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Poppies: The Poppy Family in the Wild and in Cultivation
by Grey-Wilson, Christopher
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 071346934X
- ISBN 13
- 9780713469349
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1993* Publisher: Batsford.* Binding and cover condition: Grey cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £25-00. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. XXX * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end-papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: 114 Colour plates, 38pp. b/w line drawings.* Pages: 198 pp. text. x pp. glossary & index at rear.* Description: Poppies, the seminal guide, concentrates primarily on species and forms of poppy in cultivation, although the author also includes some information regarding those found in the wild. There are general chapters on the family, cultivation and classification, and a key to genera.* A FINE, AS NEW copy of the 1st. Edition with NO VISIBLE FAULTS.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2604
- Title
- Poppies: The Poppy Family in the Wild and in Cultivation
- Author
- Grey-Wilson, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 071346934X
- ISBN 13
- 9780713469349
- Publisher
- Batsford Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London 192
- This edition first published
- 1993
- Size
- 25cm
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