Old Herbaceous by Reginald Arkell, First Edition (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Front hinge started, Bookplate and owner name/date on flyleaf. Dust jacket features minor chip at base of spine, a few short tears along top edge; has been placed in new mylar sleeve.

Condition: Good. 1952. First Edition Thus. 154 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper cover. Black and white illustrations throughout. Prize plate stuck to front reverse cover. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.

Condition: Good. 1952. First Edition. 155 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Illustrations by John Minton. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. End papers are more notably tanned. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. End papers are more notably tanned. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Sunning to spine. Book has a slight forward lean. Heavy staining to rear board.

Condition: Good. 1950. First Edition. 155 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Contains green and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Top textblock edge dyed green. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Condition: Fair. 1950. First Edition. 154 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Front endpaper has been removed. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, tears and chips. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Heavy loss to all parts of the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Illustrations by John Minton (illustrator). 1st Edition. 155 pages. No dustjacket (as issued?) Green background hardback binding spine and boards' edges and spine is also brown spotted. Light forward lean to hardback binding. Light wear to covers' corners and light wear to spine-ends. Ink name on label to flyleaf, two ink names to back of last page and three ink names to inside of back board, light foxing to early and last pages o/w pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Minton, John (illustrator). 1st Edition. Includes a letter from editor & 2 notes signed by author to previous owner. Red decorations of blue cloth boards, boards lean slightly forward, sunned at spine & upper edge. Some off-setting on endpapers, pages clean & sharp.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 155 pages; 21 cm. Subjects: 1900-1999; Gardeners ; Fiction; Gardening ; Fiction; Older men ; Fiction; Manors ; Fiction; English fiction 20th century; English fiction. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are edge worn with scuffing and tanning along the edges. The binding is secure. The end papers are browned. No ink inscriptions or annotations. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. the jacket is much worn and torn. foxing and markings. one inscription and sticker. text is clear and legible. fair condition. front end page has been removed. rather fair condition. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 155 pages; 21 cm. Subjects: 1900-1999; Gardeners ; Fiction; Gardening ; Fiction; Older men ; Fiction; Manors ; Fiction; English fiction 20th century; English fiction. 1 Kg.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Michael Joseph 1950 first edition. Pages clean and bright, inscription on first page, binding firm, wear to dust jacket, including chips, price clipped. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket As New octavo 160pp., Exceptionally nice copy of Reginald Arkell's classic novel of gardens & gardeners.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Minton (illustrator). First Edition. A firm straight unmarked book, with the usual slight natural ageing. Dust jacket price clipped, spine ends chipped.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo in pale green cloth, red lettering to spine and red printed title drawing by John Minton to the front cover (reproduced as the title-page in the book, 154pp with 7 full page line drawings and 7 smaller line illustrations in text, all done by John Minton. The dust jacket is illustrated in full colour with a watercolour by Minton . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight and clearly unread copy (end-papers mildly tanned, neat inscription on front blank fly-leaf dated 1951, hint of sunning to spine and some very faint tanning to cover bottom edges) in a VERY GOOD- price-clipped Dust Jacket (spine panel ends and flap fold corner tips lightly chipped and rubbed, top edge of rear panel thinly creased, looks very presentable in its removable transparent protector) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. 155pp. Green cloth, illustrated on the front panel in red. Very slight fade to the colour at the extreme, lower margin. The jacket is unclipped (8s 6d net). Touches of edge wear. Jacket now in a protective removable sleeve. Tanning to endpapers, else a VG copy of this title without inscriptions or blemishes. A gentle comic tale of an awkward, young man who grows up to be a gardener at the 'Big House' and a fount of gardening wisdom. Minton's illustrations match the nostalgic tone. A Romantic at heart, Minton felt increasingly out of fashion with the rise of the Abstract Movement and killed himself only seven years after this title was published.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. MINTON, John (illustrator). 1st Edition. Published: 1950. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Illustrated DJ over green illustrated cloth. Illustrations by John Minton. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Clean cloth with sunned line to upper edge. Tightly bound with clean, intact endpapers and very strong hinges. Clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: Good: Wear, creasing and chipping to upper and lower edges. 2cm tear to lower front edge. 1cm tear to upper rear spine edge. Pages 154. Size: 20.5cm by 13cm. BOOK RESUME: Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouses immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer than the other, rises from inauspicious schoolboy days spent picking wildflowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener Old Herbaceous, the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard capable of producing dazzling April strawberries from the greenhouse and the exact morning glories his Lady spies on the French Riviera, so blue, so blue it positively hurts. Sprinkled with nuggets of gardening wisdom, Old Herbaceous is a witty comic portrait of the most archetypal and crotchety head gardener ever to plant a row of bulbs at a British country house.

A first edition, first printing published by Michael Joseph in 1950. A near fine book without inscriptions. Some fading to the edges and spine. Slight pulling can be seen on the cloth covered rear board. Binding is a little skewed. Offsetting to the endpapers, however, clean internally. In a good, clipped wrapper with illustrations famously completed by John Minton. Some slight loss to the head of the spine and wear to the edges and corners.

A first edition, first printing published by Michael Joseph in 1950. A near fine book without inscriptions. Some fading to the edges and spine. Offsetting to the endpapers, however, clean internally. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with illustrations famously completed by John Minton. Boards a little sprung. A lovely copy indeed.