nelson sterner (4 resultados)

Softcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. More than 300 color and 50 black-and-white illustrations Compiled by three of North America's finest botanic gardens -- Boerner Botanical Gardens in Milwaukee, Memphis Botanic Garden, and Old Westbury Gardens in New York -- in consultation with five other great botanic gardens, here is the most complete and user-friendly guide to rose gardening ever devised, a unique compendium of the best advice available, usable in all parts of the United States and Canada, for all types of roses. The information assembled by this unprecedented collaboration is presented in five chapters: I. Introduction: definitions, history, and botany; the basic gardening philosophies of the experts who have contributed to the book. II. Plant Selector: more than two hundred glorious, full-color photos of roses of every variety, from rugged species roses to the newest hybrid teas, with detailed captions describing size, coloration, and requirements . full descriptions of their cultivation and maintenance, including some dissenting information and opinions from the consultant gardeners . additional color illustrations of landscaping and combinations, techniques particular to a specific plant, and its history in human affairs. III. Design: the principles of designing a rose garden that works, a garden that is not only healthy and attractive hut creative as well, with photographs and diagrams of successful examples. IV. Techniques: how-to information illustrated with black-and-white, step-by-step photos in minute detail; the experts' explanations of how they keep their own roses both beautiful and healthy using integrated pest-management procedures. V. Special Conditions: new methods forgrowing roses in extreme climates, in small spaces, and in containers. This volume also includes a complete glossary, carefully verified source lists, and full indexes. The professional horticulturists at the great gardens of the United States and Canada are passionate about their endeavors -- studying every trend, refining every technique for making things grow and thrive. Now, for the first time, they have joined forces to share their love and expertise in a guide that no single individual or institution could have created. The American Garden Guides: Rose Gardening is the indispensable handbook that will help your rose garden prosper and grow. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Ralph Antczyk & Albert Squillace photos Ilustrador. 1st Edition. Unread. Larger trade paperback, photo stiff card covers w/ flaps. Only fault: slightly cocked. No names, clean text. Index. Packed w/ gorgeous color photos. 28,000 PB shelf 223 p. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: VG. Albert E. Sterner Ilustrador. 10pp story, printed in double columns, illustrated with a full-page plate by Sterner, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLV, #2, December, 1892.

Soft cover. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. As New; pristine. See scan. Chicago: Games / Playboy Enterprises, Inc., 1982. The May, 1982 Issue (Issue 17) of The Four-Star Puzzler. Quarto, printed stapled wraps, 16 pp. Pristine in every way (see scan); even the tipped-in subscription card is still in place and immaculate - though you certainly can't use it now. A thin - sixteen pages - but trenchant, memorable and collectible aggregation of puzzles from the masters who brought fame to the puzzles of Games Magazine, among other notable routes of the New Wave puzzling world. In this 17th issue, editors Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon provide crossword variants, an acrostic (anacrostic), a chess problem, rebus cartoons, cryptograms, palindromes, "The Sphinx Page" (riddles and other puzzles in the style of the vintage "patron Saint of Puzzledom" known as "The Sphinx", now contributed by others), a quiz, a detective mystery, and much more from the minds of Will Shortz, Robert Gray, Lynn Marie Hyde, Billie Budd, Leo Bloom, Mike Shenk, Judah Koolyk, Mel Taub, Robert D. Spurrier, N.M. Meyer, Henry Hook, Steve Sterner, Carolyn Van Syckel, Robert E. Nelson, Paul R. McClenon, Rob Sayers, Ann Stone, Robert L. Liddill, Linda Bosson, Gary Disch, Sally Porter , and of course Cox and Rathvon themselves. Don't lay pen or pencil to these virgin pages; instead, scan them and solve them on the scans. Keep this treasure in your collection, unbesmirched. Scarcer than hen's teeth - in any condition. This example is As New. 17th Issue in the brilliant but short-lived series, which ended with the 32nd issue in August, 1983. LPR5.