The Wild Flowers of California; Their Names, Haunts, and Habits

San Francisco, CA: California School Book Dep.. Good. 1930. Revised Edition; 24th Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is an Ex library edition from the Marin County Library. The book is in Good condition (actually generally nice clean condition ) and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and bits of fraying. There is one tiny nick to the front spine joint of the book cover. The text pages are mostly clean and bright . The only library markings are a group of ink stamped dates on the front endpaper, along with a lightly inked Marin County Free Library stamp on the bottom edge of the front endpaper. There is an inked library name and address on the rear pastedown page as well. "In the 1890s, Parsons hiked around California with the botanical artist Margaret Warriner Buck, with a view to publishing a book about California flora. The result was the very successful The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits (1897) , written by Parsons with over 100 illustrations engraved from Buck's pen-and-ink drawings. It went through many printings and several editions and was still being reprinted into the 1950s. Parsons intended her book to complement Mrs. William Starr Dana's very successful How to Know the Wild Flowers (1893) by emphasizing plants that were unknown in the eastern United States where Mrs. Dana lived. With Mrs. Dana's permission, she used the same plan of arranging the flowers by color. The botanist Alice Eastwood and the nurseryman Carl Purdy served as advisers on the project. " (from Wikipedia) .