The A.B.C Guide to Garden Flowers by W. E. Shewell-Cooper - 1955

London: English Universities Press, 1958. Second Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/near Very Good. 8vo. Pp 192 + colour frontis. Line drawings in the text. Green cloth boards stamped in black on the spine and upper panel. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. The protected dust jacket is lightly chipped.

The English Universities Press Ltd, 1958. Hardcover. Good. 1958. Reprint. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

London: The English Universities Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1961. Third Printing. Hardcover. Some wear and tear to unclipped DJ with over price sticker on front fly, minor grime to boards, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Third printing, 1961. Green cloth boards with black lettering to spine and spade in ground with bird on handle motif to front board. Nice tight copy, no names inside. ; The A. B. C. Gardening Series; Vol. 11; B&W Illustrations ; 192 pages; An illustrated guide to garden flowers by the noted horticulturist author and pioneer of no-dig gardening. .

London: The English Universities Press Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. Hard Cover. Third impression 1961. 192p, index, alphabetical guide to popular flowering plants with b/w drawings and information on growing habits, propagation, soil, time of flowering. Light wear to jacket esp along flap edge, colour coded edge paper. ; 12mo .

London England: The English Universities Press, 1961. Hardcover The ABC Guide to Garden Flowers. (The A.B.C. Gardening Series) Illustrated. 192 pp. Slight shelf wear to top edge and corners of D/J.( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. etc.). Third Impression. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

London, UK: The English Universities Press, 1955. First Edition, 3rd Impression of 1961 . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/As New. Illustrated green boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/light edge rubs. Bookshop label (Livraria Bertrand, Lisbon, Portugal) to front cover verso. 11th volume in the ABC Gardening Series authored by Shewell-Cooper. A guide to English garden flowers. Flowers are arranged by color, each illustrated with line drawings, and in nomeclature, preference is given to the common name. Of the volume on Herbs, Salads & Tomatoes, V. Sackville West commented "The best book on vegetables I have yet seen"; likewise, this book is a superb reference for English garden lovers.

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Hardback. The English Universities Press Ltd. UK. 1955. Hardback with dj. First edition. Clean, bright covers bearing lovely cover art. There is a chip missing to top and a bit of rub to top edges but overall this is a pretty dj. Not price clipped showing old price of 7s 6d net. Contents are clean and unmarked with lots and lots of diagrams of various garden flowers as well as a section on leaf recognition. W E Shewell-Cooper was a highly respected horticultural writer. Vita Sackville-West gives two reviews to inner flap, commenting on the author's expertise in horticulture. 'ABC Guide to Garden Flowers' by W E Shellwell Cooper. Not exlib and packed and sent with care.