REF: Old Books
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- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:18:54 -0400
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From: Sharon McAllister <73372.1745@compuserve.com>
Deborah Wheeler wrote of auction items:
> Book # 1-The Iris- An Ideal Hardy Perennial, Written and published by
> the members of the American iris Society. Geddes Douglas, Editor.
> November 1947, Nashville, Tenn. Nice cond. Red cover with embossed
> print,224 pages. Frontispiece in color, Iris Douglasiana, variety,
> Orchid Sprite.
> Book # 2- Garden Irises-Edited by L.F.Randolph, Published by the
> American Iris Society, St.Louis, Missouri 1959. Nice cond. with original
> dust jacket, 575 pages,color frontispiece, The Butterick Estate Garden,
> Concord, Ma.
In case someone's hesitating, I'd like to add that both are highly valued
collector's items and I'd be bidding on them myself if they weren't already
in my library!
I suppose their value to historians is obvious, but they also contain a lot
of background material that's of interest to today's hybridizers --
although some of these accounts were condensed & used in TWOI. GARDEN
IRISES, in particular, was the source of some of the detailed homework I
assigned in the hybridizing classes on the old Iris List.
How high to bid? Well, I considered myself quite fortunate to pick these
up for only $35 each. Maybe the competition set a $30 limit.....
Sharon McAllister
73372.1745@compuserve.com
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