The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer

The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer

Fairchild, David. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939.

Royal 8vo., xiv, (2), 494pp. including index. Photo frontis plus double-sided photo plates throughout. Deep bluish-green buckram over boards lettered front and spine in silver. Price clipped pictorial dust jacket.

Very light tone to leaves. Book is otherwise tight and clean. Sun fade stipes to front panel of jacket, scratches to back panel. Minor edge wear and creases.

Memoirs of a Michigan-born plant gatherer whose expeditions resulted in a huge number of plant species being introduced into the United States.

1st edition, 1939. 1st edition with publisher's device on copyright page. An early reprint, scarce in dust jacket.

$70.00 CDN