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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1888 slim pocket book as prepared by Suttons of Reading. Not an illustration in sight, but plenty full of excellent information on how to cook vegetables. Includes the benefits of eating Dandelion "with plenty of nourishing food and outdoor excersise, the Dandelion may prove to be sufficient medicine for the restoration of health." Also how to flavour peas with mint, d how to cook red cabbage with loaf sugar, vinegar and worcester sauce. Front seam has cracked but not split, covers lightly soiled but still a robust and complete copy.

Zustand: Used - Good. Good hardback. Tipped in note suggest a proof or advanced copy of the 12th edition. Light foxing. Binding tight. Green cloth worn, particularly at corners and spine head/foot. Gilt lettering on front board and spine.

Cloth. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 19th Edition. Hardback. Foxing to end inside covers. Wear to edges and corners of cloth. Closed tear to edge of spine. Marks to cloth. Green cloth with gilt lettering. A very good reading copy. Contents: The Culture of Vegetables. A Year's Work in the Vegetable Garden. The Rotation of Crops in the Vegetable Garden. The Chemistry of Garden Crops. Manures and Fertilisers and Their Application to Garden Crops. The Culture of Flowers From Seeds. The Cutlure of Flowering Bulbs. Flowers All the Year Round. The Pests of Garden Plants. The Fungus Pests of Certain Garden Plants. The Fungus Pests of Certain Flowers. Index. Illustrated. 458 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No jacket. Good condition.Simpkin,Marshall,1926.Blue hardback(some nicks,marks and scratches on the cover and spine,gilt lettering on the front cover and spine) in good condition,no Dj.Illustrated with b/w drawings.Clean pages but tainted and aged on the outer edges,piece of the first blank page of the book is clipped,some foxing and ink marks inside the pages,small nicks and creases on the edges of the pages,light shelf wear on the cover.The book is in GC for its age but with some shelf wear.465pp including index.Heavy book.

Fifteenth Edition. 453 S. gr.8. m. Textabb. Englisch. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent&Co. Ltd. London. 1913. Ausreichend/Acceptable. Leinen/Hardcover. Einband etwas fleckig, leicht fingerfleckig. Sprache: englisch/english.

pp.196 with b/w. photographs throughout. Small 4to. Softback. Thor. vg. Card covers with Royal warrant to front. With Typed two page Suttons testimonial (dated Jan. 1st 1910) - very complimentary about the value, quality and that Suttons are not the rich man's Seedsmen, but the 'poor man's seedsmen' - attached to title page. Scarce. After the testimonial, Suttons describe how the 'disastrous weather of 1909' affected them. A very extensive, well illustrated catalogue of vegetable and flower seeds together with garden implements and accessories. An excellent example of a gardening Catalogue overflowing with products prior to outbreak of World War One during which offerings were reduced to wartime priorities.

pp.131 with 4 col. plates & b/w. illus. throughout. 4to. Softback. Spotting and other marks throughout, cords stretched and becoming disbound. Pictorial card covers creased and chipped. Still very readable. Scarce. An extensive, beautifully illustrated, catalogue of vegetable seeds, potatoes for planting, asparagus, rhubarb and sea kale, garden implements, lawn mower and grass seeds, flower seeds, bulbs, plants and gardening books. Suttons were appointed by Royal Sealed Warrants as Seedsmen to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Original wraps. Zustand: Very good. Advance Reading Copies of the first American edition of The World Crisis by Winston S. Churchill, published by Charles Scribner's Sons. In two volumes. (illustrator). Octavo, [two volumes], xvi, [2], 302pp; x, [2], 325pp, [5]. Publisher's original paper wrappers, title on label affixed to spine, title and publication details on the front cover of each volume. Scribner's Seal on copyright page of both volumes. Soiling to spines, general wear to paper wraps. Includes 23 full-page and fold-out maps, charts and diagrams. Two maps in color. Text block is sound, with the occasional pencil mark and notation. (Woods A31a) (Cohen A69.1[III-2].a). An exceptionally scarce copy of this work. Advance Reading Copy / First American Edition.

Printed, sheet, 13 x 18cm, completed in ms; old folds, browned. The receipt is for 12 shillings and 6 pence 'received of Mr Buchanan', for six months subscription between April and October 1878 allowing for two volumes to be withdrawn at one time. The cheapest subscription, allowing for a single volume to be withdrawn is advertised at the bottom of the sheet for 10s 6d for 12 months. The most expensive, allowing for 12 books to be withdrawn, is 13 shilling per month or £4.10.0 a year. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.

pp.211 with several col. plates & many b/w. photos. throughout. 4to. Softback. Corners gently bumped o/w. in good to vg. condition. Card covers with Royal warrant to front cover. Loosely inserted is a 20-page Supplement of Sutton's Seeds for Summer and Autumn sowing - Season 1941. Scarce. A very extensive, very well illustrated, catalogue of flowers from seed, vegetables, seed potatoes, bulbous flowers, flowering plants, roses, trees, lawns and pleasure turf, fertilisers, garden sundries and garden construction services that Suttons offered. An excellent example of a gardening Catalogue overflowing with products prior to outbreak of World War Two during which offerings were reduced to wartime priorities.