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Department of English Local History Occasional Papers No. 17. The Deserted Villages of Oxfordshire

By: Allison, KJ / Beresford, MW / Hurst, JG / Members of the Deserted Medieval Village Research Group

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Leicester, Leicester University Press: 1966

Seller ID: 031803

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

47pp, gazetteer, 9 tables, 2 folding maps. Card covers, minor marks, light ageing, a VG copy.
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Shooting Don'ts: Applicable to the Shot Gun

By: Anon

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, The Rolls House Publishing Co Ltd: 1927

Seller ID: 018646

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

61pp, full page illustrations by Fitz. 'Published by general request', this is the 2nd edition. Small hardback, a few marks to covers, some foxing mainly to endpapers, a few page edge rough cut with minor losses, corner loss to pages 45-6, overall a Good copy of a scarce title.
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Baily's Hunting Directory 1969-70

By: Anon

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, J. A. Allen and Company: 1969

Seller ID: 020204

ISBN: 085131046X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

xx + 374pp, 3 folding maps, adverts. Gilt on red cloth boards, slight spine fading, bumping to lower corners, small surface loss to spine base corner, glue marks (from sellotape) to pastedowns and endpapers, contents otherwise VG. Contains details of Hunts, including their countries, histories and former Masters, of Foxhounds, Harriers, Staghounds, Draghounds, Beagles, Basset Hounds, Otterhounds and Bloodhounds, in the UK and Ireland; Hunts of America, the Commonwealth, and Europe; results of Horse Shows and three maps showing boundaries of Foxhounds.
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Baily's Hunting Directory 2006 - 2007

By: Anon

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Baily's: 2006

Seller ID: 021567

ISBN: 0953318176

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

lxiv + 512pp, illustrations. Gilt on red boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Baily's Hunting Directory Number 91 1997 - 1998. Centenary Edition 1897 - 1997.

By: Anon

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Baily's: 1997

Seller ID: 021675

ISBN: 0952362864

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

cvi + 534pp, illustrations. Red cloth boards, gilt titling, slight edge wear, overall a VG copy.
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Vintage John Deere: Early History and the Two-Cylinder Years, 1837 - 1960 (American Legends)

By: Arnold, Dave

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, Voyageur Press: 1995

Seller ID: 031633

ISBN: 0896582655

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

112pp, index, colour illustrations. Black boards, landscape format, a VG copy in (slight chipping to spine head) dustwrapper.
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Village Folk: The Hiscocks, a Ramsbury Family. (Experiments in Oral History)

By: As Told to Len Noble By Gordon and Sidney Hiscock, Gladys Finch and Olive Noble

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Wiltshire, Wiltshire County Council: 1990

Seller ID: 022451

ISBN: 0860801934

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

148pp, index, map, photographs. Large format softback, light reading wear, slight corner creasing to upper front corner of pages and covers, overall a near VG copy. Country life in Ramsbury village, Wiltshire.
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CowParade: Zurich's Lighter Side

By: Baumann, Walter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Switzerland, NeptunArt: 2000

Seller ID: 030911

ISBN: 3859230441

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

168pp, bibliography, index, colour photographs throughout, English text. Landscape format, pictorial boards, a VG copy, no dustwrapper.
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Big Green Annual 2005 (Point-to-Point Racing)

By: Beasley, John

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Dorset, Paleface Publications: 2005

Seller ID: 018333

ISBN: 0953960846

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160pp, illustrated with colour photographs throughout. Large format hardback, laminated pictorial boards, slight twist to spine, light wear, overall a VG clean tight copy.
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The Minehead Harriers. Their Origin and Fortunes

By: Best, James

Price: £20.00

Publisher: James Best: 1983

Seller ID: 021854

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

56pp, illustrated. Booklet, slightest fading to spine and adjacent edges, minor creasing to tips of a few pages, overall a VG copy.
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There's Always Something! 70 Years at Norval Farm in the Vale of Evesham

By: Bomford, Tony

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Evesham, AL Bomford: 2002

Seller ID: 021387

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

114pp, illustrations. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. Signed by the author: 'Enjoy It, Tony' on title page. Farming and country life on a farm in South Littleton in the Vale of Evesham.
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Bernwood: The Life and Afterlife of a Forest (Harris Paper Two)

By: Broad, John / Hoyle, Richard (Editors)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Preston, The University of Central Lancashire: 1997

Seller ID: 031908

ISBN: 0906694736

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvi + 126pp, 9 maps, 8 plates, 9 tables, 2 illustrations in text. Softback, a VG copy.
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To Hunt the Fox

By: Brock, David (Master of the Thurles and Kilshane Foxhounds, Sometime Master of the East Sussex)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Seeley, Service & Co:

Seller ID: 021564

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

320pp, index, 22 photographs, 20 drawings. Bright red boards, top edge of pages red, foxing mainly to endpapers, a VG copy in a Good (overall browning to spine and panels, some edge chipping with slight loss mainly to corners and spine head/tail, price-clipped) dustwrapper. Undated, assumed to be 1937 first edition.
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Case Album

By: Brown, Eddie / Brown, Julian

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Nuneaton, Allan T Condie Publications: 1997

Seller ID: 031635

ISBN: 1856380300

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

48pp, black and white photographs, illustrations. Large format softback, light wear only, a VG copy.
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Jobs in the Countryside: Studies in North Lancashire and Cumbria (Centre for North West Regional Studies Resource Paper)

By: Capstick, Margaret / Clark, Gordon / Doherty, John

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Lancaster, University of Lancaster, Centre for North West Regional Studies: 1986

Seller ID: 021108

ISBN: 0901272221

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 136pp, 3 appendices, chapter notes, maps, charts, tables. Large format softback, minor marks / slight foxing to covers, otherwise light ageing and wear, a VG copy.
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English Foxhunting: A History

By: Carr, Raymond

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 1986

Seller ID: 021850

ISBN: 0297790323

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xix + 275pp, index, bibliography, source notes, 2 maps. Revised paperback edition with a new epilogue. Softback, light reading wear, slight fading to spine, general browning to pages, overall a VG copy.
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Culpeper's Herbal. The English Physician. Enlarged

By: Culpeper, Nicholas / Introduced by Richard Mabey

Price: £36.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2007

Seller ID: 031344

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

xvii + 361pp, indexes, illustrations are hand-coloured engravings from Elizabeth Blackwell's 'Curious Herbal'. Decorated green cloth boards, design by Neil Gower, a Fine copy in a VG slipcase.
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Illustrated Buyers Guide: Allis-Chalmers Tractors and Crawlers

By: Dean, Terry

Price: £15.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Motorbooks International: 2001

Seller ID: 019111

ISBN: 076030940X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

160pp, index, 4 appendices, 16pp colour photographs, black and white illustrations and photographs. Softback, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy.
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Four Wheels Ahead: The Story of SAME Tractors

By: Di Nola, Massimo

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Italy, Edizioni Del Sole 24 Ore: 1987

Seller ID: 031796

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

176pp, index, photographs and illustrations, some in colour. Plain untitled grey cloth boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Image for Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers 2: Worcestershire Agriculture in the Mid-nineteenth Century: An Analysis of the 1854 Returns for Worcestershire

Worcestershire Historical Society Occasional Papers 2: Worcestershire Agriculture in the Mid-nineteenth Century: An Analysis of the 1854 Returns for Worcestershire

By: Dodd, J.Phillip

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Worcester, Worcestershire Historica Society Publications: 1979

Seller ID: 031882

ISBN: 0950028339

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good

24pp, 3 illustrations. Booklet, a VG copy.
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The Light of Other Days: Country Life Around Ross, 1870 - 1940

By: Druce, Fred

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ross-on-Wye, A. Druce: 1984

Seller ID: 031176

ISBN: 0950922404

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

102pp, black and white photographs throughout. Softback, a few reading creases, small price label remains to rear, overall a VG copy.
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Innovation and Conservation: Ernest Edward Cook and His Country Estates

By: Edited By EJT Collins, AK Giles and JGK Malleson

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Reading, University of Reading: 1989

Seller ID: 031798

ISBN: 0704907089

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

172pp, 18 tables, 48 plates. Softback, corner creasing to lower front of rear cover and adjacent pages, near VG copy.
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Heart of a Hoofbeat

By: Evans, Margaret

Price: £10.00

Publisher: British Columbia, Earthways Media Limited: 2008

Seller ID: 015847

ISBN: 0968521304

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

200pp, bibliography, illustrated. Deals with questions about the natural behaviour of domestic horses. Signed by author on title page.
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Pollarded Trees and Their Historical Significance: A Study in Wichenford Parish

By: Field, Jane

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Worcestershire, Gatepiece Books: 2009

Seller ID: 019443

ISBN: 0956343708

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

163pp, index, 7 appendices, 2 drawings, 34 photographs, 40 maps plus loose colour map showing the distribution of oak, ash, lime and alder pollards within the Wichenford Parish (2008). Large format softback, light wear only, a VG copy.
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Image for The Fordson at Work: Being a Few Tributes to the Strong Practical Merits of the Fordson Tractor, Freely and Voluntarily Given By Those Who Speak from Personal Experience, and Experience, You Know, is the School of Wisdom

The Fordson at Work: Being a Few Tributes to the Strong Practical Merits of the Fordson Tractor, Freely and Voluntarily Given By Those Who Speak from Personal Experience, and Experience, You Know, is the School of Wisdom

By: Ford Motor Company

Price: £12.00

Publisher: TEE Publishing Ltd: 1985

Seller ID: 021462

ISBN: 0905100050

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

76pp, fully illustrated with black and white photographs. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy.
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Givendale: A Farm in Harmony with Nature

By: Fuller, Richard

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Shrewsbury, Swan Hill Press: 1991

Seller ID: 018283

ISBN: 185310230X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

144pp, appendix, species list, colour photographs throughout. Green boards, light wear only, a VG copy in (closed edge tear, price-clipped) dustwrapper. Presentation inscription from the author to the front endpaper.
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A History of Worcestershire Agriculture and Rural Evolution

By: Gaut, RC

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Worcester, Littlebury & Co Ltd: 1939

Seller ID: 021875

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

xvi + 490pp, indexes, bibliography. Brown boards, spine dulled, a few marks, dated owner's name, 2 sets of initials, to front endpaper, Some foxing, mainly to endpapers and edges, Overall a near VG copy without dustwrapper.
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Memories of a Stag Harbourer: A Record of Twenty-Eight Years with the Devon and Somerset Stag Hounds 1894 - 1921

By: Goss, Fred / Edited By H Campbell Thomson and with a Preface By Earl Fortescue

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Tiverton, Halsgrove: 2000

Seller ID: 021212

ISBN: 184114052X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

224pp, index, 9 photographs. Blue boards, very light ageing, twist to spine otherwise a VG copy in (slight edge creasing) dustwrapper. This is a second facsimile edition, published in 2000.
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Romany Magazine: Numbers 1-20, 1946-1965 (Facsimile)

By: Graham, Joyce (Editor)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Macclesfield, The Romany Society: 1997

Seller ID: RR14841

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Facsimile copy of numbers 1-20. Excellent clean tight copy.
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Vintage Allis Chalmers Tractors: The Ultimate Tribute to Allis-Chalmers Tractors

By: Grooms, Lynn K

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Driffield, Japonica Press: 2000

Seller ID: 019108

ISBN: 0953373770

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160pp, index, photographs throughout, many in colour, pictorial endpapers. Laminated pictorial boards, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper.
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Rural Reflections: A Brief History of Traps, Trapmakers and Gamekeeping in Britain

By: Haddon-Riddoch, Stuart

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Argyll, Argyll Publishing: 2001

Seller ID: 018218

ISBN: 190283125X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

288pp, bibliography, extensively illustrated with drawings, engravings and black and white photographs. Green boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Limited edition, this copy no. 021/1000.
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Falconry: On a Wing and a Prayer

By: Hammond, Nick

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Wiltshire, The Crowood Press Ltd: 2000

Seller ID: 019630

ISBN: 1861263236

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

143pp, index, bibliography, glossary, drawings, photographs of which 8pp in colour. Black boards, a VG clean tight copy in (chip to 1 corner) dustwrapper.
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The Golden Guinea Book of Heavy Horses Past and Present

By: Hart, Edward

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Newton Abbot, David & Charles: 1976

Seller ID: 018346

ISBN: 0715371460

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

112pp, bibliography, appendix, glossary, illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. Black boards, light ageing only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Signed by author on title page 'Best Wishes, Edward Hart'.
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Among Men and Horses

By: Hayes, M Horace

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, T Fisher Unwin: 1894

Seller ID: 016562

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

xv + 358pp + 8pp adverts at rear, index, 8 plates. Gilt on green boards, decoration to front board, slight marking to front board otherwise clean and bright. Top edge gilt, other edges gilt. General light foxing to contents and edges. Signed gift dedication from the publisher, T Fisher Unwin, to verso of front endpaper. Overall a very presentable copy.
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Cotswold Born 'n' Bred: My Life at Snowshill by Bob Hodge

By: Hodge, Bob

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Homepeace: 2005

Seller ID: 030915

ISBN: 0952169207

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

100pp, illustrated. A simple yet compelling narrative about everyday life in a Cotswold village. New book.
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The Fight for Fordhall Farm: The Battle to Save a Way of Life

By: Hollins, Ben / Hollins, Charlotte/ Foreword By Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 2007

Seller ID: 030773

ISBN: 0340951249

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xi + 339pp, 16pp plates. Red cloth boards, light bumping to corners, browning to page edges, gift inscription to front endpaper, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Signed without dedication by both authors to title page. 2nd impression.
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Landscape History: Journal of the Society for Landscape Studies. Volume 15 1993

By: Hooke, Dr. D (Editor)

Price: £12.50

Publisher: The Society for Landscape Studies: 1993

Seller ID: 031602

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

100pp, maps, illustrations. Softback, a VG copy. A collection of 6 articles:- 'Old English 'Wic' and the Origin of the Hundred' by CJ Balkwill; 'Bolesford, North Riding of Yorkshire: A Lost Wapentake Centre and Its Landscape' by Vivien G Swan, Bridgett EA Jones and Damian Grady; 'Isleham: A Medieval Inland Port' by Susan Oostbuizen; 'Estate Surveyors and the Spread of the Scale-Map in England 1550-80' by PDA Harvey; 'Enclosure Commissioners as Landscape Planners' by John Chapman; 'Lammas Meadows' by Anthea Brian.
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Pheasants: Their Breeding and Management

By: Howman, K.C.R.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Lincolnshire, K & R Books Ltd: 1979

Seller ID: 021831

ISBN: 0903264358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 117pp, indexes, bibliography, appendix, illustrations, many in colour, illustrated endpapers. Green boards, slight browning to top edge, light ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Signed and dated by the author on 1/2 title page.
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A Century of Traction Engines: Being an Historical Account of the Rise and Decline of an Industry Whose Benefits to Mankind Were and are Incalculable

By: Hughes, WJ

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Percival Marshall: 1959

Seller ID: 030234

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

ix + 262pp, index, bibliography, 181 illustrations, frontispiece. Maroon boards, very slight spine twist, general ageing to contents, a VG copy in (a few light rubs, not price-clipped, slight spine fading) dustwrapper.
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The Claim of Crofting: The Scottish Highlands and Islands 1930 - 1990

By: Hunter, James

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing: 1991

Seller ID: 022399

ISBN: 1851583297

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

238pp, index, references, 8pp illustrations. Grey boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Good Morning.... Good Night

By: Langley, Tim / Foreword By Mr. John Berkeley

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Grantham, Blackthorn Press: 1987

Seller ID: 021565

ISBN: 0951251406

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 119pp, 32 photographs. Green boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in (slight edge creasing) dustwrapper. Flat signed and dated by the author on front endpaper.
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Farm Tractor Milestones

By: Leffingwell, Randy

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, MBI Publishing Co: 2000

Seller ID: 031636

ISBN: 076030730X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

156pp, index, photographs throughout. Black boards, light wear, a VG copy in (slight edge creasing) dustwrapper.
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John Deere Model D Photo Archive. The Unstyled Model D: 1923 - 1938. Photographs from the Deere & Company Archives

By: Letourneau, PA (Edited with Introduction by)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: USA, Iconografix: 1993

Seller ID: 031839

ISBN: 188225600X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

143pp, captioned black and white illustrations throughout. Landscape format softback, small label glue mark to front cover, light reading wear, a VG copy.
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Oliver Tractors Photo Archive

By: Letourneau, PA (Editor)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: USA, Iconografix: 1994

Seller ID: 019115

ISBN: 1882256093

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

143pp, black and white photographs plus a section of monochrome images of studio artwork at the rear. Landscape format softback, light edge rubbing, overall a VG clean tight copy. Photographs are from the Floys County, Iowa Historical Society; Bakken and Higgins Collections of the Shields Library, University of California, Davis.
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The Island Farmers

By: Lockley, RM

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, HF & G Witherby Ltd: 1946

Seller ID: 016695

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

174pp, map, 16 plates plus sketches by Phyllida Lumsden. Green boards, light foxing only, a VG clean tight copy in a Good+ (internally reinforced with sellotape, glue showing through to front of wrapper, minor corner loss, to be supplied in removable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Signed by the author on 1/2 title page.
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The Life of a Foxhound

By: Mills, John

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts: 1861

Seller ID: 031395

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

vii + 222pp, 4 plates. Half-bound green over brown boards, modern rebinding, gilt spine titling, new endpapers, contemporary dated signature to verso of frontispiece, small edge loss to title page, silk page marker, generally light foxing, overall a Good+ copy of the 2nd edition.
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Image for An Illustrated A-Z History of Tractors: Features 28 of the Greatest Tractor Manufacturers in the World, Including Caterpillar, Deutz, Ford, International Harvester, John Deere, Massey Ferguson, Minneapolis-Moline, Oliver, Renault, Steyr, and Many More

An Illustrated A-Z History of Tractors: Features 28 of the Greatest Tractor Manufacturers in the World, Including Caterpillar, Deutz, Ford, International Harvester, John Deere, Massey Ferguson, Minneapolis-Moline, Oliver, Renault, Steyr, and Many More

By: Mirco De Cet

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Lorenz Books: 2014

Seller ID: 031634

ISBN: 0754828972

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160pp, index, timeline, fully illustrated. Laminated pictorial boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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The Great Upheaval: An Account of the Enclosure of Wingrave and Rowsham in 1798

By: Morley, Margaret / Morley, Kenneth C.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Wingrave, Kenneth C Morley: 1994

Seller ID: 031806

ISBN: 0951575120

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

64pp, references, 4 appendices, colour map of land use, illustrations, photographs, maps. Softback, slight creasing to covers, small mark to title page, a VG copy.
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A Workingman's Castle: The 600-year History of The Fleece Inn from Peasant Prefab to National Treasure

By: Mowbray, Christopher

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Mercia Shires: 2015

Seller ID: 030917

ISBN: 1910673048

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

85pp, bibliography, black and white illustrations. Softback, VG. The story of the pub in the village of Bretforton, near Evesham, now owned by the National Trust.
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Horsing About With Dogs And Lorries: The Autobiography of a Countrywoman of Character

By: Newell, Joan

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Malvern, JRB Publishing: 2012

Seller ID: 021645

ISBN: 0956640354

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxxii + 164pp, photographs, mostly black and white. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. Personalised gift dedication from the author to 1/2 title. Farming in Worcestershire pre-war, joining the ATS and then later, running Grange Farm, Guarlford, near Malvern,
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