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Aristocrats Of The Garden -- 1917 FIRST EDITION
by Wilson, Ernest H
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1917 FIRST EDITION, number 622 of 1200 copies. Original dark grey paper covered boards, tan buckram spine with paper title page lettered in black. The book has rubbed corners with loss of paper coating there, small loss to spine title patch, 1cm brown spot to upper corner of FFEP and following page, no foxing, solid binding, former owner bookplate on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, complete with all pages & plates. The book measures 222mm tall x 155mm, and has 312 pages, 18 b/w photos, index. PHOTO IS OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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- Bookseller
- JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002478
- Title
- Aristocrats Of The Garden -- 1917 FIRST EDITION
- Author
- Wilson, Ernest H
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- Burma, India, central Asia, Plant Hunting, Botany
- Bookseller catalogs
- Central Asia;
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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