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1996réf. 64206NY:: Norton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0393038610 . Color photographs throughout. First printing. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Norton, hardcover books
1999réf. 20510Sagaponack:: Sagapress. As New in As New dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0898310768 . Color photographs throughout. First edition thus. As new in like dust jacket. . Sagapress, hardcover books
1973réf. 2445LEICESTER COG PRESS 1973 1973. Fine first edition. 5 monotype plates by Rigby Graham. Green cloth stamped in red. Acetate dust jacket. Number 65 of 150 numbered copies. F. Hardcover. LEICESTER, COG PRESS, 1973 hardcover books
2006br. Questo libro segue lo sviluppo della produzione della scrittrice Fleur Jaeggy fino al suo ultimo romanzo, "Proleterka" (2001), che echeggia di vari generi (dalla saga familiare, al noir, all'autobiografia ecc.). Chiude il volume uno scritto dell'autrice sul suo rapporto con la scrittura.
19528vo., First Edition, neat signatures on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned and chipped (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Biographical studies of Caterina Fiesta Adorna, Cornelia Connelly, Rosa Isabella Santa Maria de Flores, Therese Martin.
1944Sm. 4to., Third Impression, with fine coloured frontispiece, 80 fine coloured plates illustrating 32 blossoms and leaves, and numerous illustrations in the text; original pictorial green cloth blocked in black, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First re-issue of this classic revision of Step's pioneer work, from which the wonderful illustrations are taken. Contains a pictorial colour key to facilitate identification. The taxonomy is that of Bentham and Hooker. See Marren, p.196.
19754to., Second Edition, with 28 plates, and very numerous illustrations and tables in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Nice copy of the revised version of Godwin's standard reference, first published in 1956.
19758vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 4 plates; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Ray Society, vol. 150.
1984Roy. 8vo., First English Edition, with 81 coloured plates on 24 and numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. This standard reference was first published in Stuttgart in 1980.
19788vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at edges.
19518vo., Second Impression thus, with a chromolithograph frontispiece, 10 fine chromolithograph plates, 27 line illustrations in the text, numerous head- and tail-pieces, and pictorial endpapers, neat inscription on frontispiece recto; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Anthony Gross was selected as the artist for the first illustrated edition of Galsworthy's dynastic classic, first published in the previous year. The colour plates, drawn by Gross in six colours, are printed by Cowell of Ipswich using their proprietary 'Plastocowell' technique. The elegant typography is by John Lewis. Very scarce, especially in this condition
1938Sm. 8vo., Third Impression, with 100 illustrations in colour and 120 in monochrome, neat contemporary inscription on front paste-down repeated on front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in dark blue, boards very faintly age-soiled, case with very slight forward lean else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter faintly age-soiled but with most white areas clean and bright. Observer 2, first published in 1937. The illustrations are taken from Sowerby's 'English Botany'. Scarce in anything like this condition. Marren & Carter, p.147-8.
1957Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 100 plates in colour and 100 illustrations in monochrome in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soile and with with small label scar on front wrapper. Observer 25. Code 532.856. Marren & Carter, p.160.
19618vo., First English Edition; original patterned cloth, black cloth backstrip lettered in silver, top a trifle dust-soiled else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with neat initials on front fold-in and one short closed tear at lower margin of front panel. Shiina's ground-breaking novel was first published in Japan as Ai No Shogen in 1955. With dustwrapper artwork by Brian Sanders. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition.
19888vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19228vo., text in French; handsomely bound in Arts & Crafts style with marbled boards, blue morocco back with four raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, large third compartment inlaid with floral design in red and brown, gilt top, marbled endpapers, uncut, yellow silk marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
19448vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured plates, and monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (affecting lettering) at head of backstrip.
18982 vols. sm. 8vo. with coloured frontispieces (original tissue guards present) and 94 fine coloured plates; green pictorial cloth upper boards and backstrips lettered and blocked in gilt and black second volume neatly recased a very good bright clean set. Anne Pratt (1806-93) author of Common Things of the Sea-side and Our Native Songsters illustrated all her own work and 'in the spirit of the Victorian naturalists successfully merged the study of botany with romantic flower-lore. In 1855 she produced 'The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain', for which she is most well known' (Blunt). Her first botanical work, 'Wild Flowers' was first produced as a series of 96 coloured cards each containing two illustrations. The first appearance in book form was in 1852 after which it was re-issued numerous times as a late Victorian standard reference. See Freeman 3079, 3080.
19868vo. First Edition; blue cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sagar & Tabor A91.
19738vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates, and maps and diagrams in the text; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 54. Dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.
19108vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 19 fine coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present), free endpapers lightly browned; original pictorial green cloth, upper board framed and blocked in lighter green and white lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. A lovely copy. Inman 123.
19172 vols., folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispieces (original tissue guards present), titles in red and black, 15 fine coloured plates (all original tissue guards present), 14 plates in collotype and numerous illustrations fron photographs; original burgundy buckram, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean, crisp set. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 NUMBERED COPIES OF EACH VOLUME (FIRST SERIES NO. 524; SECOND SERIES NO. 272). Arguably the most elusive of Millais' splendid monographs. The coloured plates are by Beatrice Parsons, Winifred Walker, E.F. Brennand and Archibald Thorburn.
19283 vols., sm. 4to., with fine coloured frontispieces, 318 fine coloured plates, 87 plates in monochrome, 409 illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of burgundy faux-morocco cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt and lettered in gilt and black, gilt backs, red sprinkled edges, a very good, bright, clean set. The set comprises First Series (1928); Second Series (1928); Third Series (1929). The progenitor of the Wayside and Woodland series, first published as one (and subsequently two) volumes in 1895-6. The third volume, dealing mainly with the monocotyledons and a chapter on Orchids, was added by Step in 1929 as part of his overall revision for the New Edition of the work. A bright crisp set. COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE. Marren pp.136-142.
19138vo., First Edition, with frontispiece in photogravure, 7 plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present), 15 coloured plates (all original tissue guards present) and numerous plates in monochrome, fore-edge mildly spotted, some light and scattered spotting to text, wanting rear free endpaper; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, tan endpapers, small pull at headband else a very good, bright, crisp copy. With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.
19085 vols., 8vo., with coloured frontispieces, fine coloured plates and line-illustrations in the text; strongly and elegantly bound in half vellum, marbled boards, backs with blue leather labels lettered and ruled in gilt, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, a most attractive set.
