Author: Reginald Arkell
Title: Collected Green Fingers a Present for a Good Gardener
Description: London, Herbert Jenkins , 1956. First edition. Cloth. A charming anthology of poetry surrounding the subjects of gardening and nature. First edition. Reginald Arkell was a British script writer and comic novelist who wrote many musical plays for the London theatre. The most popular of those was an adaptation of the spoof history book 1066 and All That: 1066—and all that: A Musical Comedy based on that Memorable History by Sellar and Yeatman. He was the author of A Cottage in the Country and the Green Fingers series of garden verse. Illustrated throughout by Eugene Hastian and Edgar Norfield, featuring the original illustrated dustwrapper. In original half cloth binding with marbled boards, and original clipped dustwrapper. Externally, generally smart. Light rubbing to the spine. Dustwrapper is bright, although with chipping and small closed tears to extremities. Previous owner's ink stamp to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Eugene Hastian; Edgar Norfield. Very Good/Good.
Keywords: poetry gardening nature eugene hastian gardening reginald arkell Eugene Hastian; Edgar Norfield
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Title: Collected Green Fingers a Present for a Good Gardener
Description: London, Herbert Jenkins , 1956. First edition. Cloth. A charming anthology of poetry surrounding the subjects of gardening and nature. First edition. Reginald Arkell was a British script writer and comic novelist who wrote many musical plays for the London theatre. The most popular of those was an adaptation of the spoof history book 1066 and All That: 1066—and all that: A Musical Comedy based on that Memorable History by Sellar and Yeatman. He was the author of A Cottage in the Country and the Green Fingers series of garden verse. Illustrated throughout by Eugene Hastian and Edgar Norfield, featuring the original illustrated dustwrapper. In original half cloth binding with marbled boards, and original clipped dustwrapper. Externally, generally smart. Light rubbing to the spine. Dustwrapper is bright, although with chipping and small closed tears to extremities. Previous owner's ink stamp to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Eugene Hastian; Edgar Norfield. Very Good/Good.
Keywords: poetry gardening nature eugene hastian gardening reginald arkell Eugene Hastian; Edgar Norfield
Price: GBP 24.99 = appr. US$ 35.69 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: MOD3-D-11
- Book number: MOD3-D-11
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