Buy this book on-line Angier, Belle Sumner; Nash, John Henry (Printer) : The Garden Book of CaliforniaPaul Elder and Company, San Francisco, CA, 1906
Printed by John Henry Nash at the Tomoye Press. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with black lettering and illustration on front cover and spine. 6" x 8 1/2." 141 pages, complete. Twenty black-and-white photographic plates, complete. Black-and-white page decorations by Spencer Wright. List of illustrations (plates) in front. Index in back. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning and slight bumping to deckled fore-edge. Covers are very clean and intact except for some darkening or soiling along spine and a few shallow surface cracks on front outer joint. Binding is tight. A Very Good, almost Near Fine copy. A descriptive and instructive book about California gardening by Belle Sumner Angier. The following are the chapter titles: "The Flower Garden as a Factor in Home-Making," "Simple Gardening Methods," "A Planting-Time Calendar," "The Culture of Common Plants," "Little Brown Bulbs," "Palms and Tropical Plants," "Rose Culture in California," "Ferns and Ferneries," "The Mission of the Vine," "Boundaries--Necessary and Needless," "Tree-Planting and Protection," "Insecticides and Plant Diseases," "Back-Yard Problems," "Out-of-Door Living Rooms," "The Equipment of the Aviary," and "Native Trees, Shrubs and Flowers.". Illustr.: Wright, Spencer (Decorations). Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Angier, Belle Sumner; Nash, John Henry (Printer) : The Garden Book of California. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, libri antichi, out-of-print books, antiquarian books and atlases. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |