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Boston: The Stratford Company, Publishers Good/No Jacket "With a List of his Most Important Introductions and Where to Get Them." Green cloth; gilt title and spine. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Light-to-moderate rubbing of cover extremities; some intermittent loss of gilt in title; spine darkened, title no longer visible. Book was exposed to dampness at some point: barely noticeable, faint traces dampstain along top page edges and along part of fore edges; upper corner page 181 creased. Cover boards slightly bowed. Otherwise clean and tight.
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Ernest H. Wilson: Plant Hunter
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Ernest H. Wilson Plant Hunter, with a List of his Most Important Introductions and Where to Get Them
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Boston, The Stratford Company, [1931], First edition. . original two-part green cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, dj (chipped at spine ends, price clipped), slightly foxed at outer edge of text block, fine copy in good+ dj. . 8vo [21.5 x 14.5 cm]; xxi, 197 pp, frontis (port), 33 illustrations mostly full-page, bibliog, chronology, index. . The author, who was a friend of Wilson, both professionally and socially, was able to write a biography of this famous plant hunter, the way few people can be able to. Wilson made seven plant hunting expeditions, to China, Tibet, Korea, Japan, Formosa, where he collected hundreds of new plants and trees new to science, many of which are not available at nurseries and might otherwise have been lost. The book includes a list of plants Wilson collected with descriptions as well as a bibliography of his articles and books. This copy includes a loose leaf from the publisher to the literary editor of the NY Herald Tribune asking for a review of the…
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