Green hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Top edge green. Condition: Good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Light browning to front endpaper from dustjacket flap. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn with some small chips missing and some repaired tears. 175pp. 3 colour and 9 b/w plates. This book tells the story of the making of a garden, Highdown, from a barren chalk-pit. It discusses in detail the plants that will grow on chalk. Stern raised plants at Highdown from seed brought back by the great collectors, Wilson, Farrer, Forrest and Kingdon-Ward from south-east Asia, Comber and Clarence Elliott from south America and E.K.Balls and Peter Davis from Asia Minor. Seller Inventory # 006912

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Title: A Chalk Garden

Publisher: Thomas Nelson and sons Ltd., London

Publication Date: 1960

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

Edition: 1st Edition

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Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books is based in Dorset. We specialise in books on 20th Century Art, Architecture and Design.

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