Wakefield Elsie (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Dust Jacket with minor edgewear. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; Botany; ISBN: 0904558940. ISBN/EAN: 9780904558944. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 17355.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Publisher's green cloth, no DJ, boards a little marked, spine slightly faded, and split to front joint. Internally very sound with excellent colour illustrations. owners name in ink and 1955 date on front endpaper.

Hardcover. dj. pp. viii, 212. 4to. Brown binding with gilt lettering to spine. Colour illustrations. Light shelfwear bookplate and address to ffep; very good in very good dustjacket. From the 'Know the Countryside' series.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Assez bon. W.C, chez P. R. Gawthorn LTD, 1947. Reliure éditeur cartonnée en toile orange. Titrage doré au dos. Etat d'usage de la reliure. Intérieur frais. Illustré de 111 planches colorées hors textes et de 6 figures dans le texte. Recherché.

Cloth. Condition: G+. No d/w. First Edition. ix+290pp; with III coloured plates and 6 text figures; previous owner's inscription to front pastedown; prelims foxed else very clean and bright; This is a heavy item; Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition hardback, 1981. Original pictorial dustjacket VG, protected in a clear sleeve. Brown cloth gilt very clean. Pages very clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated with 111 plates in full colour. 216 pages. Richard Dennis newspaper obituary loosely inserted. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. no date circa 1950, original cloth hardcover, illustrated, 290 pages, some internal browning, name to flyleaf, covers a little rubbed otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B83. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Description and photos on demand.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Foxing and tanning to pages. Wear and tear to dust jacket - in two halves (see photos).

Hardback. Condition: VG-. No DW. 1st Edition. Not dated but perhaps about 1950. Pale brown publisher's cloth, lettered in gold. Name and address of previous owner at start and on title page. Clean tight book but minor marks to front cover. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY (2025) GB £8. Packed weight 1300g.…

Cloth Pp.ix, 290 with 111 coloured plates and 5 text-figures 8vo. Vg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. No date. 1950s? Original pictorial dustjacket defective (age-browned, torn, crudely repaired). Now protected in a plastic sleeve. Orange cloth gilt clean. Owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Pages clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated with 111 plates in full colour and 6 text-fgures. 290 pages. …

Condition: Poor. First edition. Undated but after 1946 from text: probably 1950s. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket. 290pp, h: 25cm. With 111 colour plates painted by the authors, and 6 text figures. The plates are beautifully done, and the text is clearly written. Elise Wakefield was a mycologist at Kew. Very Good in Poor protected jacket. Covers clean . Inscription to front endpaper purchased from Barnet Natural History Society.Front hinge stretched,small Herts Nat. hist stamp to title page. Jacket well worn with tears and losses to edges, browned spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Large Octavo. 290pp. Publisher's light brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. Minor rubbing to extremities, light surface wear to boards. Spotting to end papers. Otherwise contents generally clean and bright. Illustrated. A Good copy. Heavy - additional postage required for overseas orders.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Rust bds., gold titles, illustrated throughout with 111 coloured plates and 6 text-figures, foxing to ffep and rep., with previous owner's inscription and removed plate mark, original illustrated dw., unclipped (35s.0d. net)chipping to edges of dw. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. [1950]. [1950]. Hardcover. She was born in Birmingham, the daughter of a science teacher. She was educated at Swansea High School for Girls and then went to Somerville College, Oxford, where she received a first class honours degree in botany. During her career, she published almost 100 papers on fungi and plant pathology, together with two popular field guides to the larger British fungi. She described many new species, from Britain and overseas. The fungal genera Wakefieldia and Wakefieldiomyces are named after her. A beautiful copy with amazing color renderings of mushrooms. Near fine. Rebound in blue quarter calf over blue cloth boards embossed boards with new marbled endpapers. 8vo. vi, 290pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates).…