Search Results: Titles starting with G from Lansdowne Books

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.

Hardcover. 1st Edition As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Red cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A near fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.
A collection of Sir Roy Strong's articles on all aspects of gardens and gardening. A mixture of old and new, the articles offer lively insights and embrace a wide cultural perspective. From what is a garden?, Strong moves on to look at the art of gardening in relation to other arts such as embroidery, cookery, history and politics. He takes the reader to Italy, France and Spain as well as to Berkshire, Wales and Scotland.

A very clean and tight copy. The dust jacket has minor wear and in now in protective mylar. A Rare Edition The young narrator of this story tells of life in 1930s Italy as a Jew. He is fascinated with the aristocratic Finzi-Contini family, who live behind walls on an expansive estate. The beautiful Micòl Finzi-Contini first invites the narrator into her private, assimilated world as the laws restricting Jewish activity in the city intensify. From then on, the narrator frequents the family's estate to play tennis and study within the father's library, until his relationship with Micòl becomes more complex and confusing. The novel was the basis of the 1970 film directed by Victorio De Sica.

Limited Edition. Copy number 216 of a limited edition of 275 copies signed by the author of which 260 are for sale.
Clean and firmly bound, brown boards with a small bee in gilt.
Plain brown slipcase with small bee in gilt on the front, also present in very good condition.
Signed by Author/Illustrator
Published by Women's Committee of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria), Australia, 1976
This book has chapters on late summer flowers; architectural & foliage plants; silver plants; lilies in containers; geraniums; the white garden; raising sturdy seedlings; ferns for the gardens as well as what-to-do every month throughout the year.

Original gilt lettered pictorial cloth (Fine), slipcase (Fine). , illus with coloured photos (no inscriptions). First Folio Society edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour printed panoramic cloth, gilt and black back, Venetian red end sheets. Contains double colour frontispiece, [xi], 250 pp with colour illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition open fronted slip case.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.

Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy printed on yellow paper. Dust Jacket is in very good condition with mylar protective cover. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Delightfully illustrated throughout with images from the times. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Australia; Australian History; Biography & Autobiography.Title: A Girl at Government House:
Publisher: Currey O'Neil
Publication Date: 1982
Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.

Near Fine in fine unclipped dust jacket in protective mylar. Hardcover first edition - First printing. A debut novel, originally published in Arabic in Lebanon, which discusses frankly the " social, romantic and sexual tribulations of four young women from elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia." Translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth. Includes glossary of names, 286 pp. Originally banned in Saudi Arabia, the tale of four young women university students from Riyadh follows their struggles to navigate the precarious paths between desire, fulfillment, and Islamic tradition while witnessing the ways in which the Arab world is being changed by new economic and political realities

First Edition. Large 4to. Fine red cloth copy in an equally fine DJ. Particularly well preserved; tight, bright, clean and surprisingly sharp cornered. Abundantly illustrated with finely printed black and white and colour plates. ; 280 pages; Physical desc. : 280p : ill (some col. ) , facsims, ports ; 32 cm. Subject: Books --Book collecting --History --Rare books --Manuscripts --Collectors and collecting. For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

Green Boards with gilt lettering to spine. As New Dust Jacket unclipped and in Mylar protective covering. 198 pages : numerous illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 x 30 cm. A clean and tight copy. Gardens include: Beaufront' Ross, Tas. 'Woolmers' Longford, Tas. 'Lindsay Park' Angaston, S.A. 'Delatite' Mansfield, Vic. 'Springfield' Goulburn, N.S.W. 'Beleura' Mornington, Vic. 'Government House' Perth "Rippon Lea' Elsternwick, Vic. 'Retford Park',Bowral, N.S.W. Mount Wilson, N.S.W. Mount Macedon, Vic. 'Forest Lodge' Stirling, W.A. Pioneer Sugar Mill Plantation, Brandon, Qld. 'Admiralty House' Kirribilli, N.S.W. 'Mawallok' Beaufort, Vic. 'Dalvui' Mount Noorat, Vic. 'Marathon' Mount Eliza, Vic. 'Milton Park' Bowral, N.S.W. 'Eryldene' Gordon, N.S.W. 'Micalago' Michelago, N.S.W. 'Nurney House' North Adelaide, S.A. 'Willyama' Medindie, S.A. A town garden in Grant Avenue, Toorak, Vic. A town garden in St. George's Road, Toorak, Vic. 'Cruden Farm' Langwarrin, Vic. 'Mawarra' Sherbrooke, Vic. 'Markdale' Binda,… Read More

1st Edition Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, unclipped dustwrapper now in protective mylar. Clean, tight and unmarked.
Summary: Anyone who has ever created a garden knows that it is a process replete with drama: there's the feverish excitement of drawing up plans and making lists of plants; the bleak depression of realizing that the plans will have to be altered; the "Eureka!" moment when a brilliant solution presents itself; the grim frustration of dealing with meddlesome neighbors and recalcitrant plants. For Beverley Nichols (1898-1983), making a new garden in a London suburb in the years just before World War II was positively operatic in its emotional trajectory. Fans of Beverley Nichols will find in Green Grows the City the same elements that have delighted them in his other books: the wit, the style, the cats, and of course Gaskin, gentleman's gentleman extraordinaire. Those new to Nichols are in for a rare treat.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Cloth boards with red and white lettering on spine and front cover with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Illustrator: Nick Bantock.
A delightful book a part mystery and a part romance and a complete work of art. But Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she? Thus begins the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. And since each letter must be pulled from its own envelope, the reader has the delightful, forbidden sensation of reading someone else's mail. Griffin & Sabine is like no other illustrated novel: appealing to the poet and artist in everyone and sure to inspire a renaissance in the fine art of letter-writing, it tells an extraordinary story in an extraordinary way.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.The correspondence of Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem, at turns enigmatic, sumptuous, and romantic, reveals dangerous undercurrents and strange forces at work in the universe. These powers have only grown stronger with the couple's disappearance. Nothing is heard from them for quite some time, until Sabine asks Matthew Sedon, a young archaeologist working in Egypt, for help.