Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Pp. 176, coloured illustrations throughout (some full and double page), coloured pictorial endpapers, index; med. 4to; green boards, spine lettered in silver, dust wrapper; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007. First edition.
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0297844164 ISBN 13: 9780297844167
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Inscribed by His Majesty King Charles III, first edition of The Elements of Organic Gardening. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, 176pp. Green hardcover, title in silver on spine. Stated "First published in Great Britain in 2007" on copyright page, with full number line. Solid text block, light bump to top corner, a fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, £20.00 retail price on front flap. Signed by His Majesty on the title page "For Ken and Ruth __ - with my very best wishes - Charles 2007.".
Published by London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007, 2007
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the future king on the half-title "For Mrs Reg Gillard - with every good wish - Charles 2011". The Elements of Organic Gardening introduces Charles's ideas of proper organic gardening through a tour of his three stately gardens: Highgrove, Clarence House, and Birkhall at Balmoral. It instructs on standard subjects such as building soil and choosing seed varieties, alongside accounts of Charles's more unusual experiments of rainwater collection and water filtration, and sets forth his idiosyncratic views on the subject. Quarto. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. With colour photographs throughout. Extremities of book and jacket a little bumped, unclipped: a near-fine copy in like jacket.