Search Results: Plants - General from Loe Books

London: Royal Horticultural Society, 1981. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - Landscape. Unpaginated, about 50 pages. Card covers very good with light general wear only, slightly marked. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

London: Croom Helm, 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. pp. xiii, 272, b/w photographic plates and other illustrations. Dust Jacket with some general wear, and some scuffing to edges, not price-clipped, now protected in an archival sleeve. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, a little reading wear. A very good copy..

London: Williams and Norgate, 1938. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Small 4to. Pp. xxiv, 308; b/w plates. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering; very good with light wear, cloth very slightly marked. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy of the first UK edition..

China: Asahi Shimbun Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 4to. pp. iii 160. Chinese text, numerous colour illustrations. Covers near fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A near fine copy.

Stapehill, Wimborne, Dorset: C. J. Marchant, Keeper's Hill Nursery, 1954. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo. no date but 1954 written in pencil to the front cover. 107 pages, map of nursery to rear inside cover. Printed card covers very good with light wear only, slightly marked. Contents clean and tight..

London: Garden Book Club, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo. 176 pages, b/w illustrations. Original dust jacket very good, with a little general wear and slight rubbing to edges only. Hard-back binding, very good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good clean copy. A useful guide..

London: The Nurseryman & Seedsman, 1933. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 75 pages plus interesting adverts and index. Original hardback binding, green cloth with gilt to the spine, very good with a little general wear and rubbing. Contents clean and tight, "Holmes, Mousehole" stamped to the top of the front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked, no inscriptions. A very good copy. "...broad principles that every grower must follow.....".

USA, 1974. Book. Fine. Paperback. Reprint. 8vo. b/w illustrations throughout. Covers near fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1995. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to. 264 pages. Covers very good, light, partial crease to lower corner of front cover. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine copy, clean and bright..

London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. 248 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. Original dust jacket fine with slight wear, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine copy. A very good guide to designing more more unusual plants..

London: Royal Horticultural Society/Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co., 1919. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition Thus. 8vo. A scarce offprint by E. A. Bowles. "Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society...Printed by Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co."; pp.388-461; original printed card wrappers, the upper stamped "With Compliments". Covers very good with a little general wear and slight rubbing. Contents clean and tight. A very good copy. Scarce..

London: The Electricity Council, 1972. Book. Fine. Paperback. Revised Edition. 8vo (15 x 21cm). 90 pages, b/w illustrations. Covers fine with minimal wear only. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine copy..

Arbroath: T. Buncle & Co., 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp xi, errata, 344 pages. Attractive green cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine, very good with just a little rubbing to corners. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, no marking. A very good clean copy..

Berlin: Volk und Wissen, 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 12mo. from the library of Professor Stearn, and signed and inscribed by the author to W. T. Stearn on the front end paper. 567 pages; b/w illustrations throughout. Text in German. Cloth covers very good with slight wear only. Contents clean and tight, unmarked. A very good signed copy. [Provenance: from the library of Prof. William Stearn, "doyen of British botanists" who wrote c. 500 papers and books, including the classic "Botanical Latin". He was an authority on Linnaeus and an expert on botanical illustration.].

Swindon: The Crowood Press Ltd, 1992. Book. Fine. Paperback. Second Impression. 8vo. pp. 288, numerous colour photographs. Laminated card covers fine. Contents clean and tight..

Glasgow: Maclehose, Jackson & Co., 1923. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. De-luxe Limited Edition. 4to. Pp. xv. 249, [1], colour frontispiece plate and 11 further colour plates all by the author. Quarter calf leather binding with cloth covered boards and gilt ruling, gilt letter to the spine, near fine. Contents clean and tight, fine hand made paper, no marking or foxing, no inscriptions,. A near fine very clean bright copy..

Cambridge: CAmbridge at the University Press, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 218 pp. b/w illustrations. Green cloth hardback binding very good with a little general wear and rubbing, lightly faded. Contents clean and tight, previous owner's name. A very good first edition copy ..

London: University of California Press, 1992. Book. As New. Hardcover. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. 8vo. 254 pages; colour illustrations throughout. Original dust jacket near fine with just a crease to the inside flap not price clipped, not faded. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, inscribed by the author "To George with thanks, Mildred", complete with Sir George Taylor's attractive bookplate to the front pastedown. otherwise runmarked. A near fine copy. [Sir George Taylor, former director of Kew, keeper of botany, British Museum, plant collector and botanist].

Aylesbury: Shire Publications Limited, 1987. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 24 pages, colour & b/w illustrations. Covers fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine copy. Shire Natural History Series..

Hamlyn, 1981. Book. Illus. by Gorringe, Roger & Davies, Ann. Near Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. 288 pages, numerous colour plates. Card Covers near fine unmarked. Contents clean and tight, crisp, no inscriptions. A near fine copy..