Brother Ox by Fred Kitchen (33 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This is an ex-library copy. Covers & Spine: both front and back boards are undamaged with light wear at the edges and corners, spine is strong with minimal bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout. Pages & Markings: unstained, usual library stickers & stamps, remnants of borrower's pocket inside back borad. Dust Jacket: complete with light scuffing on surface and edges, neatly covered & protected in clear plastic by library personnel. PLEASE NOTE: Due to this item weighing less than 500g, postage cost for international orders (i.e. not Australian) will be less than what is shown here. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.

Condition: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condition: New.

Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Condition: Good. 1940. 1940. 243 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. With a prefatory letter by The Duke of Portland. Previous owner's writing on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Tight Read Copy - Reprint - No Signatures, Inscriptions Or Notations Discovered. Illustrated. Green Cloth Hard Cover With Gold Gilt Titles On Spine - Faint Cocking And Faint Wear.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Large Print Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 241. Original publisher's maroon cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. A New Portway large print book ISBN: 0851192513 Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 'Brother to the Ox: The Autobiography of a Farm Labourer' by Fred Kitchen. J. M. Dent and Sons 1940 first edition. Bookplate. Some rubbing. Good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Kitchen, Fred. Brother to the ox: an autobiography of an agricultural labourer / with a prefatory letter by the Duke of Portland and eight photographs. Horsham: Caliban Books, 1981. Hardback, VG in good, price-clipped dustjacket with shelfwear to all edges, age-discolouration and tape repairs to spine. Black cloth, bumped to corners, with gilt lettering to spine. viii, 244pp., 4pp. of publisher's catalogue, 8 b/w illustrations. Small stain to front edge of page block; contents clean and bright. (William) Frederick Kitchen (28 December 1890 16 September 1969) was an English farm labourer and writer. His best known work is Brother to the Ox (1939), which has been adapted for radio and television. Brother to the Ox is an autobiographical account of a countryman's life during the first half of the twentieth century in Northern England. Unromantic and unconcerned with presenting country living as idyllic as more middle class writers of the time had generally presented it, it may be considered an 'anti-pastoral work'. Unusual for its time, it is a first-hand account of Kitchen's life in coking factories, on the railways, working as a cowman and in mining villages, moving from town to town in search of work. Critic H E Bates wrote of the book: "Mr. Kitchen writes as the grass grows and Brother to the Ox will take its place, for exact and simple beauty, with the best interpretations of the countryside." RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Green cloth covered boards have minor shelf wear and some sun tanning to spine. Endpaper is signed by author and also has newspaper article about him taped in. There are also inked notes by previous owner and owner name. Book contains a prefatory letter from the Duke of Portland. An autobiography of a farm labourer before mechanisation. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Some spotting in text.

Card Covers. Condition: Very good Plus. No Jacket. Reprint. 144pp. 1943. First paperback edition in very good plus, clean, tight condition. Guild books No. S24. autobiography. A war time paperback which is remarkably well preserved. It has a label pasted to the front card cover: 'The surplus Government stock of this edition has been purchased by W. H. Smith & Son, Ltd., for sale at The British Publisher Guild, LTD. 1'-'. To the rear cover it says that this edition is produced fro the services central book depot for circulation to the fighting forces of the allied nations.' Light shelf wear to the card covers with slight rounding to the lower corner of the front card cover. Light age toning to the spine. A very good plus well preserved copy.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with a loose page. Note: this copy has been rebound by library. Quick dispatch from UK seller.