The Wild Flowers of the United States, complete, six volumes in fourteen parts: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6 Rickett, Harold William Nature

A staggeringly lovely set, complete in six volumes in 14 parts, PLUS THE SCARCE INDEX, of Harold William Rickett's magnus opus. The full set was published under the General Editorship of William C. Steere, 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 various colors of buckram cloth, 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. Illustrated endpapers outline the states in question in view of a full-U.S. country map, each in tri-tone. Double-page title pages denote author, publishers, general editors, illustrators, printers and others. Each but the fifth volume housed in uber-sturdy, illustrated paper-covered cardboard slip-cases. 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. All in, a collector's dream. Volume 1 (1966), The Northeastern States, "From the Atlantic to Minnesota and Missouri, and from the Canadian Border to Missouri." Part One, prelims, 2-230 pp. Part Two, 231-559 pp. plus a page of errata. Volume 2, The Southeastern States (1967), showcasing North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi, 322 pp. Part Two, 323-688 pp. including a note of errata. Both Parts being stated First Editions. Over 200 fine color plates each illustrating several species floral species. Volume 3, Part One, Part Two (1969), brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering and ruling to spines, devoted wholly to Texas. Part One, prelims, 2-274 pp. Part Two, 275-553 pp. plus two pages of addenda and note denoting that the second part is a Second Printing of the First Edition, though Part One is, like all others, First Editions, First Printings. Volume 4, The Southwestern States (1969), Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico, Part One, Part Two, Part Three. Part One, 241 pp. Part Two, 242-519 pp. Part Three, 520-788 pp. Volume 5, bound in light brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering over darker brown label. Part One and Part Two outside of slip-case. Part One, 355 pp. plus corrigenda and addenda. Part One, prelims, 2-355 pp. Part Two, 356-666 pp. plus page of errata. Volume 6 (1973), The Central Mountains and Plains, brick-red cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, 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. The index, the final volume, with four ink-stamps and the faint remains of an accession sticker to spine bottom, else tightly bound, clean and unmarked of interior.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.