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The Modern Family Garden Book
by Biles, Roy Edwin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: J. G. Ferguson and Associates, 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean first edition - green cloth boards with yellow decoration and title box on cover, yellow lettering on spine. Tiny points of wear to spine ends. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with detailed drawings, covering everything from landscaping the family yard to growing fruits, vegetables, trees and flowers. Pages are clean, with slight speckling to text block edges. Size approx. 7" x 10". 160 pages of detailed, useful information..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034835
- Title
- The Modern Family Garden Book
- Author
- Biles, Roy Edwin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- J. G. Ferguson and Associates
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- GARDENING, FAMILY GARDEN, ROY EDWIN BILES, HORTICULTURE, LANDSCAPING, FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- gardening/horticulture;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
Biblio member since 2003
Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- 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....
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