Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Three volumes (III, IV, V) of five volume set. Should be considered a framing set only as each volume is a substantial number of plates - please inquire as to exact plates present and missing. A volumes near fine condition. FR
Seller: J. F. Whyland Books, Jeffersonville, IN, U.S.A.
Mary Vaux Walcott. North American Wild Flowers Volume I. The Smithsonian Institution, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol. I ONLY. Paperback book and plates present in folding hardcover cloth case. NF, protected in cardboard case. Wear to cardboard case ONLY.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Mary Vaux Walcott. North American Wild Flowers Volume V. The Smithsonian Institute, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol V ONLY. Paperback book and all loose prints present, clean. Housed in hardcover cloth folding case. NF. Protected in cardboard case. Wear to case ONLY.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Mary Vaux Walcott. North American Wild Flowers Volume II. The Smithsonian Institution, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume II ONLY. Paperback book and loose plates present, clean. Housed in cloth hardcover folding case. NF. Protected in cardboard case, wear to cardboard case ONLY.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Walcott, Mary Vaux. North American Wildflowers. Volume IV. The Smithsonian Institution, 1925.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume 4 ONLY. Very Good. In Very Good green cloth portfolio housing 80 colored plates and a book with text describing each plate. Some plates have marked in pencil with the scientific name. In Good green paper cover box to house slip case; edgeworn and rubbed; water damage to front board and top edge but does not affect portfolio case or plates. Otherwise a nice copy. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Walcott, Mary Vaux. North American Wild Flowers, (Volume 2). WDC: Smithsonian Institution, 1925.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Paperback, text and plates as issued in the original cloth folder, LIKE NEW, with the original card box, VERY GOOD.
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
Walcott, Mary Vaux. North American Wild Flowers, (Volume 4). WDC: Smithsonian Institution, 1925.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Paperback, text and plates as issued in the original cloth folder, LIKE NEW, with the original card box, box slightly worn still VERY GOOD.
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
Walcott, Mary Vaux. North American Wild Flowers, (Volume 5). WDC: Smithsonian Institution, 1925.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Paperback, text and plates as issued in the original cloth folder, LIKE NEW, with the original card box, box slightly worn still VERY GOOD.
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1925. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Loose, 80 wild flower pictures, 80 descriptions. With grey portfolio, dark brown Morrocan leather spine. 6247L
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: green cloth portfolio w/ gilt emblem, ties. approx 90 unpaginated pgs text; color plates 81-160. Plates remain bright; occasional instance of small mark, speck, otherwise clean. All plates counted and remain present. VG- (light scratches, edge-wear, rubbing & small stain to portfolio. front wrap has an 3/4 long, vertical tear to spine edge; small ink speck to front; rubbing to corrners edge-wear. wraps have light rippling to edges)_
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: No. 159 of 500 copies of the subscriber's edition, signed by the author at foot of Foreword. With 80 plates, each with accompanying letterpress text. Preliminaries (stitched) and Contents present. 1 vols. 4to. Subscriber's Issue. Volume Three of the subscriber's edition, limited to 500 numbered sets, reproducing in full color at life size the illustrations of American wild flowers by Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940), accompanied by descriptions, fully indexed in each volume. This issue preceded the "Library Edition" in reduced format. It was greeted with praise suggesting that Ms. Walcott accomplished for American Wild Flowers what Audubon had achieved for American Ornithology. Stearn, The Art of Botanical Illustration (1994) pp. 301, 328; Nissen BBI 2094; Stafleu & Cowan 16.550 Loose signatures and plates (with accompanying caption leaves), enclosed in original half morocco folding portfolio. Some wear and soiling to binding. Near fine (plates generally clean and fresh; soiling to margins of plate 240 and last two leaves) With 80 plates, each with accompanying letterpress text. Preliminaries (stitched) and Contents present. 1 vols. 4to No. 159 of 500 copies of the subscriber's edition, signed by the author at foot of Foreword.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Walcott, Mary Vaux. North American Wild Flowers. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1925.
Price: US$925.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a complete five volume set! Each book has complete photos and the accompanying descriptions. Each book is in similar condition, unless otherwise noted. The books have the remants of an old sticker on the bottom of the spine and a "DO NOT CIRCULATE" stamp on the inside of the boxes. They have minor overall fading to pages / booklet. But the internal material is otherwise, well-aged, clean, and in excellent condition. The boxes have minor edge wear, and volume III has damage to the bottom of the box's spine. The boxes have minor overall fading, and some rubbing. Otherwise, they are in great condition. They are clean, crisp, and well-aged.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Walcott, Mary Vaux. North American Wild Flowers. Washington Smithsonian Institution 1925, 1925.
Price: US$1319.62 + shipping
Description: Five folio volumes. Each with descriptive text in original wrappers + 80 coloured plates (total 400 plates) in gilt lettered steel grey/blue linen clamshell portfolios with cloth ties. A fine set. The original price for the (Library) trade edition was $150.00. The original prospectus (not included) tells how much pain staking work went into the production, the plates were printed on all rag paper, and a special colour printing process was used. This truly spectacular production includes over a hundred examples of plants Mrs. Walcott sketched on travels to the Canadian Rockies with her famous geologist husband. Descriptions were by Edgar T. Wherry and notes on the insects by Frank Morton Jones. Getting scarce as a complete item as many copies have been broken up for the plates.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$1320.00 + shipping
Description: 5 Volumes. folio. 400 colour plates. wrapper-bound text & plates loose in cloth portfolios (musty). First Trade Edition of this lovely colour plate book on Rocky Mountain wild flowers. Mrs. Walcott's sketches were based on three to four months travel each year for ten years in the company of her husband, who was engaged in geological explorations. Nissen 2094. Stafleu & Cowan 16.550.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$4901.43 + shipping
Description: 6 volumes. Folio (36.5 X 30 cm). Original morocco backed fold over linen boxes with metal Smithsonian medallion embedded in the cover. Original cloth ties. Each portfolio contains 80 loose lithograph illustrations of flowers, each alongside a descriptive text leaf as well as a table of contents leaf. Volume one contains a separate booklet with the foreword for the book, a note from the printer and a list of subscribers; the foreword is signed by Mary Walcott. Volume 1 also contains a note from the printer on a smaller, separate booklet. Volume two contains a similar booklet containing an index and an extended list of patrons. Volumes three to five include matching introductory booklets with indexes individual to each volume. The 1925 publication being limited to 500 copies, the first five volumes are number 100. Volume six contains another booklet which provides the foreword and index of the Pitcherplants text; in addition, the volume six booklet is signed by Mary Walcott and dictates that the sixth volume is number 146 of the 500 printed in the 1935 publication. Other than very minor wear to the portfolios, the set is in fine condition. A packet of photo-copied pages detailing the history of the set will be provided in the front of the first volume. The original price for the trade edition was $150.00 and this limited edition was the incredible price of $500.00; being from 1925, only very well off people could ever have hoped to purchase such a set. A 1956 letter circulated to Audubon Members by the National Audobon Society details how the trade edition of North American Wild Flowers experienced a price reduction from its original $150 to a remarkable $50, which ultimately made more accessible the trade edition and inadvertently rarified this limited 1925 publication even further. The Patrons list reads like a Who's Who, including such important names as Du Pont, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Carnegie, Mellon, etc. The original prospectus tells how much pain staking work went into the production: the half-tone plates were printed on all rag paper, and a special colour printing process was used; this special printing process took place at the publishing establishment of William Edwin Rudge. This truly spectacular production includes many examples of plants Mrs. Walcott sketched on travels to the Canadian Rockies with her famous geologist husband. This set also includes the Pitcherplants which was issued 10 years later and was also limited to 500 copies. Assisted by Walcott, the descriptions were by Edgar T. Wherry and notes on the insects by Franklin Morton Jones. Ralph M. Duenewald provides a note from the printer.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada