george gill henry williamson (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 5th or later Edition. 1st Edition 1952. George Gill died prior to completion of this work and it was finished by his wife who showed the manuscript to Henry Williamson because of his farming links. A note at the front thanks Williamson for his "unrestricted help" and he also provides the epilogue (dated 1949) which includes a number of his personal wartime farming recollections. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Richard Williamson's copy. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. Book is very good++ and very bright. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17749.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 5th or later Edition. 1st Edition 1952. George Gill died prior to completion of this work and it was finished by his wife who showed the manuscript to Henry Williamson because of his farming links. A note at the front thanks Williamson for his "unrestricted help" and he also provides the epilogue (dated 1949) which includes a number of his personal wartime farming recollections. From a large collection of Henry Williamson's and his family's books. Includes a specially commissioned small bookplate affixed inside the book confirming this. Book is very good++ and very bright. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17749.

HARDBACK - Original Binding. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. 88 pages, b/w frontispiece, an ink inscription on the fly-leaf reads "To my very good friend Norman Lawton. Stephen Francis Clarke. 18/12/1967" with a reference number in pencil "W/87" in a different hand, neat single line pencil inscription on the rear paste-down in the same small neat hand which is difficult to read but seems to be "no.33 in S.F.C's catalogue" and the price "63/-" in brackets, slight stain at the head of the rear inner joint (possibly a little glue seepage when bound), spine a trifle sunned and a little twisted (possibly when it was bound), head and tail of the spine a trifle bumped, a few slight marks on the front cover and front endpapers, nonetheless in very good condition. NOTE: Stephen Francis Clarke (1949-2004) was a well-known English bookdealer who traded as Clearwater Books and specialised in the works of Henry Williamson. Norman Lawton was godfather to his daughter. His son, Bevis, now runs Clearwater Books. Size: 20 x 13 cm.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 88pp. Salmon paper-covered boards with a title-label to the upper board. Frontispiece. A very good copy, just a little rubbed at the head of the backstrip. Former owner name inked over a slightly scuffed area of the front free endpaper. No dust wrapper, as issued. George Gill (from the same family as Eric Gill) died prior to completion of this work and it was finished by his wife who showed the manuscript to Henry Williamson because of his farming links. A note at the front thanks Williamson for his "unrestricted help" and he also provides the epilogue (dated 1949) which includes a number of his personal wartime farming recollections ("During late February I had been plowing all night by the moon and all day by the sun in order to catch up with the work. Carting and loading 200 tons of sugar-beet in a rainy autumn had kept the tractor-plow idle, as labour was short in those war years. I was a teamsman, too, and had to feed three horses at 5.30a.m. And, of course, the business manager and clerk, filling in forms for wood, for new machinery, for petrol, for feeding-stuffs, for seed-corn, as well as the accounts, in time snatched from meals and mending machinery which was always being broken. There was book-writing, too, in order to educate the children for my farm, locally known as convalescent Home supported all who worked on it, except the farmer"). Scarce.