wheaton exeter devon (27 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1946). 1946 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 219mm). Pp86. B/w photographs. Blue titles to blue cloth-backed, paper-covered boards. Upper board chipped, signature to end-paper and last page, end-papers foxed. Good only, lacks dust-wrapper. The Preface, by Tom Eastham, K.C., is dated May 1946, but the British Library gives the date of publication as 1947. Reminiscences and advice on salmon fishing on West Country rivers; Dart, Taw and Teign. The author, a Newton Abbot solicitor, gives much sage advice, particularly on fishing the prawn and the shrimp. Chapters include: Preliminaries; Pixies; Furunculosis; Rainfall; Novice's luck; Trout fishing; Law; A day after salmon in south Devon; Knots; To catch a salmon; Habits of salmon; "Scilicet; Devonshire reminiscences; A Devonshire lane. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1946). 1946 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 219mm). Pp86. B/w photographs. Blue titles to blue cloth-backed, paper-covered boards. Rather browned & used. Good only in poor torn dust-wrapper. The Preface, by Tom Eastham, K.C., is dated May 1946, but the British Library gives the date of publication as 1947. Reminiscences and advice on salmon fishing on West Country rivers; Dart, Taw and Teign. The author, a Newton Abbot solicitor, gives much sage advice, particularly on fishing the prawn and the shrimp. Chapters include: Preliminaries; Pixies; Furunculosis; Rainfall; Novice's luck; Trout fishing; Law; A day after salmon in south Devon; Knots; To catch a salmon; Habits of salmon; "Scilicet; Devonshire reminiscences; A Devonshire lane. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1946). 1946 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 219mm). Pp86. B/w photographs. Blue titles to blue cloth-backed, paper-covered boards. Boards slightly faded/ chipped/ marked, browning to end-papers, possible signature to end-papers but good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. The Preface, by Tom Eastham, K.C., is dated May 1946, but the British Library gives the date of publication as 1947. Reminiscences and advice on salmon fishing on West Country rivers; Dart, Taw and Teign. The author, a Newton Abbot solicitor, gives much sage advice, particularly on fishing the prawn and the shrimp. Chapters include: Preliminaries; Pixies; Furunculosis; Rainfall; Novice's luck; Trout fishing; Law; A day after salmon in south Devon; Knots; To catch a salmon; Habits of salmon; "Scilicet; Devonshire reminiscences; A Devonshire lane. .

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 12mo. yellow pictorial boards. Soiling to boards. Small inmpressions to rear board. Lower spine joint and a couple of places on edges of front board have been nibbled!Slight discolour to feps. Some soiling. Rusty staples. Top staple has come through at spine. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo. Slight bow. Light shelfwear. Spotting to endpapers. Note in ink to top of fpdwn. Dw has creasing and wear to edges. Chips to corners. Pc. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Unknown. Presumed First. Bright yellow boards, with animal illustrations on front cover. Unknown publication date but possibly from 1960's; 23 pages clean, tight copy, but pages show that it has been well thumbed through; Gift inscription dated 1976. 2 books in one Little Things series 9 and 10.

Glossy Pictorial Card. Condition: Very Good (AVERAGE). No Jacket. A. Oxenham. (illustrator). This is the first edition. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Ex Library Marks Etc/School Library. Paperback Ex School.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. 74 pages. B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. Clean pictorial hardback binding with white titles to black spine. Light wear and rubs to boards' corners and edges and spine-ends. Pages clean and tidy.

Glossy Card. Condition: GOOD (Contents VERY GOOD). No Jacket. Pictorial Illustrations Throughout. (illustrator). Reprint edition. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Ex Library Marks (two).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The book is very good with slight edge wear, light bump to the lower spine end and lower corners and previous owners gift inscription on the ffep in a good price clipped dust jacket with edge wear, small tears to edges and some creasing to edges.Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Oxenham, A. (Illustrator) (illustrator). First Edition. 64 pages. No dustjacket. Hardback binding has light wear/small creases to spine-ends, light wear to boards' corners. Light marks to back boards, ink name and Christmas inscription to flyleaf. End-papers browned o/w pages clean and sound.

Pictorial Card. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. A. Oxenham. (illustrator). This is the first edition. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Eighteenth Impression. A very nice copy, clean and well bound, with light evidence of use, no repairs or damage. 5.5 X 7" 59 pages. First published in January 1940, intended to be a handbook for use in the field. **Add Another Book & Save On Postage**.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 91 pages. Signed by author (name only) to title page. B&W photographic and line illustrations. Very clean soft covers and very clean pages. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. BRIAN HEATON (illustrator). * PUBLISHER : WHEATON * YEAR : 1980 * ISBN : 0080243401 * No OF PAGES : 24 * CONDITION : USED - ACCEPTABLE * OTHER: THE COVER IS RUBBED AND CREASED WITH A STICKER PULL AND PENNED WRITTEN WORD TO THE FRONT. THE CORNERS AND EDGES ARE BUMPED. THE SPINE IS WORN WITH BUMPING AT BOTH ENDS. THE STAPLED BINDING IS FIRM. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. DENIS WRIGLEY (illustrator). * PUBLISHER : WHEATON * YEAR : 1965 * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE COVER BOARDS ARE HEAVILY RUBBED WITH BUMPING ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS WITH STAINS AND MARKS TO BOTH SIDES. THERE IS A SMALL PENNED SCRIBBLE ON THE FRONT BOARD. THE SPINE IS HEAVILY RUBBED AND WORN WITH BUMPING AT BOTH ENDS WITH A TEAR TO THE BOTTOM WHICH HAS PARTIALLY EXPOSED THE BINDING. THE HINGE IS CRACKED BETWEEN THE FRONT BOARD AND FFEP, HOWEVER THE BINDING REMAINS FIRM. ON THE INSIDE OF THE FRONT BOARD IS A PENNED DOODLE. THERE IS FOXING INSIDE BOOK. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE, THOUGH THERE ARE PENNED SCRIBBLES TO THE REAR OF THE BOOK. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ninth. Slim illust.book with stiff card covers, blue cloth spine; Overall book is very good, no loose pages, slight hinge detaching on top back spine; Clean & unmarked except for prev.owners name on front end page and same person has filled in the info on 'Local Record' page; Faint library stamp on front cover but no other library markings; 66 pages with index, fully illust.in colour with diagrams & maps etc.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Signed by Author. Titles, contents, list of illustrations & list of subscribers to front, signed & dated by the author to fep. Based entirely on original records, this book relates the story of a thriving community of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries The people of the Blyth Valley built their hopes around a revived coastal port and a newly created commercial waterway. Through the individual stories of landowners, merchants and professional men, the book examines the effects of the economic and social changes on the communities of Southwold, Halesworth and the surrounding area. As she tells the story of the river valley, Rachel Lawrence reveals much about the lives of its inhabitants and the qualities of character which shaped the course of their history - their achievements and failures and the significance of each event in the community at large. Her narrative guides the reader through a period rich in detail, drawing together the various strands into an absorbing history of this charming corner of Suffolk. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x + 150. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing to page top edges. in archive acetate film protection. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Previous owner's address sticker to fep. Gilt titles spine. black cloth; illustrated by b/w. maps & photo's. Includes tables, references, bibliography & index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Suffolk; East Anglia; River Blyth; England; 18th & 19th centuries; History. Signed by Author. ISBN: 086055144X. ISBN/EAN: 9780860551447. Inventory No: 4827. Member of the P.B.F.A.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Clarke, Mollie (illustrator). No date but, according to British Library Catalogue, this was published in the mid-1940s. These two books are bound between the same boards. Ex school library copy with only a stamp on the front free endpaper to show it. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition (?). Little Things, No. 9 & No. 10; Colour; Square 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 23 pages; Illustrated by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. 64pp. HARDCOVER Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. Very minor rubbing to external printed boards. Bordering on VG. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. Book.

Pictorial Board. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. Map Illustrations Throughout. (illustrator). This is the first edition. Some writing and drawing on free endpages in book. Worn outer cover spine binding. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Undated circa 1967. Hardback in jacket. 18.5x13cm. 368+32 pages. Clean & tight book. Jacket has edge wear. Front flap is not price-clipped: 6/- net. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref XZJ-Griff The Children's Dictionary. Together with the supplement 'Use Your Dictionary' by Edna Wilton.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 505 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 24pp. HARDCOVER Printed boards. This is a rare item of social history or ephemera. Assumedly given away free by Wheaton's printers of Fore Street, Exeter. Calendar & dairy which is interspersed with all kinds of additional information that they considered potentially useful at the time. Radio stations, postal information, sizes of cities, meanings of Christian names and various other topics. Sml. stain to cover, but generally in very good order. A little pencil annotation noted in places, which can easily be erased. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. **A very unusual and very rare item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 195 grams. Sixth impression.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lindsay Cable, W. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 152 pages with the last 6 pages being quiz questions on the stories contained in the book, colour illustrations throughout, illustrated paper boards, slight loss of surface paper near tip of the spine otherwise near fine. Octavo. undated but research dated as 1938. Ink inscription on FFEP, "To Alan with love and good wishes. May 1944". A Vg to Fine copy. *The 10 contributions by Enid Blyton seem to be original for this book other contributors such as Alison Uttley and a few others seem to have been previously printed in "The Merry-Go-Round", others are thanked for original contributions! Another anomaly with this copy is it has a different binding and cover art and is NOT "Book Three" of the Merry-Go-Round Readers as stated on others listed here?