Eldon abraham (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Rubbed gilt titles on burgundy cloth.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 247 pp. ; red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents : Our president speaks / Robert M Zollinger -- Foreword / O Keister Evans, Jr -- Is it worth it? / Eldon Cabbage -- Landscaping with roses / Clyde E Learned -- Designed for jewels / Judith Hills Packard -- The Master and the rose / Woodrow M Cook -- Growing roses / Royle P Thomas -- Fertilizers and disease/insect problems / O R Beach -- Show table preview 1966-1967 / William L Kiel -- Disbudding, for show or at home -- The rose box / Larry S Buster -- Dwarf fruit trees as accent plants in your rose garden / Tod Reabuck -- Hybridizing new old roses / Bruce A Wilson -- Creating new hardy roses / Percy H Wright -- Possible Apomixis in roses / H H Marshall -- Tiny treasures of joy / Florence Meyen -- Growing roses in Miami Florida / Capt F G Stafford -- Current look at pest and disease control of outdoor roses / S W Jacklin, W L Klarman, F F Smith -- Know your pesticides / Lewis P Harris -- How to select the right sprayer or duster for your roses / R O Geuther -- Virus problems of roses J A Milbrath -- Roses and Nematodes / Paul M Alexander -- Roses that climb, roses that ramble / Ruth Acevedo -- A gentle hint from a new member (poem) -- Roses in Bonnie Scotland / Duncan Gillespie -- Favorite rose books / Helen D Carswell -- Use of roses in the home garden / A W Boicourt -- ROses in the state of Israel / Abraham Ne'eman -- Do mulches conserve water? / Arthur T Corey -- What is pH? -- We caught a brass ring / Patricia H Parks -- Roses in Southern California / Fred W Walters -- By any other name / Florence Lindemann -- Start 'em while they're young / Bill Brantley -- Roses in your diet / Charles L. Coens -- The old problem of species in Rosa with special reference to North America / Dr Eileen W Erlanson Macfarlane -- A fream coming true, with old garden roses / Mrs J L Sandusky -- Rose surgery and the state of the union / William E McMahon -- My pink garden / Ruth H Boyd -- All-America rose selections -- New rose patents -- New roses of the world -- Ineligible roses -- Proof of the pudding. ; bookplate on front ep ; VG. Book.…

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. First Edition. Two minute tears to spine ends. Else a handsome and tight copy with the slightest hint of slanting. Title page blindstamped.; Author's note: "To the yet untravelled portion of the British Nation (if such there be) the following work (in which the art of travelling is made easy, and the most ignorant and idolent rendered, in the space of a few months, illustrious tourists, tour writers, and diners out, ) is presented, with all due tenderness and humility, by their fellow-countryman and devour well-wisher, THE AUTHOR." - In short - these are observations, travel tips, dos and don'ts for the traveller to the European continent. - "[Eldon] warned travellers, especially young single women, not to travel to the Continent. Italy was then a dangerous country 'infested with robbers of all hues'. Young women travellers should be taught that the Continent is a lion's den, Frenchmen and Italians little better than two-legged beasts, he said. In fact Eldon is so protective of single women that he believes they should avoid travel, stay at home and read the Bible." Quoted from: A. A. Kelly, Wandering Women. Two Centuries of Travel out of Ireland, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1995, 8, in Ireland and Europe: the "European Experience" in Selected Works of Modern Irish Fiction by Dore Fischer. - The two books are bound in one volume in buckram. Gilt spine lettering.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; viii, 277, 285, [2] pages.…

Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. volume 1 only ( of 2 ) cr 8vo, viii,277pp, contemporary quarter calf with leather corners and marbled boards, leather bit rubbed and aged and boards surface scuffed but binding good and sound and good as is , a little leather restorer of choice will help of course, old name to top of title page not affecting any print, the first 10 leaves or so have a ( reducing ) very minor water mark to lower right hand corner, this is very modest and nothing to worry about, contents good clean and sound, again VOLUME 1 ONLY, hard to find work by dr abraham eldon ( pseud for thomas wyse ). Book.…