From World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 06 April 2009
1939. First Published. 193 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white and colour illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Seller Inventory # 1724738341ADA
Title: Old Fashioned Flowers
Publisher: Country life Ltd
Publication Date: 1939
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Seller: Moby Dick, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Covent Garden n.d., 195 pp., plates and ill. (spine discoploured) (code B-709). Seller Inventory # 277238
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Ann's Old Town Books, Swindon, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Old Fashioned Flowers by Sacheverell Sitwell, Hardcover, UK Edition, Reprint (1948). The book contains many illustrations, including a number of full-page colour plates, by John Farleigh. The book was first published in 1939. This reprint edition was published in 1948. Book in very good condition, without a dust jacket. The book has bumping to the spine ends and cover corners, with some cover wear. It also shows ageing internally, including to the page edges. A previous owner's name and date is inked to the inside front cover. Nonetheless a very good copy for a book of this age. (See pictures). Seller Inventory # 002028
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Claude Cox Old & Rare Books ABA, ILAB, Saxmundham, United Kingdom
Second Edition, sm.4to., pp.(10)193; coloured pictorial title & 11 colour plates; decorations in line throughout; a very nice copy in frayed pictorial dust-wrapper. Seller Inventory # 23582
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Aleph Books, Utrecht, Netherlands
London, Country Life Limited, 1948. 193, ills in colour (by John Farleigh), 8vo, cloth. Cloth sl.dam. to spine, small corner cut out of free end-paper. Seller Inventory # 438167
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Reprint. Text approaches near Fine but slight text edge marks. Sound clean covers are patchily faded. Spine faded and bit spotted but gold titles still fairly clear. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Seller Inventory # kb423.057
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
London: Country Life, 1939. Sm. 4to. Orig. cloth (faded). (x, 194pp.). With col. title-page, 11 full-page col. plates and text-illusts. 1st ed. Bookplate inside front cover. Light foxing on end-papers. Seller Inventory # 250083
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Farleigh, John (illustrator). First edition. 193 pages. 25 x 19 cm.Twelve color plates by John Farleigh, with additional drawings by him in the text. Index. Edges spotted. Orig. green cloth rubbed at backstrip extremities. Very good. Seller Inventory # 5099
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Bohemian Bookworm, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint-VG/VG but dw has tear at tp of sp and front fly leaf bottom has been cut. Illustrated by John Farleigh-11 color plates-in text wood cuts. Seller Inventory # 55680
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Green cloth has a coupe of marks but very good. Jacket in protective sleeve has some loss at spine and front corner . Some faint foxing to outer block and prelims, but otherwise clean and tight. All plates near fine. Seller Inventory # 16715
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 5 preliminary leaves, 193 pages illustrations, color plates 26 x 20 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography and index. Contents; The Jacobean Florist -- The Auricula -- The Old Primrose and Polyanthus -- The Old English Tulip -- Carnations and Pinks -- Miscellaneous Florists' Flowers -- Old Fashioned Roses -- Fuchsias -- The Nineteenth Century Florist -- Postscript -- Cultural Notes and Information. Subjects; Flowers. Gardening. Flowers. Gardening. Flower gardening. Gardens, England. Horticulture. Flowers Great Britain. Flowers. Gardening. Flowers History. Gardening History. Old-fashioned flowers. Florists' flowers. History. Landscaping. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 329810
Quantity: 1 available