Winter rough weather (79 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First published in 1951, introduction by Alexander McCall Smith. A Furrowed Middlebrow book No. 45. Slight wear.

Condizione: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Winter and Rough Weather. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Poor. First Fontana Edition. Poor, Edgewear, large tears to hinges with tape repairs, creases, label removal abrasion to front cover, foxing, browning. Romantic drama. Fontana 208. Photo on request.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 254 Pages, Dust Jacket Minor Edge Chips O/W Fine.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No dj. First Thus Edition. Shiny tight clean crisp copy, library label tipped onto flyleaf with barcode sticker, looks unread. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Light creases to the spine. Slight wear to the edges. Signs of sticker removal from the back cover. A small part of the first page was once stuck to the fornt cover due to a printing flaw. There is a slight glue residue on the first page.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: Brand New. In Stock.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No dj. 2nd Impression. 2nd paperback printing, bright appearance, text block clean, free of markings. Some spine creases and thumbcreases to covers. Spine panel sunfaded to orange Size: 12mo.

Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Dustjacket. Second Impression (softcover). 253 pages. Red spine is colour-faded to a lighter brownish-red. Light/moderate wear to edges and corners of covers. Moderate browning to page-edges, lightly browning to page-margins o/w pages clean and tidy.

Condizione: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Complete and Unabridged. 334 pp. Binding firm, with minor signs of wear and superficial surface scratches to the soft cover. Spine remains uncreased. Pages are clean with no inscriptions or annotations. Size: 9" tall. Weight: 450g.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. James Dering and his new wife Rhoda return from their honeymoon to begin married life at Boscath, an isolated sheep farm in the Scottish Borders. James is delighted to be back among fields, animals and agricultural responsibilities; Rhoda, a talented painter accustomed to London, must decide whether romantic rural seclusion remains quite so romantic once it starts raining horizontally and the nearest lively gathering involves discussions about sheep. Winter and Rough Weather is the third of D. E. Stevenson?s novels connected with Vittoria Cottage and Music in the Hills, although it can be read perfectly well on its own. Familiar characters reappear, new relationships develop and the inhabitants of the surrounding countryside continue the important work of knowing one another?s affairs while maintaining that they would never dream of interfering. Rhoda has chosen marriage over her established artistic life, but her talent has not politely disappeared merely because she now lives on a farm. At first, Boscath?s remoteness threatens to leave her lonely and unfulfilled. Gradually, however, the landscape gives her fresh inspiration, and her interest in the bright but difficult young Duggie provides both of them with an unexpected sense of purpose. Painting, which seemed likely to become a casualty of domestic life, instead begins revealing things that other people might have preferred to leave safely concealed. Around them, rural society proceeds in its deceptively quiet fashion. The local gentry are adjusting to reduced circumstances, post-war shortages and the alarming discovery that family importance does not automatically supply servants, money or a dinner for one hundred guests. A wealthy newcomer has acquired a nearby estate, old loyalties remain attached to places their owners can no longer afford, romances move forward and backward, and various secrets await the precise combination of accident, observation and village curiosity required to expose them. Then comes the winter. Snow descends upon the hills with the beautiful ruthlessness of something that looks excellent from indoors. Roads vanish, farms become islands and ordinary inconveniences acquire the possibility of genuine disaster. Stevenson is particularly good at contrasting the splendour of the frozen landscape with the practical reality of attempting to live in it. Snow may inspire painters and poets, but sheep farmers are obliged to go outside. Despite its title, Winter and Rough Weather is not a grim endurance story in which everyone slowly disappears beneath a snowdrift. It is warm, observant domestic fiction filled with relationships, misunderstandings, difficult children, missing people, changing social arrangements and the small acts of kindness by which communities keep themselves functioning. The rough weather is meteorological, emotional and occasionally matrimonial, but Stevenson maintains her characteristic faith that sensible people, given sufficient tea and conversation, can generally make progress. The novel was originally published in 1951 under this title and has also appeared as Shoulder the Sky, which sounds considerably more heroic but gives less warning about the rain. This 1972 Fontana edition belongs to the period when paperback covers were expected to attract readers without the modern assistance of metallic lettering, celebrity endorsements or a mysterious woman photographed from behind. The book is in Good condition, showing the ordinary signs of age and previous ownership but remaining sound, complete and ready to read. It is an appealing older paperback rather than a pristine ornamental object, and therefore suitable for being carried about, left beside a chair or read while actual rough weather conducts itself theatrically against the window. Ideal for admirers of D. E. Stevenson, Scottish settings, post-war domestic fiction and novels in which nothing supernatural occurs, yet everybody?s life can still be transformed by a painting, a secret and an inconvenient quantity of snow. A Good 1972 Fontana copy sold by Crappy Old Books?proof that winter passes, relationships settle and paperbacks can survive more than half a century without requiring rescue by a team of hardy Scottish shepherds.…

Cloth Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. spine leans a little, 254pp., some age discoloration and age coloring to the covers.

Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright with no markings, 188pp with B&W in-text drawings. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing/tears/loss.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 196 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.45 inches. In Stock.

hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, minor foxing but a tightly bound copy with an unmarked text. The unclipped dust jacket has some edge loss and is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, Illustrated by V R Balfour-Browne, viii + 187pp. …

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condizione: Fair, Ex-Library. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good, Ex-Library. First Large Print Edition. Fair, Ex-Library, usual stamps & labels, shelfwear, tape reinforcing binding, tape stains, page 27/28 torn and re-attached with tape, spine lean, mild soiling/G, Covered in clear plastic which is taped to interior, edges reinforced with white tape, library label, edgewear, staining. Romantic drama. Expanded condition report/photo on request.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1938). 1938 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Ppviii,188. Frontispiece plate & b/w illustrations by V.R. Balfour-Browne. Blue-green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Some foxing and browning but good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. The author recounts some of his many experiences while shooting and stalking in Scotland. The author recounts some of his many experiences while shooting and stalking in Scotland. A poem appears between each chapter. Chapters include: Winter and rough weather; Colin from the Western Isles; A call to the North; Mixed bags; Major and minor accidents; A second shot at the 'President'; Windfalls; Ordeal by fire; The accomodating pheasant; Field sports at Ashestiel and Abbotsford; Flash; Civilised sport; Hours stolen from Night; Guns, old and new; The Highland stalker in khaki [an account of the Lovat Scouts in the First World War]; Invitations; A use for useless land; To feed or not to feed; The whole residue of his means and estate; Grouse; The deer-stalker's equipment; One Christmas holiday; The end and the beginning. .…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Good used condition, reading creases to spine, light age discolouration marks, light wear & marks.