May Cowan (13 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Very good condition, no dust jacket. The history and plantings of the famous Highland gardens started by Osgood Mackenzie, begining in 1862. His daughter carried on his work when he died in 1922. 31 photo illustrations, 24 in color 7 b&w. 2 maps. List of some of the trees, shrubs and flowers. 152 pgs.…

Condition: Good. 1964. First Edition. 152 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Black and white and colour photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor.

152 pp., ill. in color & b&w, list of plants; The fascinating story of a garden created in 1862 and owned by the National Trust of Scotland. very good copy in d.j.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 240 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket has only slight edgewear, otherwise without flaw. 6 X 9" 152 pages, published 1964. Every year thousands of visitors go to the garden of Inverewe, 84 miles due west of Inverness. Its fame and popularity would astonish Osgood Mackenzie, who began it in 1862 when there was only a peninsula of almost barren rock, open to Atlantic gales and salt spray. The author's late husband looked after the garden for the National Trust of Scotland, and his notes are the basis for this book. Cowan describes its development, makes lists of the principal trees, shrubs and other plants and their origin, and devotes a chapter to the many interesting and unusual variety of rhododendrons. With 24 colour and seven black/white photographs, as well as maps and plan. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Hardback. With dust jacket. A solid edition.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 1964, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket slightly rubbed with a couple of small chips at spine head (now protected); brown cloth boards a touch rubbed to corners but remain overall clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions - owners name and address to front endpaper dated 1966; slight toning to page-ends but text, maps and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. …

Hardback. Condition: VG+. G+ DW. 1st Edition. Brown cloth. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Spine ends a litle bumped, Some spotting mainly to top text edge. Dustwrapper/dustjacket has closed tears to top and bottom edges and back cover is marked.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. This book deals with comprehensive studies of trees, including shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, palms and tree, ferns and their occurrence, Identifications, common names and their climatic conditions for growing in different geographic environmental circumstances. The area covered by this volume-comprises the Darjelling, Kurseong, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri and Buxa forest divisions, or the political districts of Darjelling and Jalpaiguri. It includes most of the trees, shrubs and climbers of Sikkim, except those at levels above 11, 000 feet and in fact a great part of the area is usually known as Sikkim by botanists. (jacket).…