Search Results: Titles starting with O from Landscape Books

1964. Good. RICKETT, H. W. The Odyssey Book of American Wildflowers. New York: Odyssey Press, 1964, First edition. 4to, pp.252, colored photographs by Farrell Grehan. Torn dj.

1953. Good. TAYLOR, GLADYS. Old London Gardens. London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1953, First ed. 8vo, pp.194, 43 half-tone illustrations on plates, index, select bibliography. Spine faded, no dust jacket. Fore-edge lightly foxed, interior clean, binding tight.

1901. Good. EARLE, ALICE MORSE. Old Time Gardens. New York: Macmillan, 1901. 8vo, pp. xviii, 489, illustrated with 204 photographs. Index. Decorated cloth, t.e.g. Covers soiled, spine rubbed, front hing cracked and loose.

2003. Paperback. Fine. SITWELL, SIR GEORGE. On The Making of Gardens. Boston: David R. Godine, 2003, First softcover edition. Introduction by Sir Osbert Sitwell, Foreword by John Dixon Hunt. 12mo, pp.xxxiv, 130, illustrated in half- tone from photographs. Index, list of references. [Reissue of the classic essay on the purpose and planning of gardens, with an intro. by Sir Osbert Sitwell.] Wraps, (softcover). AS NEW.

1936. Very Good. CROSS, P. G. Our Friends The Trees. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1936, First edition. 8vo, pp.334, illustrated with halftone plates from photographs and with drawings in the text. Index. No dust jacket. Very good condition.

1989. Good. RAPHAEL, SANDRA. An Oak Spring Sylva: A Selection of The Rare Books on Trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library. Upperville, Virginia: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1989. Wide 4to, pp.xxvii, 147, illus. in color and halftone from illustrations in old books. Index. [Beautifully produced book. First of a series of catalogues of selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. Bibliographic summary of each book as well as background essays.] Dj, NEW.

1998. Good. TOMASI, LUCIA TONGIORGI. An Oak Spring Flora: Flower Illustration From The Fifteenth Century To The Present Time. A Selection of the Rare Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art in the Collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon. Upperville, Virginia: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1997, reprinted with corrections 1998. 4to, pp.lxxiii, 427, illustrated in color from botanical illustrations. Index. Dust jacket. NEW

1990. Good. RAPHAEL, SANDRA. An Oak Spring Pomona: A Selection of The Rare Books on Fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library. Upperville, Virginia: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1990. Wide 4to, pp.xxxii, 276, illus. in color and halftone from illustrations in old books. Index. [Beautifully produced book. Second in a series of catalogues of selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. Bibliographic summary of each book as well as background essays.] Dj, NEW.

1979. Very Good. GREER, GERMAINE. The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work. New York: Farrar Straus Girous, 1979, First edition. 8vo, pp.373, illustrated in halftone and color. Index, notes. Dj. Vg/vg.

1995. Good. COOPER, THOMAS C. Odd Lots: Seasonal Notes of a City Gardener. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1995. 12mo, pp.xv, 218. Dj.

1968. Very Good. ROBINETTE, GARY O. Off the Board/Into the Ground: Techniques of Planting Design Implementation. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publ. Co., 1968. 4to, pp.367, illus. w. construction plans and drawings. Spiral bound. Former owner's name in ink, o.w. very good

1996. Fine. ROSTENBERG, LEONA and MADELEINE STERN. Old Books in the Old World: Reminiscences of Book Buying Abroad. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.175, halftone illustrations. Index, Dj. Fine/fine.

1924. Good. ROHDE, ELEANOUR SINCLAIR. The Old English Gardening Books. London: Martin Hopkinson and Co., Ltd., 1924, First edition. 8vo, pp.xii, 144, illus. w. 16 plates and 8 plans. Extensive bibliography of gardening manuals of the 16th and 17th centuries, in chronological order. Index. Paper covered boards with linen spine. Dj. Some very light foxing. [Scarce]

1922. Good. ROHDE, ELEANOUR SINCLAIR. The Old English Herbals. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922, First edition. Lg. 8vo, pp.xii, 243, colored frontispiece and 17 halftone plates. Index, extensive bibliographies. [Helen Noyes Webster's copy]

1979. Very Good. THEROUX, PAUL. The Old Patagonian Express. By Train Through the Americas. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979. First edition. 8vo, pp.404, maps on endpapers. Dj. Vg/vg.

1977. Paperback. Very Good. BOLAND, MAUREEN and BRIDGET. Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. Second American printing. 12mo, pp.64, decorated with old wood cuts. Index. Wraps. Very good condition, except for ink inscription on half-title.

1947. Good. PERCIVAL, OLIVE. Old-Fashioned Flowers. Pasadena, California: Pasadena Humane Society, 1947. Printed by the Ward Richie Press, edition limited to 1000 copies. 8vo, pp.245, illustrated with a colored frontispiece and line drawings in the text by John Maximus. Flower index, herb index, chronological bibliography. Original cloth backed boards. Front bottom corner slightly worn. [Flower-name history. list of old-fashioned flowers and short lists of old-fashioned roses and herbs.]

1981. Paperback. Very Good. SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGLAND ANTIQUITIES. Old-Time New England. Bulletin. Vol. LXXI, No. 258. Boston: The Society for The Preservation of N. E. Antiquities, 1981. Abbott Lowell Cummings, Editor. 8vo, pp.159 + 14 pp. ads., illustrated with halftones from photographs and a plan. Wraps. Very good condition. [Issue is devoted to The Codman Estate, "The Grange", in Lincoln, Massachusetts.]

1979. Fine. [OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW] Olmsted South: Old South Critic/New South Planner. Edited by Dana F. White and Victor A. Kramer. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1979. [Contributions in American Studies, No. 43] 8vo, xxxvi, 259. Index, bibliographical essay. [Foreward by Albert Fein] No dust jacket as issued. As new.

1998. Good. ABLEMAN, MICHAEL. On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm. Foreword by Alice Waters. Edited by Cynthia Wisehart. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998, First edition. 8vo, pp.144, illus. in color from photographs. Dj, NEW.