Gone Rustic by Roberts Cecil (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. This book is in good condition and will be shipped by the working day after ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. There may be a previous owner's inscription. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. 318 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Jacket. This book does include a jacket. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by Percy Home. Some foxing Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Condition: Good. 1935. Reprint. 318 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow embossed cloth. Includes illustrated plates. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book and on text block edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper and pastedown. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards rather rubbed and marked overall. Spine is noticeably sunned. Book has a heavy forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Tight Firm Clean Copy - 1938 Reprint - Presentation Copy With 8 Signatures On Ffp Dated 1941. Illustrated. Yellow Cloth Hard Cover With Green Titled Spine And Front - Slight Age Discoo9ouring And Faint Edge Wear. Unclipped Jacket With Slight Edge Wear And Missing Nicks At Top And Bottom Of Spine.

Condition: Good. 1947. Reprinted. 318 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1940. No edition remarks. 318 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and moderate foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable foxing to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pp.318, adverts. Loosely inserted is a typed note signed by the publisher. D.j. nicked & stained. Signed and Inscribed by the Au.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback Grubby covers rubbed at spine ends. Previous owners name on front end paper. Illustrated with B & W plates. 318 pages Wt 0.4 Kg Good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1934 Hodder & Stoughton edition on brown illustrated cloth green lettering to spine and frontis.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Roberts, Cecil. Gone rustic. Thirteenth impression. London: Hodder & Stoughton, November 1949. Hardback, VG, in GOOD unclipped dustjacket, bumped to corners, with shelfwear to top edge and a small rectangle missing from top of spine. Terra-cotta cloth with blind embossed illustrations to front and spine, and green lettering to front and spine. Small patch of colour fade to front. Binding strong. Small bookseller label to front pastedown. Woodcut illustration to title page. 318pp. with 4 full-page colour illustrations by Percy Home. Top edge of page block stained green. Contents clean and bright. Edric Cecil Mornington Roberts (18 May 1892 20 December 1976) was an English journalist, poet, dramatist and novelist. this book tells "the actual story of his cottage in the Chilterns". RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in mustard cloth boards with green lettering and embossed illustration to front and spine, no dustjacket. 318pp + 2pp book catalogue to rear. 4 colour plates. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (3).

Condition: Fair. 1934. Reprinted. 318 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth with decorations. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Minor dog-eared corners. Pencil inscription to rear pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pp.318, adverts. Loosely inserted is a typed note signed by the publisher. D.j. nicked & stained. Signed and Inscribed by the Au.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. reprint. shelf wear on the boards. foxing and markings. ownership inscription. all pages are intact and legible. sound binding. may require extra postage outside South Africa. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Reprint. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 318 p., [4] l. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm. Subjects; Country life England. Gardening England. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*01/30/2023 [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Percy Home (illustrator). "It was in Florida that a sudden desire possessed me for a cottage in England. I had never before wanted anything as on that sunny Christmas Day I wanted a cottage in the English countryside. It was strange that I should be thirty-five before I became enthusiastically English and felt the desire to possess the Englishman's heritage, a view of friendly hills, green fields, and an old garden with phlox, honeysuckle, lavender and roses." --- First printing April 1934, then May 1934, this July 1934. Dedicated to Lady (Philip) Gibbs. --- Original yellow cloth boards, lettered green on spine and top cover (19.8 cm height). Blind embossed top cover and spine. Bump top end corners, nicks in cloth lower spine end. Some fading, some wear to joints. Internally very nice. Previous owner's signature front free endpaper. Four illustrations, tinted plates, by Percy Home: 1: Pilgrim Cottage, 2: The Study, 3: Our Fireplace, From South Room, 4: Old Fireplace, Dining-Room. Pp. 318 with two pages at end advertising Author's Other Works.

Condition: Good Reading Hardback. First Printed. 318 pages - front blank page removed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good for Age. No Jacket. Slight browning. Small tear along bottom the spine with sun fading. A reflective account of the authors 1930's acquisition of an English cottage, and his subsequent sojourn in the country.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Country Life, England, Gardening) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5th Reprint of 1st Edition. 318 pages. 4 colour plates. Edges slightly dusty, internally spotless.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: ACCEPTABLE. Cream cloth boards with green rectangles and gilt lettering. The dust jacket is cream with green lettering along with grey illustrations. Pages are unmarked with the exception of pencil markings on the flyleaves, and endpapers along with a sticker on the front endpaper. Foxing on the top edge. Some soiling on the fron flyleaf. Cover is worn along the top edge of the spine. The dust jacket is discolored, has missing pieces and is tape repaired on some tears. Top edge of the jacket is worn and bumped.