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DARTMOOR: A STATEMENT OF ITS TIME (NN 111)
Written by Ian Mercer.
Stock no. 1829039
Published by Collins. 1st 2009. Very good condition.

New Naturalist series 111. This is the cardwraps edition. The extensive history and physical landscape of Dartmoor, also its cultural place within Great Britian. A look at the wild and rugged landscape that has inspired so many poets, painters and musicians over countless centuries. Colour photos. xiv and 402 pages including index. ISBN: 9780007185009. Spine slightly faded and has a vertical crease (from page turning). Rear cover a little scuffed. Old price label to rear cover. Corners of covers lightly rubbed. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean.

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THE DARTMOOR REAVES: INVESTIGATING PREHISTORIC LAND DIVISIONS
Written by Andrew Fleming.
Stock no. 1828215
Published by Windgather Press Ltd.; Oxbow Books. 2nd 2008. Slightly better than very good condition.

Second Edition, extended with colour illustrations and two new chapters. A classic of archaeological fieldwork and discovery. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w maps, colour photos. xvi and 223 pages including index. ISBN: 9781905119158. Initials & date in ink to half-title page else a lovely copy.

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THROWLEIGH: THE STORY OF A DARTMOOR VILLAGE
Written by Emmie Varwell.
Stock no. 1326575
Published by Sydney Lee. Circa 1947. Very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt titles. 132 pages. B/w photos. Spine and corners bumped. Name plate (of Horace Gordon Lowe) to front pastedown. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and textblock.

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SAUCERS OVER THE MOOR
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Bertram Prance.
Stock no. 1323205
Published by George Newnes Ltd.. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A gripping and fast-moving adventure story about the Lone Pine Club set on Dartmoor. Cream boards, red titles. Endpapers show sketch of the Moor. B/w illustrations. 244 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Neat colouring to the map on the front endpapers. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and chipped with very slight loss. Blurb to front flap has I assume a correction pasted to the middle of the blurb (see photo).

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THE DISCOVERY OF DARTMOOR A WILD AND WONDROUS REGION
Written by Patricia Milton.
Stock no. 2129775
Published by Phillimore. 2006. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781860774010. Couple of tiny nicks at corners of dustwrapper.

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SAUCERS OVER THE MOOR
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Bertram Prance.
Stock no. 1402640
Published by George Newnes Ltd.. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A gripping and fast-moving adventure story about the Lone Pine Club set on Dartmoor. Cream boards, red titles. Endpapers show sketch of the Moor. B/w illustrations. 244 pages. Spine and corners are bumped. Spine is a little browned. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Top corners of first three pages are lightly creased. Some light fingering else contents are generally clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and creased. Rear panel is grubby.

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THE DARTMOOR BIBLIOGRAPHY
Written by John V. Somers Cocks.
Stock no. 628602
Published by Dartmoor Preservation Association. 1st 1970. Good condition.

White card wraps. Covers and contents very good but contents detached.

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MARTIN RIDES THE MOOR
Written by Vian Smith. Illustrated by Peter Forster.
Stock no. 809786
Published by Constable Young Books. 1st 1964. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. 11 year old Martin lost his hearing in an accident but with the help of Tuppence the Dartmoor pony he learned to live with his deafness. Wrapper corners lightly rubbed.

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THE DARTMOOR BIBLIOGRAPHY
Written by Peter Hamilton-Leggett.
Stock no. 597849
Published by Devon Books. 1st 1992. As new condition in a fine dustwrapper.

1534-1991. Including a 1992 supplement. A reference work on the non-fiction books and articles published on Dartmoor. 7000 entries. ISBN: 0861148738.

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