Mill Valley, CA: Strawberry Press, 1985. Octavo. Hard Cover. Volume three only. Binding sound; some soiling and small closed tear to top of dust jacket; dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover; no markings in text; illustrated throughout with... More
Hard Cover. Flowers from the Holy Land. Twelve floral pressings from Jerusalem. Text in Hebrew, English, German, French, and Russian. Tissue guards bound in, lacking only one. Quarter red cloth with silver lettering, over beveled olive wood boards. Black lettering... More
London: Simpkin Marshall & Co., 1870, 1871. Hard Cover. Two bound volumes of this periodical. published monthly beginning in 1870 throught 1881. With numerous in-text illustrations of fruits, flowers, vegetables, structures, implements and the like. In publisher’s terra-cotta cloth, stamped... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Hard Cover. With 24 illustrations in color, including the frontispiece. Scattered foxing throughout, and the remnants of a bit of paper which had been glued to the front pastedown. There is no writing in... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. Hard Cover. First Edition. Previous owner bookplate on the pastedown, with offsetting to the endpaper. Some very light foxing. In paper covered boards backed in green cloth, with paper title labels to the spine... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1989]. Hard Cover. Basilius Besler’s Florilegium: Plants of the Four Seasons, with comments by Aymonin and Gascar, and translated into English by Eileen Finletter and Jean Ayer. Color illustrations throughout, with textual explanations of the..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1939]. Hard Cover. First American Edition. A First American American Edition copy of Green Grows the City, a horticultural account by Beverley Nichols of his fight to uplift a garden on the outskirts of... More
New York: C. M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 1860. Hard Cover. Very mildly ex-library. The only indication of ex-lib. is the library name, shelf, case, no., stamped on front paste-down. Notes written on fep. Appears that book is missing rear... More
Charles E. Greening, 1910. Oblong Quarto. Hard Cover. An ex-library copy, with the usual marks Illustrated throughout with black and white photographic images. More
London: The Royal Horticultural Society, 1933. Hard Cover. Green cloth binding. Library markings on lower spine and on front paste-down. Library markings also on reverse side of title page. No pencil or ink markings in text. Small bump on side... More
London: The Royal Horticultural Society, 1937. Octavo. Hard Cover. Green cloth binding. Library markings on lower spine and on front paste-down. Library markings also on reverse side of title page. No pencil or ink markings in text. Small bump on... More
London: Country Life Limited, 1953. Hard Cover. Special Edition. A clean and tight copy of the Special Edition (the First Edition was in 1950) in the publisher’s green cloth. There are no marks of any kind in the book, and... More
Yale University Press, 1990. Hard Cover. A clean and presentable First Edition copy; there are no marks of any kind in the book. The dustjacket is attractive, not price clipped and protected in a mylar cover. More
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961. Illustrated by: Edmond Amateis; Dan Miller. Quarto. Hard Cover. 544pp. Red cloth binding. Text block edges are spotted. Dustjacket attached to front and rear paste-downs. Light edgewear to dustjacket; dust jacket is protected in..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts | London, England: The MIT Press, [1994]. Hard Cover. First Edition thus. A clean copy of the First Edition thus. Eighteenth century English and French gardens often featured buildings of no practical purpose other than to evoke or... More
Charlottesville, VA: The University of Virginia, 1973. Quarto. Hard Cover. First Edition. The binding is clean and without writing in it; the front board is slightly bowed. Spine of dust jacket has some spotting and is a bit darkened; there... More
1930. Quarto. Hard Cover. Binding sound with moderate rubbing to extremities. 265 pages plus many plates; illustrated throughout; no markings. More
Tehran: University Press, 1959. Half Leather. This copy in dark blue half-leather over blue cloth-covered boards; raised bands with lettering and rules in gilt. There are no marks in the book. Leather extremities are scuffed. More
Paris: Librairie Agricole de la "Maison Rustique" [1924]. Soft Cover. Bagatelle is a lovely garden set in the middle of Paris’ Bois de Boulogne Originally built in the 18th century, it was reshaped in the early 20th century into a.... More
London; New York: Ernest Benn; Charles Scribner’s, 1932. Elephant Folio. Hard Cover. FIrst Edition. No pencil or ink markings in text; hard cover cloth binding with very light edge wear to extremities; bottom corner of front board is bumped; shelf-wear..... More
Virginia Sustainable Agriculture Documentary Project, 2011. Hard Cover. First Edition. A lovely copy of a nicely put together book on sustainable agriculture. More
Trustess of the British Museum (Natural History), 1974. Hard Cover. A clean and tight copy with no marks of any kind. The binding has very faint trace of discoloration at the edges of the boards. More
New York: Henry T. Williams, 1873. Hard Cover. Fourth Edition. Fourth Edition of Henry T. Williams’ Window Gardening. Frontispiece, and additional in text illustrations. Publishers advertisements at the rear. Previous owner’s name on the verso of the front endpaper, else..... More
Vantage Press, 1979. Hard Cover. First Edition. Foxing to the endpapers and the leading edge of the textblock. Otherwise a clean copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket is now protected with a new mylar cover. More
Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1803. Full Leather. First American Edition. The First American printing of Bordley’s GLEANINGS, which was first published in London 1799 and then republished with additional notes in 1801. While the book mostly regurgitates English authorities, it is... More
