Bernard and Harriet Pertchik - Flowering Trees of the Caribbean Book by Rinehart & Co. (1951) | Vintage Botanical Guide | Perfect for Nature Lovers & Caribbean Travel Enthusiasts

Paintings by Bernard and Harriet Pertchik. New York, Rinehart & Company, INC., 1951

English, Good hardcover quarto, 9 1/8" x 12 1/4", 125 pp.

Good quarto 9 1/8" x 12 1/4", quarter bound in sienna with light green cloth over boards, silver gilt embossed titling to spine, gray pastedown, slight rubbing to all 4 corners, tail and spine, sunning to cover and text block, mild foxing, slightly warped pages from endpapers to page 6 and pages 121-125, otherwise bright, tightly bound and unmarked throughout. Fair full-color pictorial dust jacket in off-white featuring full photograph of artist's work to front, yellow and off-white lettering to front, black lettering to spine, heavy edge-wear, chipping at head, chipping at both top corners and bottom front corner, 1 1/4" chip at bottom front near spine, 1 1/4" tear at bottom to front, price clipped, now protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 125 pp. Replete with 30 full-color illustrations. Introduction by William C. White, Bibliography, Glossary. Excerpt from dust jacket: "The artists, Bernard and Harriet Pertchik, covered thousands of miles, from Antilles to South America, to capture at first hand the particular quality of such trees as the bell-flowered Jacaranda and the exquisite Frangipani. The folklore and legends that have grown up around these trees are included, and to increase the book's practical value, a complete, informative description is given of each tree's characteristics."