Jocelyn Brooke. The Flower in Season. The Bodley Head, 1952.
Price: US$26.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1952. First Edition. 160 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Clipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A charming month by month evocation of this countries wild flowers "for people who, like myself, are fond of flowers, unscientifically and for their own sake" Like all Brooke's work there is a special reference to east Kent and the author's erudite knowledge of both poetry and botancical literature are here beautifully expressed. 160pp with 12 full page line illustrations. Original cloth in a slightly chipped dustwrapper as shown but a good collectors copy
Seller: The Sentinel Books, Hythe, KENT, United Kingdom
BROOKE, Jocelyn. The Flower In Season - A Calendar Of Wild Flowers. U.K / The Bodley Head, 1952.
Price: US$44.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: It is a book about wild flowers and the months in a year. With illustrations by Charles W. Stewart. / This is a 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket in good condition-the dustjacket slightly marked & the cloth of the books edges slightly faded. (187 pages).
Seller: Bookenastics, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Brooke, Jocelyn. Flower In Season; A Calendar of Wild Flowers. Bodley Head, London, 1952.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 160 pp. Frontispiece and illustrations by Charles W. Stewart. Inscribed by Brooke on free endpaper. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, closed tear, else very good condition. (80259).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.