A Country Garden
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, 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.
Dansville: Kelly Bros. Nurseries, 1956. Aul, garden writer for the Herald Tribune, writes the manual with suggestions for different types of houses including the split level and ranch, as well as other suggestions and instructions for the “home ground.” Includes a large scale grid sheet, a sheet of planning cutouts.....
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.
Busan: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2018. A documentation of the creation and installation of Blanc’s Vertical Garden as the Inaugural Exhibition at the Busan Museum. With essays by Blanc. Text in English, Korean, and French. Signed by Blanc. First edition. 27 cm; 135 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings.....
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.....
N.p.: Editions Floraisse, (1972), 1972. 4to; 147 pp.; nearly 300 illustrations from color photographs. A very good copy in original pictorial laminated boards.
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.....
New York: Rizzoli, 2004. First American Edition. Hard Cover. The chateau and gardens at Vauxle Vicomte, begun 1653, were the first great landscape designed by Le Notre and mark the beginning of the baroque tradition in garden design. First American edition. 26 cm; 191 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and.....
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.....
Paris: Christies, 2011. Catalog for the auction of modern architecture and design books, manuscripts, and photographs from the collection of Prince Yaswant Rao Holkar Bahadur, Maharajah of Indore. The Prince was a patron and connoisseur of Modernism and his collection included monographs and reference works in architecture, decorative arts, design.....
New York: Christie's, (1986). First edition. 4to; 133 pp.; illustrated. VG. Prices realized laid-in.
New York: Public Art Fund, 1994. A catalog for the 1994 exhibition of artists’ proposals for a multi-site, multi-year program exploring the integration of art and urban environment through the garden. An early effort by Public Art Fund with the involvement of ten artists to survey and promote city gardens.....
London: Clifton, n.d. (c. 1985). The nursery’s collection of garden ornaments and decoration, photographed, mounted on sheets, loose in a string-tied portfolio designed to look like 19th-early 20th century architectural and design folios. I don’t know much about this place--it took me a better part of a week to decipher.....
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.....
New York: Dutton, (1965), 1965. First American edition. 8vo; 416 pp.; 20 illustrations, including four color plates; bibliography. A very good copy in a lightly used dust jacket. trees shrubs garden history.
Washington (D.C.): International Institute of Site Planning, 1981. Catalog for an exhibition of the work of Javier de Winthuysen y Losada, a Spanish artist and author and a leading authority on the design, conservation, and restoration of Spanish gardens. Shown here are excerpts from his published works, as well as.....
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.....