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Brooke, Jocelyn. The Wild Orchids of Britain. The Bodley Head, 1950.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to, 139 pp, coloured frontispiece and 40 coloured plates by Gavin Bone, drawings by Muirhead and Stephen Bone. Buckram lightly faded on the spine, mark to the top the rear board, contents very clean. A very attractive book limited to 1140 copies this being number 422.
Seller: Wildside Books, Eastbourne, United Kingdom
Jocelyn Brooke. The Wild Orchids of Britain. Bodley Head, 1950.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st edition number 348 in a limited edition of 1140. Still in the original dust jacket. DJ is grubby and has shelf wear and a little loss at head and tail of spine. Prelims foxed, otherwise all the text and coloured plates clean and bright.
Seller: Jack Ryder Books, Liskeard, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, NO. 432 OF 1,140 COPIES, large 8vo, pp. 139, [1] + frontispiece and 40 colour plates. Original red cloth lettered and blocked in gilt. Boards somewhat marked and sunned.
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
BROOKE, JOCELYN. The Wild Orchids of Britain. London: The Bodley Head, (1950), 1950.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, #409/1,140. 4to; 137 pp.; frontis. and 40 full-page color plates by Gavin Bone. Fading to spine; small spot to front cover; else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped red cloth.
Seller: Trevian Books, Piermont, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Special edition only 1100 copies made. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardcover/Hardback. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Brooke Jocelyn. The Wild Orchids of Britain. Bodley Head, 1950.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition signed by the author, number 114 in a limited edition of 1140. With water-colour drawings from the living plants by Gavin Bone, and additional drawings by Muirhead and Stephen Bone. Folio, cloth boards with gilt titles on front and spine. 139pp illustrated with frontispiece and 40 other colour plates. Pale green dust jacket with red titles, chipping / wear to edges and price clipped inside. Boards slightly water stained. Inner book is nice and clean with the plates in excellent condition, occasional minor age spotting. ***Over sized and may require additional overseas postage***
Seller: Bird's Books, Edinburgh, SCOTL, United Kingdom
Price: US$206.15 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 1140 copies (No. 914). Exlibris. 139 pp. and 40 color plates. Quarto, cloth-bound. Spine slightly suntanned otherwise in a very fine condition. Epipactis violacea Orchis hebridensis Orchis laxiflora Cypripedium ensiföia
Seller: Biblio Industries Alain Haezeleer, Stuttgart, Germany
Price: US$242.53 + shipping
Description: Engl. Ausgabe. Limitierte Ausgabe. Nr. 885 von 1140. Mit 40 Farbtafeln. 139 SS. Groß-Quart. Orig.-Leinen mit farbig illustr. Orig.-Umschlag. Umschlag minimal gerändert, ansonsten sehr gut erhalten, schönes Exemplar.
Seller: Biblio Industries Alain Haezeleer, Stuttgart, Germany
Brooke, Jocelyn.. The Wild Orchids of Britain.. London The Bodley Head, 1950.
Price: US$372.79 + shipping
Description: Gr.-4°. 139 S., 40 Tafeln. Orig.-Leinen. 40 plates with drawings from the living plants by Gavin Bone; additional drawings by Muirhead and Stephen Bone. Eines von 1140 nummerierten Exemplaren. Ecken bestossen.
Seller: Libelle mit H & B, Basel, Switzerland
Brooke, Jocelyn. The Wild Orchids of Britain. Bodley Head, 1950.
Price: US$1237.86 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Drawings from the living plants by Gavin Bone. Additional drawings by Muirhead and Stephen Bone. Full white vellum. Covers trifle bowed, else near fine. One of 40 numbered, specially bound copies signed by the author. 40 full page colour illustrations. Very handsome book.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Brooke (Jocelyn).. The Wild Orchids of Britain. The Bodley Head,, 1950.
Price: US$2424.42 + shipping
Description: Forty plates of water-colour drawings by Gavin Bone, and additional drawings by Muirhead and Stephen Bone Of an edition of 1,140 copies, of which 40 signed by the author and specially bound, this is inscribed "Out of series" and signed by the author Folio Binding just a little bowed, slight foxing to sides and end-papers, but a very nice copy in somewhat soiled and frayed price-clipped dust-wrapper. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author to his mother and dated "Sept. 4th 1950" and additionally inscribed to her by the publisher Original japon gilt, top edge gilt
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom