Gardening

Hardcover. London, Country Life Ltd/George Newnes, 2nd Ed., 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering, 178 pages with many b&w photo plates. From a private library with stamp and bookplate to front endpapers, otherwise clean with mild shelfwear.

Hardcover. Boston, The Stratford Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 295 pages, with black & white illustrations throughout, foreword by Richardson Wright, gilt top edge and relevant 1930 article from Horticulture Magazine laid-in. Dust jacket has corner and spine chip with some edge fade, previous owner's signature on title page, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. Toronto, Fruit Growers' Assoc. of Ontario, 1st, 1884, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A year's bound collection (Jan.- Dec. 1884) of the journal. Features eight bright color lithographs of flowers and fruit. One black & white plate. Portrait of editor Beadle. 295 pages. Half-leather with marbled boards. Spine with gilt lettering, label, raised bands.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. 332 pages. This edition features a color frontispiece, full-page plates in both color and black & white, and in-text illustrations throughout by William Walworth Stilson. A reprint of the 1901 edition. No date, probably the 1930s. Owner's name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. 168 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. "...provides bold, practical solutions to important problems of economics, planning, and maintenance of urban planting, and offers effective programs to raise urban tree management to its essential place in the urban megastructure." Clean copy.

NY, Harpercollins/Cliff Street , 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 239 pages, bibliography, appendices, maps on end-papers, illustrated with wonderful b&w line and color drawings by the author. A highly readable account of the author's 300-acre woodland in Maine, which he uses as a camp and outdoor laboratory.

Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Also includes note signed and inscribed by the author. Bind stamp on cover. Foxing to edges and dust jacket. Cover slightly warped, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in red cloth-backed brown papered boards with paper spine label, numerous figures & all 22 plates present, many with before/after overlays, no markings. 252 pages, tissue-guarded color frontispiece with overlay. 28 diagrams within the text. Designed by Bruce Rogers, second spine label laid in at rear.

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Self Published, 2nd Edition, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 130 pages. Hardcover. Contributions to the Botany of Vermont, IX. Inscribed by author's husband. Previous owner's stamp on front endpapers. Ex-library book with some label residue and markings expected. B/w frontispiece (picture of author). Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Spine straight. Pages clean, slightly tanned with age. Very good copy.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, illustrated with photographs, plans and drawings. A survey of the work on seventy pre-war Long Island country houses by six landscape architects and designers: Beatrix Farrand, Maertha Hutcheson, Marian Coffin, Ellen Shipman, Ruth Dean, and Annette Flanders, as well as later work by Rose Standish Nichols, Marjorie Cautley, and ten others.

Hardcover. Toronto, Fruit Growers' Assoc. of Ontario, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A year's bound collection (Jan.-Dec. 1885) of the journal. Features 12 bright color lithographs of flowers & fruit. 292 pages. Half-leather with marbled boards with light corner wear. Spine with gilt lettering, label, raised bands.

Hardcover. New York, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 2nd, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, revised and enlarged with 152 b/w illustrations. Cover boards bound in deep red cloth. Gilt title on spine. Original owner's dated (Sept. 10, 1912) signature on front endpaper. flyleaf and back endpaper. In very good condition for its age. Half title page partially separated from gutter, but still attached. Binding still quite tight. Illustrations incredibly detailed. Pages slightly age-yellowed. A little bit of age-wearing to cover boards, but overall in great shape.

Softcover. Mexico City, Asociacion Mexicana de Orquideologia A.C., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers, 190 pages. Illustrated in b&w and color. A publication devoted to the study of orchid flora in Mexico and Central America. Text in English and Spanish.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Foxing to top edge of dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Oversized. Green cloth cover with some bumping to edges and corners. Dust jacket has slight wear to edges. Color and b&w illustrations and photographs throughout. A clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Phoenix House, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 191 pages with 64 photographs, one in color (as the frontis.) and a plan drawn by Jo Mayo. Author tells his 14 year effort to build a nature sanctuary and how he succeeded. Clean copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, U.S. Department of Interior, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 180 pages, b&w illustrations. Fading to red on covers, light musty odor. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in illustrated wrappers, 304 pages. Illustrated with B&W engravings. Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes-a belief that was to become a major theme of modern American landscape design. In Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens, Robert E. Grese draws on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects to present a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "native" landscapes.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 252 pages, illustrations throughout, 2nd spine label in rear, edited by John Nolen and typeface by Bruce Rogers. Edge wear and corner bump, minor rubbing, otherwise, clean and tight copy. Illustrated with 22 black and white plates (of which nine have overlays), 28 text figures, and a colour frontispiece (also with an overlay).

Softcover. Ithaca, Urban Horticulture, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout, including graphs & charts. Clean unmarked copy.

Softcover. Mexico City, Asociacion Mexicana de Orquideologia A.C., 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers, pages 155-417. Illustrated in b&w and color. A publication devoted to the study of orchid flora in Mexico and Central America. Text in English and Spanish. Tape repair to bottom of spine where paper chipped off. Still sound, clean.

Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 249 pages, color photos. Green cloth, gilt title on spine. No dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge and end papers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Illustrated with color photos. Lavishly illustrated, THE GARDEN MAKERS profiles more than seventy gardeners, profesional and amateur, from Frederick Law Olmsted to Vita Sackville-West.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st US, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 193 pages, 8 color plates (photos by T. Ernest Waltham). Green paper cover boards with color photograph of rose on cover. Corner wear, top of spine frayed. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. No date but author's introduction dated 1911.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 382 pages, 150 b&w photos and 24 pages in color. Clean copy. From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the British poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful additions by Sarah Raven, a famous British gardener in her own right who is married to Vita's grandson Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst draws on this extraordinary archive, revealing Vita's most loved flowers, as well as offering practical advice for gardeners. Often funny and completely accessibly written with color and originality, it also describes details of the trials and tribulations of crafting a place of beauty and elegance.

Hardcover. North Clarendon, VT, Tuttle Publishing, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Color photographs throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Kodansha International, Reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white and color photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume I, in 2 parts, 559 pages total. Green cloth covers, dark green and gilt titles to spine, 180 color plates, endpapers decorated with map of U.S., profusely illustrated with b&w illustrations. Slight edgewear to covers, otherwise very clean, pages extremely crisp and unmarked, stiff bindings; both books in great condition.

Softcover. Batavia, Ball Publishing, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Softcover. Profusely illustrated, full color photographs, throughout. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light toning to covers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 207 pages. Entertainingly idiosyncratic in its selection of material, this historical compendium of facts and fascinating lore takes off on a visual romp through the history of gardens. Rather than adhere to a conventional narrative format, Vercelloni--an Italian architect, city planner and landscape gardener--arranges his material as though it were a slide show, devoting each page to an image and accompanying text. Beginning with the "landscape" of the Ice Ages, forging ahead to the Renaissance and finally reaching contemporary times, the author presents a captivating grab-bag of information, covering such topics as the significance of flowers in Renaissance painting, the reasoning behind the 17th-century craze for tulips and the role of contemporary urban parks in society. With its strong visual orientation and pungent text, Vercelloni's "historical atlas" looks deftly and light-heartedly at humanity's ongoing love of gardens. Clean copy.

Hardcover. ITHACA NY, Comstock Publishing Associates/Cornell University Press, 3rd pr., 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a shelfworn dust jacket with light tape repairs, chipped. In this authoritative guide, illustrated with more than 150 b&w drawings and photographs, there is a wealth of information invaluable to terrace and suburban gardeners, commercial fruit growers and advenced amateur growers. No markings.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Folio-size hardcover, two-tone green cloth stamped in gilt. 237 pages, illustrated throughout with the author's b&w designs and sketches for gardens. Translated from French by Helen Morgenthau Fox. Spectacular copy, clean and bright with the original green dust jacket, which has only minor edgewear, small piece gone from the top of the spine and no fading or price-clip (originally $12 in 1924). Scarce thus.

Hardcover. NY, William Farquhar Payson, Revised Ed., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a pink dust jacket that's chipped, faded. Red cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. New Edition with added Introduction and bibliography. 366 pages, b&w illustrations. A remarkable gardening work looking at the flora used in Shakespeare's works, with a guide on how to produce a Shakespeare garden. This is a gardening work, examining gardening and horticulture during Shakespeare's days. Small ownersip stiker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Antique Collectors Club , reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket 272 pages. This charming book, first published in 1912 as Gardens for Small Country Houses by Country Life at a time when both Jekyll and Weaver were writing for the magazine, contains the substance of a legend. It embodies the period when the Arts and Crafts Movement had evolved into country house architecture and then found its most delightful expression in the making of gardens. This new edition, which has been re-titled to distinguish it from the original book, is now illustrated with color photographs and reproductions of contemporary paintings and watercolors which bring new color and light to a vanished world. In their collaboration on this book, the authors found common ground and reveled in their mutual intuitive approach to artistic and historic gardening ideas. Arts and Crafts Gardens is a practical handbook with invaluable information on garden restoration, insights into craftsmanship and planting relationships, and provides a fascinating classic text on garden design.

Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Price clipping to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown boards with a blue cloth spine with title label. First edition, title page dated 1900. Essays on gardening, with practical advice, commentary on its benefits and history, 307 pages. cover with light edgewear, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Portland, OR, Timber Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped and pristine. Gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Clean inside and out. In excellent shape.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages. INSCRIBED BY ECK on half-title page and SIGNED on title page. In addition, a handwritten note from co-author Winterrowd laid-in.

Hardcover. London, Macdonald, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 109 pages with color photos, b&w illustrations. Small name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, G.H. Buek, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong light beige cloth with gilt title and decoration. Non-Paginated. Illustrated with 288 clean full color plates. Front and rear hinges cracked but holding with spine cloth. Light wear to covers. Originally published in parts as a Botanical Fine Art Weekly publication.

Hardcover. London, J. Davis, 1st, 1791, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 22 (of 24) hand-colored plates proceeded by 22 pages of description. Bound in marbled boards with a linen spine and spine label. Missing plates 13 and 19. The flowering plant illustrations, executed by James Sowerby, are all bright and clean. Original blue-gray wrappers bound-in. First issued in 1792 (despite title page date of 1791, preface is dated May 1792). Previous owner's note (tipped onto front fly leaf and dated 1936) states this copy came from the Czar's Hermitage Library. No way to confirm this as there is no label or Double Eagle stamp.

Hardcover. NY, John Wiley & Sons, 4th pr., 1002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. A national authority on this emerging field offers a comprehensive guide to the art and science of designing, erecting and maintaining an outdoor lighting system. Presents in-depth coverage on how to plan, design and build a project; reviews all technical components and materials; discusses specific issues of landscape design setting and its elements--plants, sculptures and structures, water features, etc. Packed with hundreds of detailed photos, sketches, plans and drawings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Venice IT, Arsenale Editrice, 2nd Ed., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 168 pages, color photos throughout. This edition of Secret Gardens in Venice, entirely in color, is intended to satisfy the growing desire of Venetians and tourists to know more about this fascinating city and its history. Examining both the present reality and the past history of the gardens of Venice, the authors seek to understand the special fascination of these places. Gianni Berengo Gardin has created a series of fascinating poetic images, which reveal a wholly new and unknown side of Venice. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages illustrated throughout in color. Drawing upon more than twenty years of experience in horticulture and landscape design, the authors provide a colorful, cretive guide to composing eye-catching arrangements in different styles, from naturalistic to abstract for both residential and commercial settings. Clean copy.