Powning John (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Stiff clean book in illustrated boards. About new. Bilingual text. Flat-signed by Powning on the title page; 8.75 X 0.75 X 11.25 inches; 192 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing 576 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. ; Folio, large heavy volume ; ISBN 9780785319146, 078531914X OCLC 1272917199 Gilded page edgings ; no dustjacket ; This book gives advice on how to design your entire landscape, information and illustrations detailing specific gardening techniques, how to grow annuals, perennials, specialty gardens, ornamental grasses, trees, shrubs, vines, and vegetables and herbs, directories of hundreds of plants with vital information on growth, use, and related varieties and species. Treasury of Gardening: Annuals, Perennials, Vegetables & Herbs, Landscape Design, Specialty Gardens. ; a very thorough book with excellent use of illustrations FINE. Book. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 354-440 plus 24 pages of nice vintage advertisements. Features: The Bullet-proof Scotchman - an adventure of John Mundell in the Pampas of Uruguay; ; A Woman's Travels in Unknown Asia - part I - wonderful photos in China; An Exciting Trading Trip - efforts to trade with a warlike tribe in East Africa; Some Strange WWI Escapes from Germany - part II; Interesting photo and short article of Dog Rib Indians in Canada receiving their annual grant of one pound, as well as presents, from the Canadian government; Among the Wild Tribes of Darien - exploring the native tribes of Panama - with great photos; Stories of the War - Thirty Hours in No Man's Land - in WWI an Australian trooper on the Western Front is wounded and must make his way back to his own lines; Siringa's Last Battle - a native boy helps in one of the first fights in German East Africa, A Week in a Lens Dungeon - McLean and Ebbs of the 87th Canadian Battalion hid in a cellar for a week before making their way back to their lines; Miraculous Escapes from Sunken Submarines; An Adventurous Hunt After Man-eating Crocodiles - in Victoria Nyanza; The Mountain Warriors of France - excellent photos; The Zulu Love Medicine - part II of what happend when Zulus killed an Englishman to use his body for love medicine; Wonders of Northern Syria - article with many great photos of architectural remains; Carter's Exoneration - a stirring story of the Australian Mounted Police. Great multi-page advertising feature on the Waterproof Products Corporation. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Wigfull, W.E.; Pitcher, N.S.; Prater, E.; Reynolds, Warwick; Gillett, F.; Webb, Arch (illustrator).…