Early American Gardens
de Leighton, Ann
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Librería
-
Stanley, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First printing.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. Stated First printing. Very Good+/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing, in original unclipped jacket. Clean green cloth boards with black lettering and small decoration on cover, gold lettering with black decoration on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean (. Illustrated endpapers, with very small previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper. 441 pp. with index, 84 illustrations of the period. Jacket is not price clipped (10.00 on front inside flap), unchipped, with 3" closed tear at top spine fold, a few additional short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Gardens from a time when a garden was the prime necessity of life for food, flavorings, drinks, tonics, insect repellents, candies, narcotics, medicine, and laying out the dead. In pithy language and amusing detail, the author describes these early American gardeners whose influence is still strong in our daily lives. In an indispensable appendix Miss Leighton lists 200 of the common plant names, the names of those who used them, and brief descriptions from their own books of reference recording what they believed or expected of each plant..
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- Librería
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 019342
- Título
- Early American Gardens
- Autor
- Leighton, Ann
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- Stated First printing.
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1970
- Palabras clave
- EARLY AMERICAN GARDENS GARDENING HISTORY HORTICULTURE PURITAN PLANTS
- Catálogos del vendedor
- gardening/horticulture;
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