Standsure Barbara (5 results)

Pictorial Card. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as published). 1st Edition. 118 Pages. A Bright And Soundly Bound Book, Inteernally Unmarked, A Little Shelf-Wear Only. Not Ex Library.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Barbara Standsure (illustrator). "Village History Through Folk-Song". Not dated - thought to be late 1990s. Believed to be first edition and printing. In near fine pale yellow glossy card with central colour watercolur by the author and black titles. The covers are unmarked and firm; the front corners are bent; the rear corners are slightly bent and top front edge is a little worn. The text block is very clean and white, tightly bound; the top of the pages up to 30 are a little warped on the top. No dedications etc. Near fine minus condition. Issued without jacket.

Pictorial Card. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as published). 298 Pages, Illustrated. An Unmarked Book Near "As New", A Little Shelf-Wear Only. Not Ex Library. A Heavy Book, Overseas Shipping Will Exceed The Abebooks.Com Default Rate - Please Email The Bookseller For An Overseas Shipping Quote.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in excellent bright condition.Cover has some marking and wear. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Indeed, the River Parrett was coming down in full flood, owing to the heavy winter rains in the Dorset- Somerset Hills to the southeast. Most of the Levels lay under water, and with the wind in the quarter it was, there would be a bore towards the small hours of tomorrow morning. About one fifty-three I reckoned in my head. We had finished supper, here in my house at Bridgewater. Either side of Bridgewater Town Bridge lay my two inherited ships. Up-stream, The Trowbridge, a Severn Trow, a converted flat-bottom sailing barge. (The word comes from the Anglo-Saxon drinking vessels.) And down-stream my bigger ship, The Barbara, not quite a schooner, nor a clipper, but a bit of both. Well able, as a merchant's ship, to sail to the European ports from which I mostly fetch my merchandise. The Parrett is encumbered by a number of shoals, which shift in the time of floods and frequently ground and damage vessels. Though the waterway is less hazardous for goods going southw.

Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: Slight, uneven, fading to the spine and covers otherwise a very well presented copy; Paperback; Measures 11¾" x 8¼" (0.6 kg); pp 118; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #167089 ||.