HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1973* Publisher: Michael Joseph.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, silver title to spine. Slight bumps, no rubs, no marks. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £5.00. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright, no marks to text, lightly read. VG++* Illustrations: A number of colour & b/w photos and b/w line drawn maps.* Pages: 167 pp. text. xi pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: This is a book to delight the fireside traveller or gardener, drawing him into the excitement of discovery. It will be welcomed, too, by the botanically-minded holiday-maker, for in addition to being a guide to the flowers of so many countries it is full of practical information on how to grow them back at home. The author?s own impressive photographs, in colour and black and white, illustrate the rich rewards of the search.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st.with no major faults, reduced by dust jacket wear to VG.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5561
Title: In Search of Flowers
Author: Synge, Patrick Millington
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG++/VG+/VG
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0718108728
ISBN 13: 9780718108724
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Place of Publication: London UK 176
Date Published: 1973-09-03
Size: 23.6 x 15.6 x 2.4 cm

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Crisp: A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Tail: The heel of the spine.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...