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AN AXE, A SPADE & TEN ACRES:
The Story of a Garden and a Nature Reserve
by George Courtaud Illustrated by David Heal New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985. First American edition, first printing. Review copy with publisher's double-sided printed, illustrated, promotional sheet, laid in Enhanced with maps, numerous full page pen-and-ink scene illustrations, and chapter head and in-text vignette illustrations by David Heal. The delightful account of an inexperienced gardener moving with wife, children, six dogs, two cats, sixty-nine ponies, ducks and chickens, to a neglected, untended ten acres in Constable country in southeastern England. This story--complete with anecdotes and details of landscapes, nature, animals, birds, swamps, ponds, brambles, hedgehogs, flowers, woodlands and more, offers a witty and unpretentious look at home life and the countryside. Courtaud transforms his ten acres into a united garden and nature reserve. Faint age-toning to edges of covers, else nearly fine in green linen over green-tweed boards with gilt embossed titles and decorations to the spine; in a fine dust jacket with a hint of age-toning to the inner flaps, as usual; original $19.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 213 pages; appendixes; bibliography. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! |