A Vision of Eden, the Life and Work of Marianne North
by Preface by Professor J P M Brenan, Foreword by Anthony Huxley, Biographical Note Brenda Moon
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0906671183
- ISBN 13
- 9780906671184
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Cape Town: Botanic Garden, Kew. 0906671183 . First Edition: Very good brown cloth (hardback) , with gilt lettering to the spine and a gilt representation of Nepenthes Northiana to the front board, a little edge wear and a closed tear to the rear cover, size of book 10.00 x 8.00 inches approx. , very good coloured pictorial dust jacket, price clipped, map endpapers, neat hand written gift dedication to front endpaper, contents clean and without any marks, 140 pages including index, lavishly illustrated in colour and black & white. .
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- Title
- A Vision of Eden, the Life and Work of Marianne North
- Author
- Preface by Professor J P M Brenan, Foreword by Anthony Huxley, Biographical Note Brenda Moon
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0906671183
- ISBN 13
- 9780906671184
- Publisher
- Botanic Garden, Kew
- Place of Publication
- Cape Town
- This edition first published
- 1980
- Keywords
- 0906671183, Horticulture, Botany, Marianne North, Biography, Travel, Plants
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