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The story of a garden and nature reserve First edition. Pictorial dust-jacket with title. Publishers green cloth with gilt title and vignette to spine. Full-page and in-text illustrations. A very lovely copy.

Publisher
Secker & Warburg., London
Author
George Courtauld
Date Published
1983
Binding
Hardcover with pictorial dust-jacket
Condition
Very Good

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