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Gardening - Essays

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1 ARKELL, Reginald And a Green Thumb. The Best Present for a Good Gardener.
London Herbert Jenkins 1950 
96 pages with illustrations by Edgar Norfield. Quarter cloth and papered boards (discoloured); illustrated endpapers a little foxed; corners very lightly bumped; a very presentable copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 
Price: 8.00 AUD
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2 ARKELL, Reginald Old Herbaceous. A Story.
London Michael Joseph 1950 
155 pages with illustrations by John Minton. Discolouration to the top and bottom edges and offsetting to the endpapers, else a fine copy in the slightly chipped, rubbed and price-clipped dustwrapper; a presentable copy. 
Price: 5.00 AUD
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3 BATES, H.E. A Fountain of Flowers.
London Michael Joseph 1974 (first edition) 
91 pages plus 16 pages of colour plates by Patrick Matthews. Fine copy (the front flyleaf very slightly foxed) in the fine dustwrapper (a little foxing to the top edges of the foldovers). An account of the pleasures and adventures of the author's own gardening life. 
Price: 10.00 AUD
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4 BOLAND, Bridget Gardener's Magic and Other Wives' Lore
London Bodley Head 1977 
Small octavo, 64 pages with decorations. Fine copy in the fine price-clipped dustwrapper 
Price: 4.00 AUD
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5 BUCHAN, Ursula An Anthology of Garden Writing. The lives and works of five great gardeners.
London Croom Helm 1986 
Quarto, 191 pages with illustrations plus 20 colour plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper (slighty rubbed). Selections from the writings of William Robinson, Gertrude Jekyll, E.A. Bowles, Reginald Farrer, Vita Sackville-West. 
Price: 9.00 AUD
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6 COOK, E.T. Gardens of England.
London A & C Black 1911/ 1908 
x, 199 pages plus 20 colour illustrations by Beatrice Parsons. Decorated cloth a little rubbed; a very nice copy. 
Price: 24.00 AUD
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7 COOK, Ferris Garden Dreams.
New York Stewart Tabori and Chang 1991 
Quarto, 104 pages with colour illustrations by Ferris Cook. Cloth with the illustrated plate on the front cover; the front cover slightly marked; an excellent copy. Nine essays by some of the English language's best garden writers. Includes pieces by Vita Sackville-West, Russell Page, Louise Beebe Wilder and others. 
Price: 10.00 AUD
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8 CRAN, Marion The Garden of Experience.
London Herbert Jenkins (1930's reprint) 
316 pages plus plates. Edges foxed with light foxing to the endpapers and occasional page; a contemporary inscription on the pastedown; a very presentable copy overall. 
Price: 9.00 AUD
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9 DANA, Mrs. William Starr According to Season.
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1990/ 1894 
189 pages plus 16 original colour plates by Elsi Louise Shaw. Decorated cloth; a fine copy in the slipcase. Reprinted essays from Dana's nature column for the New York Tribune. This edition is taken from the enlarged, illustrated edition of 1902. Of the original 31 plates, 16 have been reprinted for this edition. 
Price: 9.00 AUD
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10 DE BRAY, Lys Cottage Garden Year.
London Grange Books 1991 
Small quarto, 160 pages with numerous illustrations (several in colour). Fine copy in the very slightly torn and marked (a trifle on verso) dustwrapper; an excellent copy. 
Price: 6.00 AUD
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11 DUTTON, Ninette A Passionate Gardener Writes of Nature, Beauty and Seasons.
Crows Nest ABC 1995 
180 pages with illustrations. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 6.00 AUD
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12 DUTTON, Ninette An Australian Gardener's Notebook .
Richmond Greenhouse 1988 
106 pages with numerous illustrations plus 8 colour plates. Pictorial laminated boards; a fine copy. 
Price: 6.00 AUD
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13 FINCH, Stanley Wordsworth's Flowers.
Carnforth Lunesdale Publishing 1982 
104 pages with illustrations plus colour plates by Muriel Harrison. Paperback slightly marked; ownership annotations on verso of the front cover; a presentable copy. 
Price: 6.00 AUD
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14 FLOWER, Newman Through My Garden Gate.
London Cassell 1945 first Australian edition 
94 pages with decorations. Fine copy (top and front edges a little foxed and slight offsetting to the flyleaves) in the chipped (a trifle at the head of the spine), slightly foxed and sunned (the spine) dustwrapper; a presentable copy. 
Price: 7.00 AUD
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15 FOX, Robin Lane Variations on a Garden.
London Macmillan 1974 
Small quarto, 192 pages with numerous plates (some in colour). Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 8.00 AUD
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16 GATHORNE-HARDY, Robert The Tranquil Gardener.
London Thomas Nelson 1958 
214 pages with illustrations plus 4 colour plates by John Nash. Fine copy (offsetting to the endpapers and a small bookseller label to the bottom edge of the front pastedown) in the slightly chipped, rubbed (a little), sunned (faintly at the foot of the spine) and price-clipped dustwrapper; a very presentable copy. 
Price: 11.00 AUD
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17 HARRIS, Marjorie In the Garden. Thoughts on Changing Seasons.
Toronto HarperCollins 1995 
Small octavo, unpaginated. The leading edge of the front flyleaf slightly creased, else a fine copy in the fine dustwrapper 
Price: 6.00 AUD
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18 HOBHOUSE, Penelope Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening.
Rydalmere Hodder and Stoughton 1994 
Quarto, 216 pages with plans and numerous colour plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 15.00 AUD
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19 HOUSEMAN, Rosemary Through the Rose Arbour: Notes from a Gardening Life.
Ringwood Viking 2001 
184 pages with illustrations and colour plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper (sticker mark on verso of rear cover). 
Price: 14.00 AUD
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20 JEKYLL, Gertrude; LEWIS, Cherry (compiler) The Making of a Garden: Gertrude Jekyll. An Anthology of her Writings Illustrated with her Own Photographs and Drawings, and Watercolours by Contemporary Artists.
Woodbridge Antique Collectors' Club 1985 revised edition 
Quarto, 171 pages with illustrations and colour plates. Fine copy in the slightly rubbed dustwrapper; an excellent copy. 
Price: 14.00 AUD
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