Haarlem: Joh. Enschede En Zonen, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small octavo. Printed on pale yellow cloth on boards with white paper label, lettered in black. Text in black on the spine. Illustrated throughout with line drawings. Frontispiece illustrations of Clusius. Previous owner book-plate to the front paste-down. This owner was Conrad B. Link, famous horticulturalist, professor at the University of...
New York: Viking, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy in the famous coffee colored dust jacket. Previous owner signature on the front free endpaper. Illustrated throughout.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1933). Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in the deep green deluxed binding with illustration in gilt evoking an Arts & Craft mood. Decorated and illustrated by Rex Whistler but the cover art is unattributed. This copy has some very minor rubbing to the edges and the spine has faded a bit.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1934). First edition. Hardcover. Fine. This copy is a first edition but bound in the deluxe green binding with gilt decoration evoking an Arts and Crafts mood. Small previous bookshop sticker to the rear paste-down. Illustrated and decorated by Rex Whistler but the cover art design is unattributed.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. VG. Green boards with gold lettering and ornament. Slightly faded. Very nice and tight.
New York: Crown Publishing, 1954. FIRST. NF / VG. A very nice copy in like dust jacket. Many lovely illustrations in color.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1957). Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A clean, bright and solid copy of this title with 114 full page plates, the frontispiece in full color. The jacket is clipped and shows some very minor edge-wear. With the book plate of well know Maryland artist Helen Smith on the front paste-down. In the rear of...
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979. FIRST. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A fine copy in all respects. Illustrated throughout. Foreward by Virginia Weaver.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1982). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. A fine copy in all respects. Profusely illustrated throuhout.