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[12805] Allingham, Helen and Dick, Stewart. The Cottage Homes of England. London: Bracken Books, 1984. First Thus. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 0946495106. Illustrated. Excellent re-issue of the original 1909 edition. No inscriptions. Green cloth gilt. £8.00

[10809] Anon. The Agricutural Landowner's Handbook on Taxation. London: Central Landowners' Association, 1949. Eighth edition. Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. 345pp. Foreword by Major R.G. Proby. Original black cloth gilt, slightly marked. £6.00

[10864] Anon. Drayton Experimental Husbandry Farm, Stratford-on Avon - Farm Guide 1968. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Paperback. Very Good 41pp. Soil map and Farm plan. No inscriptions. Printed covers.slightly marked. £12.00

[15801] Anon. Agriculture in Ancient Egypt. Cairo: Centre of Documentation and Studies on Ancient Egypt, Paperback. Good No date. Small 4to. [34pp.] Illustrated in colour and monochrome. Text in Arabic and English. No inscriptions, Illustrated cover, rubbed/creased £15.00

[3574] Anon. The Open Air Year - An anthology of the seasons selected from the Times. London: Times Publishing, 1932. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. xii, 242pp. Illustrated with 20 sepia photographs. Preface by Viscount Grey of Fallodon. Name on endpaper. Green cloth, tape/tape mark at spine ends. £4.00

[14982] Anon. The Changing Scene - Number One. Penrith: Reed's Ltd, Printers, 1957. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good The Joint Transactions of the Eden Field Club, Penrith & District Natural History Society and Kendal Natural History Society . 63pp. Decorated with line drawings. Comprising sections on Weather, Mammals, Birds, Insects, Flora and Mines and Minerals. No inscriptions, Illustrated card covers. £12.00

[12969] Archer, Fred. The Distant Scene. London: Coronet, 1973. Paperback. Good+. ISBN: 0340178639. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Pages slightly browned. £3.00

[10521] Beedell, Suzanne. Windmills. London: Bracken Books, Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 1851702318. 4to. 143pp. 115 plates. 31 figures. Foreword Henry Longhurst. An excellent comprehensive survey of windmills - history, technology , restoration etc. Original black cloth gilt. £10.00

[6465] Binding, Hilary and MacEwen, Malcolm (editors). Exmoor Review : Lynton and Lynmouth - National Park at Work - Wildlife of Exmoor . Dulverton, Somerset: The Exmoor Society, 1976. Paperback. Good+. ISBN: 0900131225. The Journal of the Exmoor Society. Volume Number 17. 96pp. Illustrations. Advertisements. No inscriptions. Illustrated wrappers. £3.00

[12756] Black, David [editor]. Reader's Digest/ National Trust Nature Notebooks : River, Wetland and Lowland Birds. London: Reader's Digest/National Trust, 1986. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 0276392906. No inscriptions. £4.00

[15033] Carrighar, Sally. One Day at Teton Marsh. London: Michael Joseph, 1957. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ / Very Good. 253pp. Illustrated by George and Patritia Mattson. Name on endpaper. Dustwrraper foxed, price intact. Blue cloth gilt. £12.00

[15051] Carter, George A.. The Hive Bee. Worcester: Littlebury & Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ / Good. 44pp. 24 illustrations.Foreword by H.J. Wadey. Name on endpaper. Dustwrapper worn/chipped, price intact. Orange cloth. £10.00

[9532] Cassimatis, Jack. The Super Stain Remover Book. London: Bloomsbury, 1992. First Thus. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 1854710974. 80pp. 265 main entries and almost 1000 references to individual problems. No inscriptions. Original laminated boards. £4.00

[5774] Colville, Robert. Pony Riding. London: Nicholson & Watson, 1949. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper Country Books No. 3. General Editor Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. 138pp. 2pp index. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Green cloth gilt. £4.00

[13498] Cornish, C.J.. Wild England of To-day and the wildlife in it. London: Thomas Nelson, Hardback. Very Good. / No dustwrapper.. 374pp. Frontispiece. No inscriptions. Originally published by Seeley & Co. in 1895. £4.00

[12950] Cragoe, Elizabeth. Cowslips and Clover. London: Sphere Books, 1978. Paperback. Good. ISBN: 0722126492. No inscriptions. Pages browned £3.00

[11606] Davies, Bryan Eagle, David and Finney, Brian. Soil Management. Ipswich: Farming Press, 1982. Fourth Edition. Hardback. Near fine in near fine d/w ISBN: 0852361181. 287pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Original red cloth gilt. £8.00

[12777] Drabble, Phil. One Man and His Dog. London: Guild Publishing, 1989. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper Illustrated. No inscriptions. Blue cloth. £4.00

[12954] Duff, Gail. Country Wisdom: An Encyclopedia of Recipes, Remedies and Traditional Good Sense. London: Pan Books, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: 0330256637. No inscriptions. £3.00

[15161] Duncan, F. Martin and Duncan, Lucy T. . The Book of the Countryside. London: Collins, 1965. Hardback. Very Good / Very Good. 320pp. Illustrated with coloured plates and black and white photographs. Inscription on endpaper. Dustwrapper price-clipped. Green cloth gilt. £3.00

[839] Duncan, Ronald. The Blue Fox. London: Museum Press, 1952. 2nd Impression. Hardback.. Very Good. No dustwrapper. ISBN: B0000CI2RW. 202pp. Illustrated by Michael Hansom. No inscriptions. Corners bumped. £4.00

[12091] Edwards, Elwyn Hartley. A Standard Guide to Horse and Pony Breeds. London: Macmillan, 1982. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: 0333343484. 4to. 352pp. Ilustrated in colour and black and white. No inscriptions. £8.00

[12776] Elder, Sam introduced by Robert Hardy. The Countryside Companion. London: Brockhampton Press, 1995. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 1860191622. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £5.00

[3204] Ellis, J.C.B.. The Feeding of Farm Livestock. London: Crosby Lockwood, 1948. Second edition, 2nd impression. Hardback. Very Good in poor dustwrapper ISBN: B0000CIV6M. 271pp. 26 figures. The author was Lecturer in Animal Nutrition , Department of Agriculture, University of Oxford. No inscriptions. Green cloth gilt, scattered foxing. £12.00

[8656] Ellis, J.C.B.. The Feeding of Farm Livestock. London: Crosby Lockwood, 1947. Second Edition. Hardback. Good. No dustwrapper. 271pp. 26 figures. The author was Lecturer in Animal Nutrition , Department of Agriculture, University of Oxford. No dustwrapper. Name on endpaper. Green cloth gilt, rubbed/worn. £8.00

[15164] Fisher, G.D.. The Hut-Man's Book. London: Puffin Books, 1950. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good Puffin Story Book No. 58. Line illustrations by E.V. Shaw. . G.D. Fisher was the Hut-man of the Scottish Children's Hour. Inscription inside cover. Illustrated covers. £3.00

[3548] Fitter, Richard (editor). The Countryman Nature Book - An Anthology from the Countryman. Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper ISBN: B0000CKR42. 134pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Green cloth gilt, offsetting from dustwrapper, page edges foxed. £3.00

[13481] Gill, Crispin. The Countryman's Britain in Pictures. Select Editions, Hardback. Fine. / Fine.. ISBN: 1856482189. 96pp.No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £4.00

[12764] Greeves, Lydia. Country Cottages. London: Pavilion Books/The National Trust, 1995. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: 185793704X. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Cover creased.. £4.00

[3567] Grisewood, Frederick. Our Bill - Guide-Counsellor-Friend. London: Westaway Books, 1950. First further enlarged edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. ISBN: B0000CJRKF. 176pp. Illustrations by Joan Hassall. No inscriptions. Brown cloth. £3.00

[4844] Hagreaves, Barbara (editor). Handbook of Country Crafts. London: Drive Publications, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0903356074. 48pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Illustarted card covers.. £3.00

[15659] Hall, Christopher [editor]. The Countryman Volume 96 No. 3. June/July 1991 . 1991. Paperback. Fine 192pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. £3.00

[12946] Harris, Mollie. A Kind of Magic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: 0192813935. Illustrated. Signed by the author. Crease on front cover. £6.00

[12947] Harris, Mollie. Another Kind of Magic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Very Good. ISBN: 0192818589. Illustrated. Cover slightly creased. . £3.00

[12958] Harvey, John; Alexander, Keith; Russell, David. The National Trust Nature Companion. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 1990. First Edition. Hardback. Fine. No d/w as issued. ISBN: 0863184146. 192pp. Illustrated by Sandra Fernandez. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £6.00

[12775] Haworth, Josephine. The Country Habit - A Year in the Working Life of the Land. London: Methuen, 1987. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ in Very Good+ d/w ISBN: 041341230X. Illustrated. Owner's label on endpaper. Green cloth gilt. £6.00

[15835] Holden, Edith. The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady. Penguin, 1991. Trade Paperback. Very Good+ ISBN: 0140146911. 192pp. Illustrated in colour. No inscriptions. £3.00

[3202] Holmes, G.A.. Revolution in Agriculture. London: Todd Publishing , 1946. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. 128pp. A record of the visit of six New Zealand agriculturalists to Great Britain in 1942 to assist in the food production drive. Remants of dustwrapper. No inscriptions. £8.00

[12391] Hoskins, W. G.. English Landscapes. British Broadcasting Corporation, 1973. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. ISBN: 0563124075. 84pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Pages slighlty browned/cockled. £3.00

[12665] Howard, Anthony & West, Richard. Country Ways in Sussex and Surrey. Newbury: Countryside Books/TVS, 1986. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: 090539268X. No inscriptions. £3.00

[3557] Hudson, W.H.. A Hudson Anthology - arranged by Edward Garnett. London: J.M. Dent, 1924. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. xiv,381pp. Portrait frontispiece. Inscription on half-title. Green decorated cloth gilt, rubbed, spine dulled. £8.00

[14690] Hudson, W.H.. Green Mansions. London: Duckworth, 1930. Reprint. Hardback. Good+ / No dustwrapper. 315pp. Name on endpaper. Purple cloth gilt, spine sunned. £5.00

[10515] Hudson, W.H.. The Book of a Naturalist. London: Nelson, Hardback. Very Good viii,282pp. 6pp adverts. No dustwrapper. Newspaper portrait tipped onto endpaper.Original red cloth gilt. £6.00

[3558] Hudson, W.H.. The Book of a Naturalist. London: Nelson, Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. viii,282pp. 6pp adverts. No inscriptions. Blue cloth gilt, scattered foxing. £3.00

[12561] Hudson, W.H. illustrated Reynolds Stone. A Shepherd's Life. London: J.M. Dent, 1949. Reprint. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. ISBN: . Everyman's Library No. 926. xvi, 247pp. 8pp. catalogue of 979 volumes. No inscriptions. Red cloth gilt. £4.00

[8020] Jefferies, Richard. The Pageant of Summer. London: Quartet Books, 1979. First Edition. Paperback. Good. ISBN: 0704332892. xxvi, 229pp. A new collection of essays selected and introduced by Andrew Rossabi. No inscriptions. Covers slightly creased o/w VG. £3.00

[14849] Jefferies, Richard. Wild Life in a Southern County. London: Thomas Nelson, 1937. First Thus. Hardback. Very Good / No dustwrapper. xxvi, 382pp. 60 drawings by G.E. Collins. Name on endpaper. No dustwrapper. Illustrated beige cloth, partly browned. A nice edition of this classic. £12.00

[8325] Johnson, Samuel W.. How Crops Grow - A Treatise on the Chemical Composition, Structure, and Life of the Plant for All Students of Agriculture. New York: Orange Judd, 1879. Hardback. Reading copy xvi, 394pp. 2pp. advert. Name/address - Cirencester Agricultural College - on endpapers. Brown cloth gilt, marked/rubbed, lacks half-title. £6.00

[15014] Khalifman, I.. Bees - a Book on the Biology of the Bee-Colony and the Achievements of Bee-Science . Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1953. First English Edition. Hardback. Very Good / No dustwrapper. 366pp. Numerous illustrations. Name on contents page. Green cloth, gilt titles and gilt blocked decorations to spine and front board. £12.00

[3569] Larken, E.P.. Leisure Hours with Nature. London: T. Fisher Unwin, Hardback. Good+. No dustwrapper. xv,263pp. 9pp adverts. Numerous monchrome illustrations. No inscriptions. Green cloth, lacks front endpaper. £3.00

[13774] Lawson, J.A.. Honeycraft in theory and practice. London: Chapman & Hall, 1931. First Edition. Hardback. Good. / No dustwrapper.. xii, 228pp. Illustrated with diagrams by Audrey Lawson and photographs by the author. No inscriptionns. Brown illustrated cloth, rubbed and worn , contents VG. £10.00

[12829] Lewis, Philippa. English Country Life. a Photographic Record. London: Parkgate Books, 1997. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 1855853353. Recollections From The Past Series. 96pp. Illustrated.No inscriptions. £4.00

[12828] Lewis, Philippa. English Village Life. a Photographic Record. London: Parkgate Books, 1997. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 1855853310. Recollections From The Past Series. 96pp. Illustrated.No inscriptions. £4.00

[15928] Milner, C.; Hughes, R. Elfyn. Methods for the Measurement of the Primary Production of Grassland. London/Oxford: International Biological Programme/Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1970. 2nd Impression. Trade Paperback. Very Good ISBN: 0632051000. IBP Handbook No. 6. xii, 70pp. No inscriptions. £4.00

[3205] Moore, H.I.. Crops and Cropping. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1946. Third Edition. Hardback. Very Good in poor dustwrapper ISBN: B0000CMLS3. 268pp. 4pp adverts. 59 illustrations from photographs taken by the author who was Senior Lecturer in Agriculture, Leeds University. No inscriptions. Green cloth gilt, scattered foxing. £4.00

[15106] Niall, Ian. Fresh Woods. London: Heinemann, 1951. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ / No dustwrapper. 122pp.Illustrated with wood-engravings by Barbara Greg. Inscription on endpaper. Remnants of dustwrapper enclosed. Brown cloth gilt. £4.00

[6748] Ollivant, Alfred. Boxer & Beauty - A Tale of Two Cart-Horses. London: Heinemann, 1924. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. xi, 120pp. Illustrated with 4 plates by Gilbert Holiday. No dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Original red cloth gilt, scattered foxing, corners slightly bumped, spine slightly sunned, gilt bright. Scarce. VG. £25.00

[14606] Parker, Eric & Smith, A. Croxton. The DogLover's Week-End Book . London: Seeley and Co., 1950. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good / No dustwrapper. 400pp. Illustrated by Mil Brown. Inscription on endpaper. No dustwrapper. Brown and cream cloth. £6.00

[12755] Platt, Richard [editor]. Reader's Digest/ National Trust Nature Notebooks : Seaside and Moorland Birds. London: Reader's Digest/National Trust, 1986. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 0276392884. No inscriptions. £4.00

[12789] Porter, Valerie (editor). Old Vets. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1997. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. ISBN: 0715306820. Illustrated. No inscriptions. £3.00

[12696] Pye-Smith, Charlie. In Search of Neptune: A Celebration of the National Trust's Coastline. London: The National Trust, 1990. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 0707801060. 252pp. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Blue cloth. £5.00

[13122] Reynolds, Clifton. Glory Hill Farm - Second Year 1941-2. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1946. 5th Impression. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 184pp. Appendix. Coloured frontispiece. 10 illustrations. Map endpapers. No dustwrapper. No inscriptions. Green cloth. £4.00

[1074] Smethurst, William (editor). The Archers - The First Thirty Years. London: Eyre Methuen, 1980. First Edition. Hardback.. Fine in very good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0413478300. 203pp. Illustrated. Endpaper maps. No inscriptions. Green cloth gilt. £3.00

[12781] Soper, Tony. A Companion To British Wildlife.
Godalming: Colour Library Books, 1989. Very Good in worn dustwrapper ISBN: 0862836433. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Pictorial laminated boards. £8.00

[12365] Step, Edward. Wayside and Woodland Trees. London: Frederick Warne, Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. Nd. 182pp. 175 plates, 24 in colour, 151 photographs and 57 text figures. Name on endpaper. Green leatherette, gilt decorated. £4.00

[10810] Sturrock, Ford. Farm Accounting and Management. London: Sir Isaac Pitman, 1967. Fifth edition. Hardback. Very Good in worn dustwrapper xi, 228pp. No inscriptions Original red cloth, bumped. £6.00

[12778] Trollope, Joanna [editor]. The Country Habit : An Anthology. London: Bantam Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 059302690X. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Black cloth gilt. £5.00

[12779] Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford. The Countryside Companion. London: Hutchinson, 1979. First Edition. Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper ISBN: 0091393809. Illustrated. No inscriptions. Brown cloth gilt. £6.00

[15031] Wayre, Philip. Wind in the Reeds. London: Collins, 1965. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good+ / Good+. 255pp. Illustrated. Name on endpaper. Dustwrapper worn on edges, price intact. Green cloth gilt. £3.00

[12793] West, Harold Mills. East Anglian Tales. London: Countryside Books, 1999. Reprint. Paperback. Fine. ISBN: 1853060666. No inscriptions. £5.00

[12366] Whitehead, Stanley B.. The Book of Flowering Trees and Shrubs. London: Frederick Warne, 1956. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good. No dustwrapper. 244pp. 63 colour plates, No inscriptions. Green cloth, spine sunned. £4.00

[11288] Wightman, Ralph. Watching Certain Things. London: Cassell, 1951. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good in Good+ dustwrapper ISBN: B0000CHWMC. 150pp. 7 plates Map. No inscriptions. Original green cloth. £6.00

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