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The City Gardener's Handbook: From Balcony to Backyard
by YANG, Linda
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039458371X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394583716
- Seller
-
Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 316pp. Illustrated with color plates. Very good (plus) with a slightly cocked spine, lightly bumped corners and faded board edges in a near fine lightly age-toned dustwrapper with a faded spine, edge wear. A comprehensive guide to planting small spaces and containers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 367146
- Title
- The City Gardener's Handbook: From Balcony to Backyard
- Author
- YANG, Linda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 039458371X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394583716
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Gardening, Nature
Terms of Sale
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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