christabel beck (4 risultati)

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Jessie M. Browton; Bernard Murray; J.E. Downward; Paul Furse; L.F. La Cour; Richard Hobbs (illustratore). First edition. Christabel Beck's study of the genus Fritillaria, with four colour plates and forty black and white illustrations Lifelong gardener Christabel Beck's detailed account of Fritillaria, a genus of plants in the lily family. With four colour plates, forty black and white illustrations, collated and complete. Comprised of seven chapters on the early history of the genus, the structure of the plant, how they propagate, and how to cultivate them, with a descriptive list of species to the rear. Beck hunted plants all over the British Isles, Palestine, Sweden and the Alps, and had a keen interested in Fritillaria which she cultivated herself. Shropshire county library stamp and pen markings to verso to the title page. Remains of a sticker to the rear paste down. Shropshire library stamp and the remains of a yellow library sticker to the rear endpaper. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. A little rubbed to the boards and the spine. Lightly bumped to the head and tail of the spine with some minor wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound, with bright and clean pages. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Well bound in blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. Corners and spine ends all good. Text pages and eps are all clean with no markings or previous owner inscriptions. 4 colour and 40 monochrome plates plus 10 in text drawings. Dust jacket is price clipped with several closed tears and chips, protected now in removable clear cover. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. First edition first impression 1953 very good hardback, foxing and browning to page edges and endpapers, in a good dust wrapper, spine and top edge of front cover lightly sunned, corners and edges rubbed, small piece missing top left corner of front cover, foxing inside cover. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. Price clipped. 96 pages with index. Illustrations. Bibliography.

96pp + 40 b/w plates + 4 colour plates. Cloth boards, little scuffed. Top edge and spine faded. Outer pages foxed, contents little marked. A clean copy. 25x16cms.