This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...Beyond Rye there are great level farms and pastures, with only scattered homes and very little of either fencing or hedging. Right across these levels runs the level road. The sea breeze comes in fresh and clear. There are sheep and cattle grazing. There are chickens far from their homes and convoys of little ducks. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...Beyond Rye there are great level farms and pastures, with only scattered homes and very little of either fencing or hedging. Right across these levels runs the level road. The sea breeze comes in fresh and clear. There are sheep and cattle grazing. There are chickens far from their homes and convoys of little ducks. There are dykes and watery ditches. And all this is the Walland Marshes. Shortly after leaving the Walland Marshes we came to a comfortable farmhouse, square-fronted, hip-roofed, dormer-windowed, with a garden in front inclosed by one of those rare things in England, a wooden picket fence, and this place remains in our memory as more than merely an old and agreeablelooking farmhouse, for it marked the precise point at which our speedometer registered one thousand miles of run. Now and then there was a cluster of houses, and a very occasional parish church; there were broad fields that were a sheen of yellow from the blossoms of turnips that are grown for the sake of their seeds, which are used in whiskey making; there were strange conical-topped, round towers looking like extinguishers, and they were weather-blurred into beauty, and of sufficiently fetching shape, if far enough away, to be suggestive of French chateaux, but in reality they were only the typical hop-drying towers of this region. We passed pollarded willows, and houses and barns with queer-framed roofs of thatch or tile, and we came to a little village with a mossy old church and the queerest of queer windmills; for windmills have gradually become a feature of the landscape. We are in Kent, and are running through a happy region, with picturesqueness, but no misery; we are running along a perfect and almost level road, through a country extremely rich, and full of the memories of ...
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Very Good-, No Dust Jacket. 8VO, 347 PGS., B/W Photos, Hardcover. Hardcover: Blue textured cloth binding with color illustration and title in gold on front board. Light soil. Corners and edges are lightly rubbed. Paste-downs, endpapers are foxed and oxidized. Frontispiece color map is tissue guarded. Title, text pages, photos are clean. An account of six weeks of motoring through the England, Scotland, and Wales of a bygone time. Illustrated. Nice tight binding.
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Very Good. No Dustjacket. Book New York: Hearst's International Library Co., 1914. First Edition. Very Good/no dust jacket. First Edition decorated American trade binding. Clean dark blue cloth-covered boards with orange, green and white illustration on cover of touring car passing a tall stone house; unchipped gold stamped lettering on cover and spine. Tiny spots of wear to spine ends. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Some cracking to hinges/front pastedown which has been repaired; boldly inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper by previous owner, dated 1916 (completely erasable, but why? ). Color map frontispieced displays the route taken on the tour (with clean tissue guard). Illustrated with photographs taken on the tour. 347 pages with index.
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Color map, photos. G ex-library. Pictorial cover, orange & green on navy binding. Library bookplate fep, edgewear, some spots on binding. Pages 223-227 have marks as if someone dried a leaf or flower in the pages.
