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MY GARDEN MAY 1940 (VOL. 20 No. 77)
Written by Theo A. Stephens; W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1609235
Published by My Garden. 1940. Very good condition.

Card wraps. An intimate magazine for garden lovers. Contains article by W.E. Johns: 'The Passing Show'. Cover edges creased.

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SEE HOW IT GROWS
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Robert Micklewright.
Stock no. 1504788
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1971. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

With the help of many drawings and useful information on weeds, soil and plant families, Malcolm Saville shows simply and entertainingly how to avoid the pitfalls that beset the young gardener. Colour and b/w pictures, many full page. Pictorial boards. 72 pages. ISBN: 0192731246. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Wear to lower edges of covers. Dustwrapper flap is stuck to front pastedown along bottom edge. Spot of surface paper damage to rear pastedown where flap has been stuck to it, now free. Contents clean. Clear cover on dustwrapper stuck on verso along top and bottom edges.

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OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN
Written by Agnes Castle; Egerton Castle. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 1404229
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1914. Slightly better than good condition.

Green cloth covers, gilt vignette and titles to front and spine. Endpapers are illustrated. 8 beautiful guarded colour plates and many b/w text illustrations throughout. 304 pages. Spine bumped and rubbed. Corners bumped and worn. Board edges rubbed. Couple of marks to rear board. Front and rear joint starting to crack. A few hinges pulled. Heavy foxing to prelims and last few pages. Foxing throughout book including verso of plates. One plate has a small nick to one edge.

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FLOWERING SHRUBS IN INDIA
Written by S.L. Jindal.
Stock no. 1809035
Published by Publications Division, Ministry Of Information And Broadcasting. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Brown cloth boards, white titles. B/w & colour plates. 178 pages. Front board bowed. Minor foxing to text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and torn and grubby to rear panel.

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THREE LITTLE GARDENERS
Written by L. Agnes Talbot. Illustrated by Gertrude M. Bradley.
Stock no. 1207719
Published by S.C. Brown, Langham & Company Ltd.. 1st 1904. Very good condition.

Small format. Green and red pictorial cloth, gilt titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. A little bumping and wear to spine and corners. Spine a little faded, odd small mark to covers. Name in ink to front endpaper. Front joint starting to crack. Contents have an odd mark and some light browning and foxing but generally are clean.

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SUBTROPICAL GARDENS
Written by David Bramwell; Zoe I. Bramwell.
Stock no. 1207279
Published by Editorial Rueda. 1st 1995. Fine condition.

Pictorial card wraps. Colour photos. 330 pages. ISBN: 8472070867. Name stamp to title page and foredge.

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TROPICAL ORNAMENTALS
Written by W. Arthur Whistler.
Stock no. 1207278
Published by Timber Press. 1st 2000. Fine condition.

Precise descriptions and more than 450 colour photos allowing for accurate identification. Pictorial card wraps. 542 pages. ISBN: 088192475X. Name stamp to half-title and foredge.

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THE EUROPEAN GARDEN FLORA FLOWERING PLANTS VOLUME II
Written by James Cullen; Sabina G. Knees; H. Suzanne Cubey; et al.
Stock no. 1207199
Published by Cambridge University Press. 2nd 2011. Fine condition.

Casuarinaceae to Cruciferae. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. xix + 642 pages. 2nd edition. ISBN: 9780521761512. Book mint except for namestamp to front endpaper and foredge.

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THE EUROPEAN GARDEN FLORA FLOWERING PLANTS VOLUME I
Written by James Cullen; Sabina G. Knees; H. Suzanne Cubey; et al.
Stock no. 1207197
Published by Cambridge University Press. 2nd 2011. Fine condition.

Alismataceae to Orchidaceae. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. xix + 665 pages. 2nd edition. ISBN: 9780521761475. Book mint except for namestamp to front endpaper and foredge.

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HOLLY, YEW & BOX
Written by William Dallimore.
Stock no. 1603931
Published by Theophrastus. 1977. Slightly better than very good condition.

With Chapters on Other Evergreens. Reprint of the 1908 edition. B/w photos and illustrations. 284 pages. ISBN: 0913728128. Some rubbing to edges. a few grubby marks to front endpaper. Contents near fine.

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AZALEAS KINDS AND CULTURES
Written by H. Harold Hume.
Stock no. 1603929
Published by The Macmillan Company. 2nd 1949. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. Spine and corners bumped. Name in ink to front endpaper. Price-cut wrapper is edge torn and chipped with a little loss. Wrapper spine faded.

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GENTIANS
Written by David Wilkie. Illustrated by John Nash.
Stock no. 1603831
Published by Country Life Limited. 1950. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Revised edition. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w photos. Colour frontis by John Nash. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Edge fading to cloth on boards. Scattered foxing. Wrapper is edge torn and chipped with a little loss and a few grubby marks.

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