GARDENING LETTERS TO MY DAUGHTER. With some replies from Clare Hastings

Michael Joseph, 1990-01-01. 1st Edn, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. F/VG++/VG++. Box 17 HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. UK.* Impression: 1st. stated.* Date: 1990.* Pub: Michael Joseph.* Binding and cover condition: Dark green cloth covered boards with silver title to spine only. No bumps or rubs. Minor age and wear to top & bottom edges and to head and tail of spine, no other visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour-illustrated jacket showing a view of a desk with a typewriter and a view of the garden. Red and green titles to spine and face. Price clipped showing no shelf price. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. In clear un-attached protective cover. VG++.* Contents condition: Excellent copy of the 1st./1st.with coloured end papers (pale lemon). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no visible reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w line drawings with chapter headings and vignettes throughout.* Pages: 180 pp. text. v pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Anne Scott-James and her daughter Clare live next door to each other in a village on the Berkshire DOWNS. There is an arch cut out of the thick hedge which divides their gardens, through which passes a regular two-way traffic of people, wheelbarrows, plants and refreshments. The author , one of this country's leading gardening authors, writes with humour and sensitivity, as well as expert knowledge. In this enchanting series of letters to Clare, covering a year in the garden, she discusses the pleasure and problems which her daughter is likely to encounter and frankly admits her own mistakes.*A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with NO MAJOR FAULTS in a protected dust jacket.* 0