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Merry Hall (Beverley Nichols Trilogy)

by Beverley Nichols , Ann Lovejoy , Derrick Sayer

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      Used Very Good(1 Copy): Near Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-8"-9" Tall. Full brown cloth binding, slightly rubbed at tips. Clean, tight and unmarked. 520pp., index. Illustrated by William McLaren. Introduction by Ann Lovejoy. Dust jacket in new mylar cover.
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      Used Like New(1 Copy): Fine in Fine jacket 0881924172 Dust jacket condition: Fine. 8th pr. From the opening paragraph, which introduces the author's grandfather who "died of a clump of Iris stylosa, " it is evident that Merry Hall is no ordinary gardening book. And though there are flowers, and stories of flowers, on all its pages, it has the excitement of a novel, telling as it does the story of the rescue of a deserted garden and its transformation, after many struggles, into a little paradise. From the jacket of the first edition Timber Press is proud to return to print a classic in garden literature by the late Beverley Nichols. With a new foreword by Ann Lovejoy and a new index updating all plant names, this edition of Merry Hall should delight a new generation of readers. Although Nichols is better known for his early books Down the Garden Path and Green Grows the City, Merry Hall finds the author at the height of his garden-writing powers, and is his first collaboration with the gifted artist William McLaren, whose exquisite drawings add grace and impact to the text. If Nichols's horticultural undertaking is serious, his writing is hardly solemn. The narrative is high-spirited, riotously funny, and, at times, deliciously malicious. The local characters who alternately delight and frustrate him are as important as the plants: the ancient gardener Oldfield, who refuses to plant "boolbs, " the scheming Miss Emily, and Gaskin, Nichols's omniscient and beatific factotum. But what lures readers to return to Merry Hall again and again are the rapturous discursions on plants and gardening. As Beverley Nichols warns, "When I begin to write about flowers, I lose all sense of restraint, and it is far, far too late to do anything about it." 342 pages. Your order on its way to you by the next business day!
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      Used Very Good(1 Copy): Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket. 342 pp 0881924172. Beverley Nichols Trilogy Book 1. First in a trilogy, Merry Hall is the account of the restoration of a house and garden in post-war England. Though Mr. Nichols's horticultural undertaking is serious, his writing is high-spirited, riotously funny, and, at times, deliciously malicious. An unusual gardening book that discusses flowers and gardens in a non-fictional novel format, telling the story of a deserted garden that is transformed into a paradise.
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      About the Book

      Timber Press is proud to return to print a classic in garden literature by the late Beverley Nichols. With a new foreword by Ann Lovejoy and a new index updating all plant names, this edition of Merry Hall should delight a new generation of readers. If Nichols's horticultural undertaking is serious, his writing is hardly solemn. The narrative is high-spirited, riotously funny, and, at times, deliciously malicious. The local characters who alternately delight and frustrate him are as important as the plants: the ancient gardener Oldfield, who refuses to plant "boolbs", the scheming Miss Emily, and Gaskin, Nichols's omniscient and beatific factotum. But what lures readers to return to Merry Hall again and again are the rapturous discursions on plants and gardening.

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      • Media: Hardcover Book, 342 pages
      • Language: English
      • Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
      • Edition: Unknown
      • ISBN-10: 0881924172
      • Publication Date: Mar. 30th, 1998
      • ISBN-13: 9780881924176
      • Dimensions: 14.73 x 21.18 x 2.97 cm
      • Shipping Weight: 0.61 kg
      • Categories: Gardening Essays

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