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A Facsimile Edition of Beauties of the Rose
by Curtis, Henry
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0936736003
- ISBN 13
- 9780936736006
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Palo Alto, CA: Sweetbrier Press, 1980. New Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Small 4to. xii [8] 37 pp, [i-ii] iii, 33 pp. The original two volumes bound in one. New introduction by Leonie Bell. Green cloth with gold titling to spine and pictorial black dust jacket. Light rubbing to DJ mainly at folds, corners, and edges. DJ unclipped with price in tact. Cloth exterior and interior text both nearly pristine. With 38 bright color full-page reproductions of Curtis' roses. Laid in at front is publisher's 32 pp stapled pamphlet "A Book List On Old Roses," containing related material offered for sale. Full title: A Facsimile Edition of Beauties of the Rose Containing Portraits of the Principal Varieties of the Choicest Perpetuals With Plain Instructions for Their Cultivation.
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Details
- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 440
- Title
- A Facsimile Edition of Beauties of the Rose
- Author
- Curtis, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0936736003
- ISBN 13
- 9780936736006
- Publisher
- Sweetbrier Press
- Place of Publication
- Palo Alto, CA
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- rose, flower, floral, illustration, gardening, plants, plates, facsimile
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
small volume
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
small volume
Biblio member since 2023
Providence, Rhode Island
About small volume
Small Volume is based out of Providence, RI. We buy + sell old, rare, odd, unusual, and otherwise collectible books + ephemera.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
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