Boyd, A. W.
The Country Diary of a Cheshire Man:
(Collins, 1946).
Hardback. Minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise very good copy in slightly tatty, soiled dustwrapper. 320pp. Order No. NSBK-A14052
Keywords: B0012IVEOA, diary, diaries, Cheshire, natural history, birds, journals, history, insects, flowers, Northern England, A. W. Boyd
Price £8.00.
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Bonar, A.
Lawns: Picture books, no.13
(Collingridge, 1965).
Hardback. Very good, bright. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-A14001
Keywords: B0000CMMPC, lawns, gardens, gardening, soil, weeds, mowing, mowers
Price £8.50.
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Hill, Octavia.
Homes of the London Poor:
(Macmillan, first edition, 1875).
Rare first edition copy. Hardback. Leather spine worn / scuffed. Cloth, which is a little patchy with sun-fading, has light marking, spotting. Fly leaf split at spine and last page loose, else a good solid copy. pp. Order No. NSBK-C16068
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, countryside, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment, district visiting, volunteer visitors, commons, charity, charities, COS, C.O.S., Charity Organisation Society, London, women
Price £135.00.
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Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
Price £30.00.
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Hill, Octavia.
Our Common Land:
(Macmillan, first edition, 1877).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, some wear to spine, spine ends, edges and corners. Cloth a little marked / rubbed -else good / solid. vi + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-C6431
Keywords: B001P1SGF4, housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, countryside, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment, district visiting, volunteer visitors, commons, charity, charities, COS, C.O.S., Charity Organisation Society
Price £95.00.
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Thwaite, Ann.
Waiting for the Party: the Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924
(Secker & Warburg, 1974).
Hardback. Ex library, lacks fly leaf, usual lib stamps & stickers, some white speckling to boards, otherwise good in dw. xii + 274pp. Order No. NSBK-C757
Keywords: 436521504, Frances Hodgson Burnett, children's writing, woman writer, women writers, literature, Secret Garden, The Little Princess, Britain, British, England, English, history, biography, biographies
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Jessop, Les and Sinclair, N.T.
Sunderland Museum: the People's Palace in the Park
(Tyne & Wear Museums, 1996).
Paperback. A little sunning to the card covers (natural with age), otherwise very good. iii + 74pp. Order No. NSBK-A16093
Keywords: 9780905974651, stored with antiquarian, Sunderland Museum, Sunderland, history, museums, artefacts, Newcastle, North East, England, Tyne and Wear, library, art gallery, winter gardens, historical
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Fellows, Margaret and Gault, Ian.
The Parr Family and Grappenhall Heyes:
(Friends Grappenhall Heys Walled Garden, 2012).
With many photographs. Paperback. Slight bending to covers, otherwise very good. 48pp. Order No. NSBK-A16125
Keywords: B00JKKE8C2, stored with booklets, Cheshire, Parr family, Warrington, history, Grappenhall Heys Walled Garden, banking, country estates, Parrs
Price £18.00.
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Nicholson, Winifred. (Compiled by Andrew Nicholson).
Unknown Colour: Paintings, Letters, Writings by Winifred Nicholson
(Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1987).
An extremely scarce title, for the collector. Very good, clean, tight copy. "Unknown Colour" by Andrew Nicholson, brings together all Winifred Nicholson's works for the first time and reproduces in colour the wide range of her paintings, conveying in words and images the essence of her art which is light, colour and radiance. Compiled by Andrew Nicholson. Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981), wife of Ben Nicholson, is particularly remembered for her exquisite flower studies - many of which were painted before a window. She often incorporated landscape elements from Cumberland, Cornwall and the South of France into her work. Also characteristic of her style was the abstract using an ellipse shape. Hardback. Top corner slightly bumped, otherwise very good+, clean bright copy. Dustwrapper also very good, though with light creasing at corners, & minor, almost imperceptible, scratches. 271pp. Order No. NSBK-C4620
Keywords: 0571149502, winifred nicholson, nicholson, nicholsons, winifred, flower tales, unknown, colour, watercolour, watercolours, art, artist, artists, painting, paintings, painter, painter, English, England, Britain, British, great, twentieth century, 20th century, female, woman, women, females, letters, design correspondence, history, women writers, women writer, cornwall, st ives, modern, modernist, modernists, modernism, modernistic, ben nicholson, impressionist, impressionists, impressionism, impressionistic, impressions, impression, writings, color, unknown color, unknown colours, unknown colors, colors, GB, British Modern, Modern British Art
Price £350.00.
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West, Rebecca.
Sunflower:
(Virago, 1986).
Afterword by Victoria Glendinning. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 276pp. Order No. NSBK-C5736
Keywords: 1872082114, Rebecca West, Sunflower, novels, novelist, literature, fiction, women writers, woman writer, Victoria Glendinning, Cicily, Isabel Fairfield
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