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Portland: Timber Pr., 1992.. 8vo. 192 pp. 16 pp of illus form colour photos. Drawings throughout; map. Purple boards. About fine in like dustwrapper. The first comprehensive analysis of native Chinese Iris species and their cultivation to be available in English..

(Griggsville, 1966).. 8vo. 223 pp. Illus from photos, many in colour. Green cloth. Ink name and small address label on front free endpaper, light bruising to spine tips, else very good in worn dustwrapper now protected in mylar..

London: Poetry & Printer, 1969.. 8vo. [26] pp Wraps. Corners a little bruised, a very good copy..

NY: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1969. An edition of 300 copies.. Sq 8vo. 27 pp. Printed pink card covers. Very good..

Cat's Pajamas Press, 1970. An edition of 200 copies.. 8vo. [8]pp. Stapled into printed covers. Trace of edgewear, else fine..

Glendale, CA., 1967. Second printing.. 4to. 5 sheets printed on one side. Stapled paper covers. Short tears to foredge and bottom corner bruised, else very good..

London: Hamlyn, (1962). 2nd imp.. 4to. 72 pp + ca. 380 pp of plates. Illus. from drawings in colour and b/w by Eduard Wagner. Translated from the Czech. Linen binding. 2x3" sticker on front pastedown. A near fine copy with light discolouring to spine and faint browning to marg. ins. Dustwrapper worn at edges, creases at spine, abrasion from sticker removed at top forecorner, 1/4" puncture on top panel and some light soiling..

NY: Abrams, (1980) A Chanticleer Press Edition. Sm. 4to. 231 pp. Illus from drawings, colour photos and maps. Orange boards. Ink name on front free endpaper, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with 2" tear to top panel; mylar cover..

NY: Picador, 1999.. 8vo. 310pp. 16 pp of illus from photos. Translated from the German. Boards. A fine copy in like dustwrapper..

San Francisco: Black Rabbit Press, 1969. An edition of 500 copies.. 4to unpaginated (22 pp). Colour screened frontis. Pages are stapled with printed card wrappers glued on. Some light smudges on back cover and a bit of buckling along spine, probably from a surfeit of glue else a very good or better copy..

NY: Crowell, (1905).. Cr 8vo. xx+77 pp. 3 illus. Frontis. Green boards; spine lettering gilt. Decoration to top board. Occasional soiling to text pages. 4" tear to frontis tissue guard. A good used copy in an attractive binding..

London: Collins & Brown, 1999.. 4to. 176 pp. Beautifully illus from colour photos. Green boards. Small red mark at bottom edge, else about fine in like dustwrapper. "...celebrates forty years of style at this renowned London florist.".

Bootle: Driftwood Publications, 1972. Driftwood Poets No. 5.. 8vp. 24 pp. Printed on pink paper stapled into pink card covers. Light bruising to top corner, else near fine..

Los Angeles: Natural History Museum, 1976. Science Bulletin 25. Lrg 8vo. 65 pp. Illus from photos, figures, tables and maps. Stapled turquoise wraps. About fine..

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow. December 1962. A Christmas Greeting from the Press.. 12mo. Unpaginated [16 pp] sewn into printed card wrappers. Tiny spot on the half-title, else fine..

Published for the Friends of the Black Sparrow Press in an edition of 426 copies. N.p. [Santa Barbara], n.d. [1960's]. 12mo 1 sheet folded once [3 pp of text] and stapled into yellow free endpapers with black card wrappers. Fine..

NY: Oxford, 2002.. 8vo. 258 pp. Illus from photos. Blue boards. A fine copy..

Cambridge MA: Harvard University, 1996.. 8vo. xiii + 289 pp. Illus. from line drawings. Half cloth and paper boards. Fine in like d/w..

NY: Harper & Row, (1966).. 8vo. xx + 199 + 24 pages of illus from photos & drawings. Green cloth. Light foxing to foredge & rubbing to spine tips, else a fine copy in near fine dustwrapper..

Neptune: T.F.H. for the Smithsonian. 1974. Reproduction of the 1937 edition.. Sm 4to. 19+xxx+205+70 pp of plates from colour drawings and b/w photos. Drawings in text. New introduction. Laminated pictorial boards. Ink name/date on front free endpaper, else about fine..