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Near Fine First Edition (May 1, 2003) First Edition First Printing 237 uncut pages with B&W illustrations in text. Maps on endpapers. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Unclipped dustjacket in fine condition. Veteran US journalist Meyer, coauthor of Tournament of shadows: the great game and race for empire in Central Asia (1999), seeks to educate Americans… Read more about this item

Includes two hundred and eighty photos, engravings from original pictures and maps. Frontispiece : First map of Melbourne, 2 fold-out maps at rear, (22" x 16" folding plan of the old Melbourne Cemetery and a 18" x 15" folding map of Melbourne, showing every Crown Grant and Original Sale of Land in the Business Centre of the City from the… Read more about this item

First Edition, orig. cloth-backed boards, rare unopened & uncut pages in the original title-blocked cloth-backed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Series: Bibliographical Society. Subjects: Bookbinders, London ; Directories. The introduction deals with the sources used in compilation and there is a seventeenth-century price list and a list of the directories consulted.

First Edition thus, with frontispiece, title-vignette, illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; pictorial cloth, gilt back, a fine copy bound in fully illustrated cloth in publisher's slip-case also in fine condition. Black and white illustrations throughout by Paul Cox and with pictorial cloth covers with drawings by the artist. Hugh Carmody loved Millicent, Lord Emsworth niece,… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 2004. First Folio Society Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 279pp. Illustrated cloth in slipcase. With illustrations by Paul Cox. The gardens of Blandings Castle are that original garden from which we are all exiled. All those who know them long to return." ―Evelyn Waugh When Lord Tilbury receives a letter from Galahad Threepwood stating he… Read more about this item

Country Life. London. 1914 (3rd) Tall 8vo. Gertrude Jekyll's advice and planning for flower gardens. A gardening classic. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Profusely ill. Photo ills. & planting diagrams, some fold out. With colour frontis plate. Foldout diagrams and protected colour illustration with tissue paper and numerous b/w photo ills. Quality pages with some… Read more about this item

1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped dustwrapper now in protective mylar. Clean, tight and unmarked. Summary: Anyone who has ever created a garden knows that it is a process replete with drama: there's the feverish excitement of drawing up plans and making lists of plants; the bleak depression of realizing that the plans will have to be… Read more about this item

1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped dustwrapper now in protective mylar. Clean, tight and unmarked. B&W illustrations with decorative endpages. When Beverley Nichols first published Garden Open Today in 1963, he was already well known for his "garden adventure" books such as Down the Garden Path and Merry Hall, whose unforgettable characters still live in the imaginations… Read more about this item

1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Cloth boards. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no inscriptions or marks. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped in archival quality removable mylar cover. Illustrated with drawings by Val Biro. Foreword by Roy C. Facsimile of the original edition which… Read more about this item

Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition.. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Clean pages with light tanning. Binding remains firm. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket now in protective mylar.

Condition: V Good. 1954. First Edition. llustrated endpages boards with grey cloth spine and lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Overall a clean, tightly bound , copy in very good condition.

Cloth boards with black lettering on spine and black lettering and image front cover with pages clean and tight. Light foxing due to age. Overall a very nice copy.

Toi & Moi by Paul Geraldy, Paris 1947; Limited Edition no.1384 printed on Velin Chiffon Paper with frontispiece and thirty-three colour illustrations by Georges Lepape. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Text is in French. Leather boards with gilt title and raised bands on the spine. Marbled endpages. Shelf wear on leather edges [see photos ] with pages clean and tight. Overall… Read more about this item

First Folio Society edition. Hardback binding in publisher's original British racing green buckram covered boards, printed archive sepia photographs to the front side, gilt back, photographic end sheets. Near Fine condition in slip case. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898 Travel Great BritainGreat Britain History 19th century Great Britain Social life and customs 19th centuryLiterary journeys Great Britain Photography, Artistic

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Contents: Gone with the wind, The portrait of a lady, Middlemarch, War and Peace, Blandings Castle, The castle Buddenbrooks, The leopard, Wide Sargasso Sea, Le grand Meaulnes

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean, tight and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Slipcase is clean and solid. Overall a near fine copy. Colour illustrations throughout. A lovely copy of this anthology of accounts of Christmas spent abroad. With contributions by Tolstoy, Washington Irving, Noel Coward, Shelley, Paul Theroux, Richard Burton, Dostoevsky, Alice… Read more about this item

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression. 1914 Condition: V.G+ . Beige cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Some yellowing to pages due to age. 13 tipped-in colour plates, and frontispiece of HRH Princess Mary. Other b/w drawings throughout. 'All profits from sale are given to The Queen's Work for Women" Overall a very nice copy. British Great War fund-raising… Read more about this item

First Edition Hardcover. Slight bumping to cloth with little wear to the head and foot of the spine; edges slightly foxed; scattered foxing. Otherwise a sound copy. Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932 Other authors/contributors Mawley, Edward. Subjects : Roses. | Rose culture -- Great Britain.

Hardcover. Presumed 1st Edition. Condition: V.G+ . Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: G. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards and pages clean and tight. Overall aIl a very well-preserved copy. Includes index.Subjects : Annuals (Plants) | Biennials (Plants) | Flower gardening.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. "Published in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. "Includes index. In 1871 Marianne North escaped the swaddling of Victorian society and departed on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants… Read more about this item