harry harpur (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. [1st edition], 1st printing ; 240 pp. : color illustrations ; 29 cm. ; ISBN: 0517655195 ; LCCN: 87-37970 ; OCLC: 17353913 ; LC: SB407; Dewey: 635.9; NAL: SB407.W5 ; color photographic boards in similarly illustrated dustjacket ; Forty-six pages of color charts that aid in the selection of plants are complemented by an alphabetical directory of more than 1,100 plants almost all illustrated by a color photograph.Each plant on the charts is cross-referenced to the plant directory to help determine successful plant associations, care, cultivation and propagation techniques. The author was educated at Dulwich and Shrewsbury, served with the Fleet Air Arm and then studied horticulture at Seal-Hayne College in Devon. He then worked in Niger ia for several years as a tobacco leaf buyer for the British-American Tobacco Company, while studying the plants of Nigeria. After returning to England and settling in Chichester in Sussex, he opened a nursery and garden center with a comprehensive range of plants, including many that are rare or unusual. He has also been responsible for a number of inventions, including the unique system of plant selection that forms the basis for this book. ; a small spot on the flyleaf and table of contents page, else VG/FINE. Book.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. This very good copy is bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. There is a small nick to the head of the spine. A dust wrapper is not present. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. A fascinating illustrated history of air borne postal systems from the balloon flights over Paris through flying boats to remote communities to the dedicated postal flights of the inter-war period. Ref YY4.