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8 pages. Name on front cover. Repairs with archival tape. Above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Sheet music
8vo [22.5 x 14.5 cm]; x, 533 pp. original navy blue cloth, gilt spine title lettering, clean and fine. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. With descriptions of over 3,200 books on roses, this book is the most comprehensive work and the standard reference on the subject. Each entry contains information to determine the exact edition, etc, including collations, plates, book size, descriptive material, dates, publisher, location, number of copies printed where relevant, etc.
96 pages. Includes the following songs: All I Have to do is Dream; Arthur's Theme; As Long as he Needs me; As Time Goes By; Body and Soul; Can You Read My Mind; Chariots of Fire; Come Go With Me; Days of Wine and Roses; Devoted to You; Evergreen; Fly me to the Moon; I Left my Heart in San Francisco; I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song; Jersey Bounce; Killing Me Softly with his Song; La Vie en Rose; Les Bicyclettes de Belsize; Lonely Together; Love Me or Leave Me; Love the World Away; Lullaby of Birdland; Makin' Whoopee!; Mean to Me; My Melancholy Baby; Never My Love; Night and Day; Old Cape Cod; The Old Songs; On the Sunny Side of the Street; September Song; Someone to Watch Over Me; A String of Pearls; Theme from a Summer Place; Sweet Georgia Brown; The Sweetest Thing I've Ever Known; The Swingin' Shepherd Blues; Tara Theme; That's All; Time After Time; A Time for Love; Time in a Bottle; Tryin' to get the Feeling Again; Tuxedo Junction; 12th St. Rag; What Kind of Fool am I?; Where is Love?; Who Can I Turn To?; You Decorated My Life. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
16 pages plus colour illustrated covers. "Exciting new ideas that will really make your parties swing! Full details on the big Five Roses Young-Canada Bake-Off!" - subtitle. "Be the smartest social butterfly in town! Take your pick - an informal Pizza Party? A romantic Roman Holiday? A Boston Bean Bash? A night in Hong Kong? Sounds fun? It's a ball! And so easy to do. Just ask the people, choose your party, and let your imagination go all-out!" - inside front cover. Contents printed in two colours. Undated but appears to be circa 1960. Oblong 22 x 14cm. Unmarked with light wear. A lovely vintage copy of this fascinating snapshot of very different Canadian teen social customs from not so long ago. Book
Piano music with lyrics for some songs. Songs include: Roses of Picardy; Little Grey Home in the West; Marcheta; Dear Love, My Love; A Kiss in the Dark; Phryne; J'aime Mon Amour; Laura (The beggar student); Faust; Je T'Aime. Above-average wear. Minimal markings. Binding intact. A worthy working copy. Book
Gr. in-folio, non paginé. Edition hors commerce numérotée 1/500 exemplaires réservés à la maison Galenica SA. Préface de Louise de Vilmorin. Monographies des roses par Armand Souzy. Généalogie des roses par Robert Kohli. Illustré de 40 planches en couleurs de Lotte Gunthart. Bel ouvrage.
Gr. in-folio, non paginé. Préface de Louise de Vilmorin. Monographies des roses par Armand Souzy. Généalogie des roses par Robert Kohli. Illustré de 40 planches en couleurs de Lotte Gunthart. Bel ouvrage.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 12 pages of coloured plates; decorative black cloth blocked in red, green and white, gilt back, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
16 pages. Content: Lady's watteau wrapper - front and back; Fish-Scale Flowers; Every Body to Blame; New York Fashions - the watteau wrapper, costumes, basques, over-skirts, lower skirts, polonaises, carriage costumes; evening and dinner dresses; Personal; Chair with embroidered cover; brown linen clothes-pin bag; intant's protector; gros grain apron; fault-finding; Otto of Roses; Ladies' and children's house dresses; lady's dinner dress; large illustration "Japanese Ladies at Their Toilette"; Paris Modes; My Big Blunder; Extremities - the head and hands; A Chinese Funeral in San Francisco; Useful Recipes; Will it Pay; Princess Johanna Von Bismarck; Mushroom Culture; Breton Women at a Pardon; and humor. Some staining. Average wear. Magazine
8 pages. Nice colourful cover art. Cover fold almost entirely open. Bookseller stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
8vo [20 x 15 cm]; xxiii, [i], 461 pp, frontis, numerous plates and illus, index, title printed in green and black, index. original pictorial cloth, gilt lettering, decorated in white and dark green, top edge gilted, internal hinges cracking but firm, covers quite bright, near fine clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A classic of the period, very well-illustrated. The topics related to sun dials include classification, portable dials, their construction, symbolic and many other designs. A smaller section deals with roses including chapters on roses and garlands, rosa solis, rose plate and rosee, emblems of the rose in English history, grandmother's roses, the Rosicruians. Stock 751.
112 pages. Includes lyrics and guitar music for the following songs: Passion Play (When All the Slaves are Free), Nothing Can Be Done, A Case of You, The Beat of Black Wings, Dog Eat Dog, The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey, The Magdalene Laundries, Impossible Dreamer, Sex Kills, The Reoccurring Dream, Harry's House/Centerpiece, The Arrangement, For the Roses, Hejira. Also includes Guitar Tab Glossary and Instructions how to read Dulcimer Tablature, plus many black and white photos, Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Perennial Favorite - Martha P. Neese writes about the Pine; Ikenobo School; The Artist Potter in Australia - Charles Swain of Sydney; Ichiyo School; Misho-ryu; Queen of Flowers - The Rose; Enshi School; Sogetsu School; Ryuseiha; Bonsai in America; Make your own Bamboo Containers; Wild Flowers of France; Old Roses of Luxembourg. Full-page Coke ad with Japanese model. Bit of writing atop front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Nice two-page ad for the Audi 5000 Turbo; The Burden of Billy Carter (Brother of President Jimmy Carter) - article with color photos - his Libyan connection; Teddy Kennedy seeks Democratic nomination; U.S. Vice Consul Richard Queen; Michael Polovchak; Death of violinist Helen Hagnes; Coverage of the Moscow Olympics - with color photos; Arab/Israeli conflict at the U.N.; Leonard Fein and other prominent American Jews criticize Israeli Prime Minister Begin; The Shah of Iran - The Emperor Who Died in Exile; Mostafa Mirsalim; Ali Tabatabai; Somoza's foes show moderation in Nicaragua; Terror in Turkey; Strikes in Poland; Moscow expels trio of underground feminists; War of the Roses in the New Hebrides - Jimmy Stevens; Color cowboy fashion photos; The Long Dry Summer - photo-illustrated article on damage to agriculture; Passenger Airlines in heated competition; Merrill Lynch's Marauding Herd - with photo of Donald Regan; Bethlehem Steel caught bribing; Bad news for GM; More Programs for Cable TV; The Paris Bourse is the hottest stock exchange in Europe; Cacophany at Copenhagen U.N. Women's Conference; Passing of Peter Sellers, Salah Eddin al-Bitar, HAns J. Morgenthau and Maria Montoya Martinez; Horrific predictions for the environment in the 21st century; Color celebrity photos of Joe Namath with "Daisy Mae" Rowe, Rose Kennedy, David Bowie,Bjorn Borg and his bride Mariana Simionescu; Article on deceased Peter Sellers, "The Prime Minister of Mirth"; and more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
26 pages. Signed by author upon first page. Subjects include: Pink Double Roses; Grapes & Morning Glories; Christmas Chickadees; Poppies; Dusky Pink Roses; Cherries & Roses; Christmas Rose with English Robins; Green Apples; Pink Double Roses. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
8 pages. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Sheet music
88 pages. A rare surviving copy of this vintage Canadian gardening periodical. Contents include: The Pansy; Roses for the Garden; The Scree - What is it?; Some Further Notes on the Iris; The Lily Pool - a new idea in pool construction; Youth in the Garden - building cold frames for pocket money; Glass substitutes in gardening; Some of our garden pests; and more. Many interesting contemporary ads plus a major Annual Directory of the Trade in Canada for 1934, including retailers, wholesalers, nurserymen, seedsmen, allied trades and buyers' guide. Back cover features ads by Empire Garden Nurseries, Sidney Roofing and Paper Col, Layritz Nurseries Ltd., and H.M. Eddie & Sons Ltd of Sardis, BC. Minimal pencil markings. Somewhat above-average external soiling and wear. Book
Pianta delle fortificazioni della città di Roses. Alcune lievi tracce di colla
12mo [20 x 12 cm]; 2 volumes in one, viii, [9] -119; 96 pp, engraved illustrations including full-page & including one of a Victorian terrarium, index for first work. original brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt spine title lettering and gilt vignette of flower, rubbed, lightly foxed, spine ends and edges worn, very good. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Besides describing laying out gardens, bulbs, perennials, annuals, roses, jasmines, evergreens, shrubs, window gardening, domestic greenhouses, the author provides good lists of varieties to grow under various conditions. Massachusetts Horticultural Society 161. The full title of the second work is The American Rose Culturist; Being and Practical Treatise on the Propagation, Cultivation, and Management of the Rose in all Seasons, with a list of Choice & Approved Varieties, Adapted to the Climate of the United States, to which are added full Directions for the Treatment of the Dahlia., and edited by C. M. Saxton. Stock 2614. A popular work which was reprinted many times until 1885. Hedrick mentions only the 1856 printing, this copy being published in 1855. The author describes rose cultivation, pruning, budding, etc, and describes and lists hundreds of varieties.
6 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with maps and pedigrees in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt backs, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper The sequence comprises The White Queen (2009), The Red Queen (2010), The Lady of the Rivers (2011), The Kingmaker's Daughter (2012), The White Princess (2013), The King's Curse (2014).
12mo [17.5 x 12.5 cm]; vi, [5] - 293 pp, index, includes 100 page catalogue of 956 varieties with descriptions. original blue cloth, decorated in black with gilt title lettering on front cover and spine, lightly rubbed at spine ends, signature on endpaper, else a fine clean copy with bright covers and original decorated endpapers. A picture of this book is availabl Stock 791. See Hedrick page 576. He provides details on growing and cultivation, propagation, exhibiting, growing under glass, colors, and detailed lists of varieties, the people who raise the best roses, with the varieties and dates introduced. The catalogue of varieties lists 956 varieties, each with habits, description and hereditary data. The author had the Mount Hope Nurseries in Rochester, NY, and was the son of George Ellwanger. 'Valuable treatise not easily found and an extremely useful survey of the international scene in the world of roses' [Fisher, The Companion to Roses].
12mo [19 x 12.5 cm]; 2 volumes in one, viii, [9] -119; 96 pp, engraved illustrations including full-page, index for first work. original brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt spine title lettering and gilt vignette of flower, small mark on front cover, corners rubbed, outer corner of blank endpaper cut off, but a clean very good or better copy. A picture of this book is available up Besides describing laying out gardens, bulbs, perennials, annuals, roses, jasmines, evergreens, shrubs, window gardening, domestic greenhouses, the author provides good lists of varieties to grow under various conditions. Masachusetts Horticultural Society 161. The full title of the second work is The American Rose Culturist; Being and Practical Treatise on the Propagation, Cultivation, and Management of the Rose in all Seasons, with a list of Choice & Approved Varieties, Adapted to the Climate of the United States, to which are added full Directions for the Treatment of the Dahlia., and edited by C. M. Saxton. Stock 2614. A popular work which was reprinted many times until 1885. Hedrick mentions only the 1856 printing. The author describes rose cultivation, pruning, budding, etc and describes and lists hundreds of varieties.
148 pages. Features: Charming color-illustrated ad for Alba Nylons inside front cover with gorgeous young lovely standing in tree; DuBarry Success Course ad features Berry Lou Arehart; Out of the Blue - complete novel by Vera Caspary; Is He In the Right Job?; Young Wife in Washington, D.C. - color-photo-illustrated article on author Mary Augusta Rodgers and her family; The Farmington Valley Republican Club; It Happened in Hollywood - How the Censors Cleaned up 'Forever Amber'; Several pages of attractive fashion photos in color and black and white; How Fast Can You Read?; My Life is Different Because... - by Joseph Pasternak; Nice color-photo back cover Maybelline ad features Norma Christopher, Queen of the 1947 Tournament of Roses; and much more. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
116 pages. Fiction: Lucas; Sahara Roses. Features: A Kensington Garden; Interview with Agatha Christie; On Getting Out of America; I Love Stately Homes; Three Country Cottages; Follow That Car; A Kind of Magic - Mollie Harris recalls an Oxfordshire village; The Vanishing Village; Recipes; Journey to the Massif Central; Fashions for Women and Children; Temporary Homes; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Several pages of nice black and white photos. Includes piano, vocal and chords for the following songs: I Want To Be With You Always; Always Late (With Your Kisses); Mom and Dad's Waltz; (Remember Me) I'm The One Who Loves You; I'll Step Aside; Cryin' Heart Blues; Ride On King Jesus; (I've Got A) Humpty Dumpty Heart; Tennessee Saturday Night; I'll Find You; Take Time to Pray; Room Full of Roses; How Long Will It Take (To Stop Loving You); Give Me More, More, More (Of Your Kisses); Blues In My Heart. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Front cover touched-up with blue marker which has soaked to other side. A worthy copy of this treasured momento. Book