The Reluctant Gardener
Fearon, Ethelind
| Publication Date |
1952 |
| Publisher |
Herbert Jenkins, |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Good+, sound copy in like dust jacket |
| SKU |
24707 |
| Notes |
Green cloth with faded white titles to spine. gilt illustration to the front. Two colour illustrated dust jacket has some slight edge wear and a few tiny nicks, chips and very short tears. Foxing to closed page edges and slightly foxed to page margins. |
Description
Hardback. First edition. Attractive dust jacket is illustrated b Alex Jardine. Illustrated endpapers, and drawings throughout the text also by Alex Jardine. 128pp. Indexed. Loosely enclosed is a brief, contemporary Suttons plant catalogue. Contemporary reviews of Fearon’s books claimed she was H. G. Wells’ gardener. Sadie Stein of The Paris Review noted in 2015: “As far as I’m concerned, Fearon’s entire oeuvre should be in print always, regardless of commercial considerations... Fearon’s output was tremendous, her energy seemingly inexhaustible. To read her—on gardens, on herbs, on parenting, on fancy cakes, on travel—is to be inspired, cheered, and exhausted by proxy.”
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