Rock Gardens
by Anderson, E.B
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- F/GD+/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0140460446
- ISBN 13
- 9780140460445
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1965 (1959)* Publisher: Penguin Handbooks.* Binding and cover condition: Soft photo-illustrated card covers. No bumps, slight rubs to edges, corners and spine. Slight shelf wear to boards. No creases to spine or hinge but spine faded. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions, no visible faults. Seems un-used, no tanning. FINE* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos & line drawings throughout.* Pages: 166 pp. text. x pp. Index at rear.* Product Description:- The beginner with a small garden will find this book invaluable. It is concerned chiefly with growing plants in the open, the most labour saving and satisfying method. The book includes advice on the selection of easily obtainable plants, bulbs and dwarf shrubs suitable and beautiful for the small rock garden, and lists of plants for several purposes and conditions. It is fully illustrated with photos and line drawings.* This is a NEAR VG copy with some shelf wear & fading to the covers reducing it to GD++*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2773
- Title
- Rock Gardens
- Author
- Anderson, E.B
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/GD+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0140460446
- ISBN 13
- 9780140460445
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth UK 176
- This edition first published
- 1965
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- Bumps
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- Tight
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- VG
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- Hinge
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- Crisp
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- Edges
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Shelf Wear
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