Wild Life in a Southern County
by Jefferies, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1881. Hardcover. Very Good -. New Edition. xii, 387, [1] p.; 20 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and front cover decoration. Black-stamped decoration on front board with same blind-stamped on back board. Dark brown endpapers. Title vignette of the anemone leaf drawn by the author and used by the publisher after 1880 in Jefferies' works. A collection of essays originally published in the Pall Mall Gazette by the nature writer Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) about Coate and the Marlborough Downs area of England, now part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. A few unopened pages. A wonderful picture of both the natural world and rural English life in the mid-19th century. In Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed with minor loss at tail of spine; head of spine just starting to fray; boards are slightly discolored; front hinge a little loose; pages are clean.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003304
- Title
- Wild Life in a Southern County
- Author
- Jefferies, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder, & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1881
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Exploration; Gardening & Nature;
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