[Rarebooks] FS: Weed/OUR TREES:

[Gerard Gormley]

For your kind consideration



Weed, Clarence M~.  OUR TREES: How to Know Them, With a Guide to
Their Recognition at Any Season of the Year and Notes on Their
Characteristics, Distribution, and Culture~.  Philadelphia USA &
London UK: J.B. Lippincott, 1908.  Keywords: Firsts very, very
hard to find -- even later printings by no means numerous --
beautiful full-page high-definition (150 lines/inch) black &
green duotone montages (each including long-shot photo of entire
tree + close-ups of leaves, twigs, flowers, seeds) -- 1 montage &
1 page of text for each of 138 species of trees -- photos by
Arthur I. Emerson -- Illustrated (photos) -- Natural History --
Botany -- Non-Fiction -- Science & Technology  - English
language.  First Printing (SD).  Hardcover.  No dust jacket (none
issued).  295 pages: Index, 138 full-page high-definition black &
green duotone montages.  Binding height: 9-3/4".   Publisher's
pictorial full cloth.  Book Good to Very Good: former owner
blind-stampings to title-leaf & Preface, light bumping & rubbing
to fore-corners & spine-top/bottom, spine sun-browned (title etc.
faded), front hinge broken (binding cloth still holding it
together), light soiling & silverfish tracks to front, moderate
soiling to back, Insides Fine.  [Digital JPEG image (3.25)
available on request].  2435~.  US$95.95

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