HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Revised.* Date of Publication: 1962 * Publisher: W.H.Collingridge.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, Shows some light marking to boards. GD+.* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 18 Shillings Net. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. GD+* Contents condition: Single reference library stamp to FEP. Crisp, tight and bright with very light reading wear, no marks to text, minimal offsetting to eps and minimal tanning. GD+* Illustrations: B/w photos and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 74 pp. text. viii pp. Index & list of varieties at rear.* Description: ?The Great merit of this book is that it assumes that the reader will have normal intelligence, and not choose to stand helpless and bewildered when faced by a propagating bench and a heap of cuttings !?. The Commercial Grower.* A GOOD+ copy with some age and wear.

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2525
Title: Perpetual flowering carnations
Author: Morton, Roland John
Format/Binding: Unknown Binding
Book Condition: Used - GD+/GD+/GD+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Thus, Revised.
Publisher: Collingridge
Place of Publication: London Uk 79
Date Published: 1962-01-01

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Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....
Tail: The heel of the spine.
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...