The Wild Flowers of the United States, Volume 6, The Central Mountains and Plains, Part One, Part Two, Part Three Rickett, Harold William Nature

A staggeringly lovely set of Volume 6, The Central Mountains and Plains, complete in three Parts, of Harold William Rickett's magnus opus, Wild Flowers of the United States, composed of six volumes in 14 parts. The full set was published under the General Editorship of William C. Steere, he of the New York Botanical Garden, for them, by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, between 1964 (when first concept was committed to paper) and 1973 (when Volume 6 came out). Small folio format hardcover exemplars, handsomely bound in brick-red buckram cloth over boards, with unbruised tips, tight bindings, clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear (if any); not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Gilt lettering to spine, gilt ruling, too. Illustrated endpapers outline the states in question in view of a full-U.S. country map, each in tri-tone, Missouri to Washington, Nevada to North Dakota. Double-page title pages denote author, publishers, general editors, illustrators, printers and others. Housed in an also Fine condition slip-case and with illustrated paper-labels thereover, little if any abraded. Little if at all used volumes, the gilt-titled spines still crackling, the interiors being fresh and bright. Gorgeous black-and-white illustrations hors-text, full-color, ditto, and full-color photographic plates, too. Volume 6 (1973), The Central Mountains and Plains, complete in Part One, Part Two, Part Three, stated First Editions, each. Part One, prelims, 2-256 pp. Part Two, 257-528 pp. Part Three, 529-784 pp. with a page of errata.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.