Dorrance & Company, 1964. Signed green cloth bound first edition hardcover with dust jacket protected in mylar of Men with Green Pens: Lives of the Great Writers on Plants in Early Times by Louise Bush-Brown.

The author has signed and inscribed the front free end paper.

"In a series of fascinating biographies of the men who wrote about plants in early times, Mrs. Bush-Brown, through diligent research in the university and monastic libraries and the archives of remote towns in Europe, makes these men live again for the reader."

Louise Bush-Brown was Director of the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for 28 years and the author of several go-to books on gardening.

Good condition. Light spotting to the edges of the page block. Spotting to the interior black and white plates. Dust jacket protected in mylar. Solid copy with crisp pages.