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Cultural landscape report for Fort Baker Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Fort Baker, Barry and Cronkhite historic district, Marin County,California

Cultural landscape report for Fort Baker Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Fort Baker, Barry and Cronkhite historic district, Marin County,California

San Francisco: United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 2005. v, 133p., extensive appendix, illustrated with period and contemporary photography (many aerial views) and line plats in colors; first issue 11x8.5 inch wraps with binder's tape spine, a very good copy. Appended leaves are rather elaborate; these show... More

Cat.No: 173558

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Dai 1-kai zenkoku shohin bonsai meihinten

Dai 1-kai zenkoku shohin bonsai meihinten

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

Cat.No: 142373

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Orquideas y ecologia / Orchids and ecology. 7a conferencia mundial de orquideologia / 7th world orchid conference

Orquideas y ecologia / Orchids and ecology. 7a conferencia mundial de orquideologia / 7th world orchid conference

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

Cat.No: 167091

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Shalom

Shalom

Douglas, Cork: St. Patrick's Seminary, 1980. 56p., mimeographed sheets bound with staples, formerly taped along spine, the tape now missing; address and postage stamp on rear cover. Literary magazine including pieces by members of the community on missionary work in Nigeria, local social work, gardening, and other topics. More

Cat.No: 222932

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Kiss of the Sun: The Natural Marijuana Garden. John Alexander.

Kiss of the Sun: The Natural Marijuana Garden

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

Cat.No: 228777

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Peyote, The Divine Cactus. Second edition. Edward F. Anderson.

Peyote, The Divine Cactus. Second edition

Tucson AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 1996. Paperback. xvii, 272p., b&w photos and diagrams in the text, softbound in 9x6 inch decorated wraps. A nice clean sound copy. More

Cat.No: 226291

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City of Piedmont, California; Financial Reports, June 30th, 1911. H. St. L. Farr, Martin Monsen, Vernon Waldron, W. K. Vickery, Hugh Craig : trustees.

City of Piedmont, California; Financial Reports, June 30th, 1911

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

Cat.No: 227107

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Growing Orchids Under Lights Photographs by author. 2002 revised edition. Charles Marden Fitch.

Growing Orchids Under Lights Photographs by author. 2002 revised edition.

Delray Beach FL: American Orchid Society, 2002. Paperback. 76p., high-gloss paperstock throughout with captioned color photos every page; revised edition softbound in 9x6 inch glossy color wraps, slight edgewear and external thumb-soil, a bookseller's extensive notes on title page, sound copy otherwise clean, a good to very good copy. Series... More

Cat.No: 184979

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World's Fair Gardens: "Ride Your Hobby on Treasure Island" by Lou Richardson [article in] Better Homes & Gardens, volume 17 number 6, February, 1939. Golden Gate International Exposition.

World's Fair Gardens: "Ride Your Hobby on Treasure Island" by Lou Richardson [article in] Better Homes & Gardens, volume 17 number 6, February, 1939

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

Cat.No: 208478

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Pen jing. Huang Jingli.

Pen jing

Xi'an: Shaanxi kexue jizhu chubanshe, 1980. 19 pages of black and white plates followed by 33 pages of text in Chinese; slender paperback, very good. On miniature trees and their presentation, known in the west by the Japanese term "bonsai." More

Cat.No: 219740

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Le Jardin Pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville le Désert de Retz a late eighteenth-century French folly garden. Diana Ketcham, Olivier Choppin de Janvry. Illustrated, thirty-two, Michael Kenna.

Le Jardin Pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville le Désert de Retz a late eighteenth-century French folly garden

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990. Hardcover. 113p., 16.25x10.25 inches landscape format, preface, illustrations, photographs, bibliography, fine first edition limited to 400 copies bound in blue cloth boards with paper title labels . Publication #30. More

Cat.No: 213222

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My garden (book): illustrations by Jill Fox. Jamaica Kincaid.

My garden (book): illustrations by Jill Fox

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999. Hardcover. 229p., illus., signed with a generic inscription by Kincaid on the half-title page, first edition, dj. On the author's Vermont garden. More

Cat.No: 68204

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Where I live; poetry. Donna M. Lane.

Where I live; poetry

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

Cat.No: 131808

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Zoen to chashitsu kenchiku. Minosuke Maeda.

Zoen to chashitsu kenchiku

Tokyo: Maki Shoten, 1952. 156p., hardcover in slipcase, slipcase edgeworn, the book generally very good but for neatly penned gift inscription on front endpaper, chipped dustjacket. Second printing. On the design and architecture of gardens and tea rooms; text in Japanese. More

Cat.No: 159266

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The Seats and Demesnes of the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland In a Collection of the most interesting and Picturesque Views Engraved by Thomas Milton, From Drawings by the most Eminent Artists, with Descriptions of each View. Vol. I [cover title: Milton's Views]. Thomas Milton.

The Seats and Demesnes of the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland In a Collection of the most interesting and Picturesque Views Engraved by Thomas Milton, From Drawings by the most Eminent Artists, with Descriptions of each View. Vol. I [cover title: Milton's Views]

Dublin: The Dolmen Press, published for the Irish Georgian Society, 1963. Paperback. Unpaginated, the called-for twelve plates constituting v.I, each b&w photographically reproduced plate faced or followed by one to two pages of commentary; softbound in oblong 8x10 inch brown wraps with printed spine- and cover-labels. Mild edgewear with outer... More

Cat.No: 188269

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MItchell of California; The Memoirs of Sydney B. Mitchell, Librarian - Teacher - Gardener. With a Preface by Lawrence Clark Powell. Sydney B. Mitchell.

MItchell of California; The Memoirs of Sydney B. Mitchell, Librarian - Teacher - Gardener. With a Preface by Lawrence Clark Powell

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

Cat.No: 221308

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Kyoto a contemplative guide. Gouverneur Mosher.

Kyoto a contemplative guide

Rutland / Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company: Publishers, 1970. 368p., line maps and plats (some in colors), numerous b&w gravure site photos in velvety dark reproduction, second printing of a 1964 original. Upright 8.5x5 inch openweave fabric boards titled gilt and red, in glossy white dust jacket, jacket is a.... More

Cat.No: 178138

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A Our Garden. Francis Neilson.

A Our Garden

New York: privately printed posthumously, 1961. 109p., toned wraps, 5x7.5 inches, faint shelf-wear at spine, else very good. Diary-like accounts by season of country garden and wildlife, interspersed with poems. Quite charming. More

Cat.No: 163819

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A Thousand years of Japanese Gardens. Samuel Newsom.

A Thousand years of Japanese Gardens

Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, 1959. 318p., attractive openweave tapestry boards, covered with a chipped dj that has faint doodles in pencil. Many B&W photo illustrations. Fourth edition. More

Cat.No: 119987

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Gardening Out Loud A Portfolio of Poems and Prints. Judith S. Offer, Margo Consuelo Bors.

Gardening Out Loud A Portfolio of Poems and Prints

Pleasant Hill, CA: Pleasant Hill Press, no date [1997?]. portfolio. unpaged. 16 folded leaves with a 'suggested order of contents." Presented in black construction-style paper folder with die-cut "O" representing the O in "Out" 9 inches tall by 5 inches wide. Inscribed and signed by Offer (as "Judy O"). One... More

Cat.No: 199016

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Favorite Songs. Michael Rothenberg.

Favorite Songs

Pacifica CA: Big Bridge Press, 1990. Paperback. 66p., nicely printed paperbound in glossy 9.5x6.5 inch decorated wraps. Back cover has a small corner-tip bump that has creased the tip and turned a dozen adjacent leaves. A very good copy, not otherwise affected: no ownership or any other markings, and quite... More

Cat.No: 226297

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