Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America/Massachusetts Horticultural Society
New York, New York, U.S.A. Bulfinch Pr, 1992. FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION IN DUST JACKET. F/F.
New York, New York, U.S.A. Bulfinch Pr, 1992. FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION IN DUST JACKET. F/F.
London: The Architectural Press, (1956). First edition. 8vo; 128 pp.; illustrated from 130 photographs and plans. Owner's name; else a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped red cloth, in a used dust jacket. A how-to book for designing and planting small gardens, based on thirty actual small gardens designed.....
Chicago: American Greenhouse Mfg. Corp., N.d. [c. 1927], 1927. First edition. Folio (38 x 30.5 cm); 384 pp.; over 1,000 illustrations from photographs and mock-blueprints. Wear to extremities; front free endpaper trimmed; corners bumped; gilt partly rubbed out; else a good copy in original gilt-stamped green cloth with rubbed pictorial.....
Cambridge: Harvard, 1948. First Edition. First edition. 8vo; 172 pp.; illustrated. Fading and light wear to spine; else a good copy or better in original wrappers. Biographical sketch and selected essays on orchids by Ames, noted Harvard botanist.
New York: Macmillan, 1936, 1936. First American edition, from the English sheets. 8vo; 226 pp.; illustrated from engravings by John Farleigh. Some fading to original green cloth; edge worn dust jacket. horticulture gardening.
New York: Macmillan, 1945, 1945. Later printing. Three volumes. 4to; 3839 pp.; illustrated. A bright, clean set in chipped dust jackets, in a used slipcase. Along with "Hortus", Bailey's most enduring work, and still one of the best horticultural references ever published. With a complete list of American horticultural books.....
Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S.A. Macmillan Library Reference, 1992. 2ND EDITION REVISED EXPANDED. FINE COPY IN FINE DUST JACKET.
Tours: Arrault & Cie., (1947). Later printing. 4to; 362 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A very good copy in gilt-stamped green cloth. A survey of the gardens in the Touraine province of France. Originally published in 1940. Photographer Jerome Zerbe's copy.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, (2009). First edition. 4to; illustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1892, 1892. 8vo; pp. xii; 244; sixty-seven illustrations from drawings by F. Inigo Thomas. Owner's name; offsetting to endpapers; light foxing throughout; else a good copy in white, gilt-stamped cloth which is darkened from age. A history of garden design in England. Blomfeld was an architect.....
Richmond: Garrett and Massie, (1932). First edition. Folio; 101 pp.; illustrated from prints for old gardening books and herbals. A good copy lacking the dust jacket.
New York: Prentice Hall Press, (1990), 1990. First American edition. Oblong. 8vo; 168 pp.; 200 illustrations from photographs, drawings and plans. Fine in dust jacket.
London: Bodley Head, (1980), 1980. Later printing. 12mo; 64 pp.; illustrated. Fine in dust jacket. A delightful collection of absolutely unscientific instructions for gardening and planting.
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, N.d. (1914). First American edition from the English sheets. 8vo; pp.xx, 306; forty plates, including sixteen in color. Front hinge starting, owner's plate and light foxing, else a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped green cloth with pictorial paste-down. The first volume of the.....
London: Macmillan, 1881, 1881. First edition. 8vo; pp. x, 94, (2) publisher's advertisements. Bookplate; mild bumping to corners; slight bubbling, mostly ot rear cover, else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped brown cloth. Brief essays on topics relevant to English gardening, including topiary, old herbals, bedding-out, the wild garden.....
London: The Bodley Head, (1950). Limited edition, #409/1,140. 4to; 137 pp.; frontis. and 40 full-page color plates by Gavin Bone. Fading to spine; small spot to front cover; else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped red cloth.
New York: Walker, (1981), 1981. First edition. 4to; 192 pp.; illustrated from drawings and from photographs by Guy Burgess (but probably not that Guy Burgess). Fine in price-clipped dust jacket.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1928. Later printing. 4to; pp. 305, (3) advertisements; illustrated with 175 half-tones, four plates in color; top edge gilt. Bookplate; else a very good copy or better in original gilt-stamped blue cloth. The first part of the book deals with Andalusian gardens, including those at Alcazar Palace, Seville.....
London: The Studio, 1926. First edition. 4to; 166 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Wrappers chipped, contents clean and bright. Survey of contemporary gardens around the world.
London: Smith Elder, 1`914. First edition. 8vo; 292 pp.; illustrated. Front hinge repair; else a good copy in original green cloth.
. London: Chatto & Windus, (1987), 1987. First edition. 4to; 160 pp.; illustrated from color photographs by Peter Woloszynski. A very good copy in a lightly used dust jacket. The authors visit and photograph the gardens of such British worthies as the late Alan Clark, the late David Hicks, the.....
New York: Christie's, (1986). First edition. 4to; 133 pp.; illustrated. VG. Prices realized laid-in.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1973), 1973. First American edition. Folio.; 208 pp.; illustrated, including forty color plates; biblioiography. Spot of soiling to front cover, else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped green cloth, in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Selections from the herbals, floralegiums, floras and horticultural.....
London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1909, 1909. First American edition. Two volumes; 4to; pp. xxxii, lxxxiv, 107; viii, 261; 86 plates (16 in color) from illustrations by C.F. Newall. T.e.g. Minor wear to extremities; short marginal tears to two leaves not affecting images or.....
Harvard University Press, 2004. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 4to; 208 pp.; illustrated.