Agriculture

New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1955. Hardcover, cloth sans dust-jacket. Large octavo. Ex-libris with spine numbers and stamp from "Newsweek Library" on title. Small penciled number on top edge of title and pencil notation on one prelim. No other stamps, markings or writing. Firm solid copy with a slight amount of mottling to spine cloth. Near very good.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1917. Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold sans dust-jacket. Mild toning to page edges and front endpapers. With illustrations, charts and diagrams. 778pp, Index. A clean, solidly bound copy. Very good.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1924. Hardcover, dark green cloth sans dust-jacket. 303pp., Bibliography. Paper on front inner hinge cracked, slightly shaken. A good, sound, internally clean copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: The MacMillan Company, 1924. Cloth sans dustjacket. Illustrated. A title in the Rural Text-Book Series. Ex-libris, with red stipe across lower spine, else no other marks. Good+.. Reprint. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: The MacMillan Company, 1931. Hardcover, cloth sans dust-jacket. 126pp. Foreword by Wheeler McMillen. Illustrated with photographs. Signed presentation copy by author, dated 3/11/37. Spine lettering dull, endpapers toned and cloth shows moderate age soiling. A good sound copy, well bound and internally clean, of the author's narrative of experiences managing 1,000 farms.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Orange Judd Publishing Company, Inc., 1929. Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in orange, sans dust-jacket. Illustrated. 301pp. A complete text on breeding, feeding, handling, marketing and disease control. Prepared for the use of turkey producers and agricultural students. Used copy with age soiling to covers. Interior clean and solidly bound. Good.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1948. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. Cream colored buckram sans dustjacket. Illustrated with photographs. How to make money and still own a farm. Good.. more information

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London: Longman's Green and Co. 1920. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. Cloth sans dustjacket. Foreword by Sir Robert Greig. Good.. more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1943. No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cloth. Light finger soiling to covers, else a good used copy. The author argues against the use of the moleboard plow, and plowing in general.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1925. Hardcover, marron cloth sans dust-jacket. 239pp, Index. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, charts, graphs and one color plate. A very scarce title by this husband and wife team who also penned a standard work on "Elementary Bacteriology". Cloth discolred at lower edge, especially on rear board. Else a clean, sound copy. Near very good.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George Bell & Sons, 1890. Hardcover, cloth sans dust-jacket. A title in Bell's Agricultural Series being a hnadbook of economic biology for farmers and students. 174pp. Illustrated. Two pages of ads preceeding half-title. Label of Eaton, NH Free Public Library inside both front and rear cover, spine label removed from lower backstrip. Cloth moderately age soiled, else a near very good copy. . First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Ithaca: Comstock Publishing Company, 1949. Hardcover, cloth sans dust-jacket. Illustrated. 270pp., Index. Extensive underlining, Cloth lightly marked, previous owner's name. A solid copy. Good.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1936. Cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with maps. Contains bibliography. Dustjacket age soiled and moderately worn. Very good in good jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: The MacMillan Company, 1907. No Jacket. Fifth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering and image of plow stamped on front cover. Illustrated with photographs, drawings, charts, tables and maps. A ti tle in the Rural Science Series. Very good.. more information

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A.O. Moore & Company, 1860. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. Bound in original publisher's incised green cloth. Illustrated with 100 intra-text woodcuts. Gilt stamping on backstrip dulled by age and what appe ars to be round dot of white out, or white paint, on lower spine. Most probably contained a spine number at one time but no trace remains but for the dot which measures approximately 15mm in diameter. Ex-library copy from the Middlebury College Agricultural Library with their book-plate and label pasted inside front cover. Withdawn stamps in red on label, verso of titlepage amd rear blank endpaper . Contents: General View of the Organic World, Cereals and Grasses, History of the Wheat Plant, Origin of the Wheat Plant, Structure and Composition of the Wheat Grain, Germination of the Wheat Plant, Origin and Constituents of Soils, Nutrition of the Wheat Plant, Experiments of Salm Horstmarr on the Growth of Plants in Inorganic Artificial Soils; also, Those of Weigmann and Polstorff, Experiments of Gilbert and Lawes, Growth of the Wheat Plant, Botanical Description of the Wheat Plant, Wheat Regions of the World, Culture of Wheat, Exhaustion of Soils, Management of Soils, Improvement of Soils , Description and Classification of Varieties of Wheat, Wheats in Ohio, Diseases and Enemies of Wheat, Animal Parasites Affecting the Wheat Plant, History of Corn. 4 page Publisher's catalog appended. The author was the Secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture. Cloth slightly dusty and other faults as noted. A clean, solid copy of an important treatise on wheat. Good+ or better.. more information

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1915. Hardcover, olive pictorial cloth printed in red and black. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 193 photographsd in the text. 339pp., Index. A title in Lippincott's farm manual series. Cloth moderately dusty from age and spine darkened. No name, no book-plate, etc. An internally clean, solid copy. Good+. A heavy book, please inquire if priority mail service desired.. Pictorial Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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