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Covenant Garden, England: Country Life Ltd,, 1943. Hard Cover. First Edition. 9 7/8 x 7 3/8. 104 pp. Ten marvelous full-page engravings, annotated:. the tall, mauve-pink marshmallows, like delicate wild hollyhocks would sway among the clusters of ree d. A roof designed to endure for perhaps a thousand years. A superb church standing like a small lost cathedral over the graves of kings; etc. H.E. Bates writes very well. This book combines his obser vations of people, architecture, nature, history and the war. The first chapter begins:"There is a road in the West Sussex hills that runs between mixed woodland and fields of barley. On summer eveni n gs, during war at any rate, there is hardly ever anyone on it except a soldier or an airman with his girl, and there are few sounds on the hillside except the sounds of birds and the distant chatte r c oming from the south, of a Hurricane testing its cannon over the sea." 10 chapters. Binding is sea-green cloth on boards with white lettering. Min.…
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London: Country Life, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good. pp104 A most attractive volume inscribed by the author to Geoffrey Harmsworth who was a colleague in the RAF Intelligence Corps. The book is beautifully illustrated with 10 full page black and white plates by C F Tunnicliffe, along with other vignettes within the text. Very good, bound in its original green cloth; the text is fresh and crisp. In a very good dust jacket which has a closed tear along the front flap hinge and small chips to the lower panel. Laid in: 5 pen and ink drawings and one watercolour of shooting scenes by B Martin. A very pleasing copy. Very Good 1943
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London: Country Life Limited, 1943. Book. Illus. by Tunnicliffe, C.F.. Fair. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 104pp., ill. Slightly cocked, moderate wear to board, some sun to extremities..
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Country Life Ltd. first edition, hardcover octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
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O More than Happy Countryman
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London : Country Life, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 104 pages, ill. ; 26cm. Subjects: Country life -- England.
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London : Country Life, 1945. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 104 pages, ill. ; 26cm. Subjects: Country life -- England.
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London: Country Life Ltd, 1943. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. C.F. Tunnicliffe. 4to, pp. 104, clipped dust jacket with small splits, especially to top of rear, original green cloth bright, interior with initials and date on ffep, end papers lightly foxed, remainder clean and crisp, fore edge with some foxing, binding tight.
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London: Country Life Limited, 1943. cloth, dust jacket. Tunnicliffe, C.F.. large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 104 pages. First edition. (Eads A48). Illustrated with ten full-page scraperboard illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Previous owners name in ink on front pastedown. jacket is price clipped. Minor foxing to endpapers, few small tears to jacket with minor chips to head and tail of spine. Loosely inserted is a TLS letter from Laurie E. Deval of Deval & Muir.
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London : Country Life, 1943. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 10" by 7.5". None. A first edition of H E Bates' O More Than Happy Countryman. With 10 plates. An English writer who mainly authored novels, H E Bates also compiled many non-fiction essays focusing on the outdoors and countryside. In a cloth binding with original dustwrapper. Externally, smart with bumping to spine and extremities. contemporary ink inscription to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper, clipped with edgewear and chipping. Sunning to spine. internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good
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London : Country Life, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 104 pages, ill. ; 26cm. Subjects: Country life -- England.
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