Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None
Price:
$50.00
Maynard, Samuel T.
THE SMALL COUNTRY PLACE
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1908
First edition. Octavo. 320 pp; frontis & 100 b/w photos & diagrams. Green pictorial cloth, illustrated endpapers. VG, former owner name stamped on front pastedown & ffep, else an unmarked copy; cover image bright & clean, spine a bit darkened.
Inventory number #012959
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None
Price:
$25.00
Fox, Helen Morgenthau
GARDENING FOR GOOD EATING
NY: Macmillan, 1943
Second printing. Octavo. xiv, 262 pp; illustrations by Louise Mansfield. Decorative cloth with paper spine label. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine label chipped at top, spine darkened.
Inventory number #012550
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$15.00
Jones, Louise Seymour
WHO LOVES A GARDEN
Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1935
Second printing. Octavo. 205 pp. Decorated paper-covered boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy except for toning on front & rear free endpapers from jacket flaps, spine a bit toned, small stain at bottom edge of back cover; price-clipped jacket has toned spine, old water stain ring near bottom of spine, top edge of back cover lightly chipped with small loss at top corner. A delightful account of the gardens of poets, philosophers and kings.
Inventory number #012549
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Price:
$15.00
Beharrell, C.H.
CLAREMONT LANDSCAPE GARDEN Surrey
London: National Trust, 1994
Reprint. Octavo. 38 pp; 24 b/w illustrations; bibliography. Staple-bound illustrated stiff card covers. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; no cover wear.
Inventory number #012316
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Price:
$25.00
Rorschach, Kimerly
THE EARLY GEORGIAN LANDSCAPE GARDEN
New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 1983
Quarto. 107 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, clean copy. Exhibition catalogue with 85 entries.
Inventory number #012284
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: None
Price:
$35.00
HOMES OF DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND COMPANY, INC. Garden City, London, Kingswood, Surrey, Toronto
Garden City, NY: Privately Printed, 1930
Octavo. unpaginated. Fold-out frontispiece by Chester Price, b/w plates throughout; list of offices and bookstores. Original blue cloth with gilt rules and titles on cover. VG, minor wear to corners, crown bumped. Views of Country Life Press in Garden City, NY; Windmill Press in Kingswood, Surrey, England; 99 Great Russell St in London; and Amen House in Toronto, Canada.
Inventory number #011649
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
Price:
$6.00
Ephemera - Visitors Guide
OLD WESTBURY GARDENS
Old Westbury, NY: Old Westbury Gardens, n.d.
9" x 6". [28] pp; b/w photographs; map. Stapled cream paper wraps with color photograph affixed to cover. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers lightly soiled.
Inventory number #011519
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$30.00
Hunt, John Dixon
THE PICTURESQUE GARDEN IN EUROPE
London: Thames & Hudson, 2002
Quarto. 208 pp; including 75 color & 100 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. The "picturesque" or "natural" garden was the rage in eighteenth-century Europe. Largely created and crafted in England, it was exported to other countries, which strove to adapt its forms to local conditions. This is the first book about that famous episode in garden history to look at the larger, European map of landscape design.
Inventory number #011429
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$125.00
White, J. P.
GARDEN FURNITURE AND ORNAMENT
Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo Book, 1987
Quarto. 253 pp, illustrated with b/w photographs & drawings. Green cloth with gilt lettering on cover & spine with dustjacket, marbled endpapers. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket bright with no tears or chips. This is a reprint of the most complete catalogue of J.P. White's Pyghtle Works of Bedford, England, the foremost supplier of garden furniture and ornaments in the early part of the 20th century. They supplied.homeowners, businesses, institutions, and leading landscape architects, including Gertrude Jekyll, Edwin Lutyens, and Vita Sackville-West.
Inventory number #011425
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$50.00
Mawson, Timothy [Inscribed to Literary Editor Ray Roberts]
THE GARDEN ROOM: Bringing Nature Indoors
NY: Clarkson Potter, 1994
First edition. Small quarto. 176 pp; profusely illustrated with color photographs & illustrations by Ivan Terestchenko. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Presentation copy to editor Ray Roberts, inscribed, "To Ray, alas you were not my editor but I am glad you are a friend! Wamest wishes, Tim." Ray Roberts was a prominent literary editor at Macmillan, Doubleday, Little Brown, Henry Holt and most recently, at Viking until his retirement in 2005. His many distinguished authors include Thomas Pynchon, John Fowles, David Attenborough, and Ansel Adams.
Inventory number #011390
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Price:
$10.00
Batey, Mavis & Jan Woudstra
THE STORY OF THE PRIVY GARDEN AT HAMPTON COURT
London: Barn Elms, 1996
Reprint. Octavo. 35 pp; profuse color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. Near Fine. For well over 200 years, the outlines of King William's private garden at Hampton Court lay in secret under the soil. Today, after pioneering archaeology and exciting discoveries in the archives, an ambitious garden reconstruction has brought the magnificent ensemble back to view.
Inventory number #011001
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Price:
$25.00
Sotheby's
Garden, Architectural and Fossil Decoration. Sept. 26th 2006; Sale #B06821
West Sussex: Sotheby's Publications, 2006
Oblong quarto. 192 pp; illustrated throughout in color. Paperback. Near Fine.
Inventory number #010980
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$25.00
Desmond, Ray
KEW: The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens
London: Harvill Press, 1995
Quarto. 466 pp; 34 color plates & hundreds of b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy. This illustrated history of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew traces an evolution over more than two centuries from their origins in the reign of Queen Caroline as two royal gardens into the nation's premier botanic garden.
Inventory number #010976
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None
Price:
$15.00
Eaton, Walter Prichard
WILD GARDENS OF NEW ENGLAND
Boston: W.A. Wilde Co., 1936
Octavo. 124 pp; illustrated by b/w photographs; appendix on wild flower preservation. Dark blue cloth, no jacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, spine gilt dulled.
Inventory number #010726
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
Price:
$40.00
Wright, Richardson, ed.
HOUSE & GARDEN, June 1948
NY: Conde Nast, 1948
Small folio. 194 pp; profusely illustrated. Paperback. VG, spine shows light wear, with small loss at top. Cover photograph by Tom Leonard of summer on a New England porch at the Bar Harbor home of Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer. The 1948 movie "Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House" inspired a game, an article, rooms, and a kitchen, all in this issue. Also travel articles on Canada by Dofy Munger Skaith, on Italy by Frederic Prokosch, and on Bermuda by Thomas Tileston Waterman. Also examples of four vacation houses - beach house, boat house at Lake Cazenovia, cabin on Lake Superior, and cottage at Malibu Beach. Photos of the New York Flower Show.
Inventory number #010720
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
Price:
$40.00
Wright, Richardson, ed.
HOUSE & GARDEN, February 1948
NY: Conde Nast, 1948
Small folio. 156 pp; profusely illustrated. Paperback. VG, spine has several tears, with small loss at top. Cover photography by Shulman.
Inventory number #010719
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
Price:
$40.00
Wright, Richardson, ed.
HOUSE & GARDEN, November 1931
NY: Conde Nast, 1931
Small folio. 116 pp; profusely illustrated. Paperback. VG. Cover design by Pierre Brissaud.
Inventory number #010716
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
Price:
$40.00
Wright, Richardson, ed.
HOUSE & GARDEN, June 1928
NY: Conde Nast, 1928
Small folio. 176 pp; profusely illustrated. Paperback. VG. Cover design by Sue Williams
Inventory number #010715
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
Price:
$30.00
Roberts, Mary Fanton, ed.
ARTS & DECORATION, Vol. 46, No. 3, May 1937
NY & Boston: Arts & Decoration Publishing, 1937
Folio (14" x 10"). 48 pp, incl ads; full of b/w photographs. Paperback. VG, moderate wear to spine, light edgewear. Cover from a painting by Frederick C. Frieseke, "Knitting.". Articles by Elsie de Wolfe
Inventory number #010707
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
Price:
$40.00
Wright, Richardson, ed.
HOUSE & GARDEN, October 1930
NY: Conde Nast, 1930
Small folio. 164 pp; profusely illustrated. Paperback. VG, small loss at top & bottom of spine, light edgewear. Cover design by Pierre Mourgue
Inventory number #010706