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Books on Rock Gardening for Sale:

[519] Anley, Gwendolyn. Alpine House Culture for Amateurs. London: Country Life, 1938. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / . London, NY 1938. 8vo. 188 pages with 37 b/w photos. Cloth. Very good.

$9.95

[3] Bartrum, Douglas. Rock Gardens. London: 1971. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good London 1971. 8vo. 191 pages with some photos. Cloth with dust jacket. Very good.

$6.95

[524] Bartrum, Douglas. Climbing Plants and some Wall Shrubs. London: Garden Book Club, 1959. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. London 1959. 8vo. 204 pages with 29 photos and 14 diagrams. Cloth w.dj. Very good.

$6.95

[1029] Bissland, James H.. The Rock Garden and What to Grow In It. Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1939. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good- 1st edition. 1939. viii, 128 pages with 15 b/w photos. Cloth. Very good.

$8.95

[652] Bissland, James H.. Common Sense in the Rock Garden.. New York: De La Mare, 1938. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good 1st ed. NY 1938. 8vo. 217 pages with many b/w photographs and sketches. Cloth. Very good.

$7.95

[4354] Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Rock Gardening. New York: 1988. 4th Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Staple-bound. Very Good NY 1988. 76 pages with many illustrations. Paperback.

$7.95

[5] Chapple, Fred. J.. The Heather Garden. London: Collingridge, 1960. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good 2nd revised edition. London and NY 1964. 8vo. 190 pages with 54 b/w photos and 4 line drawings. Cloth (front endpaper missing and some writing to first page). Else very good.

$5.95

[656] Chittenden, F. J.. Rock Gardens and Rock Plants. Reports of the Conference held by the Royal Horticultural Society and the Alpine Garden Society.. London: Royal Horticultural Society, 1948. 2nd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good 2nd printing. London 1948. Lg 8vo. 171 pages. Cloth. Very good.

$15.95

[6933] Elliott, R.C. (Editor). A Handbook of Rock Gardening. A Special Number of the Alpine Garden Society’s Quarterly Bulletin. London: Alpine Garden Society, 1964. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good London 1964. 8vo. 104 pages with some diagrams. Wrappers. Slight foxing to last pages.

$4.95

[6610] Jenkins, E. H.. The Rock Garden. London: Country Life, 1920. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / . 1st ed. London 1920. 8vo. xi, 128 pages plus 49 b/w photographs. Cloth. GBC. With many suggestions on the layout and construction of rock gardens followed by plant and plant grouping suggestions.

$9.95

[156] Jenkins, E.H.. The Rock Garden. London: Country Life, 1938. 3rd Edition. 3rd edition. London 1938. 8vo. xi, 128 pages plus 49 b/w photographs. Cloth. With many suggestions on the layout and construction of rock gardens followed by plant and plant grouping suggestions. Very good.

$11.95

[686] Johnson, A. T.. The Heaths and some of Their Nearer Allies. London: Gardener's Chronicle, 1928. 1st Edition. Cloth. 1st edition. London 1928. Sm 8vo. 116 pages with 16 b/w photos. Cloth (This book was shelved against some smaller books which left a faded 1/2 inch line along the top edge in front and on back. Spine is also faded. 1/16 inch along top of spine worn off. No other defects. (weight 1/2 pound or 250 gr)

$7.95

[21] Johnson, A. T.. Hardy Heaths and some of Their Nearer Allies. London: Garden Book Club, 1955. sm 8vo. Cloth. Very Good / Good. London 1955. Sm 8vo. 127 pages with 20 black and white photographs. Cloth w.dj. Very good.

$9.95

[77] Johnson, A.T.. Hardy Heaths. London: Blandford Press, 1956. Very Good and some of the nearer allies. Revised edition. London 1956. Sm 8vo.(x) 127 pages with 20 b/w photos. Cloth. Very Good.

$12.95

[5519] Kingdon-Ward, F.. Common Sense Rock Gardening. London: Jonathan Cape, 1948. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good- 1st edition. London 1948. 8vo. 174 pages with 8 diagrams. Cloth (some fading from sun to head and bottom of spine).

$19.95

[2522] Kingdon-Ward, F.. Plant Hunting on the Edge of the World. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1930. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good- 1st edition. London 1930. 8vo. 383 pages with 16 b/w photos. Cloth. Outcome of two expeditions, in 1926 & 27-8. Part 1 discusses the N.E. frontier of India, its history & geography. Part 2 reports on expedition from Myitkyina to Putao and Irrawaddy- Lohit and Nam Tamai to Seinhhku, describing the plants, culture and agriculture and fauna. 3 slight nicks to top of spine, spine slightly faded, else very good.

$175.95

[22] Klaber, Doretta. Rock Garden Plants. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1958. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Good. New Ways to Use Them Around Your Home. 1st edition. NY 1958. 8vo, xi, 173 pages with many line illustrations. Extensive plant descriptions. Cloth with torn dj. Very good/ good.

$4.95

[835] Kolaga, Walter A.. All About Rock Gardens and Plants.. Doubleday and Co., Garden City 1966. 8vo. 385 pages with 60 b/w photographs. Cloth w.dj. Of greatest interest are the very large number of rock garden plant and variety descriptions. Very good.

$12.95

[1568] Macself, A. J.. Simple Rock Gardening. London: 1947. 3rd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. 3rd revised edition. London 1947. Sm 8vo. 120 pages with 29 b/w photos and some diagrams. Cloth w.dj. Very good.

$7.95

[4134] Mineo, Baldassare. Rock Garden Plants: A Color Encyclopedia. Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.: Timber Pr, 2000. Reprinted Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth. Signed by Author. Very Good / Very Good. A Color Encyclopedia. Portland, OR. 4to. 284 pages with hundreds of colour photos. Cloth w.dj. Signed by author.

$59.95

[562] Phillips, G.A.R.. The Rock Garden and Alpine Plants. London: Collingridge, 1946. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good- London 1946. 8vo. xii, 251 pages with very many b/w photos. Cloth (cloth tanned around edges). Else very good. Construction, planting & furnishing rock gardens, including information on ponds.

$9.94

[2784] Sanders, T. W.. Rock Gardens and Alpine Plants. Collingridge, including water, bog, wall and moraine gardens. 1st edition. London circa 1900. 8vo. 206 pages with many b/w photographs and diagrams. Cloth. Very faint, small water stain on front cover, else fine.

$22.95

[5838] Schroeter, L. And C.. Coloured Vade-Mecum to the Alpine Flora. Zürich: Raustein Verlag, . 28th Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good circa 150 pages with 25 colour plates, each depicting several flowers. Green cloth.

$12.95

[864] Vareschi, Volkmar & Ernst Krause. Mountains In Flower. ill. Ernst Krause. London: Lindsay Drummond, 1939. 1st Edition. sm 4to. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. 1st edition. London 1939. 4to. 159 pages with 72 photographs. Cloth. Very good.

$7.95

[2722] Weber, Johann Carl. Die Alpen-Pflanzen Deutschlands und der Schweiz. München: Christian Kaiser, 1867. 2nd Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good- in Colorirten Abbildungen Nach der Natur und in Natürlicher Grösse. (including the supplement). 2nd edition. 4 volumes. 12mo. Munich, [1867]-68, 400 hand coloured engraved plates. Some minor foxing to endpapers and a few of the plates. Original gilt decorated cloth (a little fraying to head and foot of spines). Else very good. 2.Auflage 4 Baende. Munchen1867-68. 400 handkolorierte Stiche. Gering stockfleckig auf den ersten paar Seiten und einigen wenigen Abbildungen.

$495.95

[42] Whitehead, Stanley B.. Gardening with Alpines. Garden Book Club, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. London 1962. 212 pages with 34 black and white photographs. Cloth w.dj. With suggestions on more versatile uses of alpines in the garden. Very good/very good.

$10.95

[3648] Wilder, Louise Beebe. Adventures in My Garden and Rock Garden. Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1929. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good NY 1929 (©1923). 8vo. xii, 355 pages with 28 photographs. Cloth with attractive front cover.

$29.95

[46] Wilder, Louise Beebe. Pleasures and Problems of a Rock Garden. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Comp., 1937. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good Everything you need to know in planning and keeping it - with over 200 photographs and many helpful reference lists. 4to. 1st edition. NY 1937. xii, 294 pages with 96 black and white plates. Cloth. The valuable information makes this one of the m ore sought after book by Wilder. Very good.

$21.95