HENRY SHAW: HIS LIFE AND LEGACY
by FAHERTY, William Barnaby
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
1987. FAHERTY. William Barnaby. HENRY SHAW: HIS LIFE AND LEGACY. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1987. Small quarto, green cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Faherty on the half-title page: "For Norma Silber- with best wishes of the author, Wm. B Faherty, S.J." Silber was manager of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, which was founded by Henry Shaw in 1859. With five small pages of pencil notes by Silber making additions or corrections to the text, along with a clipped newspaper clipping about Shaw. A nice association copy. Fine in like d/j. $185.00.
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- Bookseller
- Antic Hay Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2398
- Title
- HENRY SHAW: HIS LIFE AND LEGACY
- Author
- FAHERTY, William Barnaby
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1987
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About Antic Hay Books
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