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Condición: Good. 1957. First Impression. 140 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and moderate foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Mild water staining to pages throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Tape to large tear to front panel. Mild foxing. Heavy rubbing and marking all over. Mild water staining to surfaces.…

Second Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 223 pages: [4] p. of plates, 32 p. of col. plates plans. 25.5 cm. Subjects: Medicinal plants. Herb gardens.Scented plants. Garden plans. Gardening. 1 Kg. …

Second Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 223 pages: [4] p. of plates, 32 p. of col. plates plans. 25.5 cm. Subjects: Medicinal plants. Herb gardens.Scented plants. Garden plans. Gardening. 1 Kg. …

First edition, first impression. 140pp. With four photographs, a coloured frontispiece and a further 28 coloured plates. Original publisher's blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt, with original publisher's illustrated dustwrapper. Later inked ownership of Horace Todd, dated 1976, to FEP. Inked gift inscription to recto of FFEP: 'A Happy Christmas dear Mrs Cox, from Clementine Churchill, 1957'. Inscribed by Clementine Churchill, social organiser, political campaigner, life peer in her own right, and wife to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Awarded a CBE at the close of the First World War for contributions to the working conditions of the munitions workers on behalf of the YMCA, Churchill campaigned on behalf of her husband in the 1922 general election while he recovered from an operation. During the Second World War, she was Chairman of the Red Cross Aid to Russia fund, president of the YWCA's War Time appeal, and Chair of a maternity hospital for Officer's wives. Clementine Churchill was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1946. Churchill was a keen gardener who's efforts and influence can still be enjoyed at Chartwell, the Churchill's family home in Kent. Set across 20 acres, there are numerous lawns, lakes, a kitchen garden, a rose walk, and the more formal Lady Clementine's Rose Garden - said to have been her pride and joy. It is then likely that the recipient of this copy of Herbs and the fragrant garden was the wife of the Churchills then Chartwell farm manager, Cox, who was first appointed at Chartwell in 1953 and lived in one of the Chartwell cottages. Size: Large 8vo.…