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To Dwell Is To Garden
by Bass Warner Jr, Sam
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 1555530079
- ISBN 13
- 9781555530075
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987. 4to sized cloth bound hardcover with dust jacket; illustrated endpapers; 128 pages with glossy center section of black and white photographs "In (this book), a distinguished scholar and a veteran photographer join forces to provide a history and a celebration of these urban oases and of the people who have made them possible. (The author) traces the origins of Boston's urban community gardens back to the English allotment gardens created to keep country folk from starving during the first great wave of urbanization... The spirit of today's urban community garden is captured in Hansi Durlach's compelling photographs of those individuals...who have worked together to clear the rubble and till the soil." Jacket has wear with sunned spine, edgewear, and several small tears. Owner's stamps on half title page. Interior of book is in great condition. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Durlach, Hans. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005655
- Title
- To Dwell Is To Garden
- Author
- Bass Warner Jr, Sam
- Illustrator
- Durlach, Hans
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 1555530079
- ISBN 13
- 9781555530075
- Publisher
- Northeastern University Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- gardening; allotments; illustrated; Photographs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening and Horticulture;
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