Gardens Of South Africa...and Some Notes On The Cultivation Of South African Wild Flowers. de Fairbridge, Dorothea - 1924

Oxford University Press, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1928. No Edition Remarks. 195 pages. Illustrative jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to boards. Textblock is shaky. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Notable tanning to spine. Visible rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

Oxford University Press, 1928. Oxford University Press, 1928, 4to, 195, pages, First Edition, numerous illustrations, inscription on front endpage. Hardcover edition, green cloth, no dust jacket. Some spotting to boards, else good+ condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Oxford Univ Pr, 1928. minor bumps to the ends of the cover and spine. pages are bright and tight. age spotting to the first and last couple of pages in the book.. hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Goodman, R. Gwelo.

Oxford University Press, 1926. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1926. No Edition Remarks. 119 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated grey cloth board with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Colour pencil markings to an illustration. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards.

UsedGood. There is some damage to the dust jacket: it has some chips and tears and has been price clipped. The book is slightly cocked but the pages are clean.

London:Oxford University Press. 1928. Light wear at ends of spine; light foxing on various sections of book; otherwise; a clean tight and satisfactory copy.

London : Oxford University Press, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. 195 pages in light green cloth. Frontispiece in colour by R. Gwelo Goodman. 32 Photogravures from photos by Lancelot Ussher. Cover is slightly sunned at the edges and softened at the spine ends. Former owner's name and address on front free endpaper. No other marks of any kind. Binding is firm. Pages and plates are clean. Spine is square.

The Clarendon Press, 1924. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1924. No Edition Stated. 343 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Colour frontispiece with B&W illustrations throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine and board edges. Dewy code to spine.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1918. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Nr VG. Still very tight, sharp corners with moderate wear edges. Title page affixed to front board, and a couple of the contents pages were loose, reattached with tape. Binding very tight else.

(London, Oxford University Press/Humphrey Milford, 1928). With a frontispiece in colour by R. Gwelo Goodman. 32 photogravures from photographs by Lancelot Ussher, and many other illustrations. 4to; original green cloth; no dustwrapper; pp. xi + (i) + 195, incl. index; colour frontis., and many photographic plates. Cover a little soiled, bumped, and worn at extremities; edges foxed, sporadic foxing elsewhere. Fair to good condition. An evocative tour of the scenic highlights of South Africa, certain to bring on nostalgia for a bygone, more carefree age. .