Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, no date. 8th printing, ca 1970s reprint of the 1939 edition. Green cloth. pp (xii), 663. Illustrated, index. Fine in fine jacket. Now out of print. 1.5 kg

Poole, Dorset, England: Blandford Press, 1976. A later printing of the 1970 fourth edition. Octavo, green cloth. pp 512 + plates. Index. Fine in fine jacket. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.

New York: Van Nostrand, 1980. Dark blue boards. pp xii, 948. Illustrated, index. Fine in VG jacket. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.

Paris: Augustin Challamel, 1906. Tall octavo, original printed paper covers. pp [2], 392, [2] + 80 plates + folding map. General index and index of tribes. New paper spine with label; front cover has light soiling and small chip to lower inner corner; rear cover has creased tears and corner torn away (no text loss); thin brittle fly leaves front and rear are tanned, with small rubber stamp at front, chips at rear; otherwise a VG copy, text clean, tight and unworn, the whole now protected with a plastic wrapper. Flora of French Guinea (now Guinea). Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required

London: Pelham Books, 1974. Squarish octavo, green cloth. pp 264 + colour plates. Line drawings, index. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has a two inch repaired tear, VG otherwise. "This is the first definitive book to appear on this subject since the height of the Victorian fern craze. It is devoted not only to the ferns of the British Isles and other varieties, but also to the ferns of the other temperate regions of the world, including the North American continent and Australasia, and their varieties." Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.

Ottawa: Research Branch, Canada Deptartment of Agriculture, 1968. Two volumes, octavo, orange cloth. pp (xiv), (660, (2); (x), (149). Colour and b&w photos in text. Indexed. Fine copies, no owner names. Dust jacket of Part 1 has a short tear and nicks at top of spine, the jackets are otherwise fine. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.

Toronto: Firefly Books, 2003. Thick folio, glossy pictorial boards. pp 1584. Colour illustrations, glossary, index. LACKS THE CD; front free endpaper has a small abrasion near centre and two short tears to top edge; else fine. Enclosed in a glossy pictorial chemise with handle. Note: 6.5 kg parcel, extra postage WILL be required. This will be very expensive to send outside of North America. Published at CAD 159.95

Cambridge, MA: CABI, 2007. Tall quarto, glossy printed boards. pp (4), xiv, 456. Illustrated, colour photos. Fine copy. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.

New York: Springer, 1994. Printed cloth. pp 364, Index. Fine copy. 1.5 kg parcel.

London: Witherby, 1990. Re-issue of the 1956 original. xii, 189. Index. Reproduction in colour and b&w. Fine in fine jacket. 2 kg parcel.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. Black cloth. pp (xii), 189, [3]. 52 colour plates. Index. Fine in fine jacket. "The Blibliography Edited by Patrick W. Synge and compiled byW.T. Stearn, Sabine Wilson and Handasyde Buchanan, with a Foreword by S. Dillon Ripley". First published in 1956, this new edition is slightly expanded. 2 kg parcel

London: The Ray Society, 1965. Octavo, dark blue cloth. pp (x), (277). Small private owner name rubber stamped on front free endpaper; book has a musty odour (will disappear over time), but no damp stains; else fine. Dust jacket has edge nicks, VG. Reprints "the first two printed books relating to the British flora which have any claim to originality." Turner, a clergyman, physician, herbalist, and naturalist "has long been honoured as the 'father of British botany' ".

University of Toronto Press, 1979. Green printed cloth. [16], 314 pp, indexed, photos and map in text at front. Partially removed label of the University of Toronto Press Design Department on front free endpaper, else a VG+ copy, no owner names or text marks.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Octavo, brown boards. pp (x), 277. Index. Fine copy. Jacket has nicks at head of spine, else fine. A qualified scientist's examination of the pros and cons.

New York: DK, 2005. Folio, glossy pictorial boards. pp 512. Colour illustrations, index. Fine in fine jacket. Illustrations of about 2000 plants, gives the origin and natural habitat of each and the conditions for growing in a garden, and indicates which plants are under threat in the wild. 3.5 kg parcel

Ottawa: Ministère Fédéral de l'Agriculture, 1913. Olive cloth gilt lettered. 160 pp + 27 chromolithographed botanical plates (grasses, clovers, etc.). Small shallow chip to front free endpaper, else a fine, especially fresh copy. No owner names. The plates are often removed and framed. Text is in French. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1975. Thick octavo, green cloth. pp (743), illustrations in text. Green endpaper lightly sunned at margins; crease to half-title leaf, light foxing to top page edges, binding a little skewed, else fine, no owner names or text marks. Pale green jacket has slightly sunned spine, VG otherwise. 2 kg parcel

Ithaca, New York: Comstock Publishing Associates/ Cornell University Press, 1959. Octavo, green cloth. pp (xii), 380, illustrations in text. Two small private owner labels inside front cover, else a fine, jacketless copy, no marks in text. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.