Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Sir George Sitwell. On the Making of Gardens. The Dropmore Press, 1949.
Price: US$77.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: With an Introduction by Sir Osbert Sitwell, and Decorations by John Piper. Green boards, decorative gilt illustration to upper board. Rough cut pages. Boards a little rubbed, and edges slightly faded. Else very good. One of a limited edition of 1000 copies. This copy is number 277. Bargain price for quick sale. 1st class post to UK. Airmail overseas. Robust packaging.
Seller: The Hoveton Bookshop, Hoveton, United Kingdom
Sitwell, Sir George. On the Making of Gardens. The Dropmore Press, 1949.
Price: US$81.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered gilt to spine, top edges speckled green, fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed, illustrations by John Piper. Printed on hand made paper in an edition limited to 1,000 copies of which this is numbered 301, neat signature of a previous owner to the front free endpaper, the text is otherwise unmarked and clean, the dust jacket is worn, chipped and notably foxed, now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, xvi + 113pp
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Price: US$92.12 + shipping
Description: New Ed. xvi + 113pp. + [iii]. 6 colour litho. plates including 2 double page, several dec. devices. Some rust browning to top-edge of upper e.ps. and first few leaves, original gilt lettered light green cloth with gilt illus. to upper board, lower leading corners sl. bumped, some minor soiling, brown spot to upper board, edges and spine faded, fore and lower edge uncut. No. 282 of a Limited Edition of 1000 Copies.First published by John Murray in 1909. US$91
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 113pp + xvi prelims. Printed on cream wove hand-made paper in a limited numbered edition of 1000 copies. This is copy #120. Bound in green buckram with gilt lettering on spine and gilt illustration on front cover. Green flecks on top page edge. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Red and yellow sewn headbands. Illustrations by John Piper, including frontispiece. Tightly bound. Previous owner's book plate on front paste down. Two original book shop labels on rear paste down - W. & G. Foyle Ltd and Selfridges Bookshop (both London). Unclipped light blue dust jacket with red lettering on face and on sun toned spine. Horizontal tear to spine of dust jacket and wear to top and tail of spine. Age toning to dust jacket margins. All now protected in clear archival wraps.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Sitwell, George. On the Making of Gardens. Dropmore Press, 1949.
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Introduced by Sir Osbert Sitwell. Dust jacket with clear plastic protective covering, browned along edges, small chips to head of spine and corners, spine sunned/browned, spotting to rear cover, green boards with gilt lettering to spine and gilt illustration to front/rear, lightly sunned at head, uncut closed edges lightly browned, staple stain to head of fep, colour frontispiece, pp bright and clean with colour illustrations by John Piper, binding sound. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Set in Bembo and printed on Hodgkinson cream wove hand made paper. Frontispiece and 3 double-page illustrations in terracotta and black plus 2 full-page illustrations in blue and black. Number 101 of 900 (1,000) copies bound in full green buckram, titled and decorated in gilt. Pale-green dust-jacket, titled in reddish-brown and black, slightly faded at spine and fore-edge. A very good bright copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. A Fine copy in smooth green buckram stamped in gilt at spine and on front cover, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, top edge dark green speckling, in pale green dustwrapper printed in red and black. Jacket spine slightly toned with rubbing to tips. #489/1000 copies printed letterpress, and Numbered on a preliminary colophon. 113pp with Index. Q04331
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Unblemished green leather boards and spine lettered and decorated in gilt and the latter with two raised bands. Top edge tipped in gilt. Thick card green jacket lightly soiled but the spine badly faded and breaking up; paper attached on reverse side in attempt to preserve it. Internally the margins of the end papers, particularly the front and rear paste downs, are browned as if by gum, possibly a consequence of the production process; '1949' written at base of front one, also with owner's book plate. Number 36 of 100 signed copies, signed by Piper and Osbert Sitwell. Clean contents. Contained in green slipcase, a little rubbed and slightly faded.
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some staining to margins of endpapers. Some staining and marks to leather at margins of pastedowns. Bookseller's rubber stamp on front endpaper. The dust-jacket has heavy foxing and is split into two pieces along the spine. Chips to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket held together in a mylar cover. Slipcase with moderate rubbing and wear. 20mm split at tail of the slipcase.; Number 73 of 100 specially bound copies, signed by Osbeth Sitwell and John Piper. xvi, 113, [2] pages + lithographic frontispiece + 5 lithographic plates (3 double page). Full green morocco binding with two raised bands on spine. Gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 223 x 143mm. Top page edges gilt. Some leaves unopened.
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$618.37 + shipping
Description: Number 18 of 100 copies signed by Osbert Sitwell & John Piper and bound in gilt stamped green niger morocco, teg, and in the publisher's slip-case with paper-label. pp. [8],xvi,113,[3]. Unopened copy on Hodgkinson white wove hand made paper. With six lithographs by Piper, three of which double-paged. Very slightly lightly rubbed on the raised bands, the slip-case with some light wear. VG. [Nash & Flavell D25; Fifoot OB47b; Brown 59; Ridler 72]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom