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Gone to Ground: Available Copies

LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1935 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 282 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 282 White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964

Original green cloth. Spine is sunned; spine has been repaired. Damping to heel, cloth extremities sunned, slight bumping. Some exterior insecting, pages lightly toned, endpages slightly damped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267,[2] pages

Collins, London. 1935. First edition. Hardback NO DW. Original brown cloth. Boards are a little soiled and cloth to spine is mottled. Gift inscription to front endpaper, the endpapers and page margins are browned, inner hinge partially visible but holding o/w contents clean and sound.

True first British printing. No jacket. 267 pages plus two pages of publisher's adverts to rear. Brown boards with darker lettering to spine are very good with a little pushing/bumping to corners, the odd very small scratch, the odd small mark, a little fading to spine, the odd small bump/rub to edges and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/slight fraying to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Odd small marks/scratch/spots of foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Previous owner's name and address in pen to front end-paper. Pages bit tanned. End-papers tanned with the odd small mark/spot of foxing. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Collins, UK, 1935. Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London, Collins, 1935. Hardback first edition and first impression, first issue jacket priced 7/6. Very good condition with some toning to the jacket and a little edge wear.

First edition 1935. The endpapers are browned where the dustwrapper lays. The bottom edges of the text block and extreme edges of the bottom of the endpapers are slightly stained. Publishers brown cloth with some foxing to the spine and very light staining. The dustwrapper spine is water stained and darkened, some other staining and darkening to rear and front panels. No chipping to the edges. Price of three and sixpence on the dustwrapper spine. 267 p.

First edition, first impression, of the second in White's dystopian science fiction series, following Earth Stopped (1934). This copy is in the uncommon first issue binding in the brown cloth with the spine gilt and the jacket priced at 7/6. Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine gilt. With dust jacket by J. E. Atkinson. An excellent copy in the little tanned and frayed dust jacket with a split to the lower portion of the front fold at the spine.

First edition. 272, [2, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nominally a sequel to T.H. White's Earth Stopped (1934), this collection of linked stories is indeed a Sporting Decameron as the dust jacket announces above a graceful line drawing of a fox descending. As the world explodes to global war, a small party of foxhunters (with a gardener and an old Etonian tramp) take refuges in a well-appointed bomb shelter built by the suspicioously wealthy and long-lived Soapy Sponge and Facey Romford, who had absquatulated to Australia and formed a bank. Members of the party tell a succession of fantastical tales of foxhunting and fishing, channelling Surtees and Norman Douglas and M.R. James, with nods to Buchan and Dunsany and jeers at Kenneth Grahame. A remarkable book that show many of the predilections and literary preoccupations that would occupy White throughout his career. Notably and curiously, the dust jacket refers to the book as a Sporting Decameron, and there are references to it throughout the text, but the title page reads simply Gone to Ground. A Novel. A later issue of the jacket is priced 3/6. Clute, The Book Blinders 46 Brown cloth, spine titled in gilt. Fine in very good plus pictorial dust jacket by J.Z. Atkinson, spine priced 7/6 (spine a bit soiled)