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Gardens of the Mind Selected and Illustrated by Joan Law-Smith Signed Limited Edition No 54 of 100 copies hardbound in slipcase
by Law-Smith, Joan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good slipcase/Slipcase
- ISBN 10
- 0959629602
- ISBN 13
- 9780959629606
- Seller
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Camira, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Macedon: Briarwood Press, 1979. Numbered Limited Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good slipcase/Slipcase. 8vo. colour illustrations The scarce Signed limited edition (being No. 54 of only 100 copies) of this anthology of poems, selected by Joan Law-Smith and decorated with her own colour illustrations; numbered and signed to prelims by Law-Smith; poems by Shakespeare, Herbert, Keats, Pound, Dickinson, Frost, Gilmore, Rossetti, Wright, and many more, accompanied by Law-Smith's natural history illustrations (text and full-page); half-cream cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, marbled paper sides, green endpapers; green card slipcase with illustrated title label; Joan Law-Smith was a prominent gardener, botanical artist and illustrator, who developed a famous garden at Bolobek in the Macedon Ranges; occasional mild foxing, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards foxed to spine, with gilt titling a little dulled, some toning to marbled sides; slipcase lightly rubbed.
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- Bookseller
- Gotcha By The Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23667
- Title
- Gardens of the Mind Selected and Illustrated by Joan Law-Smith Signed Limited Edition No 54 of 100 copies hardbound in slipcase
- Author
- Law-Smith, Joan
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good slipcase
- Jacket Condition
- Slipcase
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Numbered Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0959629602
- ISBN 13
- 9780959629606
- Publisher
- Briarwood Press
- Place of Publication
- Macedon
- Date Published
- 1979
- Pages
- 105pp
- Size
- 8vo
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Camira, Queensland
About Gotcha By The Books
Gotcha By The Books is an online bookshop, working from home, in Camira, Queensland, Australia. The owner has been selling books in Brisbane since 1985, and Gotcha By The Books has been online since 2001. We specialize in Poetry, Australian Poetry, Literature, Art, Australiana, Aboriginal Australia, Rare and Antiquarian Books. We buy books on any subject (so long as we know we can re-sell them!). We are open by appointment.
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- Marbled Paper
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- Foxed
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- Cloth
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