A Farmer's Year, Being His Commonplace Book for 1898 by Haggard, H. Rider - 1909

Longmans, Green,, 1909. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1909. new impression. 489 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable with minimal crushing and tanning.

Longmans, Green and Co., 1909. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1909. Reprinted. 489 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece and illustrations. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking and wear marks throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends and corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Book has a slight forward lean.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo. pp xx, 489p + 32 publisher's advertisements. b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, 36 further b/w illustrations, and 2 maps. Original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt knot pattern to front board, bright binding, slight general wear only. Contents clean and tight, neat inscription dated Christmas 1899, (verifying that it is a first edition) light scattered spotting. A very good first edition copy..

London: Longmans, Green and Co 1899 Hardcover book , 489pp, 32pp publishers advertising, 2 maps and 36 illustrations. Blue cloth covers, no dust jacket. Gilt decorative title to front and spine. Small 1cm tear to front spine fold at top. Cornerslightly rubbed . Internally front hinge paper is stretched but firm. Foxing to half title and title pages, some foxing to foredge and scatterred foxing throughout. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1899. 8vo. xviii, 489 pp, illustrated in black and white, some foxing throughout text, Rider Haggard's journal of a year farming, name in ink on title page. . Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. 2nd Impression. 1899.

London: Longman's Green and Co, 1899. xx, (490), 32pp. pub. cat.[lacking p1.] 2 maps and 35 [of 36] plates by G. Leon Little. Lacks Bush draining at Bedingham p79. Gennerally grubby foxed copy in original binding. READING COPY ONLY.. 1st edition. Hardback. V.g., Soiled. 8vo.

Longmans, Green, And Co., 1899. 1st. Hardback. Very Good. G. Leon Little. First edition hardback, 1899, with no jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - blue cloth boards rubbed to spine and edges. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions - owners bookplate to front paste-down; tanning to page-ends and the odd spot of foxing here and there but text, maps and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Frontispiece retains its tissue-paper guard. Not an old library book.

London:: Longmans, Green, and Co.,, 1899.. First edition.. publisher's blue gilt cloth.. Old, darkened tape repair to the fore-edge margin of one leaf; slight gutter break starting opposite the half title; some scattered very slight foxing. . 8vo,. With 2 maps and 36 illustrations by G. Leon Little.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1906. Early Reprint . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Signed "H. Rider Haggard / Ditchingham 20 . Aug. 1909" on early blank page. Some slight wrinkling and weak hinges prevent this copy from rating very good, but still presentable. Some old pencil notes to early page say this copy was purchased at the William Randolph Hearst sale on Nov. 22, 1939.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1899. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus. First edition. Hardback, bound in the original blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and upper board.20 × 13.5cm, xx +189pp, + 36pp publisher's catalogue to rear. This copy belonged to Irish gardener William Robinson and bears his ownership signature to the half-title page, signed at Gravetye in 1899. William Robinson (1838-1935) was a gardener and journalist hose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularising of the English cottage garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular style of the British Arts and Crafts movement. He purchased the Elizbethan Gravetye Manor in Sussex in 1884 where he created a garden, putting many of his ideas into practice. His books included The Wild Garden and The English Flower Garden, the latter being the bestselling gardening book ever printed. A non-fiction title by the author of King Solomon's Mines and She. Originally… Read More