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Rare and modern books

Ordish George

The Living House. Illustrated by Graham Oakley. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hart-Davis, 1960

46.00 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1960
Author
Ordish George
Publishers
Hart-Davis
Keyword
natural history, george ordish, conservation, george ordish, natural history, general, living, house
Languages
English

Description

8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 35 illustrations, 8 diagrams and tables in the text, and endpaper charts; green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at fold-ins. A fascinating account published years before its time. Ordish describes his ownership of Bartons End, a seventeenth-century Kentish farmhouse, and his symbiotic relationships with the numerous and varied living creatures with whom he shares it. Today it must be seen as a proto-conservation landmark. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.