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in-12, 10 pp.+ 12 pp. illustrations couleurs, broche, couverture illustree à rabats. Tres bel exemplaire. [HI-5]
Features: Autumn work in the Garden; create a modern arrangement; join a flower arrangement class; Skeleton leaves; Daffodils and Narcissi for autumn planting; Using cane; Cyclamen; Citrus Fruits - for food and flowers; Shrubs for Autumn colour; Fruit and Vegetable Decorations; Dried flowers in churches; Consider the lilies; Wilton; Flowers in metal; Flower arranging in Natal; the pleasure of teaching flower arranging; The Red Rose of Cares and the Opium Lady; Choose your new greenhouse now!; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
The original edition, with all the color plates, of this essential guide to identifying botanical prints. From a total edition of 2500 copies, this is one of 750 copies with the additional color folding plate with the list of subscribers. Folio, publisher's cloth with large leather label on front cover. Binding sunned and lightly worn, with leather spine label gone. Top edge gilt. Internally clean.
330 pages including index. An easy-to-understand guide to fruits and vegetables. Each entry presents a history of use, buyer's tips, therapeutic benefits, nutrient information, and recipes for healthy and delicious meals. Above average wear. Some high-lighting to contents. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; orange cloth, upper board blocked in blind, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Good reprint in stained blue cloth with black spine lettering. Inscription on the front endpaper. 10664. eng
8 vo, 64 pages, colour illustrations throughout. (Pocket Gardener Series) eng
54 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Purina Poultry Chows inside front cover; Comment by E.T. Meredith; Our Vacation by the Gasoline Route - great photo-illustrated article about vacationing with car and tent; How I Built My Home in Spare Time - photo-illustrated article by Frank I. Hanson; How to Grow Asters Successfully; Perfect Privacy with Lattice Fences - photo-illustrated article; Have You Tried These Vegetables? - Cardoons, a variety of eggplant, a Japanese burdock, rocket salad, Chinese white cabbage, Shui-Tsai - with photos; Electricity in the Small Home; Radio is making the home the most interesting place to be; How We Finished Our Dream House - article with photos; Houses of Famous Americans - photo-illustrated article about "Hardscrabble" - the cabin home of Ulysses S. Grant; A Backyard Garden in June - with suggestiions for your city lot; The Society of Little Gardens - photo-illustrated article about an organization fostering the correct improvement of yards; Growing Sweet Corn Successfully; Nice one-page ad for Johnson's Polishing Wax; Tips to make your June work count; Nice one-page ad for Hupmobile cars; Great vintage one-page ad for Goodrich Silvertown Cord Tires; Successful Home Canning of Vegetables - article with photos; Half-page ad for The New Overland car; How to Adjust Your (Push) Lawn Mower - great illustrated article; How to build your own garage - illustrated article; Ads for oak flooring and the use of birch wood in homes; 2/3-page ad for The Davenport Bed; Has Music Led Us Astray?; The Novel of the Year - 'Trodden Gold'; Summer Care of Growing Stock (chickens); Nice half-page Coke ad; Two Compfortable Home Plans; Faust Coffee ad; Ad for the Iron Horse Cold Pack Canner; Illustrated embroidery article; Nice photo-illustrated one-page ad for Munsingwear underwear for ladies; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Dolly Gray of New York; Inside back cover is a fantastic two-color illustrated ad for Harris Brothers Co. of Chicago who sell many home building products; Nice back cover ad for the New Phaeton Reo car (partially covered by address label). Above-average wear. Coverfold mostly open. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; olive cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy.
Bella xilografia del 1760 circa che mostra alcuni frutti di Silicula e legumi. In buone condizioni. TECNICA: Xilografia AUTORE: DIMENSIONI PASSEPARTOUT: cm 44x27,5 DIMENSIONI INCISIONE: cm 21x15 cad. EPOCA: 1760 circa CONDIZIONI: Buone condizioni. Beautiful woodcut of 1738 representing some fruits of Silicula and legumes. In good conditions. TECHNIQUE: Woodcut AUTHOR: PASSEPARTOUT SIZE: cm 44x27,5 PRINT'S SIZE: cm 21x15 each PERIOD: 1760 circa CONDITION: good conditions
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name or label inside. 382 pages. Many b&w illustrations. "Originally published in 1907, Stewart Culin's comprehensive work reveals a side of American Indian culture that is still rarely shown."
270 pages including index. Frontis is black and white plate of author with Luther Burbank, John Burroughs and Edith Simonds. Unmarked. "There are plenty of garden books giving all the facts - for reference... This book is for consecutive reading. The important facts are here, too, but sugar-coated with wise and witty remarks and spiced with anecdotes and other things that suggest the perfuned atmosphere of the gardedn and appeal to the garden maniac... The world's most famous gardener, Luther Burbank, wrote to the author of this book that its chapters are, in his opinion, "The best that have so far been written on garden subjects. You get the facts in such a pleasing, human way that they are irresistible." - from page xiii. Chapters include: Educated Strawberries and Burbank Plums; Commercial Value of Burbank's Creations; Japanese Burbanks and Morning-Glories; Must We Raise Our Own Fruits Too?; Do Apples Keep the Doctor Away?; Why Not Grow Papaws, America's Most Delicious Fruit?; The Retired Rich Need Not Die; The Joys of Creative Gardening. Above-average wear to exterior with lettering nearly gone from spine. Binding intact. Book
258 pages. Features: Woodbury Soap photo ad features Joyce Edwards of Stamford CT and Russell Otis Washburn; Town of the Month - Palmer Lake, Colorado; Nice color Tide ad; Color ad for Midnight by Tussy; Color Campbell's Soup ad includes fruit cake recipe; Color Ivory soap ad features beauties; Miss Alma Shon; Kristin Holmberg of Erick, OK resembles the December 1949 cover girl of this magazine; Nice black and white photo in Warner's foundations and bras ad features three ladies; Color photo of Deborah Kerr in Lux ad; Color ad for Baker's chocolate chips; Nice color-photo ad for Jell-O puddings & pie fillings; Is that toy a delight or a danger?; Christmas toys for babies and toddlers; Nice color-photo ad for Heinz pickles; Color ad for Duz laundry saop; Lovely color 1952 Dodge car ad; How to choose a Christmas tree; Nice color-photo Ivory Snow ad; Small World - fiction by Margaret Cousins; The Beautiful Time - story by Ruth Branning Molloy; Madeline's Rescue - wonderfully illustrated story about the famous young girl created by Ludwig Bemelmans; Between Me and Myself - Christmas story by Mary Louise Bryan; Lovely color-photo illustrated article on 'Six Robes for Christmas Eve'; Color-photo article with gift wrapping ideas; Photos of Christmas door design ideas; Lovely vintage color-photo ad for New Prell shampoo; Pond's ad features photo of Mrs. Francis Irenee du Pont II; Jergens ad features photos of Lizabeth Scott, co-star of movie "Red Mountain"; Toni ad features photos of twins Jany and Joey Pope, plus Pat Barnard and Rita Daigle of New York; Two-color Kleenex ad features Little Lulu; Jergens ad includes photo of Gloria Swanson; 'Cooking with Gas' ad features Mrs. George J. Waddell of Kansas City, MO, and Mrs. Marc Wyse of Cleveland; Photo of Ray Milland in National Silver Co. ad; Photo of Vladimir Horowitz in RCA ad; Great vintage color ad for Cosco kitchen stools and high chairs; Fantastic color Coke ad features Santa with his list of good boys and girls; Fantastic color-photo ad for ITT's "Coolerator" electric range; Color Daystrom furniture ad; Very nice American Airlines ad inside back cover shows ticket agent serving lady holding hat box; Back cover Crisco ad; and much, much more. Somewhat above-average wear with one-inch opening to bottom of backstrip. A worthy copy of this charming vintage issue. Magazine
2 Catalogues illustrés - In-4 - brochés - Couverture illustrée au 1 platn - illustrations en texte - légère usure aux plats du catalogue 1940, sinon bons exemplaires
1st edition. Hardback in a protected dust jacket. VG/G (top edges frayed and repaired). ISBN 0600391744.19602. eng
in-8 étroit, 165 pages, 120 photographies en couleurs, index, broche, couverture illustree plastifiée.- 9782801105900 Tres bel exemplaire. [TX-18]
in-12, 365 pp., illustrations n&b, broche, couv.- Etat moyen (débroché, 2e plat manquant). [NV-40]
FL 1989. In-12 cartonnage éditeur de 133 pages. Bon état
in-8, 272 pages, broché, couv. Illustree. Fiches dactylographiées collées avec de l'adhésif transparent jauni dans le texte sinon bel exemplaire. [JU-1]
16 pages. Contents: Lady's visiting toilette; The Feet; The Other Baby - Gail Hamilton; Manners Upon the Road - of sanded sugar; New York Fashions - postilion-basque wrapper, pointed cape walking suit, new colors, Dolly Varden novelties; riding habits; Personal; tidy in Genoese embroidery; tatted collars; embroidered silk emery bag; lady's crochet sleeping net; knotted and bead scissors case; crochet night-cap for girl from 6 to 8 years old; design for cover of bed-quilt - Venetian embroidery; All or Nothing; Paris Gossip; Sayings and Doings; Coiffures for young and elderly ladies; suits for young ladies; black gros grain fichu; ladies' and children's dresses; To the Bitter End - continued; Married Bachelors; "Knocking down the Elephant - illustration; "Catching the Lion" - illustration; Illustration "The Jews' Infant-School Ball at Willis's Rooms, London"; Preparation of Fruit Juices; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Promenade Toilettes; Summer Fruits; Proper Exercise; New York Fashions - Lace Garments, Carriage Wraps, Sea-Side and Yachting Jackets, Traveling Wraps; Personal; illustrations of table cover, crochet tidy, canvas tidy, etc.; Feminine Respectability; Gentlemen's Summer Fashions; Taken by Storm; London Correspondence; The Women of the Day; Nice full-page illustration of Gentlemen's Paris Summer Fashions; French Etiquette of Courtship and Marriage; Three Hours to a Dilemma; Sayings and Doings; Wonderful full-page illustration by Winslow Homer entitled "The Fourth of July in Tompkins Square, New York; Small clipping from page 589; The Household Angel, by Fitz Hugh Ludlow - continued; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
Book is in excellent condition, appears unread. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 431 pages. Contents include: Political opportunists in action: the dream of a people's empire, the accommodating dictatorship, Subjugation and exploitation: with unwavering efficiency, profits for the people, the mainstay: western Europe, room for expansion: eastern Europe, Dispossession of the Jews: larceny as a state principle, laundering money for the Wehrmacht, Crimes for the benefit of the people: fruits of evil, Nazi socialism, etc. with six appendices.
70 pages. Index. Dozens of helpful and informative black and white photos and diagrams. "Discusses from the farm-home standpoint the canning of fruits, vegetables and meats canned by the processed-in-the-can method in open-top sealed-without-solder tin cans and the more common types of glass jars cooked in home-devised hot water outfits and home types of pressure kettles." - from page 2. A wonderful heritage canning published over 80 years ago. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Would make a lovely and practical gift. Book
in-12, 346 pages, nombreuses illustrations, figures et tableaux, broche, couv., dos muet. Guide pratique en trois parties : La Culture des arbres fruitiers et de la vigne - La Culture des legumes - La Culture des fleurs. Bel exemplaire. [DV-1] [F] Bel exemplaire.
41 pages. In 1971 these recipes using local foods were collected from fourteen native communities in B.C. Because most of the communities were coastal or near salmon streams, the majority of the foods are from the sea, but there are also recipes for wild meats, bannock and tea. By popular demand, the list was compiled into this book. Topics include: Smoked Salmon; Barbecued Salmon; Canning Salmon; Eulachons; Steelhead; Halibut; Shellfish and Sea Animals; Octopus; Sea Animals; Sea Lion; Game Animals; Wild Birds; Wild Plants; Fruits and Berries; Bannock; Fats and Oils; Teas; Seaweed; Pit Cooking; Barnacles; Deer and Moose; Tree Bark; and much more. Oblong 11"x8.5". Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this amazing reference. Book