OMG! What a find by Dickerson! Good going! I just Googled it and looked at the ToContents! How fascinating. I can guess what you paid, but I'd love to know where you found it. : )

How cool is that! I wonder if that middle rose is La France. Can you share the year this was put out?

It said 2000.

Awesome find ! And I’ll guess 50 cents or a dollar at yard or estate sale ?

I paid less than $10! I wish Lily! I cannot find rose anything hardly around here. I think I am not the norm for here! Haha, I'm better than Norm though ;)

Everywhere that had this book yesterday was $50 or alot more. I just found another one for $35. But I love my deal I got.

Now I have The Old Rose Informant, The old Rose Advisor, and Adventures. This one isn't a hard back copy like the other two, but I can't wait to read it!

On the Old Rose Advisor, I think I have the original. It's not a volume 1 or 2.

That’s still a great deal ! I hope you enjoy reading it . I keep my eyes out sometimes at yard sales but Haven’t found books I’d like in a long while .

Yea Vaporvac, all by Dickerson.

I love Beales Classic Roses!

Have you ever read Rose's for an Empress? I enjoyed it as well. I really do have alot of Rose's books, but I read them alot. I love thumbing through Vintages book, Rosa Gallica by Virrier, Landscaping with antique Rose's, Antique Rose's for the South, and so many more! Love my Rose's, my rose books, I'm just rose crazy!!

Better rose crazy than just plain crazy! One book I love is Harkness' Illustrated Old Roses. It's a coffee table sized book, but the plates are gorgeous and it has quite good information. I'll have to look up a rose book I'm reading from free Kindle. It's early last century and SO informative! However, I wish I had the hard copy. I'll have to look up some of yours. Thank you! It's a no wonder I can't finish the one I'm reading! ; 0

alana and vaporvac....I love these rose book recommendations! I just bought the Harkness Illustrated Old Roses on Amazon.

I just bought ‘Roses for an Empress’ on Amazon :-) thanks for the tip!

Your welcome! I thought it was a very interesting read. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

I just finished ‘Roses for an Empress’. A lovely book with beautiful rose illustrations throughout. I knew nothing about Josephine and Napoleons relationship before this read. So fascinating, their love affair. They both had a real romantic streak and a very complicated relationship. I read a bit more about them online and there are quite a few different views on their motives in their relationship. This book tends towards the most romantic view of their relationship with the text being primarily translations of the letters that they and their friends wrote. Very little commentary by the authors.