Search Results: Garden Writing from Carnegie Hill Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. Octavo. xii, 175 pp; 16 color plates by Elsie Louise Shaw. Green cloth with gilt decoration & lettering in cardboard slipcase with color plate affixed. VG/VG-, a few spots of light soiling on slipcase.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Boston: Le Roy Phillips n.d. c.1910. Twelvemo. Unpaginated; Writings on the subject of gardens by various authors and poets on an assortment of tan and white hand-made laid paper bearing the Ingres and pmf watermarks; 8 color illustrations by Mary G. W. Wilson tipped in on gray laid paper. The pages are cut to various lengths and have assorted edge styles: cut, rough, & deckle. Top edge is flush-cut and gilt. Original green laid paper covered boards with ink title on face and gilt title on spine. Ribbon bookmark. G+, spine sunned and edges of boards sunned. An acceptable copy of a scarce book.. Hard Cover. Good+. Illus. by Wilson, Mary G. W..

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. Small quarto. 158 pp; numerous color photographs; biographical notes. Cloth with dj. VG/VG-. The author visits with and interviews twelve well-known gardeners across England, including Roy Lancaster, Geoffrey Smith, Frances Perry, Alan Titchmarsh, Alan Gemmell, John Brookes, and Stefan Buczacki.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First U.S. edition. Octavo. 184 pp; illustrated by Virginia Powell. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, binding tight; unclipped jacket is crisp & bright. The author and her daughter, Claire Hastings, lived next door to each other in a village on England's Berkshire Downs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1935. Second printing. Octavo. 205 pp. Decorated paper-covered boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy except for toning on front & rear free endpapers from jacket flaps, spine a bit toned, small stain at bottom edge of back cover; price-clipped jacket has toned spine, old water stain ring near bottom of spine, top edge of back cover lightly chipped with small loss at top corner. A delightful account of the gardens of poets, philosophers and kings.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.