Pleasant Valley by Louis Bromfield, First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Lord, Kate (illustrator). 1st Edition. Black cloth with gilt spine printing on red band. HB logo bottom front cover. vii; 300p. (1945). First edition stated. llustrated plus numerous other black and white illustrations by Kate Lord. Uniform age tone to pages; else contents VG, clean and tight. Previous owner's name in pencil verso ffep. Couple of small spots front and rear covers, visible when held to light, else cloth covers good. Spine a little sunned. Further information upon request.

Condition: Good. 1946. First Edition. 300 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Condition: Fair. 1946. First Edition. 300 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Visible creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Minor marks to boards.

Condition: Good. 1946. First Edition. 302 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 300 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, knocked and a touch edge worn. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable Jacket. First Edition. First Edition. The copyright page has 'First Published 1946'. No additional printings are indicated. The jacket is worn and repaired. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

first edition. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. drawings by Kate Lord (illustrator). 6 x 8 3/4" 302 pages. "An appealing and delightful account of this noted writer's happy experience as an Ohio farmer." dj shows small chips lacking from top and bottom of spine and corners (dj now in mylar protector). newspaper article glued onto page facing preface page regarding Bromfield.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Drawings by Kate Lord. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine stamped in red and gilt, cover stamped in red. Book is in fine condition except for 3/4-inch hairline scratch to cloth of front cover, barely noticeable. Dust jacket has wear to top and bottom edges, and light fade to spine. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. 300 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Thus. No edition statement, code of M-Z to copyright page. Quarter black cloth over grey textured paper boards, gilt titles at spine. Dust jacket is unclipped (3.00), but fairly tattered with some chips and creases to rear panel and flap. Looks good in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket and illustrations by Kate Lord (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Jacket sadly quite tatty with edge wear, rubbing, creasing, closed tears, and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine and surfaces, corners and folds very rubbed, some overall time staining and browning and extensively reinforced on verso with brown paper tape. Date stamps and scribbling to front flaps, but not ex library. Not price clipped (10/6d), no personal inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, a good reading copy. 302pp, illustrated. Louis Bromfield (1896-1956), was an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition, winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts. The story of his experiences at Malabar Farm, Mansfield, Ohio. Bromfield was an early pioneer of organic and self-sustaining gardening, and his farm was one of the first to stop using pesticides. The farm was used as a government test site for soil conservation practices.