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Another H.E. Bates book on nature with gorgeous prints to join the others upthread. This was published in 1941, and the first page I have supplied here very much sets the tone: the war intrudes here and there, but it's soon subsumed within the rhythm of the seasons and the natural world that will long outlast it.
The dustjacket has a little damage but is still in superior condition, and it's done a wonderful job of keeping the cloth beneath immaculate. There's a good deal of foxing to the top-edge, but remarkably little has seeped onto the leaves themselves. Strangely, none of the paper here is wartime economy; on the contrary it's thick and starchy.
Again, the prints. There are fifteen full-page illustrations and not one I wouldn't be happy to hang on my wall.
Happy with this: £35.
The dustjacket has a little damage but is still in superior condition, and it's done a wonderful job of keeping the cloth beneath immaculate. There's a good deal of foxing to the top-edge, but remarkably little has seeped onto the leaves themselves. Strangely, none of the paper here is wartime economy; on the contrary it's thick and starchy.
Again, the prints. There are fifteen full-page illustrations and not one I wouldn't be happy to hang on my wall.
Happy with this: £35.