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Bangalore: Marketing Consultants & Agencies, 1994. Hardcover. Very good+/very good. Glossy illustrated paper covered boards in dust jacket, quarto [8.5" X 11"], illustrated in color. Book has mild edgewear to boards and spine ends, binding tight, front flyleaf has inscription and stamp, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ has wear to spine head and edges, rubbing and mild soil.

Bangalore, India: Marketing Consultants & Agencies Ltd. (1st Edition, 1994). Pictorial hardcover with matching pictorial dust jacket, both in very good condition, 195 pages. Clean and unmarked. Colors bright. Binding is square and tight. T. P. Issar ( - 2004) was the author of highly-lauded books on the architectural heritage of Bangalore and Mysore cities--THE CITY BEAUTIFUL and THE ROYAL CITY. Issar, ever an admirer of Bangalore's blossoms, was hesitant to embark on BLOSSOMS OF BANGALORE because of his admitted "floral illiteracy". It needed a little goading before he started work on a book which, he hoped, would improve his own knowledge of the flowering trees of Bangalore and bring out the "poet-painter's vision" which put them there: a book which would delight the eye besides being a handy reference volume for the non-botanist "florophile". He wanted people to be on "first-name terms" with at least a few of the tree-blossoms which bring them so much joy--articulated or just felt. An important… Read More