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America's Garden Book by Bush-Brown, Louise & James - 1947

by Bush-Brown, Louise & James

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America's Garden Book

by Bush-Brown, Louise & James

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  • Hardcover

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (c.1939). A later printing, 1947. Louise & James Bush-Brown, America's Garden Book. Hardcover, green cloth binding. [xxi] 1241pp, includes index. illustrations with halftone plates and drawings. This is a heavy book slightly over 3 pounds. ** FLAWS: rear hinge paper split but hinge still threaded. Edge at spine ends soft. Pulled with "finger-space" at spine head. Just a good reference/reading copy. NO dust jacket

  • Bookseller Independent bookstores US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Good
  • Jacket Condition No Jacket
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons
  • Place of Publication New York.
  • Date Published 1947
  • Keywords HORTICULTURE. N3, GARDENING

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AMERICA'S GARDEN BOOK : Revised By the New York Botanical Garden
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AMERICA'S GARDEN BOOK : Revised By the New York Botanical Garden

by Bush-Brown, James & Louise; New York Botanical Garden

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
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Condition
Used - Near Fine
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Near Fine
Edition
First Edition, 2nd Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780684162706 / 0684162709
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New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Dorothy Irwin (Illustrator). Text/Trace discoloration to fEP (likely housed a card or newpaper clipping), wrinkling to pgs 718/719, else As New & Bright. Green linen boards/NF w/light edge rubs. DJ/NF; trace wear to lower front edge. Admirable gardening guide. Collaborative work from landscape architect James Bush-Brown (1892 -1985) and wife, Louise. First published 1939; this is the 1980, N.Y Botanical Garden Revised Edition. Lucid & comprehensive handbook and now also a primary historical resource to the aesthetics & record of micro-climates in 1930's America. 819 pgs, b/w photos, covering some 3,000 plants; 40 chapters in 7 parts: 1, Garden Design; 2, Plant Selection & Culture; 3, Special Habitats; 4, Flavor & Fragrance; 5, Cultural Methods & Practices; 6, The Indoor Garden; and 7. Gardener's Miscellany, followed by Glossary.
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