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Dustybooks.co.uk - Search for Bb (illustrations Watkins-Pitchford) books, used, out of print, rare Bb (illustrations Watkins-Pitchford) books and books online, especially children's books, entertainment books, old books, childrens books, book search and antique books. If you cannot find the rare used or out of print book that you are looking for then let us know and we'll do our best to find it for you - there is no charge for our book search facility. |
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Forest of Boland Light Railway
Bb (illustrations Watkins-Pitchford) (Eyre & Spottiswoode) London, 1955
First edition UK, out-of-print hardback in clear archive-film protected decorative blue cloth, 8vo, 127pp, colour frontis plate with author's full-page illustrations & txt decorations throughout, upper board has the Owlswood Station approach and lower board has Bumbletummy embossed, boards are quite clean with just a hint of fading, rubbed only at corners & with one or two faint transparent blemishes on upper cover, free front endpaper has owner's details inscribed in childish hand, rear endpaper removed, slightly dusty top-edge virtually no acid-spots to clean unmarked pgs with crisp bright prints...*see an actual image of this copy on our website or by request . VG. ISBN 1850510725 [KK 23222] £90.45 ($144.00) |
Letters from Compton Deverell
Bb (illustrations Watkins-Pitchford) (Eyre & Spottiswoode) London, 1950
1st thus, out-of-print hardback in protected variant dustjacket [pictorial country landscape artwork by R A Atkinson, quite clean with some edge chafing and light foxing, price-clipped], Medium octavo over 9x6inches, 281pp, frontis & numerous b/w engraved drawings & txt illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford throughout the txt, clean red cloth/gilt with hardly any rubbing, spine lean, colour sketch-map endpapers, top-edge coloured, few faint spots to endpapers o/w textblock bright & unblemished...*see an actual image of this copy on our website or by request . VG/VG. ISBN 1850510725 [KK 18931] £40.91 ($65.00) |
Lord of the Forest
Bb (illustrations Watkins-Pitchford) (Methuen Children's Books) London, 1975
First edition UK, out-of-print hardback in protected dustjacket [lovely bright cover engravings by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, spine little sunned & corners chipped, price-clipped], Crown octavo over 7.5x5inches, 128pp, evocative scraperboard illustrations by dustjacket Watkins-Pitchford, brown cloth/gilt, small crayoned owner's inscription on pastedown o/w covers & contents excellent, fine book...*see an actual image of this copy on our website or by request . NF/VG. {fascinating story of the growth & life of an English oak, and the human events surrounding it, through 600 yrs of British history} ISBN 1850510725 [KK 18922] £68.18 ($108.00) |
Pool of the Black Witch
Bb (illustrations Watkins-Pitchford) (Methuen Children's Books) London, 1974
First edition UK, out-of-print hardback in protected dustjacket [lovely clean bright monochrome jacket with scraperboard artwork by the author, slight fray to spine extremities & corners, some ageing of inner flaps, not price-clipped £1.20], Crown octavo over 7.5x5inches, 119pp, frontis, full-page engravings & txt decorations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, beautifully clean bright red cloth with 2 small very faint blemishes to lower board & blindstamped motif of fish rising on upper, neat owner's inscription on pastedown, faint flecking to edges o/w textblock crisp & white, a very nice copy. VG+/VG. *see an actual image of this item on our website or by request. NB at time of writing we have another 54 books by BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) on our website & Abe. NB special rate shipping will apply. (a fishing-crazy schoolboy befriends a poacher and latches into something big in the haunted pool) ISBN 1850510725 [AA 18924] £125.00 ($199.00)
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Shooting Man's Bedside Book
Bb (illustrations Watkins-Pitchford) (Eyre & Spottiswoode) London, 1948
First edition UK, war economy standard, out-of-print hardback in clear archive-film protected dustjacket [clean bright cartridge-case decorative jacket with negligible wear, spine very slightly sunned, 1 small closed/repaired edge-fold snag, price-clipped], Crown octavo over 7.5x5inches, xx + 479pp plus 5 blank game record pgs, produced on India paper, frontis engraving of the contemplative angler with 26 of Denys Watkins-Pitchford's atmospheric scraperboard drawings plus many txt illustrations, green cloth/gilt with embossed motif on upper board, very clean bright boards with uneven colour mottling, very slight lean, shadowing to endpapers, no inscriptions, slightly dusty top-edge o/w covers & contents clean bright & unblemished...*see an actual image of this copy on our website or by request . VG+/VG+. {contents cover the literature, rough-shooting, deer stalking & wildfowling with many impressive contributors} ISBN 1850510725 [GR 18973] £68.18 ($108.00) |
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