CHILTON BOOKS

Another Country Talk.

PEEL, J.H.B. · 1983

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London: Robert Hsle, 1983. 0709012829. 1st edition. Seventh in the 'Country Talk' series, this volume consists largely of essays written only months before the author's death. "Cannot fail to please all those who love the pageant of the seasons, the cycle of farming, the foibl...

The Hunting Gene. Hunting - Its People; Its Wildlife and Its Countryside.

PAGE, ROBIN. · 2000

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Barton, Cambridgeshire: Bird's Farm Books, 2000. 090523216X. ats ere rRep. "As a non-hunting, non-shooting, non-fishing countryman and conservationist Robin Page delivers a blistering indictment on those wanting abolition." 25.5cms x 19cms x 2cms. Pp.240, inscribed by the auth...

The Open Air. An Anthology of English Country Life.

BELL, ADRIAN. · 1949

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1949. First in this edition with wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone. Pp.398, occasional vignette wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, a few minor light spots, crease to lower corner of pp.167/168. Pale green cloth, spotting to spine, dustwrapper rubbe...

Shadows on the Hills.

PRICE, NANCY. · 1935

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

London: Victor Gollancz, 1935. 2nd impression. Westmorland as visited by the author in the 1930s. Pp.320, black & white frontispiece + 15 further black & white photo illustrations, inscribed by the author to half-title page and facing page, pencil marginal notations to pp.154-...

The Open Air. (With Introduction and Notes by Samuel J.Looker).

JEFFERIES, RICHARD./ PARKER, AGNES MILLER (WOOD ENGRAVINGS). · 1948

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

London: Lutterworth Press, 1948. Originally published in 1885, a collection of essays about nature and the English countryside. Pp.299, fronispiece + further full page and vignette wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Green cloth, title to spine dulled. G+.

Tom Forrest's Country Calendar. From The Archers. BBC.

GLOVER, C. GORDON, & DRABBLE, PHIL. · 1978

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London: BBC, 1978. 0563174110. 1st ed. Compiled from the original material written for The Archers. Pp. 144. 42 b/w illustns. by Thomas Bewick. Pbk, portrait cover of Bob Arnold as Tom Forest by Michael Hopkinson, some scuffing to spine. G+.

A Vagabond's Way. Haphazard Wanderings on the Fells.

PRICE, NANCY. · 1937

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937. 3rd impression. "A wanderer denies the existence of system: that is the essence of vagabondage..you will find me rambling in these notes, as I have rambled by Fell and Force: over the hills, through heather and fern, one day; the next id...

The Heart of a Vagabond.

PRICE, NANCY. · 1955

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Museum Press, 1955. 1st edition. "While the scenery is of the countryside, the people on the stage are real people, and by reading of their thoughts and discussions we rediscover the quieter days of England, when the horse worked the fields and people explored the coun...

The New Naturalist. Snowdonia. The National Park of North Wales. With 56 colour plates by John Markham and others 48 b/w photos, 6 maps and 26 diagrams.

NORTH, F.J, CAMPBELL, BRUCE AND SCOTT, RICHENDA. · 1949

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,374)

London: Collins,1949. 1st ed. New Naturalist series. Pp.20/469, 56 colour plates( by John Markham and others), 48 b/w photos,6 maps and 26 diagrams, fep absent. Green cloth,slightly sunned with uneven fading. G+.

The New Naturalist. British Game. With 28 reproductions in colour and 81 b/w photographs.

VESEY-FITZGERALD, BRIAN. · 1953

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

London: Readers Union,1953. Book club ed. Pp.18/240,28 colour plates, 81 b/w plates, small name to fep. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

The Countryman's Yesterday.

HALL, CHRISTOPHER. (EDITOR.) · 1989

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

London: Pelham Books/ Stephen Greene Press, 1989. 1st ed. "This collection of articles, poems, photographs and sketches draws on the magazine's accumulated treasures to look at the infinite riches of yesterday's countryside." 24cms. x 17.5cms. Pp. 9/176, frontis, b/w illustrat...

The Country Life Countryman's Pocket Book. (Illustrated by C. Dampier Freeman.)

CHRISTIAN, GARTH. · 1967

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Country Life Ltd, 1967. 1st ed. "Within this small volume is a vast amount of information designed to deepen understanding of the geological nature of our landscape, the trees, flowers, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibia, butterflies and other insects that the walker o...

Nothing of the Town. A Countryman's Anthology. (Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.)

DEAKIN, BARTRAM. (COMPILER.) · 1947

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1947. 1st ed. "Mr. Deakin presents a panorama of the countryside, a picture of the country as it is today as well as the rural life of yesterday." Pp. 248, 14 illustrations, inscrip. to fep, uneven toning to endpapers. Green cloth, illustrated d/w...

Landscape and Labour. A New Collection of Essays edited by John Pearson with 20 Drawings by Ursula Sieger.

JEFFERIES, RICHARD. · 1979

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press, 1979. 1st ed. Eighteen essays and two letters. Pp. 199, 20 line drawings. Green cloth, illustrated d/w. VG/VG.

Historic Forests of England.

WHITLOCK, RALPH. · 1979

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,214)

Bradford-on-Avon:Moonraker Press, 1979. 1st ed. ".. traces the history of the indigenous forests from earliest times and demonstrates the significant part they have played in English life .." 25cms. x 20.5cms. Pp. 176, 8 colour, 36 b/w illustrations, 12 line drawings + 1 map. ...

The Shining Highway. An Account of a Plain Man's Pilgrimage.

GEE, H.L. · 1956

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥738)

London: The Epworth Press. 1956. "A book on the English countryside. A charming and restful book to read and keep". Pp 126. Toned pages. P/b. Scuffed spine with small tear to bottom. Illustrated cover. G+.

Trout Fishing. Volume 6.

TURING, H.D. · 1948

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1948. 4th ed. "His book is extremely comprehensive, and throughout the novice is given not only advice but the reasoning by which the opinions expressed are arrived at .." Pp. 7/245, frontis, 7 plates, 15 drawings. Green cloth has bleached spots t...

Outward Bound Trail Walker's Handbook.

HINDE, JOHN. · 1995

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London: Emap Pursuit Publishing (Cassell) 1995. "This handbook shows you how to obtain the most from all kinds of walk, from short country rambles to strenuous mountain treks." Pp.112 with b/w drawings throughout, slight toning to pages. Paperback. G+.

The Countryside of East Anglia.

ELLIS, E.A. · 1979

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Norwich: Jarrold Colour Publications, 1979. "Provides glimpses of a small selection of features interesting to naturalists in the local countryside". Unpaginated. Full of colour illustrations. Paperback. G+.

Farm Down the Lane. The Diary of a Suffolk Farmer. (Farm illustrations by F.N. Steward, & frontis by C.W. Taylor).

STEWARD, B.A. · 1946

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

London: Claud Morris Books Ltd, 1946. 1st ed. "A deep and abiding love for the land and the people who live by the land flows through these pages." Pp. 119, b/w frontis, 25 b/w illustrations, illustrated endpapers. Green cloth, illustrated d/w rubbed with edge losses. G+/G-.