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Raddon House Books, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 24 August 2020
Crown 8vo edition, 1929. 5 x 7¼" xl + 552 + [5] publisher's adverts, with 48 full-page illustrations and well over 100 smaller illustrations in the text. Very good in original decorated fawn cloth. Slight nick to top of spine and spine slightly darkened. Slight foxing to front edge. Firm and tight; text clean and bright, browning to half-title page. No dustwrapper. Charming edition of this famous work. Seller Inventory # 000854
Title: The natural history of Selborne
Publisher: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, London
Publication Date: 1915
Binding: Decorated Cloth
Illustrator: Edmund H. New
Condition: Very Good
Seller: All Lost Books, Wollaston, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. New, Edmund H (illustrator). The author's study of the life of the people and the wildlife around his Hampshire home of Selborne. Much of the work is told through letters to a zoologist, Thomas Pennant though few were actually sent and instead written for the book. Includes numerous b/w illustrations and tables. xl+552pp. Green cloth boards with heraldic arms in gilt to upper board and gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Light shelf-wear to edges of boards. pastedowns and endpapers toned. Fore and lower page edges left untrimmed. Seller Inventory # 207786
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Kilmaree Books, Strathcarron, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Edmund H. New (illustrator). Large 8vo. 528 pages. Tan cloth boards; illustrations and titles on front and spine. Top edge of text block stained blue; other edges uncut. Portrait of Thomas Pennant as frontispiece; black and white illustrations by Edmund H. New (full page plates and chapter headings); 2 maps. Boards lightly soiled and rubbed; corners bumped; ends of spine fraying; spine darkened. Bookplate and bookshop pencil annotations on front endpaper; endpapers foxed and toned; otherwise pages almost entirely clean. Title page coming loose but otherwise binding firm. Seller Inventory # 1120
Quantity: 1 available