Mcgredy Sam (43 results)

Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gillian Kenny (illustrator). 1st Edition. 168 pp., Illus, Grn Hardback, light sunning around edges else VG in slightly chipped DJ, 1st Amer Ed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. BOOK FADED AND LITTLE STAIN ON COVER! OTHER WISE GOOD SHAPE! THE RAISING OF ROSES AND THR EFFECTS ON LIVES!

SIngleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. B & W And Color PHotos (illustrator). Copyright Date: 1982 quarto, , Various Pagination , Including Beautiful Paintings By Joyce Blake Volume L X No.4, April 1982 Magazine Complete Individual Issue.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Joyce Blake (illustrator). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Color And B & W Plates, Illustrations By Gillian Kenny (illustrator). First American Edition. Copyright Date: 1971 Octavo, 1972, PP.168, Very Good, Slightly Sunned Spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

168 pp., index, appendices, ill. with attractive full-page b&w drawings by Gillian Kenny. The fascinating detailed story of rose breeding and introduction by four generations of the famous McGredy family. very good copy in slightly worn d.j.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+/VG+/GD+. y First Edition. HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1971* Publisher: CASSELL* Binding and cover condition: Bright green cloth, gilt title to spine. Slight bumps to top corners, no rubs, no other visible faults. VG+* Jacket condition: Coloured illustrated dust wrapper. price clipped. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine with small chips and tears (without loss). GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, neat dedication to half title, fore edge lightly marked, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: B/w line drawings on cream art paper by Gillian Kenny throughout.* Pages: 148 pp. text. xx pp. Appendices & Index at rear.* Description: A book which covers the life and times of the McGredy rose growing empire. Not all plain sailing and not a little conflict but it is the story of dedication and dreams. From thousands of seedlings to a few hardy specimens eminently beautiful and sufficiently strong in character to go out into the world from the quiet fields of Portadown and become the glory of countless gardens and the pride of gardeners wherever roses are admired.* A NEAR VG copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS, reduced by worn dust jacket to GD+*. n.

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.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Joyce Blake (illustrator). 112 pages. Cover wornFifty of the world's most popular roses are illustrated in exquisite form and the background to their breeding and beauty disclosed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Joyce Blake (illustrator). 112 pages. DJ slightly worn.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Joyce Blake (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by Sam McGredy on the Title page. A beautifully illustrated book all about the Rose in New Zealand in fantastic condition. The slip case has only very minor shelf wear. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Joyce Blake (illustrator). Reprint.

Quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. joyce blake (illustrator). nice tidy copy with slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Worn - Age Spots. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn. Gillian Kenny (illustrator). Beautifully illustrated with 16 of Gillian's pencil-drawings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. H/B green cloth bds, VG, in VG d/w, contents fine and tight with lovely pencil drawings of roses by Gillian Kenny. This is the story of the long love-affair between the McGredys and their roses, told discursively, frankly and with wit and wisdom. A very nice reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 253 pp. ; illustrated, some in color ; green cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Preface / Harold S Goldstein -- President's Address / Dr Eldon W Lyle -- Our romantic rose / Nora B. Rawlinson -- Mathias Tantau, winner of the Medal of Fragrance / Werner Koch -- All-Purpose fertilizer suits roses to a tea / Dr. Robert W. Schery -- Winter's roses / Alice Obee Hamilton -- Men of the rose / Lincoln Atkiss -- Ecology & the rose / Charles E. Maley -- Five Years of Experimentation with benlate / Dr Eldon W Lyle -- Aluminum foil, a better mulch for outdoor roses / Robert J Redinger -- These I love / Kitty Simpson -- Rose fungicide trials / Lester P Nichols, Paul E. Nelson -- You name it / Verona Weeks -- Virus diseases of roses / Dr L C Cochran -- Susceptibility of rose cultivars to blackspot and powdery mildew / Leander F Johnson -- The safe disposal of surplus pesticides and empty containers / J E Dewey and R F Pendleton -- Create your own new cultivar / Joseph Winchel -- A rose is a rose / Jessie Mould -- The fertilizer feud / E M Hunt -- There will always be a new rose, will there ever be a blue rose? / Verona Weeks -- Roses are shrubs? / Griffith J Buck -- They grow more than q million rose trees each year / Sam McGredy IV -- The American Rose Foundation / Cynthia Wescott -- new Approach to Winter protection / Charles Coens -- When once the rose has touched you / Lincoln Atkiss -- Ancestors / Jerry Fellman, Patricia Hicks -- Foliage, communicators / Kenneth C Irvine -- The rose as the poet's best friend / Jacob Kisner -- New roses of the world -- Plant Patents -- Ineligible roses -- Proof of the pudding -- Color illustrations : Esther O'Farim -- Golden Gate -- Sunrise-Sunset -- White Masterpiece -- Portrait -- White Angel -- Over the Rainbow. ; foxing to endpapers ; slight wear to covers ; VG. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 112p D-J (slight chip top spine, in protective plastic) Nice owner's stamp FEP An authority on the nurturing and creation of rose varieties.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Joyce Blake (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by Sam McGredy on title page and signed by Joyce Blake on Illustration insert 115 / 275. Soft fabric greeny grey cloth on boards with gilt titles; sprinkling of off-white spots to cover. Few only faint foxing to edges. Clean content. Nice clean content. Binding is VG. 112p Dj: Soft faint rubbing and very faint couple of small scratches. Clean jacket. Box slipcase: VG: beige fabric cloth on board with gilt rose to head corner; mild dusting of a little soiling. Solid. Author and Artist.

1. Auflage. 168 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Umschlag etwas verblichen. RS Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700 22 cm x 15 cm, goldgeprägtes O.Leinen mit O.Umschlag.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Near Fine folio 112pp., b/w pls., maps, diags., appends., bibliog., index, Paintings by Joyce Blake.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The book is in as new condition. The jacket is in near fine condition with very small scuffed area at top right corner of jacket cover else as new. First Edition. First Printing.

Condition: Good. Envoi rapide Bon Etat. 27x22x2cm. 1991. Relié jaquette. 144 pages. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 207 pp ; photographs in black & white and in color ; 25 cm. ; green textured cloth with gold lettering and decorations ; water damp resulted in rippling on top of covers ; several photographs of important hybridizers and rose growers, and several color plates of new roses for 1961, including Super Star, Daily Sketch, Mischief, Stella, Lucy Cramphorn, Sabrina, Memoriam, Dearest, Fritz Thiedemann, Lilac Cream, Miss Ireland, Orange Sensation and Pink Parfait ; numerous interesting and important articles on rose growing ; Contents : Patrons, Officers And Council -- Arrangements For 1961 -- Report Of The Council -- Balance Sheets -- Presidents And Awards -- The President's Page, By F. Royalton Kisch, M.C., President -- A Great Venture, By F. Fairbrother, M.Sc., F.R.I.C. -- Recent Research On Roses, By E. F. Allen -- The Rose Garden Of Rome, By Stelvio Coggiatti -- The Late Charles Mallerin, By André Leroy, Louis Laperrière And M. Perroud -- Looking At Roses, By Constancewheatcroft -- Ro se Arrangements, By Ena Harkness -- Book Review, By F. Fairbrother, M.Sc., F.R.I.C. -- My Grandmother's Roses, By Arbel. M. Aldous -- Rose Culture In The Tropics, By Rev. P. Soares -- The Local Incidence Of Rose Disease, By A. Dick, B.Sc., M.D.,J. Clarke, Lieut.-Col. D. Pope, F. H. Morse -- Lessons From Derriaghy, By Sam McGredy -- Red Roses, By C. Walter Gregory -- The "Floiuade" At Rotterdam 1960, By A. P. C. Dickson -- Common Mistakes In Rose Growing, By R. L. Pallett -- The Yellow Roses, By Bertram Park, O.B.E., V.M.H., Mtrite Agri -- The Unorthodox Rose Grower, By F. C. H. Witchell -- By The Way, By W. J. W. Sanday -- Fifty Years Of The Rose Annual, By A. Norman -- Garden View, By J. H. Wilding -- A Modern Approach To Rose Deterio ration And Disease, By Aphra P. Wilson, M.B.E., A.R.C.S. -- "Overhead Watering Prevents Black Spot?" By Roy Hay -- Whose Roses? From A Correspondent Of The Times -- Display Gardens, By Sir Harry Pilkington . -- What's In A Name? By W. C. Thom -- Sp ecial Encouragement For Amateur Hybridists, By Edgar M. Allen, C.M.G. -- Highlights In A Veteran Rose Grower's Life, By Edgar M. Allen, C.M.G. -- An Itinerant 'Frau Karl Druschki', By Mrs. F. M. Briscoe -- Roses Which Deserve Greater Recognition, B y Rosemary James -- Plant Breeders' Rights, By Gordon Edwards, C.B.E. -- The Spring Competition, By A. J. Huxley -- The Great Summer Rose Show, By A. G. L. Hellyer -- The Artistic Classes, By Julia Clements -- Bristol Group's Annual Show -- Northern Rose Show, By Mr. And Mrs. Joseph C. Watson -- The Great Autumn Rose Show, By Gordon Forsyth -- The Trial Ground, By H. Edland -- Show Awards And Trial Ground Awards 1960 -- International Awards 1960 -- The Rose Analysis, By H. Edland -- Monochrome Plates -- The President -- New Headquarters Of The National Rose Society, Bone Hill, Chiswell Green, St. Albans, Hertfordshire -- Royal Lodge, Windsor -- The Municipal Rose Gardens, Rome -- The Late Charles Mallerin -- The Silver Plate And Spoons - - The Poulsen "Family" -- Alain And Michke Meilland -- "Just Don't Get Him Started Talking About His Roses" -- 'Vanity' -- Colour Plates -- Super Star -- Daily Sketch -- Mischief -- Gold Crown -- Golden Giant -- Stella -- Lucy Cramphorn -- Sabrina -- Memoriam -- Dearest -- Fritz Thiedemann -- Lilac Charm -- Miss Ireland -- Orange Sensation -- Pink Parfait ; FAIR. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 196 pp. ; illustrated ; green cloth with gold lettering and embossed designs ; no dustjacket ; "Produced by the Publications Committee of the National Rose Society of Great Britain" ; numerous articles on various subjects pertaining to the rose and its culture ; Contents: Patrons, Officers And Council -- Arrangements For 1956 -- The President's Page, By Oliver Mee -- Roses At Buckingham Palace And Harewood House -- Roses At Eayfordeury, By Gordon Rowley -- Roses And Rosarians, By Sam Mcgredy -- How Roses Live And Grow, By G. J. Von Abrams -- Multiflora Shock Absorber, By N. P. Harvey -- Two Pennsylvania Rose Gardens, By Catherine E. Meikle -- Miscellany, By A. Norman -- The Parc Dr La Grange Rose Garden At Geneva, By Brie Bois -- Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, By James Alexander Gamble -- Paris-Geneva-Baden-London, By Louise Bechtel -- "Old Garden Roses", By Sacheverell Sitwell And James Russell, Reviewed By W. H. Sumpster -- =Strains Produced In Rose Hybridizing, By E. B. Le Grice -- Roses To Be, By Mr. And Mrs. Walter D. Brownnell -- "Poulsen On The Rose", By Svend Poulsen, Reviewed By W. J. W. Sanday -- Research On Black Spot Disease, By Freeman A. Weiss -- From The Annals Of Penicuik -- "My Masterpiece", By Math. Tantau -- Are We Getting Too Many New Roses1 By N. P. Harvey -- Observations On The Shafter Stock (Dr. Huey), By André Leroy -- A Rose By Any Other Name, By G. D. Rowley -- How I Grow My Roses, By R. F. B. Naylor, C.B., D.S.O., B. R. C. Tizard, B. W. W. Sampson, A. A. Norton, Nigel Raban, Sam Carson -- Rose Notes From Queensland, By Fred Armbrust -- Roses In Regent's Park, By Leonard Hollis -- "The Old Shrub Roses", By C. S. Thomas, Reviewed By A. J. Huxley -- Keeping Cut Flowers Fresh -- Warm Or Cold? By Fred J. Nesbit -- The Summer Rose Show, By A. C. L. Hellyer -- Orthocide And Karathane, By F. Fairbrother -- The Decorative Classes At The Summer Show, By Arbel M. Aldous -- The Bristol Group Of Tile National Rose Society, By A. B. Griffith -- The Prov1ncial Rose Show, Leeds, By J. C. Watson -- The Autumn Show, By Roy Hay -- The Trial Ground In 1955, By H. Edland -- The Rose Analysis, By H. Edland -- Dean Hole Medallists, Accounts And Reports Of Council -- Monochrome Plates -- 'Peace'-- H.R.H. The Princess Royal, C.I., G.C.Y.O., G.E.E., E.E.C., T.D. -- Forms Of The Japanese Rosa Multiflora, Bayfordbury -- Hybrid Musks And Wichueaianas, Bayfordbury -- Rosa Jundzillii, Bayfordbury -- Rose Stock Trials, Bayfordbury -- Moss And French Roses In The Old Rose Garden, Bayfordbury -- Bourbon Roses, Bayfordbury -- View Of The Hershey Rose Garden -- Early Hybrid Tea Roses, Bayfordbury -- The Hershey Rose Garden -- Frau Karl Druschki" Hedge At Breeze Hill -- Central Terrace At Parc La Grange, Geneva -- View From The Upper Terrace At Parc La Grange, Geneva -- Colour Plates -- Sir Winston Churchill -- King Midas -- Red Wonder -- Beaute -- Message -- La Jolla -- Belle Blonde -- Sweet Repose -- Soraya -- Poulsen's Supreme And Salmon Perfection -- Yellowhammer -- Firecracker -- Cleopatra -- Lilac Time -- Sandringham -- People ; foxing, else VG. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Orders shipped daily from the UK. Professional seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 199 pp. ; illustrated ; green cloth with gold lettering and embossed designs ; no dustjacket ; "Produced by the Publications Committee of the National Rose Society of Great Britain" ; numerous articles on various subjects pertaining to the rose and its culture ; Contents: Patrons, Officers And Council -- Arrangements For 1957 -- The Presidents Page, By A. Norman, President -- The Rose In Heraldry, By The Late Captain H. S. Lecky, C.E. -- The Pragrances In Our Roses, By James Alexander Gamble -- Rose Gardens To Be Visited-Derriaghy, By Gordon Edwards, C.E.E. -- The New Garden At Torquay, By Ross Young, N.D.H., F.Inst. P.A. -- The New Garden At Madrid, By Ramon Ortiz Ferre -- The Rose Garden Of Rome, By Elvezio Ricci -- The Newark Rose Garden, By Eugene S. Boerner -- The Hybrid Pernetiana Rose, By C. C. Plowden -- Weather And Roses, By N. P. Harvey, M.A. -- The Things That Matter, By W. J. W. Sanday -- Foliar Feeding, By W. F. Bewley, C.E.E. -- How I Grow My Roses, By G. D. Burch, L. Hewlett, Seymour Heatley, Joan E. Fulford, -- Medal Blooms, By Leonard Hollis -- Book Review-Collems Guide To Roses, By Bertram Park -- Roses In The Smoke, By John Broadhurst -- On Rose Names, Byj. H. Wilding -- The Artistic Classes, By Julia Clements -- Origins Of The Rose, By Abel Belmont -- Miscellany, By A. Norman -- "My Rest Twelve Garden Roses", By Oliver Mee, O.B.E,W. H. Sumpster, Edgar M. Allen, C.M.G., A. Dick, B.Sc., M.D., H. G. Clacy -- Some "Old-Fashioned" Roses In My Garden, By Nancy Lindsay -- Dreaming Roses, By Sam Mcgredy -- Mulching As An Aid To Rose Culture, By F. W. Allerton, E.Sc. -- More Hulthemia Hybrids, By Nancy Lindsay -- Wild Hulthemosas, By G. D. Rowley -- Roses Under Glass, By Herbert Oppenheimer -- Obituary-Frank Mason -- The Spring Competition 1956, By H. G. Clacy -- Book Review-The Rose Book, By Wilhelm Kordes -- The Great Summer Rose Show, By Gordon Forsyth -- The Provincial Show, By A. C. L. Hellyer -- The Autumn Rose Show, By Roy Hay -- The Bristol Group, By A. E. Griffith -- The Trial Ground In 1956, By H. Edland -- Show Awards 1956 -- International Awards 1956 -- The Rose Analysis, By H. Edland -- Scientific Information, By John Ramsbottom, O.B.E., M.A., Dr. Sc. -- Accounts And Report Of The Council -- Monochrome Plates -- Albert Norman, President 1957 -- Derriaghy, The New Mcgredy Rose Garden -- Torquay, The New Municipal Garden -- Rome, The Municipal Rose Garden -- Madrid, The New Municipal Rose Garden -- New York, The Newark Rose Garden -- After The Great Snowstorm At Antibes, In February, 1956. -- A Branch Of The Largest Rose Tree In The World -- Arrangement Of Roses By Julia Clements -- The Largest Rose Tree In The World -- Colour Plates -- 'Faust' (Ron.) -- 'Montezuma' (H.T. Type) -- 'Highlight' (Flori.) -- 'Marigold' (H.T. Type) -- 'Circus' (Flori.) -- 'Dorothy Peach' (H.T. Type) -- 'Enterprise' (Ron.) -- 'Copper Delight' (Flori.) -- 'Elsinore' (Flori.) -- 'Jane' (H.T. Type) -- 'Golden Pleece' (Flori.) -- 'Mojave' (H.T. Type) -- 'Allgold' (Flori.) -- 'Oberon' (Flori.) -- 'My Lady' (H.T. Type) ; foxing, else VG. Book.