Old Herbaceous; A Story By Reginald Arkell

ARKELL, Reginald & MINTON, John (Illus.)

Verlag: Michael Joseph Ltd, London, 1950

Beschreibung

Published: 1950. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Illustrated DJ over green illustrated cloth. Illustrations by John Minton. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Clean cloth with sunned line to upper edge. Tightly bound with clean, intact endpapers and very strong hinges. Clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: Good: Wear, creasing and chipping to upper and lower edges. 2cm tear to lower front edge. 1cm tear to upper rear spine edge. Pages 154. Size: 20.5cm by 13cm. BOOK RESUME: Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouses immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer than the other, rises from inauspicious schoolboy days spent picking wildflowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener Old Herbaceous, the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard capable of producing dazzling April strawberries from the greenhouse and the exact morning glories his Lady spies on the French Riviera, so blue, so blue it positively hurts. Sprinkled with nuggets of gardening wisdom, Old Herbaceous is a witty comic portrait of the most archetypal and crotchety head gardener ever to plant a row of bulbs at a British country house. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10561

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Old Herbaceous; A Story By Reginald Arkell

Verlag: Michael Joseph Ltd, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1950

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: MINTON, John

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition.