A long run of this journal, rather scarce in commerce. The Gilliflower Times starts with the first issue, 1991, and proceeds through to 2000, at which point it joined the Cottage Garden Society and continued with the numbering of that journal, Late Autumn 2000 through to 2002. Slim quarto paperback issues, the early parts being stapled. [LACKING Summer and Winter1993, Summer 1994, Spring 1995 and Winter 1997.] Duplicates from the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library, with a tiny stamp on each cover. View More...
A good selection of 23 of these paperback issues, very slightly worn, all duplicates from the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library with their neat stamp and label. [Surprisingly scarce.] View More...
Revised edition. Very well illustrated, large octavo, pp 128, slightly age-toned but otherwise very clean internally, blue cloth, a very good copy in a slightly worn and age-toned dustwrapper. [A gardening classic, and very scarce in this hardback format.] View More...
Illustrated, pp 136, a bit worn, covers a bit marked and worn. [Fred Whitsey's copy with his bookplate. He was the gardening correspondent of the Sunday and Daily Telegraph for a total of 45 years. A quiet unassuming man, a pacifist, a notable amateur violin player and a great gardener.] View More...
A few illustrations, pp xviii, 416, purple cloth, lettered and decorated in silver, a very good copy. [From the library of professor Jack Hawkes, with his signature on the front endpaper.] View More...
First edition. NEW. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp x, 500; the dustwrapper is not faded and is not price-clipped, STILL ENCLOSED IN THE PUBLISHER'S CELLOPHANE. [Ever since man first cultivated plants and grew crops, insects, mites and other creatures have risen to prominence as pests, but it is only throughout the last two centuries that we have come to study them in detail. Drawing on a lifetime of experience, David V. Alford provides a fascinating account of the natural history of the insects and mites that inhabit our farms and gardens, and feed on our cultivated plants. Coverage of pe... View More...
A rare collection of eight of the British annuals, small octavo, each one illustrated with a few mounted colour plates, three are paperback, five are hardback, slightly worn; together with two editions for 1936 and 1937 of the New England Gladiolus Society, clothbound in very good condition. All are duplicates from The Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library, with their stamp and label. View More...
Second edition. Illustrated, large octavo, pp (8), 169, very slightly used internally, paperback, the covers slightly worn, the lower cover creased. SCARCE. View More...
Large octavo, pp 573, blue cloth, a very good copy. (Based on the successful Edinburgh Conference, this is "state of the art" taxonomy, with subjects covered such as intellectual property rights, DNA fingerprinting, genetic modification etc.) View More...
Well illustrated with small coloured paintings, small slim octavo, pp 65, vey clean internally, grey cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped but otherwise very good. [Postage will be reduced] View More...
Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 194, paperback, a good copy. [Permaculture, companion planting, benign pest disease and weed control, xeriscaping etc.] View More...
Well illus by Andrew Lawson, small quarto, pp 207, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. From the library of the botanist Alan leslie, with his bookplate on the front endpaper. View More...
Small octavo, pp 156, very age-toned, a small owner's stamp and bookshop label on the front endpaper, otherwise just a little used internally, paperback, covers a little worn and chipped. View More...
Thick 8vo, pp 851, a little worn & marked throughout, endpapers stained, corner snipped from front endpaper, neat signature on first blank leaf, cloth a little worn and rubbed, spine dull. View More...
Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and line drawings, octavo, pp x, 116, foxing to the first few pages and the last few, the fore-edge foxed, blue cloth slightly worn and age-toned, the spine lettering very dull. View More...
Second edition. Small squat octavo, pp x, 545 (+ publisher's catalogue), slightly used internally and very slightly weak, a small minor pressure-mark from the front endpaper through to page 17/18, endpapers a little creased, cloth slightly worn and rubbed, binding leaning slightly. [Philosophy of pruning. The fruit bud. The healing of wounds, Specific modes of training. American grape training.]. The early editions are extremely scarce. View More...
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