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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 266 pp ; color photographic cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Difference of opinion / John R. Patterson -- The lazy man grows roses / C. Hugh Blair -- Note on rose Anthracnose / Dr L M Massey -- Foliar fertilization of garaden roses / Dr Griffith J Buck -- The roses in the vase (poem) / Sylvia Merles -- That northeast corner / Mrs. Fred Jewett -- Growing roses in the high country /Mrs. William S. Corey -- How to predict rose lead rust / Dennison Morey -- We live with roses every day / Helen D Carswell -- Fungicide-Insecticide combinations for garden roses / Dr. L M Massey, Dr John A Naegele, J S Melchin, Harold Allen -- Roses grow in western Kansas / Maxine Graces -- Wear a rose (poem) / Hallie Mercer -- how to name a plant -- Roses flourish in Ohio / Elton Millman -- Beauty is essential / Mrs. Edward L Alexander -- Bake oven roses / William C McDonald -- Winter-hardy roses for the Great Plains / Glenn Viehmeyer -- Better roses for Tennessee / Dave Guyton, Jack Adamo -- A farmer grows roses / Albert E Morris -- Rose classifications revised / Roy E. Shepherd -- September roses (poem) / Maureen Fleming -- Experience and questions of a novice / M A Minns -- Rosebush in December (poem) / Louise Darcy -- Roses in Wisconsin / Dr Leo Cogan, Ann Cogan -- Common Rosarian mistakes / Harold H Allen -- In the heart of a flower (poem) / Allen E Woodall -- How to grow roses in Illinois / Dr Henry H Morrison -- Proof of the pudding -- A fancy from Fontenelle (poem) / Austin Dobson -- New rose patents -- Ode to a rose (poem) / Marion Voigts -- New rose sof the world -- Valiance (poem) / Nina Satirah Woodford -- Rose growing on the Central Plains / Kenneth Scott -- How I became interested in growing roses / Frank Rehberger -- A gardener's prayer (poem) / Helen Axtell -- Index -- Illustrations : John R. Patterson -- Mycelium of Elsinoe Rosarum -- Gold Cup -- Azte -- White Knight -- Reno -- Isobel Harkness -- Sterling Silver -- Don Juan -- Starlet -- Encore -- Sunlight -- Dian -- Magic Wand -- Arlene Francis -- Lavender Girl -- Gail Borden -- Lionel Barrymore -- Fusilier -- Cover: Tom Tom. ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition on copyright page with no mention of later printings. Nice book, tight and square with bright covers and spine, clean unmarked interior. Sturdy binding. The unclipped jacket is bright with edge wear and a couple of short closed tears, upper front panel a little scrunched at top. Jacket now protected in in archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Rptedn; Limited to 1000 copies. First published in 1886. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's beige Dutch linen with paper label with title to cover in original jacket, Spine is brown without print. Boards in natural linen with paper title label. Text block has name in ink on front flyleaf. Ow VG/vgdj: xiv, 60pp, with 4 full black and white photographs. Addendum and published materiel laid-in. Foreword by John Graves. Cynthia Ann Parker (October 28, 1827 March 1871), also known as Naduah was an Anglo-American who was kidnapped in 1836, around age 10, by a Comanche war band which had attacked her family's settlement. Her Comanche name means "someone found." Parker was adopted by the Comanche and lived with them for 24 years, completely forgetting her white ways. At approximately age 34, Parker was discovered and relocated by the Texas Rangers, but spent the remaining 10 years of her life refusing to adjust to life in white society. At least once, she escaped and tried to return to her Comanche family and children, but was again brought back to Texas. She found it difficult to understand her iconic status to the nation, which saw her as having been redeemed from the Comanches. Heartbroken over the loss of her daughter, she stopped eating and died in 1871.