Gardening, Horticulture, Botany from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Boston: Merrymount Press, no date [1904]. First edition. Octavo (9" x 5.75"), [6], 22, & [4] pages plus two photogravure plates, the title page, designed by T.M. Cleland, printed in black ink within an elaborate ornamental border in green depicting vines on a trellis surmounting a fountain. Publisher's brown paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered black cloth. Binding moderately soiled, edges… Read more about this item

Tokyo, Japan: Kofu-En Bonsai Nursery/ Yugi Yoshimura, no date in English, circa 1950's ? Duodecimo (7" x 5"), 34 unnumbered pages with illustrations from photographs of 58 Bonsai trees. Original stapled paper wraps. Text in Japanese except for rubber-stamped notice quoted in part above. Moderately soiled, brief edge wear, otherwise Very Good. Yoshimura (1921 - 1997) was a distinguished bonsai master largely… Read more about this item

Columbus, Ohio: J. L. Stelzig & Co., 1861. First edition. 8vo (8" x 5.25"), [1], 2 - 8 pages. Printed paper self wraps, the lower cover with woodcut depiction of the Delaware Grape. OCLC locates one copy as of 7/24/2023 (Ohio History Center, accession # 35317536). Folded once horizontally, moderately toned & soiled, slight edge wear, otherwise very good. Provides a description… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, (1981) 4to, 444 pp, illustrated, including many in color from photographs. Publisher's maroon cloth-patterned paper over boards in printed dust jacket & plain card slipcase. Publisher's 4 page announcement laid in A fine copy in very good dust jacket with brief edge wear, in good slipcase, soiled, rubbed, & worn along the edges "An authoritative and… Read more about this item

New York: Abbeville/ Vendome, (2000) First edition Small folio, unpaginated, profusely illustrated in color from photographs. Publisher's black cloth-patterned paper over boards lettered in gilt on the spine & embossed in blind on the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket. Two leaves with shallow diagonal crease, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear "Many of the… Read more about this item

London: Robert Hardwicke, 1874. First edition. 12mo, [6], 160 pp, frontis, 4 chromolithograph plates, additional illustrations in text. Publisher's green cloth lettered & decorated in gilt & blind. All edges gilt. Binding moderately rubbed & soiled, couple of ripples in the cloth, corners bruised, previous owner's name in pencil at ffep, text lightly toned, otherwise Very Good. Author Frederick William… Read more about this item

Liverpool: Blake & Mackenzie, 1900 Third edition. 8vo, viii, 196 pp, plus 4 plates in two states, one in beautiful chromolithography, with duplicate black & white plate adjacent Additionally includes numerous black & white illustrations full page & in text throughout. Publisher's pebbled maroon cloth lettered & decorated in gilt & black. Spine browned, brief wear at spine extremities &… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, (1986). Second printing, revised edition. 4to, 444 pp, profusely illustrated (line drawings & color illustrations from photographs). Publisher's dark brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Bottom edges slightly rubbed, small chip in the paper at the front pastedown, otherwise Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with a tiny loss at… Read more about this item

Southwick, Massachusetts: Gillett & Horsford, [1895]. First edition. 8vo, 35pp including frontis depicting the company's nursery grounds & illustrations in text. Original stapled, printed & decorated paper wraps. Lightly foxed & stained, slight edge wear, diagonal corner crease throughout, Good or better. As described in Around Southwick (Arcadia Publishing, 1997), Edward Gillett "pioneered the use of wild flowers… Read more about this item