Kansas Wild Flowers
by William Chase Stevens
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
NZ$41.24NZ$28.87
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About This Item
Lawrence, KS : University of Kansas Press, 1961 University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, KS. 1962. Hardcover. Stated 2nd Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light wear at head and tail from shelving. No DJ. Blue pebbled boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 461 pp 4to. This book contains a camera collection of more than 500 representative species, comprising photographs of 4 sorts: views of plant colonies in their landscape setting; individual plants or a small group in the native habitat; plants dug up to show the nature of the underground parts. This book will be of use to readers only wanting to name the flowers they see; others interested in floral structure; and those who want to know the uses of the plants by Indians and early immigrants. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006219
- Title
- Kansas Wild Flowers
- Author
- William Chase Stevens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- University of Kansas Press
- Place of Publication
- Lawrence, KS
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- Kansas wild flowers, wild flowers, flora of Kansas, plant uses, medicinal plants,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Kansas Related;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- 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...