For the first time, the Malibu Orchid Society has made available books for sale from its extensive library collection. 

Contact librarian Giles Smith at mailto:gilesks@verizon.net for further information.

 

Orchid Books

March 2007

 

Three items deserve special description.  All are standard reference works that are long out of print and the copies are in good to very good condition:

    

Veitch, J.:  A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, Vols. I & II (1963 reprint) $150

 

Valmayor: Orchidiana Philippiana, Vols. I & II  (1984)  $500

Vol. I contains a brief description of every orchid known to exist in the Philippines at the time of publication;

Vol. II contains color photographs of many of the plants listed in Vol. I.

 

Warner, Williams & Moore: The Orchid Album  (1982 reprint) $500

This is the Japanese single-volume reprint of the original 11-volume classic by Benjamin Williams, including the color illustrations by John Nugent Fitch. 

 

     

(ordered by author)

Donnelly & Vidaver: Glossary of Plant Tissue Culture, (1988) $25

Dressler: Field Guide to Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama  (1993) $75 

Freed: Orchids and Serendipity  (1970 )  $5

Freed: New Horizons in Orchid Breeding  (1979 )  $5

Guest: Cymbidiums; Your Guide to a Rewarding Pastime  (1992)  $25

Holttum: Flora of Malaya; Vol 1, Orchids  (1964)  $50

Schultes & Pease: Generic Names of Orchids, (1963)  $50

Simon: The Private Lives of Orchids  (1975)  $10

Stewart & Campbell: Orchids of Tropical Africa (1970)  $20

Watkins: ABC of Orchid Culture (1960) $15

White: American Orchid Culture (1946)  $10