Garden Open Today [with] Forty Favourite Flowers [with] Garden Open Tomorrow
( William McLAREN, illus. ) NICHOLS, Beverley
With Drawings by William McLaren.
THE 'SUDBROOK' TRILOGY COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS; SECOND VOLUME SIGNED
Published: Jonathan Cape, [1963-68]
Stock code: 43093
Price: £184.00
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, decorative titles, numerous illustrations in the text and coloured pictorial endpapers; original cloth (orange/green/black respectively), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper (wrapper of second volume lightly frayed at upper edge).
SECOND VOLUME SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Beverley Nichols' third and final trilogy tells of his late-eighteenth-century attached cottage in Richmond, Surrey. It comprises 'Garden Open Today' (1963), 'Forty Favourite Flowers' (1964) and 'Garden Open Tomorrow' (1968). As usual his witty and entertaining accounts are enlivened by William McLaren's delightful illustrations. COMPLETE SETS IN DUSTWRAPPERS ARE VERY SCARCE.