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Florida, My Eden: Exotic and Native Plants for Use in Tropic and Subtropic Landscape
by Stresau, Frederic B
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- 5/3
- ISBN 10
- 0912451181
- ISBN 13
- 9780912451183
- Seller
-
Grove City, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Port Salerno: Florida Classics Library, 1986. True 1st ed. Unabridged.. Hard cover. 5. as new in good dust jacket. Signed by author. Bright, tight text block; 1 board has bumped corner & spine head; mild shelfwear to spine foot. DJ, (no price as issued) shows shelfwear. 8vo, 300 p. Encyclopedic contents. Color photography, b/w drawings. Deep green boards w/ crisp, bright gilt imprint NOT ex-lib. NO foxing..
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- Bookseller
- B8 Books and Prints
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0000144
- Title
- Florida, My Eden: Exotic and Native Plants for Use in Tropic and Subtropic Landscape
- Author
- Stresau, Frederic B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - 5
- Jacket Condition
- 3
- Edition
- True 1st ed. Unabridged.
- ISBN 10
- 0912451181
- ISBN 13
- 9780912451183
- Publisher
- Florida Classics Library
- Place of Publication
- Port Salerno
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- reference
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About the Seller
B8 Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2012
Grove City, Pennsylvania
About B8 Books and Prints
B8 Books started after I inherited my grandfather's library. We specialize in antique and vintage books and prints as well as imited edition books and books signed by authors and/or illustrators, especially association copies.
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- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
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