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Water Gardens and Goldfish
by Sawyer, Robert V., & Perkins, Edwin H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
A. T. DeLaMare Company, New York, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic and illustrations. list of illustration, publisher's foreword and index. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, showing a large water feature. The text is illustrated with black and white photography and line drawings and plans. Orange coloured cloth covered boards with aqua coloured embossed coloured titles to the front panel and silver coloured titles to the back strip. A small book on the ascetics, building and maintenance of water gardens / pools; and then, perhaps filling your new water garden with various forms of goldfish, 1920s style. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with rubbing of the book corners. Fading of the back strip. Very faint age toning of the text block edges with foxing splotches, which also occurred to the first few in last few pages of the book. Original owner's rubber stamp to the front paste-down and original bookseller's rubberstamp to the lower edge of the free front end page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [5], 6 – 112 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Gardening; gold fish; United States; 1920s; Inventory No: 0127094. .
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0127094
- Title
- Water Gardens and Goldfish
- Author
- Sawyer, Robert V., & Perkins, Edwin H
- Illustrator
- Photographic and illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A. T. DeLaMare Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- BZDB2 gardening, aquatic, water gardens, Goldfish, design, plants, fish Gardening; gold fish; United States; 1920s; Photographic and illustrations Unbranded Sawyer, Robert V., & Perkins, Edwin H. Water Gardens and Goldfish
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening;
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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