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TREES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, 3 Vols. (Deluxe Limited Edition, Signed by Eve Palmer) by Eve Palmer & Norah Pitman
Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1972
4to, xv + 2235pp. spread over the three volumes. Original quarter leather hardcover bindings, marbled boards, gilt lettering to spines, publisher’s device inlaid in gilt on front boards. Top edges stained dark brown. Copiously illustrated throughout with fine monochrome photographs and illustrations.
Limited deluxe edition of 200 copies, of which this is nos. 98, 97, and 97. Each volume is signed by the author Eve Palmer.
Evelyn Mary "Eve" Palmer (1916-1998) was a South African writer and botanist. She was married to the South African journalist and adventure novelist Geoffrey Jenkins. Her best known work is her bestselling 1966 non-fiction book The Plains of Camdeboo. This 3 volume work on the trees of Southern Africa is considered a standard reference work on the subject.
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