- Seller Inventory #: 70072
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Fine
- Jacket condition: Fine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Exbury Gardens Ltd.
- Place: England
- Date published: 1979
England: Exbury Gardens Ltd. , 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. 1979 reprint of second revised edition. Large 4to. Book and jacket are in fine, As New condition, with one tiny nick to jacket. Lavishly illustrated with photos by Harry Smith. Drawings by Gillian Kenny. Appears unread. Not price-clipped. In protective Mylar. 138 pp. including index. Heavy--may require additional postage if shipped other than domestic media mail.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
reprint : Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
price-clipped : The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.
As New : "the book is in the same immaculate condition in which it was published. There can be no defects, no missing pages, no library stamps, etc., and the dust jacket (if it was issued with one) must be perfect without any tears." Condition definition from AB Bookman's Weekly.
