Garden Design from Mike Park Ltd

Tokyo: Tokyo News Service Ltd, 1955. Second edition, revised. Very well illustrated, large octavo, pp 318, very clean internally, silked paper endpapers, green silk cloth, very slightly faded. A very good copy. {From the library of Dan E. Mayers, plantsman, chess-master, limerick-lover and eccentric, with bookplate showing his Arts & Crafts house "Lorien" in Wadhurst.}. Second edition.… Read more about this item

London: Gordon Fraser, 1978. Illustrated, large horizontal octavo, pp 104, very occasional light foxing otherwise very clean internally, light brown cloth in very good condition, in a very slightly worn and age-toned dustwrapper. {From the library of Dan E. Mayers, plantsman, chess-master, limerick-lover and eccentric, with bookplate showing his Arts & Crafts house "Lorien" in Wadhurst.}. First Edition. Cloth.… Read more about this item

London & New York: The Architectural Press & Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Second revised edition. Illustrated, large octavo, pp 184, lacking the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, cloth very faintly faded. . Second edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Boston, Toronto, London: Bullfinch Press, 1990. Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 165, very clean internally, green cloth with the slightest signs of use, in a very clean dustwrapper. A very good copy indeed. From the library of John Codrington; although not signed, there is an ink dedication to him internally by one of the contributors - Robert Wm… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1990. Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 224, very clean internally, green cloth in excellent condition, a very good copy in dustwrapper. A heavy book - extra postage may be needed. ["Private Gardens of London takes you behind the facades and in an eclectic selection this book explores thirty-nine of London's most interesting private gardens, some… Read more about this item

New York: Stewart. Tabori & Chang, 1991. Very well illustrated, large tall quarto, pp 255, extremely clean internally, green cloth with a slight bump to the base of the spine and minor bruises to the top corners but otherwise very good, in a very good dustwrapper with similar slight bumps. [A heavy book - extra postage may be needed. "… Read more about this item

Tokyo: The Shokokusha Publishing Co., Inc, 1958. Very well illustrated with monochrome photograohs, quarto, pp 218, extremely clean internally, bound in green silk cloth with just the slightest of marks, a very good copy in the original slipcase of green hessian cloth with gilt lettering and paper inlay. . Cloth in slipcase. Very Good.

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1988. Illustrated with 72 plates from drawings by the author and 53 reproduced from photographs by Charles Latham, with 46 additional colour plates showing the gardens during the 1987 & 1988 seasons, large square quarto, pp xxvi, 229, slightly used internally, brown cloth with very slight use, the dustwrapper is price-clipped, a bit worn stretched and… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986. Well illustrated, quarto, pp 160, very clean internally, green cloth with just very slight sligns of use, a good hardback copy in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and is very slightly rubbed. [Garinish island, Lakemount, Kilgobbin, Ardsallagh, Glin Castle, Hillmount, Guincho, Glenveagh, Kilmokea, Ishlan, Shiel etc.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good.

London: The Architectural Press, 1957. Very well illustrated, small quarto, pp 186, very clean internally, cream boards, a bit marked and age-toned. SCARCE. One of the classic texts. [Yoshida Tetsuro, (1894 - 1956), was a Japanese architect who spread knowledge of Japan’s architecture to the West and at the same time introduced Western motifs in his own works. While… Read more about this item

Paris: Flammarion, 1994. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 211, very clean internally, blue boards, the binding leaning very slightly, in a good dustwrapper with just very slight signs of use. ["The terraced hillsides, rocky capes, and secluded coves of the French Riviera provide some of the world's most spectacular garden settings, and its delightful climate has drawn legendary figures in… Read more about this item

London: Frances Lincoln, 1990. Very well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 240, very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, a very good copy in dustwrapper. A heavy book, extra postage may be needed. ["This guide to garden design provides the reader with a tour of more than 30 of France's most beautiful gardens. They range in size from… Read more about this item

Washington: Dumbarton Oaks, 1979. Illustrated with five colour plates and many black and white illustrations, large octavo, pp xiv, 104, very clean internally, green cloth with the slightest signs of rubbing. . Second edition. Cloth. Very Good.

London: Boxtree Limited [for Channel Four], 1996. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 224, very clean internally, blue cloth, upper corner very lightly bruised, in a similar dustwrapper. ["Catering for all kinds of gardens and intended for gardeners of all levels of ability, this is a practical guide to garden design which uses the gardens featured in the Channel Four television… Read more about this item

New York: Dutton Studio Books, 1993. Well illustrated, with over175 colour photographs, quarto, 240 pages, paperback, very faint creases to the upper cover, a remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise a very good copy. [The photographs, together with the lucid and inspiring text, show how Japanese garden design can be translated to the Western landscape. ]. First Edition. Paperback.… Read more about this item

Portland: Timber Press, 2011. Very well illustrated, large squaer octavo, pp 296, a very good copy in dustwrapper, virtually as new. ["Perhaps no group of plants is so badly used in our gardens, but used intelligently and creatively, conifers can be instrumental in creating beautiful, long-lasting plant combinations or serene backyard havens. Designing with Conifers will show you how to… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1979. Very well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 325, slight foxing to the fore-edge and to the front endpaper and the half-title, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is just slightly worn at the spine head, otherwise this is a very good copy. [A heavy book - extra postage… Read more about this item

London: Longmans Green & Co., 1900. First edition. Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 301, one internal hinge broken and with a detached gathering, another hinge roughly repaired with tape and with a frayed fore-edge to one page, otherwise clean and sound internally, brown buckram slightly rubbed and faded, the spine slightly frayed at head and foot. [With the bookplate of… Read more about this item

London: Mitchell Beazley, 2000. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 176, green cloth, a very good copy in dustwrapper, almost as new. [London has been at the cuttingedge of garden design for many years, and the extraordinary gardens in this book are sometimes eccentric, sometimes modern and chic, sometimes even surreal, but always well designed and very beautiful. Award-winning and internationally… Read more about this item

Cologne, London, Madrid: Taschen, 1999. Very well illustrated, folio, pp 340, very clean internally, blue cloth with the slightest signs of use, in a very slightly worn and stretched dustwrapper. Tri-lingual text - English, French, German. [Very heavy - postage may have to be increased]. {"One day, Ferdinand Cheval, a French postman, came across a stone at Hauterives near Lyon,… Read more about this item