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Garden Calendar
by Whitsey, Fred
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0460046969
- ISBN 13
- 9780460046961
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Date of Publication: 1985* Publisher: J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper with violet background, cream titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £5.00 on publishers adhesive label. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slightly dusty to top-edge, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: One 8pp block of colour photos & b/w line drawings within text at chapter headings.* Pages: 260 pp. text. v pp., appendix, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: This is a rich and varied selection of articles from Fred Whitsey's regular column in the Daily Telegraph, in which he draws on his wide experience and his extensive knowledge of gardens and gardening. In a month-by-month guide he ranges from general tips ~ about lawns, paving, seasonal tasks, planning and planting ~ to topics such as shrubs, perennials, autumn and winter colour: and specific plants such as clematis, magnolias and rhododendrons.* A FINE text copy of the 1st/1st in a FINE binding & a FINE protected dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5556
- Title
- Garden Calendar
- Author
- Whitsey, Fred
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0460046969
- ISBN 13
- 9780460046961
- Publisher
- Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK 261
- Date Published
- 1985-10-01
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
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- Fine Binding
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- Jacket
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- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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