Wayfaring Tree by Bb (38 results)

Condition: Fair. 1946. Reprint. 198 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with silver lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front endpapers. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting to spine ends. Heavy sunning to spine and board edges. Notable scuffing, staining and marking to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. D J Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). 1st Edition. Good tight condition, illustrated, foxing on fore edge, blue boards, corners bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. D J Watkins Pitchford (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fair condition, foxing to fore edge and sporadic to some pages, illustrated, tanning to pages, hinges straining but contents tight, blue boards with silver birds, soiling, shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1945 1st edition, 8vo., x,198pp., many full page & other illustrations by D J Watkins-Pitchford, small address label on front endpaper, very good clean copy, cloth, dust jacket creased with chipping and a little wear on edges.

Condition: Good. 1945. First Edition. 198 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are mildly tanned with notable foxing. Mild cracking to rear hinge, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are notably warped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hollis & Carter, 1945. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, x,198pp, illust. Endpapers and edges spotted/foxed, d/j price-clipped and torn. A fair copy. / . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition/First printing published by Hollis & Carter, London 1945. Repaired with archival tape to spine between ffep and pastedown. No marks or inscriptions. Foxing to endpages.and page edges. Clean blue cloth covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. D.J. WATKINS PITCHFORD (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very good-plus clean firm interior mostly, no usage marks or inscriptions, just a few light age specks to top edge of rear e/papers and last three pages, no text obscured - contains 12 stunning black and white illustrations including the frontispiece, faint tan to pages, excellent clean firm cloth boards; d/jacket dulled/toned to spine, light shelf wear to rear, nicks to top edge, small tear to lower rear but with bright frontage and no large tears or loss, not price-clipped, covered with a new removable sleeve-protector.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no DJ. First edition, reprint. Reading copy. Boards and cloth very worn. Some foxing to end papers.

Condition: Good. Boards have little wear with light faading to spine. Pages are tanned. DJ is toned with some edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) (illustrator). First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in blue cloth with silver lettered title to spine,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that has a few small nicks and tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Not Price clipped and this copy has NO former names present.Book has a firm binding showing no hinge weakness.Nice clean tight copy with just a touch of spotting to the page edges.Collated with a total of 12 black and white plates by BB.8vo 198pp First Edition 1st Impression [1945].

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Denys Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). First Edition. 198 pages. Blue boards, silver titles and silver birds in flight decoration to front cover. Some wear, fading and marks on boards. Front hinge a trifle weak.

Condition: Good. 2nd edition. Light wear to boards with light fading. Content is clean with some spotting. Good DJ with some chips/tears and marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. UK hardback reprint, 1946 Hollis & Carter Ltd. The book is in very good condition with slight fading to the rear of the boards. No dustjacket. Illustrated by D.J. Watkins Pitchford.

1945 1ST WEAR EDGES O/W VG BLUE DEC BDS SILVER GILT TITLES DECORATION NO JACKET.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. D.J. Watkins Pritchard (illustrator). Price unclipped : 12s. 6d. Minor tear to top of wrapper. Clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) (illustrator). First Edition. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in blue cloth with silver lettered title to spine,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that has one tiny nick to head of spine with light rubbing along extremities.Not Price clipped and this copy has one previous and neat small inscription to the front endpaper.Book has a firm binding showing no hinge weakness.Nice clean tight copy and the outer boards are particularly nice.Collated with a total of 12 black and white plates by BB.The dust-wrapper comes well protected in a cover sleeve,8vo 198pp First Edition 1st Impression [1945].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Slight rubbing to edges of wrapper, slightly more pronounced to top and bottom of spine, no fading or tears, not price clipped. Illustated, very slight spotting to end papers and edge of text block, otherwise in excellent order with very little wear. Heavy book which will require additional postage outside the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Watkins-Pitchford, D. J. (BB) (illustrator). 1st Edition. True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (12s 6d). With twelve illustrations by the author. All illustrations are present and in very good condition. Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, few tears, creasing/rubbing to edges, numerous marks, patchy browning (including to spine), minor foxing, a little patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), the odd spot of foxing/little browning/few marks to reverse (white side), pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, pushing/bumping to corners, little creasing/rubbing to front/back inner flaps and is in only good condition. Boards are very good with a little pushing/bumping to corners. the odd small bump top edges, the odd small mark, patchy rubbing to edges and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/bumping) to head/tail of spine. Minor spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Top edge of pages dyed blue have the odd small mark/small scratch. Pages bit tanned. odd small mark/minor foxing to page edges and bottoms. Occasional small marks/scattered foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. D.J. Watkins Pitchford (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very good lightly used condition, light age discolouration marks, light wear & marks. Dust wrapper - Good used condition, light age discolouration marks, light edge wear & marks.

1st Edn,. VIII 198 pages, large 8vo., scraperboard illus, blue cloth title in silver, vg in worn but presentable dj.

First Edition. Publisher's blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine and birds in flight on the front board, in pictorial dustwrapper. 12 full-page illustrations plus chapter head pieces all by BB.198 pages, 6.25 X 8.75 inches. Very good book with an ink stain on the lower rear corner effecting the last few pages and also the dustwrapper. The price clipped dustwrapper is quite good with slight chipping to the corners and spine ends, a few edge tears, some repaired from the inside, and ink stain to rear corner. No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Nr. Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Blue cloth with lettering and flying birds decoration in silver. Name on ffep and number on front paste down. Stain to lower fore edge. A rare signed copy of this book. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. D J Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). First. Hardback with striking jacket design a rural scene with bright flowers Clean internally with mild foxing Illustrations by BB himself including a fullpage frontispiece Over The Sands This book contains the authors childhood recollections of friendship wild expeditions searching out bird nests fishing and shooting Wanderings in the New Forest as well as a fascinating attempt to establish the magnificent Swallowtail butterfly in Midlands marsh lands ppviii198 Very good overall Part of a complete set of BBs new in our stock. book.

First edition. Octavo. 198 pages. 12 full-page wood engravings and other decorations by the author. Covers faintly marked. Spine slightly rubbed at head and tail. Very good in very good, slightly nicked dustwrapper with a 2cm closed tear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hollis & Carter, London, 1945, first printing. Illustrated with fine b&w plates. 6" x 8.75". 198 pp. Decorated blue cloth. A book of essays on country topics, goose shooting, carp fishing, fish ponds, birds, adders, the New Forest, "Tom Pillimore, tench fisher", etc. Very good in very good wrapper.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. D J Watkins Pitchford (illustrator). First Edition. 1st Edition 1945. Includes and original hand drawn ink illustration by the artist/author D J Watkins Pitchford to the title page. Uncommon thus. Book is very good++ with bright boards. Nice clean contents.Small name to endpaper. The wrapper is very good++ with nicks/a few small closed tears and light rubbing to edges. More images available upon request.Ref A1234. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. 8vo. (x), 198 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, silver lettered to the spine and with a matching blocked illustration to the upper board, early owner's inscription to the front free endpaper, signed by the author/illustrator to the title page. Frontispiece and 11 full page plates plus further illustrations in the text. Rubbing to the extremities, else very good.

Condition: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1945 ). 1945 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 222mm). Ppx,198. B/w engravings by D.J. Watkins-Pitchford, top edge stained blue. Blue cloth, silver-gilt birds motif to upper board, spine titled in silver-gilt. Some slight staining / tanning, but a good copy in unclipped dust-wrapper. From the foreword by the author: "This book is primarily for the man or woman who has a deep love for the country and country things and who has, by force of circumstance, to live in a city or town .I believe that the only truly happy people are those who realize the preciousness of woods, meadows, and the open air." Chapters include; the New Forest; adders and snakes, the Knightwood Enclosure; W.H. Hudson's farmhouse, Boldre church and churchyard; a New Forest brook, New Forest names; a New Forest riding, bird life in the Forest, Buckler's Hard; Wicken Fen, butterflies; Tom Pillimore, tench fisher; my old home, early fishing memories; English smells, evacuees; taxidermy, jackdaws and magpies; sparrows, rooks and rookeries; rabbit potting in June, the keeper's knowledge; the old canal arm; an education test, two anglers; charm of ponds, making a garden pond, swifts; Mac the cowman, butterfly hunting; goldfinches, corncrakes, house sparrows, wild geese, return of the migrant; hawks, buzzards, owls, story of a tame snipe; big fish, giant carp, big tench; wildfowling, character of a wildfowler, lure of the sport; young enthusiasts, a dangerous bull; the Bryeburn, the shepherd's story, on the high hills, evening in the hills. .

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with silver titles the spine and a design in silver to the upper board, in dustwrapper. Top edge blue. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Watkins-Pitchford. A very good copy, the binding with a very small crack to the paper at the front inner hinge nevertheless remains firm, the upper board ever so slightly bowed, the board edges a touch rubbed. The contents, with faint spotting to the text block edges, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the original nicked and rubbed pictorial dustwrapper which has a few short closed tears to the edges, and has three pieces of tape to the underside. Not price-clipped. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.