Gnomes & Gardens

First edition, first impression.  152pp, illustrated with numerous line drawings.  Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little pushed in at spine base.  Gift inscription inked on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original glossy dust wrapper, price clipped, bumped on extreme edges. Alan Melville knows all the ups and downs of a gardener's lot, and here he provides with perfect antidote for anyone laid low by the gardening bug.  A story-teller with a wickedly accurate ear for eavesdropping over the garden wall, here he playfully digs into flower shows, garden bores, pests and weeds and provides tips on plant care and veg growing, all enhanced by the acquisition of a garden gnome or two. Just brilliantly insightful and pointed.