Mad Shepherds by Jacks, L. P - 1979

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1979. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Colour illustrated paperback binding with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The author's evocation of rural England at the beginning of the 20th century, and, of the shepherd Snarly Bob. For, as the rear panel blurb states "Mad or sane, it is certain that Snarly, under a kinder Fate might have been something more splendid than was. Mystic, star-gazer, dabbler in black or blackish arts, he seemed in his lowly occupation of Shepherd to represent some strange miscarriage of Nature's designs." Rubbing of the book edges and panels with browning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 122 pages.. Previous bookseller's sticker to the rear panel.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Britain/UK; 1900-1920;… Read More

Williams & Norgate, 1923. Hardcover. Good. 1923. No Edition Remarks. 251 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Tipped-in black and white illustration plates throughout by L.Leslie Brooke. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled. Some additional marks and staining.

Earlier edition from 1913 was called, Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies. This later one is just called Mad Shepherds. Publisher: Williams and Norgate. 1924. Hardcover. Has minor discoloration on spine, otherwise very good condition.. Very Good.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

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London: Williams & Norgate 1910. (Hardcover) 251pp. Good to very good, no dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. Tipped-in frontispiece with tissue guard. The covers are lightly worn, the spine a little cocked and there is a previous owner's name and address on the front endpaper. (Biography, Eccentrics).

London : Williams And Norgate, 1923. First Edition. Hardback. Publisher's red cloth, very good. Tight, bright, clean and reasonably sharp cornered. Spine very slightly sun toned with some minor dust dulling to the edges. Uncommon in this condition. ; 251 pages; Description: 251 p. , 7 leaves of plates ; 24 cm. Genre: Fiction --Short stories. Thus.