Fritillaries: A Gardener's Introduction to the Genus Fritillaria
by Beck, Christabel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- /Good-
- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Faber & Faber Limited. Blue cloth, gilt title. 96pp. b/w illus.; b/w plates; 4 col. plates. Dust jacket very slightly grubby; spine slightly sunned. Chips and tears to top and lower edges, slight loss to top of spine. Price clipped. Top edge lightly coloured. End pages and text block edges slightly foxed, also some pages, but contents generally clean. . Very Good-. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1953.
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- Bookseller
- Broad Street Book Centre
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 111585
- Title
- Fritillaries: A Gardener's Introduction to the Genus Fritillaria
- Author
- Beck, Christabel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber Limited
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1953
- Pages
- 96
- Size
- 255mm x 162mm.
- Keywords
- flowers botany horticulture unit five
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