Search Results: Authors starting with E from Mike Park Ltd

Auckland: William Collins Publishers Ltd, 1982. [Second reprint of Volume I and First edition of Volume II - 1981 - 1982.]. Well illustrated with hundreds of colour plates, large thick octavo, pp 311; 382, very clean internally, brown cloth ib=n excellent condition, in very good dustwrappers. Virtually as new. [Very heavy - extra postage will be needed]. Cloth. As New/Very Good.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Well illustrated, small octavo, pp xx, 489, a little foxing of the endpapers, otherwise extremely clean and sound internally, cloth very slightly worn, the spine age-toned and slightly marked, the spine head slightly frayed. [Originally published in 1901, Old Time Gardens by Alice Morse Earle was one of the most popular and influential garden books of the early twentieth century and one of the first to be extensively illustrated with photographs. It celebrates the plants and garden designs of early America. Distinguished by its inviting style, wealth of detailed information about plants, design and garden ornaments, and captivating descriptions and photographs of historic gardens, the book is still regularly cited in books and magazine articles, and recommended on web sites. Earle’s advocacy of historic garden designs was rooted in her strong sense of the garden as a place to live in, and to interact with nature, family and friends. For Earle, the… Read More

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1912. 12mo, {measures 170mm x 120mm}, pp xxiv, 232. a little used throughout, the hinge after the index is cracked but not really weak, endpapers foxed, red cloth faded and a bit marked and worn with a frayed fore-edge. [From the library of Alan Titchmarsh, with his bookplate on the front endpaper]. SURPRISINGLY SCARCE.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair.

London: Smith, Elder & Co Four volumes. Pot-Pourri From a Surrey Garden, thirteenth edition, 1898, age-toned but otherwise clean and tight internally, cloth slightly worn, the spine browned, frayed at its head. With the bookplate of Isabella Louise Aitken. More Pot-Pourri From a Surrey Garden, fourth impression, 1900, an inscription opposite the half-title, a little age-toned internally and with occasional foxing, cloth very faded and a little bubbled, the spine rather worn at the top and lacking a piece, a split to the upper joint. Pot-Pourri Mixed by Two, first edition, 1914, fore-edge foxed but otherwise very clean internally, cloth faded and a little marked, with the bookplate of Dorothy Mary Gladstone, and the later bookplate of Alan Titchmarsh. A Third Pot-Pourri, second edition, 1903, an inscription to the first blank, foxing to the edges but otherwise very clean internally, cloth slightly marked and blotched, the spine slightly age-toned. A heavy set - extre postage will be needed.… Read More

London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd Illustrated, octavo, pp x, 294, a lovely copy in a dustwrapper which is protected by a removable plastic film. Virtually as new.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good.

Gland: IUCN, 1989. Illustrated with distribution maps only, slim quarto, pp 96, paperback, a very good copy.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Wilsonville: Beautiful America Publishing Company, 1990. Very well illustrated with colour photographs, quarto, pp vi, 194, the corners very slightly bruised, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, the covers showing very slight signs of use.. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

Portland: Timber Press, 2007. Well illustrated, quarto, pp 216, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [A Pattern Garden gives us the tools for creating our own highly satisfying garden spaces. Easton identifies 14 garden patterns that she sees as fundamental to successful design and that will turn any landscape into a memorable and rewarding retreat. This book will help you identify what pleases you, and why, and provide inspiration and direction in the planting and layout of your own garden. Discussions of essential patterns, such as the creation of paths or the incorporation of water into the garden, are complemented by concrete advice about plant selection.]. First Edition. Cloth. As New/Very Slightly Worn.

Johannesburg: Lorton Communications, 1988. Illustrated, and with seven folding maps at the rear (one is a little creased), pp 147, signature of Brian O'Shea on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, pictorial boards, a very good copy.. Boards. Very Good.

Melbourne and Paddington: Ebes Douwma Antique prints & Sotheby's Australia, 1988. Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 200, a short neat inscription inside the front cover, otherwise just very slightly used internally, paperback, covers showing very slight signs of use, and the rear cover slightly creased. . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Paris: Editions Caribeenes, 1989. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 167, paperback, slightl signs of use, but a good copy. SCARCE. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador to Laos. While living in Tunis, his wife asked him to look for a cookbook on fish because she did not recognize any of the local varieties. Not being able to find one he wrote one himself. The original manuscript was copied with a stencil machine. A copy reached the British cooking guru Elizabeth David, who passed it on to Penguin Books, which published it in 1972 as Mediterranean… Read More

New York: F.W. Dodge Corporation, 1956. Illustrated, large octavo, pp 278, slightly used internally, bound in a later library green cloth, slightly worn. [With the neat owner's stamp of the botanist Ralph Earl Ecklund. the blindstamp of Andrew Collier Durham - possibly the architect ? - and the blindstamp of the University of Delaware]. A good working copy. . First Edition. Cloth. Fair.

Oxford at The Clarendon Press, 1889. Illustrated with many wood engravings throughout, (five of which have been neatly partially coloured by a previous owner), and with two folding coloured litho plates at the rear, (one plates is almost detached), octavo, pp xvi, 449, very clean internally, stoutly bound in a simple unsophisticated black leather. With the signature stamp of the marine biologist Dr Ivor Griffiths on the half-title and title page. [Translations of Foreign Biological memoirs Volume II].. First English edition. Full Leather. Very Good.

Cambridge, 1978. 12 acetate overlays, in descriptive printed folder, very slight wear. . Paperback. Very Good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. Slim 12mo, pp 287, very slightly worn internally, endpapers browned, small neat signature on front endpaper, blue cloth in good condition, in a very worn dustwrapper which is lacking parts of its spine.. Cloth. Very Good/Poor.

Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1950. Illustrated, large octavo, pp viii, 178, just very slightly used internally, a very large coloured folding map in the rear pocket, green cloth slightly worn. A duplicate from the East malling Research Station with their stamp on the front endpaper and a shelf label on the spine but no other markings.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

Philadelphia: Morris Arboretum, 1955. Illus with black and white photographs and simple line drawings, large octavo, pp 174, green cloth, a very good copy thoughout. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

London: Longman Brown & Co, 1855. MARIA EDGEWORTH. Early Lessons. Published by Longman Brown & Co (and others), 1855. A New Edition, collected into one volume. Small thick 8vo, pp (4), 432, an extra engraved title page, an engraved frontispiece, a little thumbed throughout, a little weak internally, hinge at title page cracking. Spine lacking, original red cloth covers, but lower cover detached, and upper cover nearly so. [Maria Edgeworth was a novelist and children's writer of Anglo-Irish descent. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature. Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, on January 1, 1768. She was the second child of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Anna Maria Edgeworth (née Elers) and thus an aunt of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. Maria's mother died when she was a young child. On her father's second marriage to Honora Sneyd in 1773, she went with him to Ireland, where she eventually was to settle on his estate, Edgeworthstown,… Read More

University Park & London: The Pennsylvania State University press, 1973. Octavo, pp xii, 401, the cloth binding is very slightly marked, otherwise this copy is nearly as new. [From the library of Sir John Burnett, with his signature on the front endpaper. A distinguished academic career and a lifelong interest in fungi, botany and nature conservation made him the ideal champion for biological recording in the UK. He held that effective nature conservation could be achieved only if good quality information about species and their habitats was accessible to all who needed it - a belief that made him perfectly suited to run the National Biodiversity Network, founded in 2000. He was convinced that academics with high administrative posts must continue with some personal research, in his case on the myxomycetes.]. Book Club. Cloth. Very Good.

Rome: International Board for Plant Genetic Resources, 1990. Maps, large 8vo, pp 284, paperback, very slightly worn, corner slightly bumped, otherwise a good copy with slightly faded covers..