graham digby (5 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Revised edition. 368pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations front and spine. 8vo. Cloth is a little worn and unevenly faded, gently rubbed on extreme corners and rounded at spine ends. Some spotting on text block edges and first and last few pages else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original worn and chapped but largely complete dust wrapper, rubbed and scuffed on corners and ends of sunned spine. A large collection of stories aimed at the younger reader from a selection of children's authors, including several contributions by Noel Streatfeild herself.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. digby graham (illustratore). light coloured cloth slightly grubby.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG+. Condizione sovraccoperta: G+. Digby Graham (illustratore). 1st. 1st. 37.5cm Deep By 27cm. Magnificent full page colour art representations of 37 species of the Paphiopedilum species, the now rare orchids of South East Asia, are the outstanding feature of this book. The artist died in New Zealand in 1979 as the book was in the final stages of preparation. His wife and Ronald Roy, an expert in this field of botany, completed the project with Robin providing a chapter on the place of the orchid in European society and compiling much of the research material. Ronald compiled the text accompaning each colour plate. Other material includes the discovery of the South East Asian varieties, biography of the artist and a complete list of the species in rhe genus. Forward by Sir George Taylor, former director Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Vertical folio format, 109 pages including species list, bibliography and index. The majority of the 37 colour plates are accompanied by detail sketches below the text, numerous other b/w illustrations. Soft orange hard covers with dark front/spine titles VG+ with hint of narrow fading top left front, text block excellent. Colour art DJ featuring the artist's work front and back has received crush damage front top, tears have been tape repaired on reverse and creases largely smoothed, now G+.

(Wellington): Reed, (1983). Folio Orig. cloth. Dustwrappers. (10,110pp.). With frontispiece, title-vign., numerous text-illusts, and 38 full-page col. plates. Fine.