Seasons and Prices: the Role of the Weather in English Agricultural History
by L., Jones E
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/GD+
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HARDBACK "HARD TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1964 * Publisher: George Allen & Unwin.* Binding and cover condition: Dark grey cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minor shelf wear. VG+* Jacket condition: Black & white photo-illustrated dust wrapper on green ground. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 28s. net. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. Label damage to tail of spine. Some ageing. GD++* Contents condition: Ex-Library with usual neat stamps and labels. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with light reading wear, no marks to text. VG* Illustrations: One b/w photo to frontis.* Pages: 179 pp. text. xviii pp. list of sources, appendices, index, & advertisements at rear.* Description: This book introduces the general reader to the complex effects which the weather has had on agricultural production during recent centuries, and to the consequences of the seasonal rhythm in farming for matters as far apart as daily life in the countryside and the workings of the economy. The ways are traced in which agricultural techniques were improved and the unsettling repercussions of bad weather reduced during the agricultural revolution.* A NEAR VG copy with medium shelf wear to dust jacket reducing it to GD++*
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 4057
- Title
- Seasons and Prices: the Role of the Weather in English Agricultural History
- Author
- L., Jones E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/GD+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp..
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 179
- Date Published
- 1964-01-01
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