New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1880. Quite worn but still attractive copy from 1880, illustrated with engravings. Rear cover stained and spotted, some musty odor. Informative Victorian guide to growing strawberries, several types of raspberries, blackberries, currants, etc., illustrated throughout with small engravings. Pine green cloth over beveled boards with lettering and fruit culture designs (strawberries, raspberries, butterfly, farmers) in gilt and black, 311 pages. Edges rubbed and lightly bumped, mainly the corners and spine ends, considerable spotting and blotching from past moisture exposure onrear cover, hinges good, text block sound, free endpapers spotted and chipped or torn, some foxing to first and final pages, pages generally clean with some finger soil to margins and very light occasional foxing, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Resource Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 027814
Title: Success with Small Fruits
Author: Roe, Edward P
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1880
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: FRUIT CULTURE HORTICULTURE AGRICULTURE STRAWBERRIES RASPBERRIES GOOSEBERRIES BLACKBERRIES CURRANTS
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Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Beveled: Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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