Resultados de búsqueda: Gardening from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Nelson, West Melbourne, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover (Laminated Illustrated boards). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: photographs. the spine is rubbed at the head and tail, with the start of a small split at the top right of the rear panel paper. Previous owner's name at the top of the first page. No other damage . For each of the months of the year, the author gives a planting guide, for each of the States. The author gives chatty advice for every area of Australia, and does not restrict himself to the classic vegetables, talking about kohl rabi, Chinese cabbage, and other vegetables that have only recently become "popular". Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 105 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Gardening; Australia; Farming & Rural Life. ISBN: 0170051129. ISBN/EAN: 9780170051125. Inventory No: 0257098. . 9780170051125

Paul Hamlyn, Dee Why West, New South Wales, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 2.35 kg; 544 pages, last page blank, text illustrated with line drawings, 250+ black-and-white photographs, and 100+ colour plates. Indexed, colour illustrated dustjacket. As the title implies this is a definitive volume to gardeners on both sides of the Tasman Sea. Sufficiently detailed for the more dedicated gardener, it is equally suitable for the occasional sunny weekend Gardener. The 300000+ words provide the reader with instant reference to the many and varied subjects that are part of gardening, but always in a language that is as lucid as it is erudite. Gift notation at the top of the half title page, no other damage. small tear at the top of the spine section of the jacket. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category:… Leer más

Harper & Row, Publishers, Sydney, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Denise Greig -- Photographer and Christine Lott -- Illustrator. 700 g.; IV, 140 pages, last page blank, acknowledgements, and index. Black coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with colour photography by Denise Greig and purple illustrations by Denise Lott. Black coloured boards with silver titles to the backstrip. A little rubbing to the book corners and to the backstrip corners. Photographic dustwrapper with black and pink coloured background and pink and white titles to the front panel and pink and blue titles to the backstrip. Rubbing and very light creasing to the dustwrapper edges, light fading to the backstrip and some fading to the dustwrapper panels. A book on how to grow a scented garden, in Australia, and practical gifts to make from your fragrant garden. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Denise… Leer más

Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Diagrammatic. 600 g; 81 pages, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, full-page colour plates, and black-and-white line drawings. Indexed, and with glossary and sowing table for flowers. Colour illustrated dust jacket. The only damage to the book is a slight splitting of the top corner of the rear fold over, and slight rubbing at the head and tail of the spine section of the jacket. A range on a month by month diary style, the author considers all aspects of gardening. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Photographic and Diagrammatic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Gardening; ISBN: 0170019012. ISBN/EAN: 9780170019019. Inventory No: 0224547. . 9780170019019

The Horticultural Press Pty. Ltd, Carlton, Victoria, 1973. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. Preface by the editor, list of illustrations. The text is illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs with the occasional black-and-white line drawings. Plaintext paperback binding with green coloured titles and illustration to the front panel. Title does say it all. Minor creasing of the book corners and rubbing of the book edges and panels. Some stains to the top edge of the front panel with some yellowing of the white coloured background. Light tanning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [11], 12 - 164 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Gardening; Australia; 1970s; Inventory No: 0287431. .

Paul Hamlyn, Dee Why West, New South Wales, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 2.35 kg; 544 pages, last page blank, text illustrated with line drawings, 250+ black-and-white photographs, and 100+ colour plates. Indexed, colour illustrated dustjacket. Rubbing to the base edge of the boards, traces of foxing to the top edge of the text block, silverfish damage to the front free end page. As the title implies this is a definitive volume to gardeners on both sides of the Tasman Sea. Sufficiently detailed for the more dedicated gardener, it is equally suitable for the occasional sunny weekend Gardener. The 300000+ words provide the reader with instant reference to the many and varied subjects that are part of gardening, but always in a language that is as lucid as it is erudite. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos.… Leer más

Paul Hamlyn, Sydney, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover (Cloth backed boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: photographic. Preface by authors, index of popular names and index of botanical names stop bottle green coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with over 1660 coloured plates of flowering plants. White coloured boards with green coloured titles to the front panel and the back strip. Colour photographic dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The book was written back in the days when kiwifruit were known as Chinese gooseberries. The book is not a book of Australian plants, but rather a book of flowering plants that do grow in Australia. Rubbing of the top book corners and lower book edges. Softening of the back strip with age toning of the text block edges. A few marks to the end pages. Some creasing of the top dustwrapper edge with a little chipping to the back strip edges. Sunning of the back strip. Size: 4to… Leer más

Kingfisher Books Pty. Ltd, Cheltenham, Victoria, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. 1.1 kg; 256 pages, indexed, with glossary and illustrated with both full-page colour plates and part page of black-and-white, and also colour photography, there are also some line drawings. In original colour illustrated hardcover binding. The book shows no signs of damage.This book will weigh more than 1.0 kg when packed. Please enquire of the bookseller for an amended quote for the postage to destinations outside of Australia Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Gardening; ISBN: 0959399976. ISBN/EAN: 9780959399974. Inventory No: 0224987. . 9780959399974

Robinson & Mullens, Melbourne, 1937. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. 800 g; 555 pages, plus various pages of advertisements, indexed, illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout the text. Some black-and-white line drawings. Gift inscription dated 1939 on the front paste down, newspaper article, plus some writing on the rear paste down, and at least one clipping taped to the book, as well as several crosses in the margins in ink. The binding has a 0.5 inch split at the top of the rear panel and the bottom of the front panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Gardening; Inventory No: 0231216. .

Golden Press, Sydney, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 1.175 kg; VI, 273 pages, information charts on the front and rear end pages, for sowing of flowers, and vegetables. Text is illustrated with colour photographs, and line drawings. Indexed. The book has no obvious damage aside from a slight dustiness to the top edge of the text block. The dust jacket is slightly faded on the back strip section, and has a 1.0 inch tear at the top left of the front panel. Making a garden 8 Planning 8 Major plantings, Shrubbery 11 Shaping 12 Japanese gardens, Pebble gardens 15 Bush gardens, Preparing the site 18 Steep rocky slopes 22 Steps, Drywalls 24 Paths 26 Pools 27 Constructing a rockery 28 Lawns 31 Soils and fertilisers 40 Trees and shrubs 45 General list 45 Conifers 70 Plants for special effects 75 Climbing plants 79 Choosing trees and shrubs 83 Planting trees and shrubs 86 Azaleas and rhododendrons 88 Camellias 96 Annuals 104 Perennials 118 Chrysanthemums 132… Leer más

Little, Brown & Co, London, 1993. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. a very clean copy with no damage to describe, the book is illustrated with many black-and-white line drawings, showing step-by-step the various procedures involved in bonsai, and with colour photographs of drawing plants. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 64 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Gardening; ISBN: 0316907227. ISBN/EAN: 9780316907224. Inventory No: 0247628. . 9780316907224

Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1997. First Edition. softcover. Very Good Condition. The stories, essays and poems in this book recall 25 years in a productive suburban garden, and records the contentment of a rich life filled with fruit and veg. Second-hand, no damage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 215 pages. please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Home & Garden; Gardening; Writing; Family & Relationships. ISBN: 1862543933. ISBN/EAN: 9781862543935. Dewey Code: 643.550994. Inventory No: 0269600. . 9781862543935

Aird Books Pty.Ltd, Flemington, 2009. Second Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. the author discusses not only self sufficiency in the back yard, but also gleaning, collecting from public lands, over fences etc and preserving, dying and cooking. This is a completely revised second edition. It is clean, and free of any annotations. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings and tables. The illustrations are by Lin Tobias Size: Trade Paperback. 164 pages. A clean secondhand copy, with no damage to report.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Gardening. ISBN: 0947214585. ISBN/EAN: 9780947214586. Inventory No: 0284630. . 9780947214586

Shepp Books, Mt Colah, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover (Laminated Illustrated boards). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. illustrated throughout with tables, and line drawings. the author saw hydroponics as a simple, just copy soil which gave the best conditions for plant growth, moisture, good route aeration, a stable route temperature, and a complete balanced nutrient solution that gave optimum plant growth. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Gardening; Farming & Rural Life. ISBN: 094925004X. ISBN/EAN: 9780949250049. Inventory No: 0247181. . 9780949250049

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1928. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Poor. Illustrator: Photographic. Foreword by author and list of illustrations. Colour photographic frontispiece with foxed spotted tissue guard; within the text there are another seven coloured plates and numerous black-and-white photograph. Green coloured cloth covered boards with dark green coloured embossed titles to the front panel and back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. A survey of beautiful American gardens in the late 1920s. Rubbing and a little bumping to the book corners with flecking along the top book edges with minor flecking of the lower edges. Surprisingly, only light age toning of the text block edges and pages. Offset tanning to the end pages and previous owners name has been written along the front hinge edge. The dustwrapper is certainly not in great shape: – Chipping, with loss to the dustwrapper… Leer más

Drake Publishers Inc, New York, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Illustrated. preface by author, list of figures and index. The text is illustrated with black-and-white line drawings. Colour photographic paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. An early work on hydroponics. Creasing, multiple, to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Handling marks and sunning also present with age toning and scattered foxing to the text block edges. Previous owners name to the top edge of the half title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 156 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Gardening; hydroponics; Farming & Rural Life. ISBN: 0877495483. ISBN/EAN: 9780877495482. Inventory No: 0121434. . 9780877495482

Angus and Robertson, Sydney . London, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. foreword by Charles Frost, President, National Rose Society of Western Australia (1939-49), preface by author list of coloured plates, recommended books and index. Colour photographic frontispiece – showing the Rose Edna Harkness, a hybrid tea rose. The text is illustrated with another nine coloured plates of roses, numerous black-and-white photographs and the occasional black-and-white illustration. Green coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. A book on how to grow, prune, graft and generally enjoy the gardening of roses, for Australian conditions. Softening and fraying to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners and lower book edges. Foxing can be seen to all surfaces of the book along with flecking. Small white mark – paper that has adhered to the book, to the… Leer más

Dodd Mead & Co, New York, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: photographic & diagrammatic. dustjacket is rubbed, with short tears and chipping at the head and tail of the spine the book apart from foxing of the top edge of the text block, and a note on the rear end page about Huon pine, is clean, well bound and free of annotation. This book with some 200 illustrations reproduced from photographs and pen sketches covers culture, propagation, pruning, diseases and insect pests, and uses, desirable and undesirable features. While the book favours the American continent, the propagation and pruning and grafting sections are very interesting, as is most of the techniques do not involve chemicals or hormones. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 440 pages, in original hardcover binding with a colour illustrated dustjacket.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographic & diagrammatic. Quantity… Leer más

William Collins & Co,, London, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 475 g; VIII, 9-236 pages, includes glassine "visor". Colour illustrated dust jacket, text is illustrated with 80 plates in colour and 22 illustrations. There are stains from tape on both free end pages, original bookseller's sticker at the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down, the fading of the cloth at the base of the back strip, where the dustwrapper is missing a piece, the dust wrapper is also missing about 2 in.² from the bottom left-hand corner of the rear panel and is chipped and rubbed along both top and bottom edges. A This book describes any plants which are in general cultivation and available to the amateur and professional alike. (1944) it gives the most complete notes upon the propagation of plants for the herbaceous border. It deals with all the essential factors for the efficient cultivation of the plants described… Leer más

Angus & Robertson, North Ryde, New South Wales, 1986. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. X, 386 pages, indexed. Illustrated with monochrome drawings and full-page multi-photograph colour plates. This book is designed to give readers instant access to accurate information on every conceivable garden question. The text is more than sufficiently complemented by colour illustrations which concentrate on various ideas for landscaping. -- front fold over blurb. Clean copy, small tears at the top of the front and rear fold overs of the jacket, pale brown mark affecting the last quarter of the book on the outside edge of the front edge of the pages. Does not penetrate to any depth at all. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Gardening; Australia; ISBN: 0207147582. ISBN/EAN: 9780207147586. Inventory… Leer más