A Garden of Herbs
by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(London: Herbert Jenkins: 1926) Revised and Enlarged Edition. Quarter cloth boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xvi, 300. Illustrated. Preface to the Third Edition. Edith Sitwells copy, with her signature on front free endpaper, with numerous annotations below, page numbers on the front fly and numerous marginal marks and insignia throughout. That she used and thought highly of the Authors work is obvious from the description of Rohde as that Christopher Columbus of the garden world on the dust-jacket flap of Sitwells compilation A Book of Flowers (1952). INCOMPLETE. An owners armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Lacks three illustrations and opposite page 20 are two stubs indicating the removal of two folding (presumably) plates a third A Suggested Plan for a Herb Garden is still present. Titling piece rubbed and chipped; corners of boards worn; a good study or reading copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- exPB (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 226262
- Title
- A Garden of Herbs
- Author
- Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- gardening literature signed copies association copies
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About the Seller
exPB
Biblio member since 2017
Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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