The flowering cactus : an informative guide, illustrated in full-color photography, to one of the miracles of America's Southwest / edited by Raymond Carlson ; photographs and technical data by R.C. and Claire Meyer Proctor ; sketches and design by George M. Avey.
Raymond Carlson (1906 - 1983)
Category
Books
Date
1954
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221638
Summary
Bibliographic description
96 p. : ill. (part col.), map ; 30 cm. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]); ms. dated beneath: 1957. $zBinding: publisher's quarter pink cloth, with buff cloth boards, gold lettered spine; dust jacket illustrations and information affixed to endpapers at front and rear.
Makers and roles
Raymond Carlson (1906 - 1983) Proctor, R. C Proctor, Claire Meyer