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Famous Trees (Alan Mitchell's copy)
by Baker, Richard St. Barbe
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Dropmore Press, 1992. Limited edition of 999 copies - this one being number 212. Well illustrated with twenty line-drawn plates by S.R. Badmin, octavo, pp 117, (i), untrimmed edges, very clean internally, green buckram with small gilt decoration, the dustwrapper is poor and worn, lacking several pieces with sellotape marks and repairs and rather foxed, now protected in a removable clear cover. [With the bookplate of Green Scene - Alan Mitchell and Victoria Hallett.]. First Edition. Buckram. Very Good/Poor. Illus. by S.R. Badmin.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019406
- Title
- Famous Trees (Alan Mitchell's copy)
- Author
- Baker, Richard St. Barbe
- Illustrator
- S.R. Badmin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Dropmore Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Local History; Illustrators; Garden History; Forestry; Trees and Shrubs;
Terms of Sale
Mike Park Ltd
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About the Seller
Mike Park Ltd
Biblio member since 2005
London, Greater London
About Mike Park Ltd
For the last forty seven years we have been specialist in gardening, botanical and natural history books, but other subjects are stocked, also. Our website can be found at mikeparkbooks.com. Interesting catalogues of newly-acquired stock are issued three times a year. Please contact us to go on our mailing list. Our full listings can be viewed on our website at mikeparkbooks.com.
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
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