Hardy Perennials
de Bloom, Alan
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG/VG/ND
- Librería
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1957* Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Slightly dull green cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to edges and corners. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, and tight with light reading wear, no marks to text, some foxing to prelims & all edges. VG.* Illustrations: Coloured frontispiece, 40 pages of b/w photos within text & one or two b/w line drawn planting schemes.* Pages: 290 pp. text. xiii pp. subject index, general index, h.p.s. advertisement & blank pages at rear.* Description: A scholarly work by Alan Bloom the founder of the most famous perennial nursery of the 20th century in England. It covers virtually every aspect of the propagation, raising and planting of Herbaceous Perennials. With lists of plants for borders, cutting, landscaping and combining, the index is most professional and I suspect formed the basis for many a more recent book on the subject. No real gardener should be without a copy of this particular book.* A NEAR VG copy of the 1st. thus with some age & wear reducing it to GD++, no dust jacket.*
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Detalles
- Librería
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1515
- Título
- Hardy Perennials
- Autor
- Bloom, Alan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG/VG/ND
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Faber
- Lugar de publicación
- London UK 303
- Fecha de publicación
- 1957-01-01
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
