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From the Ends of the Earth: Passionate Plant Collectors Remembered in a Cornish Garden
by Christian Lamb
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper very slightly rubbed at the edges. Price Clipped. Text complete, clean
- ISBN 10
- 1903071089
- ISBN 13
- 9781903071083
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bene Factum Publishers, 2004. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper very slightly rubbed at the edges. Price Clipped. Text complete, clean and tight. . First edition (first printing). Signed copy. Hardback in dust wrapper (green boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 10” x 7½” (1.1 kg); 224pp; Index; Signed by the author on the half-title page — unverified and reflected as such in the lack of premium. Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Colour Drawings; ISBN: 1903071089 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #172904|| Condition:
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- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 172904
- Title
- From the Ends of the Earth: Passionate Plant Collectors Remembered in a Cornish Garden
- Author
- Christian Lamb
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper very slightly rubbed at the edges. Price Clipped. Text complete, clean
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1903071089
- ISBN 13
- 9781903071083
- Publisher
- Bene Factum Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Honiton
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- cornwall england travellers plant collectors biography gardens garden plants history nature ecology gardening science lamb christian travel ornamental essays reference life sciences botany 1903071089 first editions firsts printings 1st signed books author
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BookLovers of Bath
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BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
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- Gilt
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