These were the children

Menlo Park, CA: Albert Wilson Publishing Company, 1963. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Near fine/poor. John Milton Ramm . A near fine first edition, inscribed by the author with a laid in purchase receipt from the self-publishing company and a newspaper clipping of the author's obituary. Even toning. In a poor dust jacket. Jacket is dampstained, has loss, and the back flap, while present, is detached from the rest of the jacket. Jacket spine evenly covered in protective tape. Dust jacket now protected in a clear archival cover. vii, 358 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. Octavo Albert Wilson (August 1903 – March 8, 1996), was an American botanist, landscape architect, author, teacher and lecturer on gardening and landscaping, and a TV and radio talk show personality who wrote several books popularizing gardening, and an autobiography. An orphan, Wilson's earliest years were spent growing up in a San Francisco, California orphanage, an experience he reminisced upon in his book, These Were the Children. In 1927, Wilson earned his bachelor's degree in botany and, in 1934, his master's in biology, both from Stanford University.For many years, Wilson had a regular talk show, Dig It with Albert, broadcast on San Francisco's KGO 810 AM. The original show was called How does your Garden grow and was produced with the help of his manager, George Turkmany. He was on the local PBS TV member station, KQED. He also had a show on KCSM-TV in the late sixties. Wilson was a frequent guest lecturer at local gardening clubs and nurseries throughout the San Francisco Bay area, mentoring and befriending many attendees. He designed and built his home in 1929, on Creek Drive in Menlo Park, California. Wilson was also well known as a landscape architect, having designed Allied Arts and Fremont Park in Menlo Park, and countless backyards and gardens throughout the San Francisco Bay area." --Wikipedia