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Australian Home Gardener: A Complete and Practical Guide Dealing with the Growing of Fruit, Flowers and Vegetables. The Only Comprehensive Australian Gardening Book Ever Compiled
by Brunning, Leslie Herbert
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Ideal Home Library, England, no date. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. 740 g.; IV, 5-400 pages, introductory note by editor, list of plates, two appendices and index. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, showing scarlet-flowering gum. the text is illustrated with 96 black-and-white photographs within the text and numerous black-and-white drawings and line drawings within the text. Dark blue coloured cloth boards with blind stamped design on the front panel and gilt titles to the backstrip. A book, one of the first, to deal with gardening in all its aspects within the Australian environment. No publication data is available although the Australian edition was first published in 1931 and a reprint in 1937, so probablt same age. Browning and foxing to the text block edges. Light browning and faint foxing to the endpapers and light age toning of the internal text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Gardening; Australia; Inventory No: 0272334. .
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- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0272334
- Title
- Australian Home Gardener: A Complete and Practical Guide Dealing with the Growing of Fruit, Flowers and Vegetables. The Only Comprehensive Australian Gardening Book Ever Compiled
- Author
- Brunning, Leslie Herbert
- Illustrator
- Photographic
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Ideal Home Library
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- no date
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Gardening -- Australian -- Manual, Garden Design -- 1930s Gardening; Australia; Photographic Unbranded Brunning, Leslie Herbert Australian Home Gardener: A Complete and Practical Guide Dealing with the Growing of Fruit, Flowers and Vegetables. Th
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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