Making Gardens, Signed (9 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Signed by Author Solid near fine condition. Inscribed by author, "For Ginny, Garden with hope and defiance.". ISigned by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NF/NF, 4to, 304 pages, 2.5 pounds. Red spine with white boards shows wear at bottom edge. INSCRIBED ON THE TITLE PAGE: FOR KEITH GARDEN WITH HOPE AND DEFIANCE. BEST KENNETH HELPHAND. DJ shows light wear. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. 4to; xiv, 303 pages, clothbacked boards Inscribed by Helphand in three lines on the title-page, with three other personalizations from friends of the author. Illustrated with 95 archival photographs and illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print (number 1 on copyright page). Hardback copy in colour photographic boards, no dustjacket as issued. 287pp. Colour photographic frontispiece, colour photographs throughout. Signed by author in black ink to half title page. Not library copy, light wear to spine corners. (77/1). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition, minor cover edgewear. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. "Stereotype edition." London: C. Clement, 1821. Duodecimo in 6s (7 5/8" x 4 ½", 193mm x 113mm). [Full collation available.] With 4 full-page engraved plates integral with the text, each blank recto. Bound in contemporary drab boards (re-backed) with a blue paper spine. All edges of the text-block untrimmed. Tanned, with the odd spot of soiling. Loss to the fore-edge of B2, touching a dozen or so letters. Stain to the lower edge of E4, offsetting to the adjacent leaves. Re-backed. With some loss at the spine-edge of the boards' paper covers. Rubbed and soiled, with a small loss to the fore-edge of the front board. Fore-corners bumped. William Cobbett (1763-1835) was a British firebrand politician and reformer. His strong opinions on subjects ranging from electoral reform to the rites of Catholics to agrarian practices landed him prison, Parliament and, from 1817 to 1819, America (avoiding a possible re-arrest for sedition). In that period he wrote a Grammar of the English Language -- Arader has handled the speechwriter-lexicographer William Safire's copies of Cobbett's works -- and the present work, one of the earliest to handle particularly American horticulture and agriculture. Cobbett notes the variety of American climates, and notes that he himself refers mostly to the climate of New York; the preface is signed from North Hempstead, Long Island (northwestern Nassau County, including Great Neck, Roslyn and Port Washington). The work is numbered, such that each entry ("paragraph") can be indexed and cross-referenced easily. The chapters on vegetables, fruits and flowers are alphabetical, allowing the work to be used as a pocket-reference. Cobbett's first-hand experience of growing in the U.S. -- broadly: sunnier, warmer and drier than Britain -- is indispensable to the American gardener, for whom the British and European bibliography of horticulture cannot be used as written. First published in New Hampshire in 1819 (nearly unobtainable), the present edition is sterotyped -- made from casts poured into molds made from the original type -- and printed in London. Johnston, Cleveland Herbal Collection 842; Sabin 13871.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. 109pp+ads, octavo. A fine bright copy in a fine dust jacket, lightlly nicked. Inscribed by Reresby (Sitwell, son of Sacheverell) to Sally (Durie) British dramatist who founded the Barn Theatre in Kingston, Jamaica in 1971. A close friend of Derek Walcott.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Decorations by John Piper (illustrator). Limited Edition. Unblemished green leather boards and spine lettered and decorated in gilt and the latter with two raised bands. Top edge tipped in gilt. Thick card green jacket lightly soiled but the spine badly faded and breaking up; paper attached on reverse side in attempt to preserve it. Internally the margins of the end papers, particularly the front and rear paste downs, are browned as if by gum, possibly a consequence of the production process; '1949' written at base of front one, also with owner's book plate. Number 36 of 100 signed copies, signed by Piper and Osbert Sitwell. Clean contents. Contained in green slipcase, a little rubbed and slightly faded. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus, the deluxe issue, #91 of 100 copies (out of a total edition of 1000), printed on hand-made paper, specially bound and signed by both John Piper and Osbert Sitwell. Tall 8vo. xvi, 113pp. Green niger morocco with two raised bands, gilt lettered at the spine and with a gilt-stamped reproduction of one Piper's lithographs to the upper board, and a gilt-stamped publisher's motif to the lower board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Piper provides a two-colour frontispiece and five two-colour lithographs, three of them double-spread. A little toning to the edges of the endpapers and pastedowns, and a touch of wear to the occasional over-hanging fore edge leaf. Partially erased inked former owner name to the head of the front pastedown. A virtually fine copy, lacking the dust wrapper and slipcase. The second edition of Sir George Sitwell's first published book, a lengthy essay influenced by his study of Italian gardens, which was first issued in 1909 by John Murray, and is here significantly enhanced by Osbert Sitwell's thirteen-page introduction and Piper's splendid lithographs. Signed by Author(s).