Six Colonial Gardeners and their Landscapes. Pp. xviii+270(last colophon), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (some full or double page), notes, botanical appendix, select bibliography, index; roy. 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, backstrip and part of back panel slightly faded, tiny closed tear to..... More
[New edition.] Forewords by John Turner and Jean Galbraith. Pp. 144, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, endpaper plan, index; demy 4to; black cloth, lettered in white, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, backstrip slightly faded; Five Mile Press, Hawthorn, Victoria, 1985. First edition thus. *Originally..... More
Pp. 104(last blank), 24 coloured plates within pagination, black & white text figures, bibliography, indices; narrow cr. 4to; bottom fore-corner of boards faintly bruised; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; A. H. & A. W. Reed, Sydney, 1973. First edition. More
Know your flower - know yourself. Pp. 148, illustrated in colour throughout, index; square 4to; edges of boards a trifle rubbed and bruised; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, signs of sticker removal from front panel, the backstrip faded; top edges of leaves a trifle marked; The Oracle Press, Montville, Qld, 2001..... More
My Life and Thoughts. Foreword by Jane Edmanson. Pp. xiv+240, 8 plates, text illustrations, appendices, bibliography; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper; Information Australia, [Melbourne], 2000. First edition. More
with notes on their cultivation. Photographs by B. Gray and E. R. Rotherham. Pp. 168(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, appendices, index; narrow cr. 4to; bottom edge of boards a trifle shelf worn, fore-corners lightly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; a little light foxing; A. H...... More
Photographs by Barbara Strange. Foreword by Carrick Chambers. Pp. 128, illustrated in colour throughout, index; cr. 4to; a few small bruises to edges of boards; dust wrapper, backstrip faded, tiny split to fore-edge of front panel; inked gift inscription on upper free endpaper, edges of leaves slightly foxed; National Trust..... More
Pp. 178(last blank), coloured and black & white plates, adverts. at end; cloth backed papered boards, edges of boards slightly browned, small graze to bottom fore-corner of upper board; endpapers slightly browned; National Rose Societies.../Horticultural Press, Melbourne, 1966. *With brochure for the Australian Rose Convention 5th-9th April, 1967, loosely inserted..... More
An artist's collection of life portraits in full natural colour with historical texts by Leslie Beers. In two volumes. Pp. 84(last blank)+80(last blank), coloured pictorial title pages, plus 48 full page coloured illustrations; impl. 4to; full maroon leather, lettered and decorated in gilt; binder's ticket at foot of lower pastedown..... More
Pp. [vi]+26, coloured frontispiece and 9 plates within pagination, the title page vignette and head & tailpiece decorations printed in pale grey/green, black & white text figures, pictorial endpapers printed in brown; small cr. 4to; pictorial papered boards, foot of spine and top fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; dust wrapper..... More
With descriptive text edited by D. L. Jones and T. B. Muir. Pp. xxii+142(last blank), 476 coloured plates (some double page), full page black & white distribution map, title page printed in red & black, glossary, index; super roy. 4to; boards a trifle marked; dust wrapper, slightly rubbed and split..... More
Incorporating a new section on woody shrubs. Pp. 200(last colophon), text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, glossary, street tree index, index; narrow cr. 4to; dust wrapper, slight stain from removal of small sticker near bottom edge of back panel; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; The Department of the Interior, Canberra..... More
Pp. viii+156, profusely illustrated in colour and occasional sepia, pictorial endpapers, notes, bibliography, index; super roy. 4to; black cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; within black cloth slipcase with ribbon pull, slipcase lettered in silver; Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2004. Limited edition, being one of 300 copies signed by..... More
With a Foreword by Norman Cowper. Decorated by Paul Jones. Pp. 112(last colophon), hand-tipped frontispiece portrait, plus 16 plates within pagination (2 coloured), pictorial head & tailpieces, title page decoration, pictorial endpapers, list of honours, awards and degrees, index; cr. 4to; qr. dark green buckram, spine lettered in gilt, canvas..... More