Search Results: the children of shallowford by williamson henry

London: Faber & Faber, 1959. Second edition. Hardcover. near Very Good. New, revised edition with additional scenes. 8vo. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy an a tight binding without dust jacket.

Faber and Faber, 1939. Hardcover. Good. 1939. First Edition. 292 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Light thumb marking and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Lettering remains bright and clear.

London: Faber & Faber, 1959 1959 Revised copy of the 1939 First Edition. Green cloth on boards with gilt titles on spine.

London: Faber and Faber. Revised ed. (1959). 218pp. VG/VG copy but for small detached tear to jacket base of spine, light foxing to page edge, jacket spine a little darkened, spine ends chipped, price-clipped, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1959.

London: Faber and Faber, 1959. Book. Near Fine (Book Condition). Hard Cover in Dustjacket. New and Revised Edition. An excellent copy in fine condition save for a hint of shelfwear and light sunning to spine of dustjacket. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.].

Faber and Faber, 1939. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn. mild tanning. gift inscription. revised edition. well bound. good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Macdonald and Jane's, 1978. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (faint spotting on page edges - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 222, illus with b&w photos.

Faber and Faber, 1939. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1939. First Edition. 293 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations,. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil and pen markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor splits to edges, spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Book has a slight forward lean. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

London: Faber & Faber Ltd. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and marked. Edge-wear. Light foxing to page edges and sporadically within. Inner hinge cracking. 1939. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 150mm (8" x 6"). 292pp. B/w plates. .

Macdonald & Jane's, London, 1978. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. A new edition, incorporating the revisions from the 1959 edition, and with the addition of new illustrations and a four-page afterword by Richard Williamson. 8vo. 222pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-two captioned photographs. In fine state with virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

London: Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Ltd. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket in clear protective wraps. 1978. Reprint. Brown hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 150mm (8" x 6"). 222pp. B/w photographic plates. .

Macdonald and Jane's, publishers, London - revised edition 1978 hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket First published in 1939, this book was reissued in a revised version in 1959 and has been out-of-print for many years. It tells of writer Henry Williamson's young family growing up in a thatched cottage in Shallowford, on the south side of Exmoor. It is a wonderffuly happy picture of family life in the countryside during the late 1920s - a faithful portrait of young children and their remarkable mother. This edition has an Afterword by Richard Williamson, the youngest of the Shallowford children.

London: Faber & Faber, 1959. revised edition. Very Good. small octavo. hardback in original cloth 218pp., Neat ownership inscription, & sporadic spotting in text o/w a very good copy in pale green cloth boards

Beaumont Press, London, 1939. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 292pp. With a frontispiece and sixteen photographs by the author. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Edges spotted and with a little more spotting to the endpapers and several (blank) preliminary and concluding leaves. Just a touch of wear to the spine ends. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front free endpaper, alongside a former owner inked name and date (1944). A nice crisp copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, somewhat tanned at the spine panel, rubbed and a little nicked at the extremities with just a touch of light spotting and an inch or so of loss from the head of the spine panel and, a smaller area of loss from the base of the spine panel and several tiny slivers of loss from the corner tips. An affectionate and mostly literal account of the early years of Williamson's growing family, based in part on a series of articles called 'Tales of My Children' which he had… Read More

London: Faber, 1959. Revised edition with additional material, 8vo, 218pp, bit of light dust spotting to endpapers o/w VG Copy in chipped, rubbed, worn and torn DJ saved from oblivion by a protective sleeve. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Faber and Faber. Hardback. 218pp. Much revised with additional scenes. First edition thus. A companion book to A Clear Water Stream and the earlier Salar the Salmon. Turquoise cloth with gilt titles to spine is very clean and neat. Dust wrapper is slightly rubbed, and slightly and faintly discoloured to background. Dust jacket is slightly faded to spine with a few tiny chips to edges. Very good copy in good+ dust jacket . Hardback. 1959.

Macdonald and Jane's,, [1978]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 22 plates on 8, tiny signature on front free endpaper; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped-dustwrapper. Williamson's classic story of his children growing up amid the beauty of Exmoor was first published in 1939, with a revised and augmented edition in 1959. This edition adds an afterword by Richard Williamson, the youngest child of the Shallowford days, together with many personal photographs from the family collection. Gretton, 25; Matthews A26.

Faber, London, 1939. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 292pp. With a frontispiece and sixteen photographs by the author. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Edges spotted and with a little more spotting to the endpapers and several (blank) preliminary and concluding leaves. A little wear to the backstrip ends and the upper and lower board margins. Former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the front free endpaper, alongside a second former owner name A good copy, really quite crisp internally, in price-clipped and a little rubbed, faded, tanned and spotted dust wrapper with four or five tiny slivers of loss from the spine ends and corner tips. An affectionate and mostly literal account of the early years of Williamson's growing family, based in part on a series of articles called 'Tales of My Children' which he had contributed to 'Family' in 1935..

Faber, London, 1959. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. The revised second edition, extensively rewritten and rearranged with additional (revised) extracts from Goodbye West Country with several passages of new text which did not appear in the original 1939 edition. 8vo. 218pp. Blue-green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny scattering of very light spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the top edge with a thumbnail-sized area of loss from the head of the front panel, several further tiny fractions of top edge loss and a small area of internal taped repair..

London, Macdonald and Jane's Publishers Limited 1978.. 222pp. 8vo. Original board in dustwrapper, sunned on spine.. A very good copy.. First edition in this expanded form.