Published by Summit Books (1990), 1990
ISBN 10: 0671742744 ISBN 13: 9780671742744
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good.
Published by Summit Books, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0671742744 ISBN 13: 9780671742744
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Cloth, 248 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. "Thirty-three essays from the early issues of Hortus magazine provide expert information on plants and gardening by mostly English writers. The geographic range is broad, with articles focusing on gardens in England, the United States, China, Italy, France, and the Azores. Citing specific examples, four essays discuss how fiction writers use gardening in their work. This small volume underscores the interest in gardening for emotional satisfaction and intellectual challenge shared by plant enthusiasts everywhere. For comprehensive gardening collections." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Sir Roy Strong; Editor's Introduction; Scent Gardening, by Stephen Lacey; 'Fairest of the Earth's Children', by Dame Sylvia Crowe; The Ephemera/ and the Perennial, by Ronald Blythe; Gardening for and by Children, by Will Ingwersen; Gardens in Fiction Rye Humoure, by John Francis; Winter Flowers, by Arthur Hellyer; Sir Cedric Morris, Artist-Gardener, by Beth Chatto; Daisy Chains, by Kay N. Sanecki; English Bones, American Flesh, by Robert Dash; Sissinghurst: Maintaining a Garden in Perpetuity, by Pamela Schwerdt; Gardens in Fiction The Aspern Papers, by Nancy-Mary Goodall; Origins of the Ornamental Herb Garden, by Allen Paterson; The Azores: Garden Islands of the Atlantic, by David Sayers; Small Courtyard Gardens in Charleston, USA, by Rosemary Verey; A Glance at Chinese Gardens, by Nancy-Mary Goodall; From the Mountains of Heapen to the Sacred Peak of 'the East, by Stephen G. Haw; Phyllis Reiss at Tintinbull, by Penelope Hobhouse; A Flying Start at Sixty, by Denis Wood; New Roses of Victorian Times, by Hazel Le Rougetel; Green Flowers for Green Fingers, by Stephen Lacey; Lawrence Johnston, Creator of Hidcote Garden, by Alvilde Lees-Milne; The Impact of American Plants on British Gardens, by Will Ingwersen; Leave the Trowel at Home, by Anthony Huxley; Gardens in Fiction Flaubert's Gardens, by Hermia Oliver; Changing Fashions in Hellebores, by Arthur Hellyer; The Gardens o fthe Villa La Foce, by Penelope Hobhouse; Gentian Blue?, by Stephen G. Haw; A Gentle Pleafor Chaos, by Mirabel Osler; Gardens in Fiction Firbank's Flowering Tributes, by John Francis; Chasing Shadows, by Stephen Lacey; Flowers for a Flagship, by Audrey Le Libvre; Christmas in a New Zealand Garden, by Kerry Carman; Oh My!, by John Francis; Who's who. Size: 8vo.
Published by Summit Books, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0671742744 ISBN 13: 9780671742744
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. xi, 248 pages. Condition of the book is Very Good, very clean inside and out. Dust jacket is Very Good, spine faded, a few spots near fore edge. STK.
Published by Sutton Publishing Ltd, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, 1990
ISBN 10: 0862998824 ISBN 13: 9780862998820
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good +. 1st Edition. 248 pages. Light yellow spine to dustjacket with orange panels with light wear to edges. Very clean dark green hardback binding with light wear to spine-ends. Previous owner's book plate pasted to front board o/w very clean pages.
Published by Alan Sutton, London 1990, 1990
ISBN 10: 0862998824 ISBN 13: 9780862998820
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
24.0 x 16.0cms, 248pp, b/w illusts, fine hardcover & very good+ dustwrapper (slightly sunned spine) This anthology comes from Hortus, the privately published gardening journal, which was launched in 1987. It has articles on such well known gardens as: Gravetye Manor, Tintinhull, Sissinghurst Castle and Charleston as well as Flaubert's, E F Benson's and Ronald Fairbank's descriptions of goings-on in gardens.
Published by Published by Alan Sutton Publishing, Phoenix Mill, Far Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire First Edition . Gloucestershire 1990., 1990
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original dark olive paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 248 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine clean condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0862998824 GARDEN & HORTICULTURE.