The Passing Show - A Garden Diary by an Amateur Gardener

Previous owner's inscription dated 1937 on half-title page. Some tears and chips to dust-jacket. Some rubbing and foxing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; This copy signed by the author in blue ink on the front free endpaper "W E Johns". xiii, [1], 112, [2 (blank)] pages. Red cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 197 x 125mm. Flower illustrations on endpapers. A gardening book, by the author of the "Biggles" books. "A Happy Book for Gardeners" - from front panel of dust-jacket. With illustrations by Howard Leigh. "As surely as something in the grey face of the Tete de Chien calls me back to Monte Carlo, just as surely when I get there does some peculiar fascination drag my unwilling feet to that botanical chamber of horrors known in the Principality as Les Jardin Exotiques. Far from finding anything pleasing in the monstrosities that dwell therein, this jardin gives me the jitters, and I dither between the bristling ferocity of Cereus pitahaya monstruosa and the leering scarlet mouths of Echinocactus Grosonii in ever-increasing horror and dismay. Surely this is gardening gone gaga; horticulture in delirium tremens. I am not sure, but I strongly suspect that somewhere behind the serried ranks of Pilcereus fosulatus dwells the last aged brontosaurus, regarding with dimming eye the frenzied progress of the Petrol Age." - page 51. ; Signed by Author

Product Info

Publisher: My Garden

Year: (1937)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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