London, UK: The Bodley head. Green cloth with gilt crocus motif to front and gilt title to spine. 222pp. b/w & colour plates. Includes a chapter on changes of nomenclature by B. L. Burtt. Spine slightly bumped. Some shelf wear to dust jacket with slight creasing and small chips and tears to top edge plus a small tear to mid-spine. Price clipped. End papers and text block edges slightly foxed but text and plates clear and clean. . Very Good-. Hardcover. Revised Edition. 1952.

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

Details

Bookseller: Broad Street Book Centre (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 110959
Title: A Handbook of Crocus and Colchicum for Gardeners
Author: Bowles, E. A
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good-
Jacket Condition: Good-
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Revised Edition
Publisher: The Bodley head
Place of Publication: London, UK
Date Published: 1952
Pages: 222
Size: 220mm x 145mm.
Keywords: gardening botany flowers crocus unit five

Terms of Sale

Broad Street Book Centre

We accept returns within 7 days of receipt should the item not prove to be as described

About the Seller

Broad Street Book Centre

This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

Biblio member since 2008

Hay-on-Wye, Powys

Ask Seller a Question

About Broad Street Book Centre

Our bookshop is situated in the world famous book-town of Hay-on-Wye and hosts 20 individual booksellers covering the broadest possible range of books with everything from antiquarian to zoology

Glossary

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...