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Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy
by HANSEN, Eric
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679451412
- ISBN 13
- 9780679451419
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 272pp. Small droplets on bottom page edges, spine slightly cocked, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with small droplet stain inside front panel, spine ends rubbed.
Synopsis
Eric Hansen now lives in San Francisco, but over the last twenty-five years he has traveled throughout Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Nepal, and Southeast Asia. His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Travel and Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler, Outside Magazine, Men's Journal, Natural History Magazine, GEO, and Amica . He is also the author of two highly acclaimed books: Stranger in the Forest and Motoring with Mohammed (available in paperback from Vintage Books). He can be reached at ekhansen@ix.netcom.com. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 458556
- Title
- Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy
- Author
- HANSEN, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679451412
- ISBN 13
- 9780679451419
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Gardening, Nature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Dustwrapper
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