Plant Hunting from Loe Books

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo. 378 pages, numerous black and white photographic illustrations. Dust jacket very good, light fading to the spine and a little handling wear. Cloth hardback binding, fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A near fine tight copy in a very good jacket..… Read more about this item

London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1926. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Third Impression. Large 8vo (15 x 22cm). pp xi, 383. Photographic plates and a fold out map. Original dust jacket in very good condition, with a little loss to the top and bottom of the spine and corners that have been expertly repaired using Japanese tissue and coloured paper to… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., 1903. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 1903-06. Two volumes, pp. vol. I: xix, 392; vol. II: xxvi, 627; with 11 plates, 7 maps of which 2 folding and 4 in colour. A very good set with outstanding provenance [see below]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering, light general wear, gilt to spines dulled, light… Read more about this item

Bangkok, Thailand: Orchid Press Publishing Limited, 2006. Book. New. Paperback. New Edition. 8vo. 317 pages; b/w illustrations, folding maps. English Text. A new copy, still in the publisher's cellophane. "A Plant Hunter in Tibet ", the account of plant-hunter and explorer Frank Kingdon-Ward's 1933 expedition to the south-eastern corner of Tibet was as significant for his geographic revelations as… Read more about this item

Toronto: The MacMillan Company, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 334 pages, b/w illustrations. Dust jacket a little rubbed to edges with some fading to the spine, price-clipped, now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Hardback binding very good. Contents clean and tight, endpapers lightly marked, no inscriptions. A very good copy..

London: Jonathan Cape, 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reissue. 8vo. Re-issue in the Odyssey Library. 317 pages, b/w illustrations, photos. Original blue hardback binding, very good with a little general wear and rubbing. Contents clean and tight, minimal tanning to the first and last few pages, no inscriptions. A very good tight copy..

Unknown?, 1936. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. 43 pages with additional blank pages bound in at the front and rear, original marbled end papers. Original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to the front board, fine with minimal wear only. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine tight copy, virtually as new; purportedly printed for Lionel… Read more about this item

Unknown?, 1936. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. 43 pages with additional blank pages bound in at the front and rear, original marbled end papers. Original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to the front board, fine with minimal wear only, gilt a little dulled. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. A fine tight copy, virtually as new;… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 1973. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo. 176pp, b/w & col plts. An excellent copy with just a hint of edge wear to dj. Synge tells here the story of his various quests for plants..

London: Harrap, 1960. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo. 189pp, b/w illus, dj a little edgeworn and slt. soiled now protected in an archival sleeve, contents clean and tight, a very good copy..