Faber & Faber, 1949. Hardback. First edition, 1949. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Good condition; Boards rubbed but clean, bumps to corners and spine, faint foxing to fore edges and FEP, pages clean and tightly bound with Fair condition unclipped dust jacket; edgeworn with some chips and small tears, sunned to spine. This is the first issue illustrated by Stone, whose highly evocative illustrations (and dustwrapper artwork) complement the narrative perfectly. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Published: London: Faber & Faber, 1949

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Bookseller: Roy Turner Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10572
Title: The Open Air: An Anthology Of English Country Life
Author: BELL, Adrian
Format/Binding: Hardback
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date Published: 1949

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With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.

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Dustwrapper: Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...