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For your consideration: Old Fashioned Flowers, by Sacheverell Sitwell, 
Illustrated by John Farleigh; Country Life Limited, London, 1939, First 
Edition, First Print:
Beautifully illustrated, with 10 color drawings plus frontispiece by English 
graphic
artists John Farleigh (1900-1965). Detailed descriptions and historic
information on: The Jacobean Florist; The Auricula; The Old Primrose and
Polyanthus; The Old English Tulip; Carnation and Pinks; Miscellaneous
Florists' Flowers; Fuchsias; The Nineteenth Century Florist. Cultural notes
and information: The Old English Florists' Tulips; George Barr; The Old
Fashioned Honeycomb Dahlia; Torrance L. Hopkins; Old Primroses and
Polyanthuses, by Eda D. Hume; Fuchsias, W.W. Whiteman. Maroon cloth boards 
and spine, gold lettering, slight darkening of spine. Very clean, solidly
bound. In protective polyester film. sm 4to, 193 pages.  VG.

Run Scared, by Eberhart, M. G. (Eberhart, Mignon, G.); Collins Crime Club,
London, 1969. First English Edition.Signed and inscribed by Eberhart to
f.e.p.:
A political thriller about Martha and Lem Bascom. Just before Lem started
his campaign for Governor his wife Martha was involved in a motoring
incident, a "hit and run". Which she was persuaded to say nothing about,
after all she couldn't be really sure she'd hit anything. But when the body
of the man in incident turns up very dead in the lake of Bascom's big house,
police and pressman swarmed. Scandal proliferated, yet it was too late for
Lem to withdraw his candidature. It was his fate, instead, to 'run scared'
in an election the he must surely lose after his wife's publicized, ignoble
crime.  Bright red cloth boards and spine, black lettering and Crime Club
illustration to spine. Upper spine end bumped. DW not price clipped, black
illustrated, with yellow title to front. Edges rubbed, short closed tear to
front and rear edges, Spine ends rubbed, few small chips. Rear DW state "Two
Outstanding Historical Crime Novels by M. G. Eberhart; The Crime at
Honotassa, and Enemy in the House, Published for The Crime Club by Collins.
Clean bright text, solidly bound. In protective brodart mylar cover. sm 8
vo, 256 pp  vg/vg - $50.00

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