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Gardening with Brains: Fifty Years' Experiences of a Horticultural Epicure
by Henry T. Finck
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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TORRINGTON, Wyoming, United States
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About This Item
Harper and Brothers, 1922. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good/None. i-xx + 270 pages. Seven-eights gray-green colored paper binding with one-eighth black colored cloth binding on upper and spine. Text is black on upper and was probably gilt on spine but has flaked off. There is paper wear to the top and bottom corners of the upper board and appears to be a small bug damaged hole to the head of the spine on the upper and lower boards. On pg. 99 there is an embossed mark from the Turner, OR public library. On the ffep. there is a former owner's signature and date. Pages are browned but not marked or smudged. On the bfep. some of the paper has been torn away where the library card plate had been positioned. Binding is tight.
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Details
- Seller
- PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000964
- Title
- Gardening with Brains: Fifty Years' Experiences of a Horticultural Epicure
- Author
- Henry T. Finck
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Date Published
- 1922
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- GARDENING, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, LUTHER BURBANK
Terms of Sale
PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
Biblio member since 2012
TORRINGTON, Wyoming
About PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
We specialize in western history, gun knife and hunting titles. Also try to stock Wyoming history titles. We have a walk-in store on US Hwy 26/85 the most direct route to Fort Laramie National History site..We have what I think is the largest seleciton of weapons titles in SE Wyoming, both new and used. Always looking for good used weapons titles.
Glossary
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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