THE PASSIONATE GARDINER; English Translation by Henry Martin
Kingston, New York: McPherson & Company, 2006. First Edition, First Printing / Limited to 1250 Copies / #310. Cloth. 8vo, green cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with colorful floral pattern, dark green endpapers, Notes, Glossary, Index and Names of Plants, xii + 340 pages. Like New / Like New. Item #8402
ISBN: 9780929701738
Rudolf Borchardt (1877 - 1945) was a German-Jewish essayist, poet and cultural historian. He is well known for translating Dante's Divine Comedy and The Passionate Gardiner..
The Passionate Gardiner (1938) is "part essay, part handbook, part treatise, part quest; it is presented with the practiced eye of a naturalist, the disciplined understanding of a philosopher, and the inspiration of a poet."-jacket.
New: Very tight, bright, and clean in comparable unclipped dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder marks.
Price: $30.00