSTRATED BY J. S. GOODALL.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Goodall, J. S. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition first printing Octavo hardback. 255 pp. Black & white illustrations by J. S. Goodall. Very Good condition. No dust jacket. Original gift inscription on front end paper.

First Edition. 1957 1st edition in tight binding with B&W illustrations by J.S. Goodall; dust jacket not price-clipped with tanned spine; tiny losses to spine top and top front corner; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Goodall, John S. (illustrator). 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. a paperback book in good condition, not ex-library. There are no names, clean cream pages, tight binding and clean stiff card covers. B&w drawings. Bumper Omnibus edition. Lovely, gentle stories set in an English village where Miss Read the school mistress is a loved member of the community. No sex, no violence, just a heart-warming tale of neighbours who care about and for each other. Please ignore abe's shipping estimate (based on a 1Kg book) as this weighs less and I will reduce shipping during checkout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated by J S Goodall (illustrator). First Edition. 1st edition; Hbk in d/w; Vg/Fair; Book has no names or other similar handwriting inside; d/w price clipped, has about 50% loss to spine, and closed tears; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG DW. 1st Edition. Name on front endpaper. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. BUT has slight internal repair.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. village diary was the second book by miss read. price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. J. S. Goodall (illustrator). 1st Edition. Soiling, dust-dulling to edges, p/o anme to fly o/w tight, firm copy with firm hinges, still sharp corners. DJ is worn at spine ends, corners with wear along top and bottom edges. BP/Fict/R.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Good. Goodall, John S. (illustrator). 1st Ptg. (1st ptg.) Decorated blue boards, faded near top front edges, inside covers and adjacent end papers illustrated. DJ illustrated but badly rubbed at center, also lightly soiled overall. Near Good DJ/Good+ book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. J. S. Goodall (illustrator). 1st Edition. A nice example of 'Miss Read's' second book in her wonderful rural series. Illustrated by J. S. Goodall. Neat name on f.f.e abd some wear to wrapper otherwise Very Good in a Very Good d/w.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original aubergine cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, illustrated end papers. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 254 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Fraying to the cloth of the upper spine end, lower spine and corners turned-in with shallow rubs. Near Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with 10 mm piece of paper missing to the foot of the spine, chips to the upper spine end and corners, rubs to the gutters and fore edges, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Previous owner's signature to ffep. Physical description: 254 pages, illustrations, 21 cm. Subjects: Fairacre (England : Imaginary place); Fiction; Country life England; Villages England; Fairacre (Imaginary place); Education in popular culture. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Jacket shelfwear. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st. Spine fading, corners slightly bumped.; 8vo; 255 pages.

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Previous owner's signature to ffep. Physical description: 254 pages, illustrations, 21 cm. Subjects: Fairacre (England : Imaginary place); Fiction; Country life England; Villages England; Fairacre (Imaginary place); Education in popular culture. 1 Kg.

Boston 1957. Illus by J.S. Goodall, 8.5 x 5", patterned boards, 255 pp, hinges tender else good in used dw. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good in Good+ unclipped dust jacket. DJ is sunned and has light edgewear. Used with NO markings in text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Published In 2006 : 1st. New Paperback Edition : Orion Books : Overall , A Very Nice Book :

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. J S Goodall (illustrator). 1st Edition. Dj Entire But With Some Tears And A Little Weathered. Prior Owner's Name On Fep.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. J.s.goodall (illustrator). 1st Edition. 255pp. The follow up to Village school, a lovely clean copy, brown cloth cover, illustrated d.j. a little torn on the spine, clean, not inscribed, firm throughout.

Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket. 12mo. First edition. Book is in near fine condition; edges of boards are worn slightly and corners are lightly bumped. Jacket is in VG- condition; there is a 1" piece torn from top edge of spine, and corners are torn at tips. Covers are browning with age and front jacket flap has a crease on bottom corner. A personal account of life in rural England, written under the pseudonym 'Miss Read'. Not price-clipped. In protective mylar. 255 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by J. S. Goodall (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear and rubbing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with tiny loss, some slight browning to extremities of largely green jacket, some slight time staining to back jacket, some slight offsetting to illustrated endpapers. Not price clipped (10s 6d), small previous owner's inscription on reverse ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 238pp. Dora Jessie Saint's (1913-2012), second novel in her delightful 'Village School' series.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Goodall, John S. (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1957. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. B/w illustrations. Edges lightly rubbed. Text block a little grubby. One or two margin marks but contents generally clean. Green & cream pictorial wrapper is edge-worn with loss at corners and a 1" loss to top front corner. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Book is faded on and near spine. Dust jacket is faded on spine, is bumped at spine tips and along top edges, and is slightly rubbed on front panel. 255 pages with illustrated endpapers.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. J. S. Goodall (illustrator). First Edition 1st Printing. BOOK: Previous Owners (Multiple) Markings (One Name Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper, Another, With Gift Inscription, Neatly Inked to Dedication Page); Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped), Inked; Heavily Creased; Heavily Chipped; Heavily Soiled; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. 'Miss Read', author of Village School. CONTENTS: January; February; March; April; May; June; July; August; September; October; November; December. SYNOPSIS: In her first book, Village School (now in its fifth impression), 'Miss Read' gave a picture of the small but detailed world of a typical primary school in a remote country area--a world people by the children themselves, Miss Clare the venerable infants' teacher, glum Mrs Pringle the cleaner, the vicar, and other inhabitants of Fairacre. It was a picture which, to quote The Times, was 'observed with an exactitude, animation, and sense of comedy that recall a Breughel painting of village folk.' In Village Diary 'Miss Read' describes the people of Fairacre with the same exactitude and sense of comedy, and also records the changing conditions of village life today--the altered distribution of wealth and its social outcome, new values and ambitions, the drift from work on the land and the perplexity brought about through England's transition to a welfare state. In addition to those characters familiar to readers of Village School there are newcomers, including dictatorial Amy, an old college friend, and Mr Mawne, whom the village sees as a possible husband for the unwilling 'Miss Read.' We hear of Mrs Annett's baby, of Miss Clare's battle with Arthur Coggs, of the earnest new infants' teacher and, overshadowing all, of the mammoth country pageant in which Fairacre was so sharply and painfully divided into Romans and Ancient Britons. Of the village but necessarily detached from it, leading their own solitary but never-lonely way of life, the 'Miss Reads' of our countryside have perfect observation posts from their school houses. Through their spying-glass 'a little microcosm' can afford as much interest, instruction and amusement as the greater world which flies faster, and more furiously, about it. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A bright first edition copy of Dora Jessie Saint's charming novel, following the lives of the inhabitants of a picturesque English village. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Previous owner's ink inscriptions to the title page. Dora Jessie Saint, best known by her pen name Miss Read, was an English novelist and a schoolmistress. Her work centred on two fictional English villages, Fairacre and Thrush Green. In 1998 she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for her services to literature. In this engaging social comedy, the protagonist, a schoolteacher in a small village school, observes village life. Her work appears to be influenced by Jane Austen's writing, with similarities to the 1920s and 1930s comedies of manners. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for ink inscriptions to the title page. Dust wrapper remains smart and bright, with just a little chipping and sunning to the spine of the wrap. Near Fine. book.

First Edition: Hardback, maroon cloth, gold titles, white decs., 135 x 205 mm., 500 grms., 255 pp., illustrated throughout with line drawings by J. S. Goodall. pictorial eps., original pictorial dw., rubbed at crns., with slight loss to top of spine of dw., G+/VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. J. S. Goodall (illustrator). First UK Edition, First Printing. Illustrated endpapers; line illustrations with the text. No inscriptions. The dust jacket has minor wear; it is price clipped and protected by a clear, removable cover. Author's second book. Weysprings Books is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) and subscribes to the Association's Code of Ethics.