Publications - postcards

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Common Ground, Gold Hill House, 21 High Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 8JE

Items for sale

Apple Poems - Two cards, featuring the poems Apple Trees by Leonard Clark and The Apple War by UA Fanthorpe.

Two cards - 50p (£1.00 non-UK)

Apple Postcards by Charles Raymond - a series of 13 postcards - twelve individual apples and one composite. Cider, eating and cooking apples from across the country, D'Arcy Spice, George Neal, Golden Noble, Howgate Wonder, Keswick Codlin, Ribston Pippin, Stirling Castle, Sweet Alford, Tom Putt, Tower of Glamis, Worcester Pairmain, Yarlington Mill.

Set of 13 cards - £6.00 (£7.00 non-UK)

Bridges of the Stour. Three black & white postcards, reproductions of linocuts made for Common Ground by Peter Ursem showing the bridges of Sturminster Newton, Dorset - Town Bridge, Former Railway Viaduct and Colber Bridge.

Set of 3 Bridge cards - 75p (£1.75 non-UK)

Confluence: Two colour photographic postcards, Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, seen above the mist over the Blackmore Vale, Dorset; Six Wells Bottom, the source of the River Stour above Stourhead Gardens, Wiltshire.

Set of two - 50p (£1.00 non-UK)

England In Particular - ABC cards: A set of 14 colour postcards featuring illustrations from the book England In Particular.

Set of fourteen - £8.00 (£9.00 non-UK)

Set of seven - £4.00 (£4.50 non-UK)

Festival Cards. Six large colour postcards celebrating five ancient and two new festivals - May Day (May 1), Arbor Day (May 29), Rogationtide, Midsummer's Day, Apple Day (Oct 21) & Tree Dressing Day (1st weekend in December).

Set of six - £4.50 (£6.00 non-UK)

Field Days. Three poems on separate postcards: On Merrow Down (John Burnside), Skylark (Katrina Porteous), and Scything (James Crowden).

Set of three - £1.00 (£2.00 non-UK)

Fish of the Stour. Five black & white postcards, reproductions of linocuts made for Common Ground by Peter Ursem. The fish are: Perch, Dace, Minnow, Roach and Chub

Set of 5 Fish cards - £1.25 (£2.50 non-UK)

Andy Goldsworthy. Full colour cards of river works on Scaur Water in Dumfriesshire: square postcard with envelope (bracken stalks laid on water) ; 3 folded cards of iceworks with envelopes ; 3 folded panoramic cards with envelopes.

Bracken stalks laid on water (card with envelope).

£1.00 (£2.00 non-UK)

Currently
out of stock

Thin Ice (folded card with envelope).
Iceworks, card no. 1 of 3.

£2.00 (£3.00 non-UK)

upturned icicles (folded card with envelope).
Iceworks, card no. 2 of 3.

£2.00 (£3.00 non-UK)

Icicles frozen to leeward side of a rock (folded card with envelope).
Iceworks, card no. 3 of 3.

£2.00 (£3.00 non-UK)

NEW
Two Autumns (folded card with envelopes). We have found new limited stocks of this long out-of-print card.

£2.50 (£3.50 non-UK)

Hogweed stalks (folded card with envelopes). Panoramic card no. 1 of 3.

£2.50 (£3.50 non-UK)

Beech leaves (folded card with envelopes). Panoramic card no. 2 of 3.

£2.50 (£3.50 non-UK)

Rosebay Willow Herb stalks (folded card with envelopes). Panoramic card no. 3 of 3.

£2.50 (£3.50 non-UK)

Andy Goldsworthy card set. Seven cards with envelopes, as above - 3 x Iceworks cards 3 x Panoramic Cards, plus 'Two Autumns'.

£15.00 (£17.00 non-UK)

The River's Voice. Cards featuring poems inspired by water and rivers, including three from Common Ground's poetry anthology The River's Voice: On Sturminster Footbridge (Thomas Hardy); Rivers Arise (John Milton); River (Alice Oswald); Dewdrops (John Clare); Ruskin Remembered (Charles Tomlinson); Springhead at Fontmell Magna and Downstream Effects - The River Stour (James Crowden).

Set of 7 cards - £1.75 (£2.75 non-UK)

Sculpture and the Land Postcards - eight cards from photographs of sculptures by Peter Randall-Page, Alain Ayers, John Maine, Simon Thomas and Andy Goldsworthy. 4 colour and 4 b / w (limited stocks of some cards).

Set of eight - £3.00 (£4.00 non-UK)

Spring Leaf Cards by Garry Miller, 4 cards, full colour.

Set of four - £1.60 (£2.50 non-UK)

Tree Cards by leading illustrators which also give practical information on how to argue for hedges, orchards, street and garden trees - 5 cards, full colour.

Set of 5 - £2.00 (£3.00 non-UK)

West Country Orchards, Ten b/w postcards of photographs by James Ravilious.

Set of ten - £4.00 (£5.00 non-UK)

Winter Greetings, Set of six folded cards with envelopes, colour illustration by Brian Grimwood

Set of six - £3.00 (£4.00 non-UK)