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Struik, 1972. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1972. First Edition. 203 pages. Illustrative jacket over orange cloth. Contains black and white and colour illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Small marks to boards. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Visible sunning to spine. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

Struik, 1972. Hardcover. Good. 1972. First Edition. 203 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and colour illustrated plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

(Cape Town: Struik, 1972) 086970152. 4to; original orange cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. 203, incl. index; colour plates and facing text. Dustwrapper ever so slightly rubbed to top fore-corner of upper panel. Near fine condition. ' "The whole country affords a fine field for botany, being enamelled with the greatest number of flowers I ever saw, of exquisite beauty and fragrance." So enthusiastically wrote Francis Masson, in September 1773, of the Saldanha and Saint Helena Bay areas. So too agree all who visit the Sandveld - the coastal strip of the western Cape Province, north of Cape Town - in flower-time. And this is a fine field, not only for botanists but for all lovers of nature and of the beautiful. ... The flowers of the Sandveld have never before been the subject of a single study. In this book are produced paintings by Hilda Mason ... of over 500 of the most spectacular flowers.' .

C. Struik, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. The jacket is lightly shelf rubbed.Clean.Well bound.Very good copy.Due to weight postal adjustments may be required.[S.K][INF9]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Cape Town: C. Struik, 1972. 1st Edition. Brown Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Large. Mason, Hilda . 203pp. A super copy with numerous charming full page colour illustrations of flowers.Descriptive explanatory text on the opposing pages. Short introductory text. Gilt embossed lettering to the spine. Light bump to the head of the spine and to one corner, hidden under the wrapper. Very fresh and clean. Original dust wrapper, protected in a fully reversible plastic sleeve. Rubbing to the wrapper at the head and tail of the spine and over the corners. A little creasing to the front edge of the head of the wrapper. Small scattered soil spots to the wrapper with a bright picture to the front. Depsite these faults, the book is well preserved and tight. A near fine copy.

Struik, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The jacket is a bit shelf rubbed and edgeworn.Internally clean and tightly ound.Due to weight postal adjustments may be required.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

C. Struik, 1972. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with light staining to the upper panel. Text complete, clean and tight.. Mason Hilda. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (orange boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 11¼” x 8½” (1.3 kg); 203pp; Illustrated by Mason Hilda; Preface by Frederick Duckitt; Illustrated with line drawings. ISBN: 0869770152 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #169408|| Condition:

Cape Town: C. Struik (PTY) Ltd. Bound in smart brown cloth, with bright, gilt lettering to spine, this hardcover First Edition is VG in Vg wrapper. 203pp with index, 85 full page coloured plates of wild flowers with Latin and Common names. Appropriate text and description of The Sandveld. Clean endpapers, and 25 samples of dried wild flowers to accompany book. Condition VG plus. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1972.