A Gardener's Year
by HAGGARD, H. Rider
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1905. Octavo, xii, 404, 40 (publisher's catalogue) pages plus 25 plates and a folding chart. Cloth; top edge gilt, others uncut; covers a little flecked, rubbed and unevenly sunned (chiefly on the spine); endpapers and preliminary leaves browned; a few trifling marks; pencilled ownership signature; a very good copy. With the pictorial bookplate ['Gang forward'] of [Sir] Edward Charles Stirling on the front pastedown, and the gift inscription (dated 8 September 1905) signed by prominent Melbourne surgeon Frederic Dougan Bird (1858-1929).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 128995
- Title
- A Gardener's Year
- Author
- HAGGARD, H. Rider
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
Glossary
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...