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Permaculture
por Bill Mollison
Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order. Permaculture design is a system of assembling conceptual, material, and...
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Back To Basics
por Reader's Digest Editors
This Reader’s Digest “BACK TO BASICS” handy book is a how-to, user-friendly guide that teaches self-sufficiency covering all of life’s essentials: shelter; alternative energy sources; growing and preserving food; home crafts; directions for making herbal remedies; and even home-grown entertainment.
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An Outback Life
por Groves, Mary
All I could think of as my heart thumped in my chest and the rumble of 900 stampeding buffalo rocked my vehicle was, 'Strewth! Am I in trouble now!' In An Outback Life, Mary Groves describes the heart-breaking isolation, the hard work and the rises and falls in her family fortunes as they battle to survive in the Top End. Mary was just 14 when her family moved to the Northern Territory from Melbourne. In her early 20s, she met Joe Groves - a cattleman, horse breaker, drover and rodeo rider. Mary and...
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What Should I Do with My Life?
por Po Bronson
New York: Random House, 2002 Book. Very Good. Red Cloth Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fascinating exploration of how people transform their lives, featuring the stories of fifty-five individuals who dared to be honest with themselves. 370pp illustrated with black and white photographs. Gilt lettering to spine. Slight bumping to spine and minor marking and creasing to top edges, otherwise very goodopy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has slight edgewear,...
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€ 8,99€ 7,19
The King's England: Lake Counties - Cumberland and Westmorland
por Arthur Mee
London: The Caxton Publishing Company Ltd Book. Good. Blue Cloth Boards. Special Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Undated volume. Detailed survey of the towns and villages of these two counties. 289pp with index, illustrated with 124 monochrome photographs and fold-out map. Page edges speckled blue. Bright gilt bands and lettering to spine. Blind stamp to front board. Some bumping to spine and corners, marking to page edges and pastedowns and map tatty but complete, otherwise...
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€ 7,19€ 5,76
Branding Yourself - How to Look, Sound and Behave Your Way to Success
por Mary Spillane
Pan Books, 2000 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. User guide to making an immediate positive impact. Includes worksheets, checklists, case studies and guidelines for any situation. 389pp with index. Minor marking to cover and edges, a few small turned corners and bookshop label to front cover, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions..
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€ 8,99€ 7,19
The King's England: Cornwall. England's Farthest South.
por Mee, Arthur
London.: Hodder & Stoughton., 1947. xi, 317pp, illustrations, & map. DW has some wear & loss. Red covers are edge marked. Internally, clean.. Reprint.. Hardcover. Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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€ 6,00
A Shepherd's Life
por W H Hudson
London: Book Club Associates by arrangement with Macdonald Futura Publishers Ltd, 1981 Book. Very Good. Blue Boards. New Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Record of rural life in Wiltshire, first published in 1910. This new edition published to accompany a BBC TV series includes specially commissioned drawings and period photographs. 223pp with index, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white and maps to endpapers. Gilt lettering to spine. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage may be required...
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€ 11,99€ 9,59
A History of Fashion
por J Anderson Black, Madge Garland & Frances Kennett
London: Orbis Publishing Ltd for Marks & Spencer PLC, 1983 Book. Good. Soft cover. Revised Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Comprehensive history describing the development of clothing for both men and women from the Mediterranean civilizations up to the 1980s. 208pp with index, illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs, mainly in colour. Creasing to front panel, fore-edges and corners, otherweise good copy with no inscriptions..
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€ 7,79€ 6,24
The Countryman - A Quarterly Review and Miscellany of Rural Life and Progress
por J W Robertson Scott (Editor)
Idbury, Kingham, Oxford: J W Robertson Scott, 1927 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Souvenir Edition of the Countryman, first published in 1927. This issue possibly an undated facsimile unless extremely well preserved. 76pp illustrated in black and white. .
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€ 8,99€ 7,19
More Tales of the Old Countrymen
por Brian P Martin
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1996 Book. Illus. by Philip Murphy. Near Fine. Burgundy Cloth Boards. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Well-researched history of country life, full of stories and anecdotes. 191pp with index, illustrated lavishly throughout with colour drawings and black and white photographs, reproductions and drawings. Gilt lettering to spine. Minor rippling to pages, otherwise near fine copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has minimal shelfwear,...
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€ 11,99€ 9,59
The Green Bond
por Adrian Bell
Ipswich: The Boydell Press, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bell's excellent celebration of the 'green bond' between people and the natural world around them. In VG, clean and bright internal order. Small, neat gift inscription to fep. Pale green boards lightly faded to edges. Good unclipped d/j showing light edgewear. 8vo. 124pp
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€ 6,89
A COUNTRYMAN'S NOTEBOOK A Centenary Selection
por Adrian Bell
East Bergholt: Lucas Books, 2001. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Collection of Bell's work compiled by the Adrian Bell Society to celebrate the centenary of his birth. All in VG order throughout. 8vo. 205pp
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€ 8,99
The Snowdonia National Park
por Condry. W.M
United Kingdom: Collins, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. original cloth hardcover, illustrated, 238 pages, faint sellotape marks to endpapers, page edges spotted otherwise very good in very good unclipped dustwrapper. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 231.
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€ 8,99
The Spacious Days
por Michael F. Twist
Farming Press, 1994. Second Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Farming & Rural Life; England; History. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0852362412. ISBN/EAN:...
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€ 22,08
Potatoes and people – the story of a plant
por Dodge, Bertha S
Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: John Kaufmann. Slight rubbing at the top and bottom of the dust jacket spine, spotty front and top edge of text block, no other impediments. A book covering the history of the potato, plant botany, and plant pathology. Not a highly technical work. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. X, 190 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: John...
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€ 9,48
The Photographic Encyclopedia of Roses
por Harkness, Peter
Colour Library Books, Godalming, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover (Laminated Illustrated boards). Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photography. the spine section of the hardcover binding has lost most of its colour, there is no other damage to describe. Profusely illustrated, with more than 400 colour photographs, and with complementary text on each of the roses featured, and indexed. The book has a brief history of the Rose, a section on growing roses, and then an A-Z on roses selection. Size: Folio...
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€ 12,63
Just Across the Fields
por Humphrey Phelps
London: Sphere Books Ltd, 1978 Book. Illus. by Brian Walker. Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The story of a Gloucestershire farm in the 1940's, illustrated with black and white drawings to chapter heads. Minor creasing to corners and some marking to page edges, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions..
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€ 6,00€ 4,80
Stain Removal - Your Really Useful Guide to Getting Rid of Stains
por Stephanie Zia
London: Bounty Books, 2006 Book. Near Fine. Illustrated Boards. First Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Comprehensive guide to the easiest and safest ways to clean stains from clothes, soft furnishings, upholstery and carpets. 128pp with index, illustrated with line drawings. Virtually as new copy with no marks or inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has minimal shelfwear, otherwise near fine..
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€ 9,59€ 7,67
Secrets of the Moors and Dales
por John and Eliza Forder
Kendal, Cumbria: Frank Peters Publishing, 1992 Book. Very Good. Illustrated Boards. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Two contrasting photo essays, one which follows the work of gamekeepers and shepherds on the Yorkshire moors, the other shows the underground grottoes and passageways which lie beneath the Dales. 157pp illustrated in full colour throughout. Small blemishes to lower edges where pages have been separated, otherwise very good copy in very good unclipped DJ. HEAVY BOOK,...
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€ 8,99€ 7,19
Tales of the Old Woodlanders
por Valerie Porter
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1995 Book. Illus. by Philip Murphy. Near Fine. Black Cloth Boards. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. History of life in the woods and forests of Britain, full of stories and anecdotes. 191pp with index, illustrated lavishly throughout with colour drawings and black and white photographs, reproductions and drawings. Gilt lettering to spine. Minor rippling to pages and slight bumping to fore-edges, else near fine copy with no marks or inscriptions....
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€ 5,70€ 4,56
Anatomy of Exercise: 50+
por Hollis Lance Liebman
Victoria, Australia: Hinkler Books Pty Ltd, 2013 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Detailed guide to attaining optimal physical fitness. 160pp, illustrated throughout with colour photographs. Minimal surface scuffing, otherwise near fine unmarked copy..
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€ 6,60€ 5,28
Hill Shepherd - A Photographic Essay - SIGNED COPY
por John and Eliza Forder
Kendal, Cumbria: Frank Peters Publishing Ltd, 1990 Book. Good. Illustrated Boards. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. 9.5" Tall x 12.25" Wide. Collection of photographs illustrating the secluded existence of shepherds in the hills of the north west of England, accompanied by informative text and dialogues with the hill farmers. Signed by the authors to the title page. 157pp illustrated with colour photographs. Blue endpapers. Some foxing to top edges. Lower panel has a dent and scratch, which...
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€ 41,97€ 33,57
Sporting Birds of the British Isles
por Brian P Martin
Newton Abbot & London: David & Charles, 1984 Book. Illus. by Rodger McPhail. Very Good. Brown Cloth Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tal. Bird identification book, mainly for shooters. 256pp with index, illustrated with 16 colour paintings and throughout with black and white drawings, maps and photographs. Gilt lettering to spine. Slight bumping to spine, corners and lower edge, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has some edgewear and...
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€ 7,79€ 6,24
People & Pearls - The Magic Endures
por Ki Hackney and Diana Edkins
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000 Book. Good. Black Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Exploration of the power of pearls, with stories and photos of memorable people who have worn them. 226pp illustrated throughout with photographs in colour and black and white. Silver lettering to spine. Significant bumping to corners, otherwise good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has some edge and surface wear and small tears to corners, otherwise good. Book will weigh over...
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€ 7,79€ 6,24
Away to the West
por Ruth Tomalin
London: Faber & Faber, 1972 Book. Good. Green Cloth Boards. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two journeys in post-war England, with two young people wanting to break away and live in the woods. Bright gilt lettering to spine. School library stamp to front pastedown, mark to front endpaper from library date stamp label and spine slightly slanted, otherwise good copy. Unclipped DJ has some wear to edges and corners, with one 1/2" closed tear to top edge of flyleaf,...
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€ 6,60€ 5,28
William Cobbett's Illustrated Rural Rides 1821-1832
por William Cobbett, Christopher Morris (Introduction and notes)
London: Fraser Stewart Book Wholesale Ltd, 1992 Book. Very Good. Illustrated Boards. Reissue. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Newly revised and edited edition of the famous first-hand account of English rural life in the time of George IV. 224pp with index, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Boards very slightly bowed, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has minimal edge and surface wear, otherwise very good..
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€ 7,79€ 6,24
Afforestation in Southern Lands : Dealing Specially with Location As to Market, System and Methods of Planting, Syvicultural Treatment and Species Most Suitable for Southern Lands
por Maxwell, E
Auckland, New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1930. Not Dated 1930. (NZNB M1411) Edition of 1,000 copies. Green leathette bds with crisp gilt titles, booksellers stamp to paste down, name inked to ffep, pp 315 +xi with 22 photo illus. CONDITION is not worn, not foxed in fact fresh as the day it was printed in unread state. #Kiwiana#. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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€ 28,42
