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Faber and Faber Limited, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. This old book is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a hardcover book with 96 pages including many illustrations and photos. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page shows 1953 as the published date. This is definitely Not a former library book. The blue cloth covers show some fading along the edges and just a hint of edgewear. This old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1953. First edition. Descriptions of and directions for cultivating various species. Illustrated with four full color plates, 40 black-and-white photographs, and numerous drawings in the text. Bookplates of Ruby Fleischmann (signed in the plate "Sydney E. Letts, Pinx. Sculp") and Conrad B. Link on front pastedown and endpaper, respectively; penciled signature of Ruby Fleischmann above her bookplate. According to the website of the Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust, Fleischmann was Chairman of the National Gardens Scheme and, "at its peak," her own garden was "notable for its early collection of 'old fashioned' and species rose varieties .... comparable with Vita Sackville West's collection at Sissinghurst, as well as other renowned collections." She is mentioned in a number of horticultural works, most notably in those of Graham Stuart Thomas. Link was an author and professor of horticulure notable for his research on the breeding of poinsettia and kalanchoe. Small bookshop… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1953. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 6.5". Jessie M. Browton; Bernard Murray; J.E. Downward; Paul Furse; L.F. La Cour; Richard Hobbs. Christabel Beck's study of the genus Fritillaria, with four colour plates and forty black and white illustrations Lifelong gardener Christabel Beck's detailed account of Fritillaria, a genus of plants in the lily family. With four colour plates, forty black and white illustrations, collated and complete. Comprised of seven chapters on the early history of the genus, the structure of the plant, how they propagate, and how to cultivate them, with a descriptive list of species to the rear. Beck hunted plants all over the British Isles, Palestine, Sweden and the Alps, and had a keen interested in Fritillaria which she cultivated herself. Shropshire county library stamp and pen markings to verso to the title page. Remains of a sticker to the rear paste down. Shropshire library stamp and the remains of a yellow library… Read More

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.

Faber, London, 1953. 96pp + 40 b/w plates + 4 colour plates. Cloth boards, little scuffed. Top edge and spine faded. Outer pages foxed, contents little marked. A clean copy. 25x16cms.