George s bowen (7 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Fine book in light card covers. Internally mint and free of inscriptions; very well illustrated.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 128 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.32 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 258 pp. ; illustrated, some in color ; green cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents: President's Message / Dr. R C Allen -- A rose named Peace - Poem / Jacob Kisner -- The story of Rose Day / Cynthia Wescott -- Suburb of Eden / Louis C. Gross -- Roses in Israel / David E. Gilad -- Protection best cure against blackspot / Diane C Moore -- Your Show schedule / P A Haring -- At the Rose Show: Exhibiting better roses / Louise COleman -- Exhibiting miniatures / F. Harmon Saville -- Exhibiting Old Garden Roses and shrubs / Dora R. Empson -- The diary of a rose show chairman / Judy Nau -- Breakthrough in midge control / Paul H. Johnstone -- Roses in Spring - Poem / John T. Dickman -- The roses at Wyck: 1839 and today / Leonie Bell -- Modern rose parentage II / Lincoln Atkiss -- Thoughts in a garden / George W. O'Neal -- The Japnese beetle and Milky spore / Charles D. Brown -- Great poets and the Queen of Flowers / Clyde K. Hyder -- The fossil rose - Poem / Paul B. Halstead -- The rose is a Hawaiian tradition / Donald P. Watson -- Spring pruning does and don'ts / Alexander J. Barton -- Is there a syndrome in your garden? / Marshall Perham -- Powdery mildew / Southern Florist and Nurseryman -- No less wonderful - Poem / Louise McMillan -- Highlights of the 1974 International Convention : Opening address / Frank Bowen -- What's new in the world of chemicals -- Public gardens and trial grounds -- New roses and hybridizing I -- II -- III -- IV -- Exhibiting and judging roses -- Report on Old Garden Rose workshops / Edith C. Schurr -- Wrapping them all up -- Closing address : The rose, present and future / David S. Stump -- Top rated roses in the US / Golden Triangle RS -- New roses of the world -- Plant patents -- Proof of the pudding -- ARS officers & Former presidents -- Gold honor Medal -- Gold certificate -- Index -- Color illustrations : Red Fountain -- Rose Parade -- Spellbinder -- Golden Angel -- My Valentine -- Arizona -- Oregold -- Sonia. ; slight wear, else VG. Book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Pages 353-418. Features: On the Grand Bank; "By Water in the Desert"; The Man Who Rememered; "Old Man Crag"; Phases of Life; My Adventures in "German South-West"; Short Stories; Forbidden Frontier - adventure along the Russia-Finland border involving a scientist who escaped from a Soviet prison camp; Dr. Weston's Marlin (fishing adventures); The Cat; Advertising for a Wife; Man and His Needs; and more. Covers separated from textblock but present. Above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Cuneo, T.T.; Prater, Ernest; Crombie, Charles; Carruthers, G.P.; Soper, George; Tresilian, S.; Nicolson, W.C. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: In Search of the Lost Oases - Part I of a wonderful trip across the desert from Sollum, on the Mediterranean, to El Obeid, in the Sudan, mostly through unexplored territory, with photos; Smugglers Three - Poaching swan eggs; Azizun the Dancing-Girl - Sir George MacMunn owned an uncanny little "frog-girl" in India; The Odyssey of the "Olga" - A trip from Nome, Alaska to Seattle ended up taking over three months!; Photo of sixty-foot-tall statue of the god Gomateswara being annointed with oil on the great hill of Sravanbelgola; Left Behind - A young white woman is left behind at a lonely wayside station in the heart of Rhodesia; Lost in the Heart of Peru - Part I - G.M. Dyott was abandoned by his guide in the trackless upper reaches of the Amazon and endured an ordeal to return home - with photos; The Thirteenth Sample - A nerve-trying adventure in the depths of an abandoned mine in Northern Mexico; A Bird-Hunter in the Wilds - G.L. Bates describes a seven-month journey in the remote Cameroon country of Central Africa - with great photos; The Voice in the Darkness - A tragic story of an encounter between a bootlegger and the law during prohibition in Brigson, Alberta; "Sinbad the Sailor" - An American university professor becomes a swindler in Winnipeg; Tiger Tales - Tales from Assam and Sumatra by W.J. Brands; What Was It? - Patrick Brown encountered a mysterious monster in South Africa which appeared to be a survivor of some prehistoric species; The Crocodile Charmers of Java - Javanese witch-doctors 'make love to them, induce them to follow them like pet dogs, and lead them to their deaths'; The Two Strangers - Dr. C.E.Ellis thought he knew a 'bunco man' but then he met two harmless prospectors. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, October 1925, Rosita Forbes, Kufra, Rohlfs, Senussi, Siwa, Sayed Idris Sennusi, Qayi-m-qana, In Search of the Lost Oases, Sahara desert, Sollum, El Obeid, Sudan, Smugglers Three, Swan eggs, Swan Egg Poaching, Azizun the Dancing-Girl. Illustrated by Woodville, R. Caton; Gillett, F.; Leigh, Conrad; York,W.G.; Sutcliffe, Norman; Somerfield, T.; Eyles, D.C.; Brock, H.M.; Holmes,Fred; Briault, S.; Prater, E.; Goss, G.W.; Peddie, Tom; Lloyd, Stanley (illustrator).…

Zustand: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Oct. 12 (SALE item)* 71 pp., paperback, previous owner's name to top edge of front cover, some red ink to top and bottom of spine else text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.…

First Edition. First edition, 12mo, pp. 23, [1]; frontispiece, 4 full-page illustrations in the text; original dark green glazed paper wrappers printed in gilt; extremities a little worn, back wrap slightly chipped; very good. The frontispiece (signed "Baker sc.") is a fine view of the farm's large dairy barn, floorplans for which appear in the text. Included also is a short account of a "barn sociable," attended by nearly 400 people on the occasion of the barn's dedication in 1870, and at which a prize was awarded for proposing the best name for the farm. Bowen here is offering the 400-acre farm for sale "on very easy and desireable terms." A principal in the Chicago dry goods firm Bowen & Bros., and a one-time mayor of Elgin, Bowen was an organizer of the Chicago & Pacific Railroad. Not in Ante-Fire Imprints. Four in OCLC: AAS, IU, Chicago, and IU-Chicago.…