Search Results: Vintage Garden Books from Carrageen Books

William Collins & Co,, London, 1944. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Good condition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾", sunned on spine. Inscribed in 1944, some pencil markings.

E. H. May, London., 1891. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Good. Inside cover detached somewhat, original brown gold gilt. 6th edition. Gardener Helen Dillon's copy. A practical treatise on propagating, growing and exhibiting from the cutting to the silver cup. viii, 111pp. illustrated in black and white. Selection of advertisements to the back.

Theophrastus, 1973. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine condition, Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Second Edition. B/w photos. (Dwarf Conifers, Slow Growing Conifers, Conifers, Trees)

D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co., 1942. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Rare 1st edition, Very good condition. No dust jacket, very clean. Sturdy strong copy. Inscribed as a gift 3 March 1944. 'To Rosemary With much love from Indumati Princess.' Hints on the planning, preparation and up keep off small gardens in India.

G. Philip, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very clean copy. Edited by Penelope Hobhouse & Patrick Taylor.

Bosworth & Co, 1912. No Binding. Good. Glad Days - Entr'acte by R.A. Berche, very rare score in pencil and crayon, some markings B. & Co. 15934 In good condition

Country Life, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. In a red cloth binding, spine split on one side, otherwise good condition. Gold gilt lettering, sunned spine. Country Life, 1950 431 p. : ill., map.

C. Arthur Pearson, London, 1941. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Published by C. Arthur Pearson, London (1941) 1st ed & 1st Impression. My gardens choice of rock plants, trees and flowering shrubs and herbaceous plants. Containing 24 colour plates and 144 half-tone illustrations from photographs by A. T. Johnson. Binding tight; spine faded, with some foxing on spine With colour & B&W illustrations. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Inscribed by owner in 1941, this copy belonged to gardener Helen Dillon.

1949. Hardcover. Good. Good condition of this popular 1940s book, editied by Mollie Thompson. Clean and unmarked.

J M Dent & Sons LTD, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition, with dust jacket in good condition, small tear on top front corner. Hardback in very good condition, very clean condition. One of the first books to be entirely to the peat garden. The author was responsible for the expansion and maintenance of the large peat garden at the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh in Scotland. Includes a Foreword by Graham Stuart Thomas, and published in association with the RHS.Gardener Helen Dillon's copy.

Herbert Jenkins, London,, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5th printing 1955, very good condition with vg dust jacket, small tear on spine, inscribed by owner.

Country Life Library, London., 1910. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition. Inscribed by 'Stella Frost', Christmas 1912', an influential horticulturalist, and well known artist and writer. Gardener Helen Dillon's copy. 725g First edition, hardback, very good condition, some foxing, top corner edges slightly bumped, some light white stains on red cloth hardback. Very study copy of a rare edition. Inscribed by artist Stella Frost in 1912. Rock and water gardens: their making and planting; with chapters on wall and heath gardening. by Meyer, F. W. Edited by Cook, E. T.

Collins, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good condition with good condition original Dustjacket, some tears on top corner, top of spine and top back, otherwise intact. Price clipped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean. Very Good copy from the prolific British writer Harold John Massingham.

B. T. Batsford, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In very good condition with VG DJ. With the help of extensive lists of plants culled from contemporary magazines and nurserymen's catalogues, and making use of the published work of the great collectors and hybridists, Richard Gorer has written here the first detailed analysis of the horticultural development of the flower garden in England. In a style as elegant as it is precise, and with the help of generous illustrations, he starts by discussing the influx of exotics in Elizabethan and Jacobean gardens. Then, after considering the planting styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he goes on to write of what he calls the 'floral explosion'. This is the prelude to three chapters on the nineteenth century and three on the twentieth the great periods of the English flower garden. Using his scholarship in an easy and graceful manner, Richard Gorer has produced a work which will be of consuming interest to all serious… Read More

David and Charles, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. From the private E library of Gardener Helen Dillon, this is the revised edition of 1971,1st published in 1951 by Francis Perry. The former owners writing is lightly on the front cover, and on inside page, otherwise clean. In very good condition with vg dust jacket.