HARDBACK, ?BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1996* Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour Photo-illustrated dust wrapper, gold and white titles to spine and face. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Colour photo-illustrated end papers. Neat pen dedication to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to prelims, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: Numerous colour & monochrome photos and illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 185 pp. text. viii pp., gazetteer, map, bibliography, list of illustrations, index & blank page at rear.* Description: With this astonishing collection of tree portraits, Thomas Pakenham has produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owes nothing to conventional botany. The trees are grouped according to their characteristics: Natives, Travellers, Shrines, Fantasies and Survivors. Roughly half consist of ancient native trees.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st thus with some minor faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2116
Title: Meetings With Remarkable Trees
Author: Pakenham, Thomas
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG+/VG+/VG+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0297832557
ISBN 13: 9780297832553
Publisher: W&N
Place of Publication: London Uk 192
Date Published: 1996-10-28
Size: 25 x 2.2 x 29.9 cm

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