Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1999 Hard cover Acceptable May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing box or discs. Damaged item.

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, Date: 1999. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Short tear to jacket. . 1999. Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA ISBN 1582340137 9781582340135 [US]

ISBN10: 1582340137, ISBN13: 9781582340135, [publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, New York, New York, U.S.A.] Hardcover First Edition
[Salem, OR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bloomsbury Publishing, Date: 1999. Closed tear rear fold of dj. Careful packing and fast, efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. Please note: International and Domestic Priority orders for this item will require additional shipping. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 1999. Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN 1582340137 9781582340135 [US]

ISBN10: 1582340137, ISBN13: 9781582340135, [publisher: Bloomsbury USA] Hardcover New York & London : Bloomsbury , 1999. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. viii,439 pp. Ills. 26 cm. - In an auction held in Holland in February 1637, 99 lots of tulip bulbs fetched a staggering 90,000 guilders, more than $3.5 million in today's money. Tulipomania had reached its height, and its story is told in just one of the fascinating sections of Anna Pavord's wonderful book on this most seductive of flowers. The Tulip is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish, devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip from a wild flower of the Asian steppes to the world-wide phenomenon it is today. Today, the United States alone imports three thousand million tulip bulbs each year. No other flower has ever carried so much consequence; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behavior, mirrors economic booms and busts, plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution. Why did the tulip dominate so many lives through so many centuries in so many countries? Anna Pavord, a self-confessed tulipomaniac, spent six years looking for answers, roaming through Asia, India, and the Ottoman Empire to tell how a humble wildflower of the Asian steppes made its way to Turkey and from there took the whole of Western Europe by storm. Sumptuously illustrated from a wide range of sources, this irresistible volume has ...

ISBN10: 1582340137, ISBN13: 9781582340135, [publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA] Hardcover
[Victoria, BC, Canada] [Publication Year: 1999]

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1999 Hard cover Acceptable

ISBN10: 1582340137, ISBN13: 9781582340135, [publisher: Bloomsbury USA] Hardcover First Edition 1999 Pavord, Anna THE TULIP Bloomsbury, c1999 first printing 438pp, index, illustrated in color Oversize 8vo as new hardcover in as new d/j.
[Columbia, MO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

Bloomsbury Pub., . First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Sm Quarto. 1999 Color And B & W Plates, Tulip Decorated End Papers Sm Quarto, , PP.439, A Well Written History In Part One And Review Of The Species And Cultivars IN Time; Signed With Best Wishes Anna Pavord D11table Bloomsbury Pub. ISBN 1582340137 9781582340135 [US]

ISBN10: 1582340137, ISBN13: 9781582340135, [publisher: Bloomsbury, New York] Hardcover First Edition Cloth, 439 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 26 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author Anna Pavord on the title page, no dedication. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. The story of a flower that has made men mad. Size: 4to
[Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]
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