HARDY EVERGREENS: A Practical Handbook on the Planting, Growth and Management of All Hardy Evergreens, Exclusive of the Broad-Leaved Species
by Schrepfer, Frank A
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Orange Judd Publishing Company, Inc. / London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1928.. 1928.. Good. - Small octavo, pictorial dark blue cloth titled with an illustration & frames in gilt on the front cover, in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed with a tiny tear to the cloth on the bottom edge of the rear cover. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with pieces out of the head & tail of the spine. There is light soiling & staining to the rear panel. 127 pages plus 1-page publisher's catalog. Full-page & textual illustrations in black & white. Some page edges are darkened & the inner margins of the illustration pages are rippled. Good. <p>First edition. Scarce in the dust wrapper.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31826
- Title
- HARDY EVERGREENS: A Practical Handbook on the Planting, Growth and Management of All Hardy Evergreens, Exclusive of the Broad-Leaved Species
- Author
- Schrepfer, Frank A
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Orange Judd Publishing Company, Inc. / London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1928.
- Date Published
- 1928.
- Keywords
- GARDENING; FRANK A. SCHREPFER; HARDY EVERGREENS: A Practical Handbook on the Planting, Growth and Management of All Hardy Evergreens, Exclusive of the Broad-Leaved Species; TREES; SHRUBS; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening;
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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