Pleasures and Problems of a Rock Garden
by Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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South Pasadena, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original green cloth binding. Top edge gilt. Title stamped in gilt. Very good condition. Clean, unmarked pages, tight straight binding. With an introduction by Richardson Wright and Illustrations from photographs by Harry G. Healy. An elegant work with information on bulbs, violets, phlox, and other flowers and plants that flourish in rock gardens. In plastic protector. 4to. 294 pp. plus 96 photographic plates plus a useful bibliography.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Warwick Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95628
- Title
- Pleasures and Problems of a Rock Garden
- Author
- Wilder, Louise Beebe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Gardens
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Warwick Books
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South Pasadena, California
About Warwick Books
We are an Internet-only book business. We carry hard-to-find books in many categories including art, photography, military history, cookbooks, children's books, fiction, needlework, Americana, popular culture, and signed first editions. Warwick Books is a member of IOBA, the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
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- 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"...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...