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Hudson, W. H.. Far Away & Long Ago; A History Of My Early Life. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1931.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The boards are worn and marked.Foxing.Tightly bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Revised edition, 1931, 23 preliminary pages, 337 pages, 12 full page wood engravings by Eric Fitch Daglish and many smaller decorations, book in very good condition in cloth binding (bottom of spine bumped and slightly rubbed, edges of book spotted, text pages in very good, clean condition) with fair dust-wrapper (creased and stained, edge tears with associated loss at the top and bottom of the spine and one corner). Wrapper now protected with a removable plastic cover.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$29.78 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First published1918. Revised Edition, illustrated with Wood-Engravings by Eric Fitch Daglish, 1931. Introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Original blue cloth boards, dulled, spine faded, lettered silver on spine, gold owl motif top board. Bookseller stamp front paste down: "Mary Martin, 13 Alma Chambers, Commercial Place, Adelaide" Pp.xxiv (last blank verso) 337, including List of Full Page Illustrations, including Frontispiece: "A Big Brown-and-Yellow Mottled Owl.with its claws grasping a Dead Pigeon". I: Earliest Memories II: My New Home III: Death of An Old Dog IV: The Plantation V: Aspects of the Plain VI: Some Bird Adventures VII: My First Visit to Buenos Ayres VIII: The Tyrant's Fall and What Followed IX: Our Neighbours at the Poplars X: Our Nearest English Neighbours XI: A Breeder of Piebalds XII: The Head of a Decayed House XIII: A Patriarch of the Pampas XIV: The Dovecote XV: Serpent and Child XVI: A Serpent Mystery XVII: A Boy's Animism XVIII: The New Schoolmaster XIX: Brothers XX: Birding in the Marshes XXI: Wild-Fowling Adventures XXII: Boyhood's End XXIII: A Darkened Life XXIV: Loss and Gain
Seller: D. A. Horn Books, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition Thus. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp xxiii, 337. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Publisher's retained copy with their perforated stamp in the preliminaries and label on the front pastedown, reading 'File Copy - Oct. 12th 1931'. Very good.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
W. H Hudson. Far Away and Long Ago. J M Dent and Sons Lts, 1931.
Price: US$67.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1931. J M Dent and Sons Lts. Hardback. ACCEPTABLE DJ Marked/Chipped, Blue Cover, Black Titles, School prize bookplate, 10x7
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Hudson, W.H.. Far Away and Long Ago. J.M. Dent, London, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. Woodcut engravings throughout by Eric Fitch Daglish. xxiii, 337, [1] pp. 1 vols. Cr. 8vo. Original gilt pictorial blue cloth. Very good Copy Woodcut engravings throughout by Eric Fitch Daglish. xxiii, 337, [1] pp. 1 vols. Cr. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
HUDSON, W.H.. Far Away and Long Ago A History of my early Life. J.M.Dent & Co, London, 1931.
Price: US$121.68 + shipping
Description: Number 83 of 110 large paper copies. Internally very good, binding firm, cover sound but rather marked , boards bowed. Pics available. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Large-Paper Edition (limited / numbered).
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
W.H. Hudson.. FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO.. Dent, 1931.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, J. M. Dent, [1931]. Large 8vo, xxiii,337pp. Full, gilt vellum binding. T.e.g., others are deckled. Limited to 110 large-paper copies, with illustrations by Eric Daglish. There is an extra plate laid in which is signed in pencil by Daglish. This copy is inscribed "With Christmas Wishes from Hugh R. Dent. 1931" and has the signature, datede 1942, of a previous owner, the British poet Leslie Birney Brook. Slight tanning to the vellum, the boards are splayed about 10 degrees, and there is a 1/2 " closed tear to the top of the spine. Language: eng
Seller: Tom Davies Rare Books, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First illustrated edition limited to 110 large paper copies, in which this copy in numbered 13. Professionally re-cased with the original spine laid on. Full vellum with gilt title to spine and a gilt owl pastedown to front cover. Top edge gilt. No previous owner's name or other markings.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Hudson, W H. Far Away and Long Ago : A History of My Early Life. J M Dent & Sons, London, UK, 1931.
Price: US$537.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A deluxe edition, limited to 110 copies, of which this is No. 74. Bound in full cream vellum, with gilded owl on green leather tipped onto from panel, gilt titles to spine; top edge gilded, all other edges deckled, red satin ribbon marker bound in. Printed on hand made paper. xxiv, 338pp, with wood engraving by Eric Fitch Daglish for frontispiece and eleven further similar full page illustrations. (Vellum boards are moderately brown spotted, bruised at spine ends and a little sunned on spine; ribbon marker fraying at end; internally neat, clean, bright and tight throughout). A truly handsome volume containing William Henry Hudson's recollections and reflections on his early, tranquil childhood in Argentina, recalling the wonders of nature and wild life that moulded his thinking. Hudson, a naturalist, author and ornithologist, was an advocate of Lamarckian evolution, a critic of Darwin's theory of evolution, but achieved much of his fame through his sensitive books on the English Countryside and British Birds. A large and heavy volume which will incur an additional charge for overseas delivery.
Seller: BookAddiction (ibooknet member), Canterbury, United Kingdom