Miles Hadfield Ed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 272 pages, illustrated, glossary, bibliography, index, fading to covers, previous owner name on the front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Hamlyn Publishing Group for Country Life Books, 1969. First edition. 272p. Over 200 photographs and line drawings of architectural details. A very good copy in a similar price-clipped d/w. Slight browning to paper.…

Hardback. Condition: VG-. No DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. A charming and brightly illustrated first edition collection of poems and essays in celebration of gardening, with original contributions from leading twentieth century horticulturalists, including Vita Sackville-West. The first edition of this illustrated celebration of gardens, gardeners and gardening, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.Described by Reginald Arkell as 'a happy book, carrying a message of all the joys a garden can bestow', and with contributions from Vita Sackville-West, Gwendolyn Anley, Montagy Allwood and other famous horticulturalists, this work is illustrated throughout with a number of photographic and full colour plates.Edited by Miles Hadfield, one of the founders, and the first president, of the Garden History Society, and author of 'A History of British Gardening', which has become the standard work on the subject. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Shelf wear to back strip tail, with bumping to back strip head. Otherwise, externally exceptionally bright. Significant sunning to dust wrapper back strip and rear wrap perimeters. Loss to back strop head, shelf wear to head of front wrap. Tape repair to head of reverse of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Areas of spotting and light foxing throughout. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardback. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st UK, 1st impression. Many attractive colour plates and numerous b/w, all printed on high quality paper in a very attractive package. Contains a series of essays and reflection from the gardening luminaries of the day such as Vita Sackville-West, Wilfred Blunt and Patrick M. Synge. Ex libris sticker to front paste down; no marks or inscriptions. Jacket, clipped, has some losses as shown.…