Search Results: Authors starting with B from Landscape Books

1950. Good. BACON, FRANCIS. The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Ld. Verulam, Viscount St. Albans. Now Printed in a New Edition by The Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York, n.d. 8vo, pp.228 + 2pp glossary. [Includes Bacon's classic essay "Of Gardens."]

1974. Good. BADZINSKI, STANLEY JR. Carpentry in Commercial Construction. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974. Lg.8vo, pp.x, 292, illus. with line drawing, plans, sections, and with halftones from photographs. Index, bibliography. Coated cloth. Corners starting to wear. [From the library of Artemis P. Richardson, The Olmsted Office]

1967. Very Good. BAILEY, ANTHONY. Through The Great City. New York: Macmillan, 1967, First printing. 8vo, pp.276, illustrated with one map, map on endpapers. Index, bibliography. Very good/very good, name in ink on f.f.e.p.

1994. Fine. BAILEY, ANTHONY. The Coast of Summer. Sailing New England Waters From Shelter Island to Cape Cod. New York: Harper Collins, 1994, First edition (so stated), first printing. 8vo,pp. ix, 357, frontispiece map. Dj. Fine/vg+.

1923. Good. BAILEY, L.H. The Cultivated Evergreens: A Handbook of the Coniferous and Most Important Broad-Leaved Evergreens Planted for Ornament in the United States and Canada. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1923. 8vo, pp. xvii, 434, illus. w. 48 halftone plates from photographs and 97 illustrations in the text. Writing and bookplates on front endpapers.

1922. Good. BAILEY, L. H. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. A Discussion, for the Amateur, and the Professional and commercial Grower, of the Kinds, Characteristics and Methods of Cultivation of the Species of Plants Grown in the Regions of the United States and Canada for Ornament, For Fancy, For Fruit and For Vegetables; With Keys to The Natural Families and Genera, Descriptions of the Horticultural Capabilities of the States and Provinces and Dependent Islands, and sketches of Eminent Horticulturists. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1922. In Six volumes. 4to, pp. 3639, 4000 engravings in text, 96 full page cuts, colored plates. Green cloth, gilt lettering on spines. Ex-library, but only evidence of such is labels that have been removed from spines resulting in rubbed patches, and names removed for ffep's with resulting erasure marks. Despite these flaws it is a nice tight set with very nice interiors.

1901. Good. BAILEY, L. H. Garden-Making: Suggestions for the Utilizing of Home Grounds. New York: Macmillan, 1901, Fourth edition revised. [Garden Craft Series] 12mo, pp. vii, 417 + 11pp. ads, illus. w. wood eng. throughout text. Index.

1941. Very Good. BAILEY, L. H. Gardener's Handbook: Successor to The Gardener, Brief Indications For the Growing of Common Flowers, Vegetables and Fruits in the Garden and About the Home. New York: Macmillan, 1941, Imperial edition. 8vo, pp. 292, illustrated throughout with line cuts from wood engravings. Dj. Vg/fair, dust jacket edgeworn with piece missing from bottom of spine.

1923. Good. BAILEY, L.H. The Cultivated Evergreens: A Handbook of the Coniferous and Most Important Broad-Leaved Evergreens Planted for Ornament in the United States and Canada. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1923, First edition. 8vo, pp. xvii, 434, illus. w. 48 halftone plates from photographs and 97 illustrations in the text. Green cloth. Small spot on rear cover, otherwise a very nice copy.

1922. Good. BAILEY, MARGARET EMERSON. Robin Hood's Barn: The Confessions of a Garden Adventurer. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1922. 8vo, pp.xiii, 301, illustrated with drawings by Whitman Bailey. Cloth spine, paper covered boards, paper spine label and paper label on front cover. Binding rubbed, front cover slightly soiled, upper corners worn. [Account of Margaret Bailey's garden on Mount Hope Bay in Touisset, Rhode Island.]

2001. Fine. BAINBRIDGE, BERYL. According To Queeney. London: Little, Brown & Co., 2001. 8vo, pp.242. Pictorial endpaper, ribbon book marker bound in. Dj. Fine/vg+.

1995. Fine. BAIRD, GEORGE. The Space of Appearance. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1995. Lg.8vo, pp.xi, 395, illustrated in halftone. Index, notes. Dj. Dj slightly rubbed, otherwise as new.

1973. Paperback. Good. BAKER, C. JANE. Francis Towne 1739/40 - 1816 John White Abbott 1763 - 1851: Paintings and Watercolours from the Exeter Museums and Art Gallery. London: Greater London Council, 1973. Square 8vo, unpaginated (36pp. booklet), halftone illustrations. Wraps. Former owner's name in ink on title page.

1946. Good. BAKER, J. O. Herbaceous and Mixed Flower Borders. London: John Gifford Ltd., 1946. 12mo, pp.120, planting plans. [Signed by the author] Name in ink scratched out in ink on front paste down end paper.

1972. Fine. BALDWIN, RUTH M. 100 Nineteenth-Century Rhyming Alphabets in English. From the Library of Ruth M. Baldwin. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. 4to, pp.x, 296, illus. in color and halftone from old books. Dj. Fine/very good, dj is price clipped.

1975. Good. BALSHONE, BRUCE L., PAUL L. DEERING, and BRIAN D. McCARL. Bicycle Transit: Its Planning and Design. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975. Praeger Special Studies. Design/Environmental Planning Series. 8vo, pp.xv, 164, illus. with line drawings. Notes, extensive bibliography. Covers slightly soiled. [From the library of Artemis Richardson, The Olmsted Office.]

1941. Very Good. BALTHIS, FRANK K. Plants in the Home. New York: Macmillan, 1941, First Printing. 4to, pp.xii, 172, illus. w. drawings by Tabea Hofmann. Index. [Chapter on Crystal Gardens or Miniature Hothouses.] No dustjacket. Vg.

1968. Very Good. BARGELLINI, PIERO. Questa e Firenze. Firenze: G. C. Sansoni, 1968. Lg. 8vo, pp.277, illustrated in halftone and color from photographs and paintings. Index. [In Italian] Vg/G. Dust jacket slightly worn at top edge. An inscription in ink on front free end-paper.

1955. Good. BARNES, MALCOLM, Editor. The Mountain World 1955. New York, Harper & Brothers, n.d. Lg.8vo, pp.222, illustrated with halftone plates from photographs and line drawings and maps in the text. Good/good, some foxing and dust jacket is slightly wrinkled.

1957. Very Good. BARNES, MALCOLM, Editor. The Mountain World 1956/57. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1957. Lg.8vo, pp.200, illustrated with halftone plates from photographs and line drawings and maps in the text. One duotone map. Vg/good, edges foxed and dust jacket is slightly wrinkled.