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Hottes, Alfred Carl. 1001 Garden Questions Answered New York, A.T. De La Mare Comapny, Inc., 1930, Hard Cover, Condition: Very Good/Good, Compiled from periodicals, nurserymen, and experienced gardeners. A unique illustrated guidebook of garden operations for each day, answering in an easily understood manner over 1000 questions on the growing and care of flowers, fruits, vegetables, trees, shrubs, lawns, etc. and every phase of home gardening. Green cloth borads & spine, bright gilt lettering and art deco decortation. DJ white, color garden illustration. Upper edge chipped, corners chipped, closed tears to flap edges. Previous owners incription to e.p. Text clean, solidly bound. 12 mo, 293 p (Gardening, How, To, Plant, Shrubs, Vintage, Gardening, Books, Raising, Roses, How, To, Plant, Roses, Rose, Gardens, Growing, Begonias, Perennial, Gardens, Perennial, Flowers, Chrysanthemums, Plant, Propagation, Garden, Walkways, Garden, Paths, Garden, Design) Cat No. 1260. 12.50
Hottes, Alfred Carl. 1001 Garden Questions Answered New York, A.T. De La Mare Comapny, Inc., 1930, Hard Cover, Condition: Very Good/Good, Compiled from periodicals, nurserymen, and experienced gardeners. A unique illustrated guidebook of garden operations for each day, answering in an easily understood manner over 1000 questions on the growing and care of flowers, fruits, vegetables, trees, shrubs, lawns, etc. and every phase of home gardening. Green cloth borads & spine, bright gilt lettering and art deco decortation. DJ white, color garden illustration. Upper edge chipped, corners chipped, closed tears to flap edges. Previous owners incription to e.p. Text clean, solidly bound. 12 mo, 293 p (Gardening, How, To, Plant, Shrubs, Vintage, Gardening, Books, Raising, Roses, How, To, Plant, Roses, Rose, Gardens, Growing, Begonias, Perennial, Gardens, Perennial, Flowers, Chrysanthemums, Plant, Propagation, Garden, Walkways, Garden, Paths, Garden, Design) Cat No. 1260. 12.50
Prentice, T. Merrill, Watercolors; Sargent, Elizabeth O., Text. Weeds & Wildflowers of Eastern North America Ma., Peabody Museum of Salem & Barre Publishers, 1973, Hard Cover, illus: T. Merrill Prentice, Condition: Near Fine/Very Good, One hundred fourteen watercolor reproductions: Goldenrod, Tansy, Common Milkwood, Spotted Knapweed, Motherwort, Queen Anne's Lace Wild Carrot, Meadow Parsnip, Tall Buttercup, Jack in the Pulpit, etc. Prior to World War II while obtaining his degree at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Paris; Prentice an architect took up watercolors for casual sketching while traveling. In 1965 while in Maine Prentice began to sketch again; showing his collection at the New York Botanical Garden, & Hartford Art School of Hartford University his prints were collected into this book. Green buckram, gilt title panel and lettering to spine. DJ not price clipped, white floral illustrated, lower corner rubbed, lower spine ends rubbed. Green decorated e.p. Clean white text and illustrations, tightly bound. In protective brodart mylar. 4to, 114 pages. (Wildflowers, Wildflower, Identification, Wildflower, Paintings, T, Merrill, Prentice, Botanical, Art, Botanical, Watercolors, Eastern, North, American, Wildflowers) Cat No. 1261. 65.00
Prentice, T. Merrill, Watercolors; Sargent, Elizabeth O., Text. Weeds & Wildflowers of Eastern North America Ma., Peabody Museum of Salem & Barre Publishers, 1973, Hard Cover, illus: T. Merrill Prentice, Condition: Near Fine/Very Good, One hundred fourteen watercolor reproductions: Goldenrod, Tansy, Common Milkwood, Spotted Knapweed, Motherwort, Queen Anne's Lace Wild Carrot, Meadow Parsnip, Tall Buttercup, Jack in the Pulpit, etc. Prior to World War II while obtaining his degree at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Paris; Prentice an architect took up watercolors for casual sketching while traveling. In 1965 while in Maine Prentice began to sketch again; showing his collection at the New York Botanical Garden, & Hartford Art School of Hartford University his prints were collected into this book. Green buckram, gilt title panel and lettering to spine. DJ not price clipped, white floral illustrated, lower corner rubbed, lower spine ends rubbed. Green decorated e.p. Clean white text and illustrations, tightly bound. In protective brodart mylar. 4to, 114 pages. (Wildflowers, Wildflower, Identification, Wildflower, Paintings, T, Merrill, Prentice, Botanical, Art, Botanical, Watercolors, Eastern, North, American, Wildflowers) Cat No. 1261. 65.00
Churchill, Allen, Editor. The Liberty Years 1924-1950, An Anthology Englewood Cliffs New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc, 1969, Hard Cover, Condition: Fine/Near Fine, Liberty magazine offered the ever changing portrait of America, including; artwork by top professionals, political editiorials, Hollywood profiles, popular philosophy, humor, and more. This book represents 130 pieces from Liberty of America in panorama from the Roaring Twenties, through the Depression, WWII, and the Truman era. Each section is introduced by color reproductions of Liberty covers and illustrated throughout with paintings, drawings and cartoons. Noted contributors reprensented: Irving Wallace, Dos Passos, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Budd Schulberg, Ring Larder have become classics in American literature. Statesman: Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandi, Mussolini, Franklind D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle; along with fads and fascinations & celebrities: W.C. Fields, Groucho Marx, Babe Ruth, Shirley Temple, Greta Garbo, Albert Einstein, etc. Teal blue cloth boards and spine, gilt lettering to spine. DJ not price clipped, black with color magazine cover illustrations. In mylar. 427, 4to. Clean, tight. Fine (Liberty, Magazine, Vintage, Magazines, Americana, Depression, Era, Magazines, Vintage, Magazine, Covers, World, War, Ii, Magazines, 1950, S, Magazines, Magazine, Art) Cat No. 1262. 20.00

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