Narrow your search
Filter by condition:
VG or better (3)Filter by price:
Less than $5 (1)$5-10 (1)
$10-25 (9)
$25-50 (2)
$50-100 (1)
Filter by binding:
Hardcover (5)Filter by attribute:
With dust jacket (6)Filter by subject:
Filter by country:
United States (14)Tools
New searchAdd to want list
E-mail search
Link to search
| 1) |
LOOK FOR THE WOMAN
M. Evans and Co. NY, 1981. viii, 408pp. b&w half tone photos and illustrations throughout. A lengthy encyclopedia of more than 300 bad girls from the Elizabethan era to the present. Murderers, kidnappers, poisoners and the like. VG in edgeworn dj .... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |
| 2) |
THE PRACTICAL FRUIT, FLOWER AND VEGETABLE GARDENER'S COMPANION with calendar
NY, 1860. (for American gardens, from the 4th ed.) xii, 408pp. 49 figs. in the text. Care includes a forcing garden. Blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt spine - rubbed. Head/foot of spine have a few small tears else Good .... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |
| 3) |
PLANTS OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK
1953, Washington, D.C. xi, 201pp. 13 plates, 100 figures in the text. 2nd ed. Key of the conspicuous plants. Small ink name front cover, tips bent. Light wear .... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |
| 4) |
BUTTERFLY HAUNTS
London, Chapman & Hall, 1948. 4to. unpaginated 64 b&w half tone photos. Includes all the British butterflies,native or not, their places in lanes,fields, garden, woodland and other environments. Photos are of both the butterfly and the places they live. Paper somewhat yellowing else very good in linen cloth, somewhat faded lower edges in edgechipped dj .... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |
| 5) |
Quilting, Patchwork, Applique and Trapunto
4to. 248pp. 400 photographs - 26 color plates. 30 diagrams.Traditional methods and original designs. Artwork, clothes, home decoration. Second printing.... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |
| 6) |
WOMEN AND CHILDREN LAST
London, Jonathan Cape. 319pp. Nichols is still the funniest garden writer ever, although most of these pieces are not all about gardening but men and women (although his comments about the latter are usually poisonous). Very good in brown cloth. Two small smokey black spots to spine, as if someone held a cigarette too close else Good. .... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |
| 7) |
Down the Garden Path
x, 303pp. Nichols' diary of his cottage garden, before he became so used to it. Winter gardening, neighbors, garden shows.Good in green cloth; some mottling to covers, as usual.... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |
| 8) |
How Does Your Garden Grow?
139pp. Advice on gardening from some of the most famous modern garden writers. Gardening in the autumn, winter, window boxes, wind, borders and hedges, 'American' gardens. A classic.... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |
| 9) |
THE KNOT GARDEN
London, (1989). 186pp. Entertaining murder mystery. Death of a knot garden designer in England. about F in dj .... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |
| 10) |
Portrait of a Marriage
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1980. xi, 249pp. Nicholson found his mother's, Vita Sackville West, diary following her death and had it published. Tracing her 50 year strong but tested marriage to Harold Nicholson, affairs with Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf. .... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |
| 11) |
RECOLLECTIONS OF VIRGINIA WOOLR
William-Morrow : New York, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 207pp. 8vo. Not critical essays, but observations of people who knew her well such as Vita Sackville-West, T.S. Eliot, Nigel Nicolson, Rose Macaulay and many others. She was best remembered for her genius, as a writer and a talker, and her envy which most ignored. ... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |
| 12) |
Orchids as House Plants
2nd rev. ed. 148pp. illustrated in 63 line drawings. How to produce flowering orchids at home. Potting mature plants, caring for seedlings, treating ailments are also covered. ... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |
| 13) |
THE COUNTRY GARDEN
NY, (1970). xiv, 256pp. half tone photos throughout.Helps to incorporate woodland into home grounds. Book club edition but a nice work. Very good in tattered dj .... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |
| 14) |
WILD FLOWERS AS THEY GROW
Cassell & Co., London, 1914. vii, 198pp. 25 color photo plates. The flowers' 'country' names are noted; References to Gerard, Ruellius and old writers throughout. Poems, historical influences. A trifle loose else VG in blue cloth; photo onlay cover. A little shelfworn, handled . ... (more information)
Offered by Carol Barnett, Books (Oregon, United States) |




