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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing. Codice articolo 9999-9994064643
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket. Natural History / Ecology. Codice articolo 155133
Descrizione libro Condizione: Very Good. 2nd edition. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG. [viii]+248pp, 16pp b/w plates, 4 b/w maps, index, ink corrections to the text, a fine copy in a slightly edge worn dustjacket. A new edition with a new introcution of Hawkes' history of British geology & archaeology & their influence on the notion of 'Britishness'. 450 grams. Codice articolo 59528
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Thus. First impression of the David & Charles edition, which has a new Introduction by the author written specifically for this new edition. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout the book. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked, and the gilt is still beautifully bright. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. No bumps. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. No foxing. No creases or tears. Printed on nice thick quality paper. ***In a near fine monochrome-illustrated dustwrapper which is unpriced. Extremities of dustwrapper just very slightly rubbed. Dustwrapper clean and bright. No creases or tears. No fading. ***222mm x 145mm. 248 pages including the original Author's Preface from the 1951 first edition, Author's Introduction to the 1978 edition, Appendix - Geological Time-scale with charts, and a detailed eight-page Index. ***Contents: Introduction to the 1978 edition, I. Two Themes, II. Creation, III. Recollection, IV. An Aside on Consciousness, V. Creation of the Mountain Country, VI. Creation of the Lowlands, VII. Digression on Rocks, Soils and Men, VIII. Land and People, IX. Land and Machines, X. Prospect of Britain, Appendix: Geological Time-scale, Maps 1-4, Index. ***'In her Introduction to the new edition of this classic, Jacquetta Hawkes discards false modesty. "A Land", she hopes, can "be accepted as one of the heralds of that spirit of universal inter-relatedness that now inspires ecological thinking and action," She had written it to express her own intense awareness of continuity in both time and space. In some ways this originality had been a handicap: "it was not a work of science, of scholarship, of opinion or of fiction, but a curious blend of them all." Beyond dispute it had been an unexpected best-seller and many readers found that "their vision of the world had been changed, made happier" by the book. In many ways, "A Land" is as timeless as the subject with which it deals. It continues to widen people's horizons, and no budding archaeologist or geographer, or indeed anyone who takes stock of his place in the universe, should be without it. It is a book David & Charles are proud to bring into their list.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the new David & Charles edition, in its original dustwrapper, in very nice bright near fine condition. A classic work on ecology of the land. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Codice articolo 8895