Bonsai
by Walker, Linda M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0707102820
- ISBN 13
- 9780707102825
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1978* Publisher: John Gifford Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Olive Green cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, some sunning to edges. VG+* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £2.95, very slight shelf wear to top and bottom edges. A little grubby, VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. No annotations or inscriptions. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with very little reading or shelf wear, otherwise No Visible Faults. VG+* Illustrations: Colour & B/w Photos and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 128 pp. text. iii pp. Index at rear.* Description: The art of Bonsai is now becoming steadily more popular. These beautiful dwarf trees are to be seen regularly at shows and exhibitions. Many trees are imported from Japan, some of them being really true collectors pieces. This volume introduces the western enthusiast to the patient and meticulous world of the Bonsai.* A NEAR FINE copy with only minor shelf wear and fading to reduce it to VERY GOOD.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 386
- Title
- Bonsai
- Author
- Walker, Linda M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0707102820
- ISBN 13
- 9780707102825
- Publisher
- Gifford
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 182
- This edition first published
- 1978
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- Bumps
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- Cloth
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- Reprint
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- Tight
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Shelf Wear
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- Crisp
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