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The Gardener's Guide to Bulbs
by Mathew, Brian Swindells, Philip Bell-Currie, Fiona
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 1857321782
- ISBN 13
- 9781857321784
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression:1st.* Date of Publication: 1994* Publisher: Mitchell-Beazeley.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, FINE * Jacket condition: Price Clipped, Very slight shelf wear to head & tail of spine strip. Colour photographic cover, some very minor shelf wear. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, coloured end papers, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour Photos & illustrations throughout.* Pages: 231 pp. text. ix pp. Glossary & Index at rear.* Description: Fully illustrated with colour photographs, this comprehensive guide to bulb cultivation lists over 750 varieties of bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes by season, and also includes chapters on propagation and imaginative ideas for colourful planting schemes.*A NEAR FINE clean copy with only minimal shelf wear and price clipping to reduce it to VG+.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1327
- Title
- The Gardener's Guide to Bulbs
- Author
- Mathew, Brian Swindells, Philip Bell-Currie, Fiona
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1857321782
- ISBN 13
- 9781857321784
- Publisher
- Mitchell Beazley
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 240
- This edition first published
- 1994
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- Bumps
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine Strip
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Shelf Wear
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