The Plant Hunters
by Healey, B.J
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GOOD+
- ISBN 10
- 0684142147
- ISBN 13
- 9780684142142
- Seller
-
Bethel, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. (1st printing). Hardbound. GOOD+. Ex library with all expected markings and page where pocket would have been has been removed. Pristine dust jacket, in protective cover, except for Dewey Decimal stickers on spine. 214 indexed pages of clean, unmarked text. Solid, clean covers, faintest softening of spine ends. 6.25x9.25x1" "comprehensive and extremely readable account of plant discoveries...17th century herbalists Parkinson and Gerard...to the present...mostly British, American and French: their purpose was to add to the list of plants useful for food and drugs or simply as botanical specimens...appeal for the average gardener (who) now has a wide choice of formerly exotic flowers, shrubs and trees..."
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Details
- Seller
- Rainy Day Paperback Exchange (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 0-9H001
- Title
- The Plant Hunters
- Author
- Healey, B.J
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD+
- Edition
- (1st printing)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684142147
- ISBN 13
- 9780684142142
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rainy Day Paperback Exchange
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Bethel, Connecticut
About Rainy Day Paperback Exchange
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
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- Jacket
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