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Newton Centre MA Charles T. Branford Company, 1958, hardcover. First Edition, First Printing in U.S. -- An introduction to the spirit of the Japanese art of flower arrangement. With foreword by Daisetz T. Suzuki. Black-and-white drawings. Translated from German by R.F.C. Hull. -- Hardcover, 124 pages. Condition: very good (owner name; faint spotting top-edge) with FAIR-only dust jacket (one-third… Read more

New York Universe, 1998, paperback. Profusely illustrated with color photos. Softcover. Condition: near fine. ISBN 9780789302281

University Park Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990, paperback. With botanical line drawings. -- Softcover. Condition: near fine. ISBN 0271006978

New York McGraw-Hill, 1952, hardcover. First printing of the third edition. Includes tables, maps, photos. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine, no jacket.

New York Taschen, 2002, hardcover. Reprint edition of: The American Woods (1888-1913, 1928). Parallel texts in English, German, and French. The work began with three sections (cross, radial, tangental) taken from one of the 349 species pictured in this book, full color, each with description, habitat, use, etc. -- Hardcover, 860 pages, printed on heavy glossy paper, 7x9.5x2.4 inches.… Read more

Toronto Key Porter Books, 1998, paperback. Reprint edition, this book was originally published 1936, and remains a classic of the Canadian natural world in a simpler time. -- Softcover. Condition: near fine. ISBN 1552630307

Philadelphia Lippincott, 1957, hardcover. Borland writes in his lovely prose of, for example, watching a song sparrow "flirting its tail" on a swaying osier branch tip, in his Connecticut valley. Drawings by Peter Marks. -- Ephemera are laid in, including a poem "February" by Borland. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine, with very good, unclipped dust jacket (spine a… Read more

New York McGraw-Hill, 1958, hardcover. The British social order among cats. -- Hardcover. Condition: good-only (lacks blank front endsheet, otherwise clean and tight) with good, unclipped dust jacket (spine tips worn).

Singapore Graham Brash, 1941, hardcover. Reprinted 1995. With zoological drawings by the author. -- Hardcover, glossy printed cover, 78 pages. Condition: very good (owner name; no jacket). ISBN 9812180273

Philadelphia Lippincott, 1929, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Owner gift note dated Xmas 1929. -- Subtitle: Short and long pieces to be read in bed by those who love husbandry and the green growing things of Earth. -- A classic. Organized by month: March may show us Snow Lace, an afternoon drizzle freezes on twigs, then a… Read more

South Africa Southern Book Publishers, 1994, paperback. Expanded edition: fourth edition, fourth printing 1994. -- Softcover. Condition: near fine. ISBN 1868124347

Piscataway NJ Winchester Press, 1984, paperback. Reprint edition with new introduction of this classic angling, fishing book, originally published 1930, written "with wit and wisdom, without pedantry." -- Softcover. Condition: very good. ISBN 0832903647

Garden City NY Doubleday, 1951, hardcover. Completely revised edition (original was 1906) with 300+ restored color portraits of the 222 bird species. -- Hardcover, 238 pages, oblong 5.5x3.5 inches. Condition: near fine (tips lightly rubbed) with very good cardboard sleeve (edges are rubbed).

New York A. T. De La Mare Company, 1929, hardcover. Includes numerous photographs of the author's own roof garden. Section for flowers in their order of blooming. -- Hardcover, 115 pages. Condition: very good minus (spine tips and corners worn; couple of pages creased).

England British Colour Council, 1938, hardcover. Standardized color terms for horticulture, shown in 200 color chips, four on each page. Each page has color equivalent names in other references, a brief history of the color, foreign synonyms, and many have horiticultural examples. A cardboard frame shaped to view the individual chips is laid in. Useful introductions. -- Hardcover, two… Read more

London Colingridge, 1924, hardcover. Handbook dealing with their history, culture, management and propagation. Historical 1920s information for specific varieties like Lady Hutt and Black Hamburgh grapes. Includes drawings, photos and diagrams. -- Bright hardcover, 144 pages. Condition: near fine (few spots top-edge; no jacket).

New York Scribner's, 391964, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing in U.S. -- Selection of Jekyll's advice and philosophy on herbacious beds; she is known for developing a painterly, loose, colorful style as opposed to stiff, geometrical beds. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (cover lightly sunned) with very good minus, unclipped dust jacket (half-inch chip spine… Read more

London Heinemann Educational Books, 1974, hardcover. Conservation ecology, with special reference to lowland England, where change is observed in 1974. Includes tables, photos, maps. -- Hardcover, ex-library copy with bookplate, stamps. Condition: very good minus (library flaws as noted, otherwise sound and clean) with very good dust jacket (no marks). ISBN 0435612565

Cincinnati Hyland House, 1996, hardcover. Includes photographs, botanical drawings, recipes as well as history and cultivation. -- Hardcover. Condition: fine, with fine dust jacket. ISBN 1864470097

Edinburgh Scotland Floris Books, 2001, paperback. Scholarly rural history in Britain, against the use of agricultural chemicals, also in political and social context. -- Softcover, 287 pages. Condition: near fine. ISBN 0863153364