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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. I can only imagine that a lot of people collect: "A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson. I have seen it and sold it in many interations over the years. Here's another copy, this one a bit different. Allt the illustrations are made paper silhouettes, in black & green and sometimes all black. Condition: This book is in very good condition. The hard covers are clean and bright, with some minor bumping to the corners and spine tips and along the spine, nothing extreme. Inside, the book is unmarked and the interior pages are clean and bright throughout, without toning or foxing. This book is not ex-library or a remainder. Paula Rees Good (illustrator).…

Zustand: Fair. No edition stated (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 91pp. Text illustrations by Paula Rees Good. Original illustrated brown boards. This book is in good minus condition only; the head and foot of the spine are chipped, the edges of the boards are rubbed, and the contents are tanned.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Sehr gut. 64 S. B785-7 9783902755087 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 878.

Cloth. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 432pp. Red cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Slight lean to text block, some wear to cloth along hinges. Bookplate removed from front free endpaper. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.50 retail price, soiled with a dampstain to rear panel. A few short closed tears, jacket held intact by tape repairs to verso. Inscribed by the author on the half title: "For --- with the good wishes of Louis Bromfield." A Good Woman was Bromfield's first publication following his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Early Autumn (1926). Despite his successful literary career, Bromfield spent the majority of his life as an early champion of sustainable farming and organic agriculture. Signed first edition of A Good Woman by Louis Bromfield. (illustrator). Signed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 161, xxv pp. ; green and red cloth with designs ; no dustjacket ; Contents: The progress of the American Rose Society / S S Pennock -- The use of the rose in the landscape / Wilhelm Miller -- The literature of the rose -- The rose in the "Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture" / L H Bailey -- Francis Parkman on roses / M N Baker -- The practical book of outdoor rose-growing / J Horace McFarland -- The oldest rose-garden in the United States -- The American rose advance / J Horace McFarland -- Roses worth while for everybody / George C Thomas, Jr -- Selections from recent garden roses / Aaron Ward -- Rose bloom records at Egandale / W C Egan -- E G Hill's forthcoming roses / Sarah A Hill -- The new American roses of 1917 / J Horace McFarland -- The basis of merit in roses / Jesse A Currey -- Methods of rose-growing / J Horace McFarland -- Propagation by budding / Robert Huey -- The trenching method of rose propagation / C D Beadle -- Springfield roses / John M Good -- Rose importations / j Horace McFarland -- How to conduct an amateur rose show / J Horace McFarland -- Details and classification for amateur shows / Jesse A Currey --The rose all over America / J Horace McFarland -- A great rose-garden and its message / G A Parker -- The garden clubs and the rose / Mrs. Francis King -- Work and play in a Texas rose-garden / WIlliam A Anderson -- The Minneapolis Municipal Rose Garden at Lyndale Park / Theodore Wirth -- In my rose-garden / E M Mills -- The national rose test-garden / F L Mulford -- The Cornell Rose Test-Garden / A C Beal -- The Portland National Rose Test Garden / J Horace McFarland -- Roses in the Arnold Arboretum / J Horace McFarland -- Rose-growing in a Northern Latitude / W B Burgoyne -- The enemies of the rose / J Horace McFarland -- Rose diseases / L M Massey -- An entomologist and his rose-garden / A D Hopkins -- Greeting from abroad / J Horace McFarland -- Cut-flower rose-growing / J Horace McFarland -- The cut-rose production of America / J Horace McFarland --Cut-flower rose-growing in America in 1916 / Wallace R Pierson -- Cut-flower rose-growing in Canada / John R. Dunlop -- In Memoriam -- A partial list of roses introduced in America / Charles E F Gersdorff, J Horace McFarland -- The work of the American Rose Society : Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, with Presiden't Address and reports of the Secretary and Treasurer -- The Washington and Cornell Meetings -- Meetings of the Executive Committee -- Awards at Philadelphia Show of 1916 -- The story of rose black-spot -- new roses registered in 1916 -- Rules for registration of new roses -- Regulations for judging and scale of points -- American Rose Society medals for novelties -- Committees governing rose test-gardens -- At the Hartford Test Gardens --Local societies affiliated -- The eighteenth Annual Meeting of the American Rose Society -- Medals awarded in 1916 -- Lest of members -- Index -- Index to advertisers -- List of Plates -- John Cook's unnamed American seeding (colored plate) -- Benjamin Hammond, Secretary American Rose Society -- New hybrid tea rose, Mrs. Henry Winnett -- Fred H Howard's new American rose, Los Angeles (colored plate) -- New hybrid Wichuriana rose, Alida Lovett -- New Hardy Climbing rose, Seedling No. 48 -- Acres of American-grown roses -- The important rose test-gardens -- Native roses for roadside adornment in the Arnold Arboretum -- The oldest rose-garden in the United States [Van Courtlandt Manor, Croton, NY] ; stamp of the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum on front endpaper ; with 25 pages of illustrated adverisments ; ; slight foxing, else FINE ; extremely scarce 2nd year of the series which began in 1916. Book.…