Tokyo: Nihon bonsai kyokai, undated. [31p.], wraps edgeworn and lightly soiled; illustrated with B&W photos of 57 bonsai presentations. Not found in OCLC. First national exhibition of select examples, put on by the Japanese Bonsai Society. Very little text, all in Japanese. More about Dai 1-kai zenkoku shohin bonsai meihinten

Cat.No: 142373

Medellin: [sponsoring orchid societies], 1972. Variously paginated sections, about 75p., facing (or alternating) Spanish and English texts illustrated with scattered photos and sketches, 9x5.5 inch staplebound purple wraps with color decoration; slight edgewear, paperstock mildly toned, a very good copy. Lists many tours and events. "Gypsy Orchidophiles? hard to believe... More about Orquideas y ecologia / Orchids and ecology. 7a conferencia mundial de orquideologia / 7th world...

Cat.No: 167091

San Francisco: San Francisco Garden Club, 1974. 225p., card covers, plastic comb binding, very good. Sold as a fundraiser for the Golden Gate Park Conservatory. More about The San Francisco Garden Club's epicurean bouquet

Cat.No: 212087

Oakland: Quick American Archives, 2001. Paperback. 56p., 8x8 inches, pictorial wraps, color illus., very good condition. A guide to growing cannibis outdoors, covering all aspects. Many color photos, all on coated stock. More about Kiss of the Sun: The Natural Marijuana Garden

Cat.No: 228777

Piedmont CA: Board of Trustees of the City of Piedmont, 1911. Unpaginated, about twenty pages, printed on coated alkaline paperstock and illustrated (or padded) with numerous b&w photos of public buildings and private gates and vistas. Large paperbound in plain printed 11.5x9 inch wraps, fastened with both thread (in good..... More about City of Piedmont, California; Financial Reports, June 30th, 1911

Cat.No: 227107

Des Moines: Meredith Publishing Company, 1939. Cover story (announced there; cover illustration per se simply an indoor flower-arranger at work) begins with a double-spread on pp20-21 with one half-page b&w photo and ten vignettes and a tiny map of central California, thereafter comprised of 4 or 5 full columns of... More about World's Fair Gardens: "Ride Your Hobby on Treasure Island" by Lou Richardson [article...

Cat.No: 208478

Redlands CA: Orchid Digest, 1997. Pamphlet. 38p., illustrated by numerous full-color close-up photos on slick alkaline paperstock, checklist printed double-column on same stock, softbound in a magazine-style pamphlet, 11x8.5 inch stapled wraps. A handled copy (hard to resist gaping) with corner-creasings and crimping, the textblock largely but not entirely free... More about Orchid Digest, Special Publication: An Annotated Checklist on the Genus Dracula. Reprinted from...

Cat.No: 234875

Oakland: PM Press, 2009. Paperback. 136p., wraps, illus., new, signed by author. Oakland author offers recipes and strategies for healthy eating. She's founding editor and publisher of "Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture." She rides a bicycle. More about Cook Food: a Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating

Cat.No: 169183

Pittsburg, CA: RAW ArT PRESS, 2005. Paperback. 62p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Mostly poems about cancer, the poet's and others. More about Where I live; poetry

Cat.No: 131808

n.p. n.pub. 1946. ii, 15 pages, very good hardcover; a handsome production. A short piece about the importance of enjoying one’s fleeting life; reprinted from “The bond between us,” originally published in 1942. More about In a Chinese garden

Cat.No: 232890

Paris: Flores Editions d'Art, 2003. Hardcover. 79p., text in French, color photos on glossy stock, personal inscription signed by the photographer (also French) plus, laid in, a folded sheet with handwritten greeting and thanks from the photographer (in English) with a tipped-in original color photo print; fine first edition in... More about Quatre Douzaines de Roses

Cat.No: 223795

Berkeley: California Library Association, 1960. 263p., two portrait photographs, hardbound in 8x6 inch dark blue boards with red spine label ruled gilt; handsome production. A clear acetate dust jacket is partiallly torn away, the front free endsheet bears a neat small ownership signature, an otherwise entirely sound clean copy. More about MItchell of California; The Memoirs of Sydney B. Mitchell, Librarian - Teacher - Gardener. With a...

Cat.No: 221308