"Down the Garden Path" has stood the test of time as one of the world's best-loved and most-quoted gardening books. Ostensibly an account of the creation of a garden in Huntingdonshire in the 1930s, it is really about the underlying emotions and obsessions for which gardening is just a cover story. The secret of this book's success - and its timelessness - is that it does not seek to impress the reader with a wealth of expert knowledge or advice. Beverley Nichols proudly declares his status as a newcomer to gardening: 'The ...
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"Down the Garden Path" has stood the test of time as one of the world's best-loved and most-quoted gardening books. Ostensibly an account of the creation of a garden in Huntingdonshire in the 1930s, it is really about the underlying emotions and obsessions for which gardening is just a cover story. The secret of this book's success - and its timelessness - is that it does not seek to impress the reader with a wealth of expert knowledge or advice. Beverley Nichols proudly declares his status as a newcomer to gardening: 'The best gardening books should be written by those who still have to search their brains for the honeysuckle's languid Latin name'. As unforgettable as the plants in the garden is the cast of visitors and neighbors who invariably turn up at inopportune moments. For every angelic Miss Hazlitt there is an insufferable Miss Wilkins waiting in the wings. For every thought-provoking Professor, there is an intrusive Miss M, whose chief offense may be that she is a 'damnably efficient' gardener. From a disaster building a rock garden, to further adventures with greenhouses, woodland gardens, not to mention cats and treacle, Nichols has left us a true gardening classic.
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Good. Dust jacket missing. Later printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. SPINE LEAN. CLEAN CONTENT PAGES. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall Fine in fine jacket. No jacket chips or tears and not price-clipped. Book has no markings or bookplate or remainder marks. Slight dust soil to outer edge of text block. Suitable for gift-giving. Reprint of 1932 book with a new foreword.
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VG+ in NF jacket. Octavo. Brown cloth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has a very slight bumping at the tail of the spine. Illustrated endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. There is some short and sporadic highlighting in the book-mostly some botanical names-noticeable if you're looking for it but infrequent enough that we didn't spot it on our first pass over the book. Pages are otherwise all clean, white, and crisp. Frontis photograph and some illustrations here and there throughout. 296 pages. Dust Jacket-has just a trace of rubbing at the head of the spine with a couple tiny chips-jacket is otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. First in a series of books Nichols did on gardening and home restoration.