Search Results: Titles starting with R from Landscape Books

1969. Very Good. BROWN, VINSON. Reading the Woods. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1969. 8vo, pp.160, halftone photos. and drawings. Index, bibliography. Dj. Vg/good, dj slightly edgeworn.

1897. Good. (BOSTON), Metropolitan Park Commissioners, Board of... Report. January, 1897. Public Document No. 48. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1897. 8vo, pp.89, 8 gravure plates from photographs, 2 maps (including 1 fold-out of the Metropolitan Park District), and 2 plans. Includes report by The Olmsted Brothers, Landscape Architects. Orig. cloth.

1893. Good. ROBBINS, MARY CAROLINE. The Rescue of An Old Place. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1893. Third ed. 12mo, pp.vii, 289. [Originally appeared in Garden and Forest; relates experiences in restoring an "abandoned farm on a salt meadow on the Massachusetts coast.] Covers lightly spotted, dark offprint on two pages where a piece of newsprint was used as a bookmark, former owners' names on f.f.e.p.

1929. Good. ROCKWELL, F. F. Rock Gardens. The Home Garden Handbooks, New York: Macmillan, (1928) 1929. 12mo, pp.viii, 86, illustrated with drawings by George L. Hollrock and the author. Index. Spine darkened, endpapers foxed, otherwise nice, tight copy.

1968. Very Good. FOSTER, H. LINCOLN. Rock Gardening: A Guide to Growing Alpines and Other Wildflowers in the American Garden. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1968, First edition, first printing. 8vo, pp.xxviii, 466, illus. w. colored frontispiece, half-tone photos., drawings. Index, bibliography. Dj. Vg/vg, one small closed tear at top of dust jacket.

1930. Good. CORREVON, HENRY. Rock Garden and Alpine Plants. London: Macmillan, 1930. 8vo, pp.xiv, 544, illus. w. 8 color plates, 8 half-tone plates from photographs, drawings in text. Index. Dec. paper boards, cloth spine, t.e.g. Recased, spine reinforced.

1930. Very Good. CORREVON, HENRY. Rock Garden and Alpine Plants. New York: Macmillan, 1930. 8vo, pp.xiv, 544, 8 color plates, 8 half-tone photos, drawings in text. Vg/no dj.

1939. Good. ROHDE, ELEANOUR SINCLAIR. Rose Recipes. London: Routledge, 1939, First edition. 12mo, pp.xiv, 94, decorated by Helen Kapp. Dj. Wrinkle in cloth of front cover and spine, rubbed. Name in ink on f.f.e.p, bottom corner of front cover has loss of color in a very small area. Dust jacket torn at top edge of spine, despite these faults, quite a nice copy.

1951. Good. ALLEN, R. C. Roses for Every Garden. New York: M. Barrows & Co., 1951, Sixth printing. 12mo, pp.218, illus. with color plates and line drawing by Richard L. Houseal, glossary and index. No dust jacket, former owner's name on f.f.e.p.

1853. Good. DOWNING, A. J. Rural Essays. Edited with a Memoir of the Author, by George William Curtis, and A Letter to His Friends, by Frederika Bremer. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1853, First edition. 8vo, pp.lxxi, 557, wood engravings in the text. Original blind-stamped cloth. Ex-library copy, head and tail of spine worn. Some damp stains to top margins of some pages.

1961. Very Good. WELLS, RICHARD A., Editor. The Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library. Carnegie Institute of Technology. Its Collections, Program, & Staff. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1961. 4to, pp.vi, 35, illus. w. tipped on color plates from botanical illustrations and with halftone illustrations. Volume prepared for attendees at the dedication of the Library. Vg.

1961. Very Good. WELLS, RICHARD A., Editor. The Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library. Carnegie Institute of Technology. Its Collections, Program, & Staff. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1961. 4to, pp.vi, 35, illus. w. tipped on color plates from botanical illustrations and with halftone illustrations. Volume prepared for attendees at the dedication of the Library. Vg.

1931. Good. SHULL, J. MARION. Rainbow Fragments. A Garden Book of the Iris. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1931, First edition. 8vo, pp. viii, 317, illus. w. color and halftone plates from photographs. Index. Tattered dj, large section gone from back and spine of dj.

1985. Fine. BASKIN, LEONARD. The Raptors and Other Birds. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Preface by S. Dillon Ripley, Commentary by Jose Yglesias. 4to, unpaginated. Illus. in color and halftone from drawings and paintings by Leonard Baskin. Dj. Fine/vg, some edgewear to dust jacket.

1992. Very Good. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Rare Books and Special Collections: An Illustrated Guide. Washington: Library of Congress, 1992. Spuare 4to, pp.64, illustrated in color and halftone. Softbound. Vg.

1996. Good. SWEETING, ADAM. Reading Houses and Building Books: Andrew Jackson Downing and the Architecture of Popular Antebellum Literature, 1835-1855. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1996. 8vo, pp.x, 230, illus. in halftone from engravings. Index, notes, bibliographic essay. Dj, NEW.

1917. Good. ALDEN, RAYMOND MACDONALD, Editor. Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917. 8vo, pp.x, 695. Index of Authors. Head and tail of spine rubbed, some underling and margin notes in pencil, former owner's name in ink on ffep. No dust jacket.

1968. Paperback. Very Good. TOWN OF MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS. Real Estate Valuations of Town of Marblehead As Listed For The Year 1968. In Street Form. n.p., 1968. 8vo, unpaginated. Wraps, (softbound). Vg, wraps lightly soiled.

1994. Good. CLAY, GRADY. Real Places: An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Square 4to, pp.xxiii, 297, illus. in halftone from photographs. Index, bibliographic notes. Dj.

1963. Very Good. COTTRELL, LEONARD. Realms of Gold. A Journey in Search of the Mycenaeans. Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1963, First edition. 8vo, pp.vii, 278, illustrated with halftone plates from photographs. Index. Dj. Vg/good+, name in ink on ffep, dust jacket slightly edgeworn.