The Ingenious Mr Fairchild

First Edition. An award-winning journalist pens a fascinating account of the life and times of Thomas Fairchild, a London nurseryman who discovered hybridization and paved the way for the growth of gardening as a cultural obsession.

New York: St Martins Press, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 280 pages. Select Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with several black and white maps and facsimile pages from Fairchild's work "The City Gardener", as well as 14 color photographs. Stated first U.S. edition, first… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dj Has Very Light Edgewear. The Dj Spine Is More Of A Greyish Color Than A Cream Coloring Like The Covers, So It Might Be Lightly Faded, But I Think It's Supposed To Be This Way.… Read more about this item

Headline, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, a near fine copy in a near fine & now protected dust jacket, col'd plates, 280pp.

London: Headline Book Publishing, 2000. Hardcover. pp. 280. 8vo. Color and black and white illustrations. Very good+ in very good+ dustjacket.

Headline, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 2nd impression with unclipped dust jacket free from nicks and tears. Owners name to half title otherwise clean throughout. The story of the first person to create a new variety of flower by propagation which created as much of a storm at the time as… Read more about this item

London: Headline Book Publishing, 2000. Hardcover. pp. 280. 8vo. Bound in full green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Map endpapers. Colour plates and black-and-white illustrations. Near fine in near fine dustjacket.

Headline. Used - Very Good. 2000. Hardcover. Cloth with dust jacket. Slight shelf wear. Very Good. (Subject: Gardening).

Headline, 2000. 1st edition, 1st impression. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Ostensibly a biography of Thomas Fairchild, the book actually derives much of its historical content from the published and unpublished work of his contemporary Richard Bradley. As with all biographies of people of humble backgrounds with little documentary evidence, this relies on some imaginative reconstructions, but does… Read more about this item

Headline. Used - Like New. 2000. Hardcover. Fine. Dust Jacket is Fine.

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St Martins Pr, 2001-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.2000 8.3000 5.7000.

Hardback. Very Good.

London: Headline, 2000. Color and b/w illust., biblio, 280 pages. Fairchild was the first to realize the practical implications of the shocking truth that plants had male and female organs, resulting in the first man-made hybrid in Europe.. Hard Cover. New/New.

Hardback. Like New.

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine Condition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound in publisher's original cloth with the spine letterd in gilt. Map endpapers.

London: Headline Books Publishing Plc, 2000. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 280pp.The story of the forgotten father of the flower garden , tha man who transferred the pollin of a sweet william into the pistil of a carnation and created a new plant,so that he heralded thousands of new varieties now avalable.… Read more about this item

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New York: St. Martin's Press. Hardcover. 2001. 1st Edition. 8vo 280pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W and Color Illustrations Remainder mark on bottom edges Biography of Thomas Fairchild, an important 18th-century nurseryman and celebrated author of The City Gardener .