SAS enewsletter catalogue, June 2016. Twenty titles recently into stock. Descriptions have been kept brief but all damage / defects that I ve noticed have been mentioned. The books are priced for SAS members. Prices in ( ) are for non-members. Best contact is by email at castlebooks@sussexpast.co.uk ; it means orders and queries are presented to me chronologically first in, first dealt with, as it were. Needless to say, but there is a lot of very decent stock on the shelves and waiting to be shelved at Barbican House Bookshop. (Open every day of the week through the year except January when Monday is closed, as, also, two or three days at Xmas.) Again, needless to say, but just a reminder that all income from the shop goes to SAS. Happy browsing; happy buying. John. P.S. A updw is an unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. Bangs, Dave, Whitehawk Hill, where the turf meets the surf: a landscape and natural history of Brighton s most remarkable Downland survival. Brighton: the author, 2004. A4 format in laminated card covers. Pp. 240. The spine has faded from green to blue (rather attractive, actually) and there is the remain of an ownership inscription written on the front cover above the title (just visible in pic.); also, a price-sticker mark at bottom centre of back cover. O/w, very clean, very firm, very good and quite scarce thus: 12.50 ( 17.50)
Cam, Helen M., The hundred and the hundred rolls: an outline of local government in medieval England. London: Merlin Press, 1963 (repr.; 1 st publ., Methuen, 1930). Black cloth boards in unclipped decorative dw. Pp. xvi, 296, fold-out map. Small nick to bottom front of dw; some spotting to top and front edges of text block; o/w a very good copy of this well-regarded study. 6.50 ( 9.00) Coles, Bryony and John, Sweet track to Glastonbury: the Somerset Levels in prehistory. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986. Green cloth boards with gilt to spine and front in updw. Pp. 200. Vgc. 7.50 ( 10.00) Kapelle, William E., The Norman conquest of the North: the region and its transformation, 1100-1135. London: Croom Helm, 1979. Black cloth boards with silver to spine in updw. Pp. [ix], 329. Dw slightly nicked at back top and spine faded (lettering remains clear), o/w in vvgc. 8.50 ( 12.50)
Labarge, Margaret Wade, Medieval travellers: the rich and restless. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt to spine in price-clipped pictorial dw. Pp. xvi, 237. Spine of dw slightly faded (lettering is clear); signs of damp at the bottom of dw and wear at the top, but neither has come through to the book which is in vgc. (Given the carrying and droving services placed upon many villeins in the middle ages I feel there should be a companion volume: Medieval travellers: the poor and put-upon.) Leslie, Kim and Brian Short (eds), An historical atlas of Sussex. Chichester: Phillimore, 1999. Pictorial laminated boards in red with gilt lettering to spine and front and white to back. Pp. x, 166. All in vgc. 10.00 ( 15.00) Levine, Philippa, The amateur and the professional: antiquarians, historians and archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838-1886. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Light blue cloth boards with gilt to spine in updw. Pp. x, 210. Some discoloration and a touch of wear to dw but o/w all is vgc. The parochial interest in this study is that Levine occasionally uses aspects of the early SAS to make a point; the wider interest is that it has a lot to say about the development of the profession of historian during the Victorian period and the consequent sidelining of the antiquarian interest. The blurb has it this is a notable contribution to the intellectual history of Victorian England.... 17.50 ( 25.00)
Massingham, H. J., The face of Britain: Chiltern country. London: Batsford, 1943-4 (2 nd ed., first publ. 1940). Red cloth boards with black lettering to spine and front cover in updw (a delicious landscape by Brian Cook). Pp. viii, 120. Chipped and worn dw (see pic) which has done its job of keeping the book inside clean and decent. The book itself carries slight spotting on half-title and one or two other pages, also around the edge of the text block but nothing objectionable. Inscription on verso of front fep: To Humph. With best wishes from Greg. Xmas 1948. Don t know who the people are but it strikes me as unlikely to be recording Gregory Peck s Christmas present to Humphrey Bogart. So, only: 3.50 ( 5.00) Margary, Ivan D., Roman ways in the Weald. London: Phoenix House, 1948. Browny maroon cloth boards in sand-coloured updw. Pp. 287. Spine of dw is faded and chipped at top (see pic.) but is now safely protected by a plastic sleeve all else in vgc. However, note that the map on front paste-down and the facing fep showing the western section of Margary s study area is upside down. If this was a new book it would be classed as faulty but it s a secondhander so it becomes part of the overall charm of the book. Note, also, that the book in maroon boards is the first edition, but the uncut dw in plastic sleeve actually belongs to the second edition of 1949. So, a one-time faulty now charming 1 st ed in a 2 nd ed dw still cheap at: 17.50 ( 25.00)
Mee, Arthur, Sussex, the garden by the sea. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950 (5 th impression; first publ., May 1937). Red cloth boards with black to spine and front; no dw. Pp. xi, 433, fold-out map. Spine slightly faded with some spotting to pastedowns and end papers, also to outside edge of text block. O/w clean, firm and decent. 3.50 ( 5.00) Morris, Richard, Churches in the landscape. London: Dent, 1989. Green cloth boards with gilt to spine in updw. Pp. xix, 508. One small nick at back top of dw, o/w a vvgc of this stimulating and ground-breaking work. 19.00 ( 27.50) Mowl, Tim and Brian Earnshaw, Trumpet at a distant gate: the lodge as prelude to the country house. London: Waterstone, 1985. Grey cloth with gilt to spine in updw. Pp. xii, 237. Slight indications of time passing to dw but no tears or chips. Really, in vgc. 12.50 ( 17.50)
Pavord, Anna, The naming of names: the search for order in the world of plants. London: Bloomsbury, 2005. Maroon cloth boards with black to spine in updw. Pp. [vii], 471, [i]. Vgc. Rackham, Oliver, The history of the countryside. London: Dent, 1986. Black cloth boards with gilt to spine in updw. Pp. xvi, 445. Slight colour fading on back of dw, o/w a super hardback 1 st ed of this exciting study. Fairly scarce and sought after thus: 19.00 ( 27.50) Rowley, Trevor, Villages in the landscape. London: Dent, 1978. Blue cloth boards in updw. Pp. 211. Bar a little light exposure to the spine of dw, this copy is in vgc.
Taylor, Christopher, Fields in the English landscape. London: Dent, 1975. Light yellow cloth boards with gilt to spine in updw. Pp. 174. Wear to top and bottom edges of dw, particularly the spine. The text block has slight discoloration at top edge, o/w the book is vgc. Taylor, Christopher, Village and farmstead: a history of rural settlement in England. London: Philip, 1983. Green cloth boards with gilt to spine in updw. Pp. 254. Some discoloration to front of dw (see pic), which is also showing the earliest signs of wear in the expected places. The book, though, is in very good order clean, bright, firm, etc. vgc, in fact. 7.50 ( 10.00) Taylor, Christopher and Richard Muir, Visions of the past. London: Dent, 1983. Blue cloth boards with gilt to spine in updw. Pp. 351. Some spotting to the top edge of the text block, o/w all in very decent condition. 4.50 ( 6.00)
Thomas, Charles, Celtic Britain. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986. Olive green cloth boards with gilt to spine and front in updw. Pp. 200. All in very decent order. 3.50 ( 5.00) Thompson, M. W., The decline of the castle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Blue cloth boards with gilt to spine in updw. Pp. viii, 211. A little creasing to top front of dw but no loss or tears; top front corner of board cover slightly bumped, o/w this is a very clean and firm copy of the somewhat scarce 1 st ed of Thompson s excellent study.