Roy W Briggs (19 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: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages lightly tanned and clean.

Octavo, softbound (stiff, color illustrated wrappers), 52 pp. Very Good, with edgewear. Contents: Marilyn Briggs: Knife Blades from Below; Lines; The Sum of the Parts; Civilization; Night Song; Illinois; We Who Walk Alone; Listen Jeffers; Directions; Watching; Playthings; Paul Lee Bissell: Sunset at Ronda; For Dick; Sunday Morning - Sepulveda, Spain; The Circle,; To Ursula; Gordon Baine Clark: Certain Hunter; Atlantic Birds; Sonnet for an Old Poet; Conversation at Sea; Moths at Night; Intruder; 'Northern Spring; 64/40; Measuring Knives: BUrma; Lucas Lazurus; Mr. Narcissus to the Virgin; Song for Sad Suzannas; Mountains and Cable Cars; Verdigris Toadstools; There is a Cool and Quiet Lake; The Fisherman Dreaming; Lovers; At Tara; After Seeing "Medea"; Debussy-Heard Distantly; Lines for November and Spring; Richard W. Glatthar: Opus; La Bataille Est Supreme; Uncaused Cause; John Wharton; Jim and Marge; Portrait; Le Vent de Morte; Mentor; Harold P. McKinney: Given; As Long As; To a Poetry Class in 1950. Literature, Poetry, Floridiana xslic.…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, small quarto, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved price clipped pictorial dust wrapper, the text is clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout, xiii + 154pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Royal Botanic Gardens hardcover, 1993, 1st edition, clean/tight, No marks/tears or signs of use, Fine in a Fine (price-clipped) jacket (like New). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking. ""Chinese Wilson": A Life of Ernest H. Wilson 1876-1930" by Roy W. Briggs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xiii, 154 pp; color plates; illus. Original cloth, large 8vo. Near Fine, in dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xiii, 154pp, index, maps, notes/references, bw & col ills. Or green cloth in jacket. Near new. Chinese Wilson was one of the great plant hunters- from two expeditions to China alone he brought back over 65000 specimens. Few gardens today do not contain at least one of his plant introductions. Size: 4to.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good hardback copy in very good dustjacket. xiv, 154pp, b/w illustrations Size: 26x20cms. Book.

Hardcover. 4to. pp 176. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. ISBN: 011250017X Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. hardback book and dust jacket in near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. Original publishers green cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Signed by the author on the title page. Including a list of plates, loosely inserted. ISBN: 011250017X Pages: xiii, 154 Fine in very good indeed dust jacket. Signedes. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. "Just two of Wilson's gruelling expeditions to China resulted in over 65,00 specimens. Although there are few gardens today that do not contain at least one of his plant introductions, this legendary botanist has largely escaped the attention of the biographer. Here, his great-nephew uses Wilson's original journals and photos and previously unpublished family correspondence to delve behind the glamour of his adventures to the personal challenges and hardships he experienced. Complementing the story of his life is a brief account of his living legacy - the plants and trees for which he gave so much and which proved him to be one of the greatest plant hunters of all." - dust jacket. xiv, 154 p. Footnotes, maps and index. Many black and white reproductions of archival photos. Clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example of this fascinating life story.; The Great Plant Collectors; 4to.…

Condition: Near Fine. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 20cm), xiv, 154pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w, plus 8pp colour plates. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 011250017X.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Clean fresh copy. Looks new.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New large octavo 154pp., frontis., colour & b/w plates, maps, index, Just two of his gruelling expeditions to China resulted in over 65,000 specimens; his search for the Regal Lily nearly cost him his life.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 154; illustrated throughout, including 21 color illustrations at the back on plates; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Ernest Henry Wilson (1876-1930) "was a notable British plant collector and explorer who introduced a large range of about 2,000 Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear his name" (Wikipedia). He later became keeper of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University. He and his wife died in an automobile accident in 1930. "Here his great-nephew [Briggs] uses Wilson's original journals and photographs and previously unpublished family correspondence to delve behind the glamour of his adventures to the personal challenges and hardships he experienced. Complementing the story of his life is a brief account of his living legacy - the plants and trees for which he gave so much and which proved him to be one of the greatest plant hunters of all" (publisher's blurb).…