48 p., immaculate and unmarked; wonderful color photos of beautiful garden with fountains and sculpture and the elegant Tower Grove House; insert Missouri Botanical gardens visitors Guide; binding firm; photographic wrapper is clean with minimal edge wear--small crease at lower corner of front panel. View More...
Presumed first U.S. ed. 1993 (previously published in Great Britain same year by Chapmans), first printing according to printer's key; 283 p., plus index, clean and unmarked anywhere on strong unaged paper; geologic map end pages; lavishly illustrated with 160 color photos--one of a much younger and rather wind-blown King Charles III with the caption "Listening to, but not necessarily taking advice." Binding firm; green boards with still bright gilt lettering clean and unfaded but, despite best efforts of the d.j., have light bumping of corners. The clean glossy photographic d.j. has some edg... View More...
Second ed. limited to 300 exemplars; 4to; 10th in series Collectio Som i Serem; 355 p., immaculate and unmarked--not ex-lib., no former owner's name; lavishly illustrated with maps and color photos; commentary in Catalan, Spanish, English, French and German; binding tight; green boards with blind-stamped oak leaf image and bright gilt lettering is pristine, well protected by glossy, unclipped photographic d.j., itself with no more wear than would be seen in a book store. View More...
Translated from Chinese to English; 151 p., immaculate and unmarked anywhere, on exceptionally fine paper; many beautiful color photos; binding firm; pictorial wrapper clean and unfaded but there is a little bumping of corners and slight edge wear with tiny closed tear at crown of spine. View More...
First ed., 1978; 160 p., immaculate and unmarked--not ex-lib., no former owner's name; wonderful photos and ill.; binding tight; glossy photographic boards show no more wear than in book tore. View More...
First U.S. ed, 1992; text by Mary Jane Pool; introd. by Ileana Chiappini di Sorio, trans. from Italian to English by Joachim Neugroschels, breath-taking photos by Alessandro Albrizzi. 221 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on glossy unaged paper; lavishly illustrated with photos and art work; binding tight; unfaded forest-green boards with still bright gilt lettering have minimal wear, thanks to glossy photographic d.j., itself with a little rubbing (but not chipping) at edges. 9-1/2" x 11-1/2". Find out how fabulously Florence flourishes al fresco. (Try saying that three times rapidly.) View More...
Presumed first ed. pub. by Her Majesty's Stationer's Office; 195 p., immaculate and unmarked except for small spot at upper corner of front end page--perhaps where label might have been removed; lavishly illustrated; binding firm; black boards with bright gilt lettering and colophon very fine and this would be "like new" except for some faint spatters on upper edge block. View More...
