Published by Macmillan & Co Ltd, London, 1943
Seller: Mike Park Ltd, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Rather worn and frayed. First Edition. Octavo, pp xiii, 302, fore edge slightly foxed, very slightly age-toned, cream buckram very slightly worn, in a worn and torn dustwrapper. [The author was John Hugh Smyth-Piggott, though this was not made public at the time. They are erudite and readable - full of botany, books, music, travel, literature.].
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. [x], 58, [6] pages. Plates included in the pagination. Illustrations from wood engravings by John O'Connor. Numbered 216 of the 550 copies printed. In the original blue buckram which has inner gilt dentelles. With the printed dustwrapper - this is browned and spotted. The spine is very browned. A light smell of tobacco?
Published by The Dropmore Press,, London,, 1947
Seller: Crouch Rare Books, Godalming, United Kingdom
Condition: near fine, with nine wood engraving by John O'Connor, (illustrator). quarto, 59pp, original cloth covered boards, title gilt on spine and gilt device on upper board, inner dentelles gilt, dustwrapper with wood cut illustration, top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed, illustrated title page, wide margins, decorated initial and tailpiece, book near fine, a few marks on dw else near fine,
Published by London: The Dropmore Press, 1947., 1947
Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Limited edition, no.390 of 550 copies, 4to., pp.59, blue cloth, lettered in gilt and with pictorial emblem in gilt to front board, decorative gilt inner dentelles, handmade paper, with wood engravings by John O'Connor, including dedication page, pictorial title, 6 full-page plates, plus illuminated letter and decorative tailpiece; foxing to edges, else very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which has foxing to pale paper.