Advances In Fruit Breeding by JANICK, Jules; MOORE, James N. [editors] - 1979

Perdue Research Foundation, . First Edition. Hardcover. Good, Solid Hardbound, Usual Markings from The Garden Center Of Greater Cleveland Botanic the Eleanor Squire Library. Quarto, Illustrated Cloth. 1975 B & W Photographs, Tables Quarto, Illustrated Cloth, , pp.623, Temperate Fruits, Nuts, Citrus Avacados, Figs D35top

West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1975. Illustrated, thick quarto, pp xviii, 623, very clean internally, pictorial boards slightly worn and rubbed, corners slightly bumped. A very comprehensive work on temperate fruits and nuts, and subtropical fruits. Very heavy - extra postage may be required, [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador to Laos. While living in Tunis, his wife asked him to look for a cookbook on fish because she did not recognize any of the local varieties. Not being able to find one he wrote one himself. The… Read More