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

Simi Valley, CA: Oak and Cactus Distro, 2000. 18p., wraps, crude zine-style guidebook on how to sabotage genetically engineered crops. More

Cat.No: 131710

Madrid: Dirección General de Agricultura, 1933. xii, 250p., government presswork on alkaline glazed paperstock, a few photoillustrations, morocco-bound hardcover with minor wear. Annual report on agricultural pests and diseases. More

Cat.No: 234960

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

Dunedin: Dunedin Chinese Gardens Trust; Shanghai Museum, 2013. 111 pages, slender paperback, very good. " ... Tells the story of the world's southern-most Chinese garden, a garden that was conceptualized in New Zealand, designed and built in Shanghai, before being shipped 13,000 kilometres to Dunedin. Lan Yuan thus connects two..... More

Cat.No: 247345

New York: J. W. Colton's New York Depot, 1871. Pamphlet. 32p., letterpress, sewn textblock with original thread in good order, softbound, a pamphlet in 5.5x3.5 inch printed wraps. The folded cover leaf, with text on all four panels, is detached with abrasion to exterior and interior foldlines and an inch-long..... More

Cat.No: 242392

Roma: Societa Editrice di Novissima, Anno XV [ 193_]. NB, translation into Spanish from Italian. Only a single photoportrait of Il Duce!... 65p., printed on acidic newsprint, illustrated in a central section from photography reproduced in sepia on coated alkaline paperstock, small softbound in 7x4.5 inch decorated wraps. Abrasion to..... More

Cat.No: 242311

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

Cat.No: 234875

Portland ME: Kendall & Whitney, 1899. Pamphlet. 80p., illustrated with numerous nice vignette steel-engraved illustrations (of blooms, veg, tools), softbound, a stapled 9.5x6.5 inch pamphlet in paste-fastened wraps printed in embossed gilt. Covers are crimped along the spine, edges are worn with turned corner-tips, item is complete, otherwise sound, clean..... More

Cat.No: 242647

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

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

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

Pleasant Hill, CA: Pleasant Hill Press, no date [1997?]. portfolio. unpaged. 16 folded leaves with a 'suggested order of contents," the contents being silhouettes of a great variety of local foliage and flower, and very funny poems. Presented in black construction-style paper folder with die-cut "O" representing the O in..... More

Cat.No: 199016