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Hardcover. Condition: N. Fine. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition now in protective mylar.
1st Edition. Translated from the French by Sandra Smith.
The manuscript for this novel, written by Nemirovsky before she died in Auschwitz in 1942, was discovered by her granddaughter in 2004. Source of the 2015 film.
Illus with b&w map and pictorial endpapers

1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped dustwrapper now in protective mylar. Clean, tight and unmarked. B&W illustrations with decorative endpages.
When Beverley Nichols first published Garden Open Today in 1963, he was already well known for his "garden adventure" books such as Down the Garden Path and Merry Hall, whose unforgettable characters still live in the imaginations of present-day gardeners. In Garden Open Today, however, Nichols attempted a departure from his previous gardening books; he sought to distill 30 years of practical gardening experience in an entertaining fashion, and perhaps to strike back at critics who whispered that he was not a "real gardener." Our new facsimile edition includes a foreword and plant-name index by Roy C. Dicks.

1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Cloth boards. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no inscriptions or marks. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped in archival quality removable mylar cover.
Illustrated with drawings by Val Biro. Foreword by Roy C.
Facsimile of the original edition which was published in 1963. Black cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Clean bright jacket unclipped in archival quality removable mylar cover.

pp. xxxix, (i), 279, (i). Frontispiece and 15 fabulous colour plates from H M Brock accompany these wonderful stories, head- and tail-pieces and end-papers all by Brock. Uncut pages slightly foxed and now in protective jacket.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. "Published in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. "Includes index.In 1871 Marianne North escaped the swaddling of Victorian society and departed on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. This abridged version of her lively travel memoirs and autobiography is illustrated in colour with a selection from her collection of over 800 pictures now housed in the Marianne North gallery at Kew.
Subjects North, Marianne, 1830-1890. | Botanical artists -- England -- Biography. | Botanical illustration -- History.