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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. Hard Cover. Very Good London 1959. 8vo. 204 pages with 29 photos and 14 diagrams. Cloth. 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.

$7.95

[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

[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

[3674] Clausen, Robert T. (editor). Sedum of North America North of the Mexican Plateau (A Comstock Bk.). Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.: Cornell University Press, 1975. 1st Edition. Lg 8vo. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. 1st ed. Ithaca and London 1975. Lg 8vo. 742 pp with 184 b/w photos, diagrams and maps. Cloth w.dj. Very good.

$42.95

[2363] Clay, Sampson. The Present-Day Rock Garden. Being a comple-mentary volume to Farrer’s “English Rock Garden”. Jack, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good 1st edition. London 1937. xxvi, 681 pages with 56 b/w photos. Cloth. Very good.

$22.95

[7449] Clay, Sampson. The Present-Day Rock Garden. Being a complementary volume to Farrer’s English Rock Garden. London: Jack, 1937. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good 1st edition. London 1937. xxvi, 681 pages with 56 b/w photos. Cloth.

$22.95

[2360] Elliott, Jack. Bulbs for the Rock Garden. London: Batsford, 1995. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. London 1995. 8vo. 160 pages with very many colour photos and line-drawings. Cloth w.dj. Fine.

$9.95

[3547] Harding, Winton. Saxifrages. Working, Surrey: Alpine Garden Society, 1970. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Very Good The Genus Saxifraga in the Wild and in Cultivation. UK Alpine Garden Soc. 1970. 8vo. 134 pages with many b/w photos. Paperback.

$9.95

[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. With many suggestions on the layout and construction of rock gardens followed by plant and plant grouping suggestions.

$5.94

[156] Jenkins, E.H.. The Rock Garden. London: Country Life, 1939. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. 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. Jenkins wrote from her vast experience as long time editor of the NY Times garden section.

$5.95

[21] Johnson, A. T.. Hardy Heaths and some of Their Nearer Allies. London: Garden Book Club, 1956. Later Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good London 1956. 12mo. 127 pages with 20 black and white photographs. Cloth. Very good.

$6.95

[77] Johnson, A.T.. Hardy Heaths. London: Blandford Press, 1956. Revised Edition. Sm 8vo. Hard Cover. 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.

$9.95

[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

[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.

$6.95

[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.

$7.94

[6904] Robinson, Peter. The Practical Rock & Water Garden. A step-by-step guide from planning and construction to plants and Planting. London and New York: Hermes House, 2002. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Soft Cover. As New London and NY 2002. Lg 4to. 256 pp with very many colour photos.

$6.94

[2784] Sanders, T. W.. Rock Gardens and Alpine Plants. London: Collingridge, 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good including water, bog, wall and moraine gardens. 1st edition. London circa 1900. 8vo. 206 pages with many b/w photographs and diagrams. Blue cloth.

$12.95

[864] Vareschi, Volkmar & Ernst Krause. Mountains In Flower. ill. Ernst Krause. London: Lindsay Drummond, 1947. 3rd Printing. Sm 4to. Hard Cover. Very 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 Alpenpflanzen Alpen Pflanzen. 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.

$465.95

[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