Alpines in Colour and Cultivation
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company. Hardcover. 8 1/2 by 5 3/4 inches; 215 by 144 mm. 277, [1] pages. Hardcover, bound in tan cloth with green lettering on spine and a flower design on front board. Jacket has an attractive early post-war design with a color photo on the front panel and brown lettering on a brown-speckled background. Jacket has quarter-inch chip and closed tear at head of spine, and is a little darkened at spine panel and fore-edges. U.S. issue of the second English edition (circa 1945), but price on jacket is in shillings. A book of practical advice for raising and increasing alpine plants. Complete with publisher's cellophane template for convenient identification of the plants shown in the book's plates. One-inch-square gold-foil bookseller's ticket (Malcolm MacNeil & Company Books, 27 Seventh St., San Francisco) on rear pastedown. 80 plates in color and 30 other illustrations. Jacket enclosed in a clear, archival-quality, removable protective cover. Item #127
Price: $17.50