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145 pages including index and black and white illustrations. Extensively referenced. Chapters include: the Irish Adventurers; the Viceroy's Ranch; the District Corporation - the Ricardo Era; "The New Golcanda"; The Fruit Grower's Municipality; Depression and Disillusionment; Rural Society in Transition; Rural Municipality as suburb. Very faint wear. Clean and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
100 pages. Features: The Road to The Left (part I); Visiting Man; Salute! - There Goes Romance; Plain Nice; Quite Happily Married; From This Day Forward; Nice one-page color ad for Campbell's soup shows 21 cans of their various flavours; Classy one-page color Camay soap ad features lady sought by gents on horse farm; Ponds cold cream ad features photos of Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel III; Vintage one-page color ad for Camel cigarettes features illustrations of Mrs. J. Gardner Coolidge, 2nd, Mrs. Thomas M. Carnegie, Jr., and Mrs. James Russell Lowell, plus endorsements by Miss Mary Byrd, Miss Alice Byrd, Mrs. Powell Cabot, Miss Anne Gould and Mrs. Potter d'Orsay Palmer; Photo of Miss Ruth Linton of St. Paul, MN as she endorses Nujol; One-page ad for Listerine toothpaste features photos of illustrator Dan Content and Betty Cook; Fascinating half-page photo ad sponsored by the California Fruit Growers Exchange proclaims "Tooth decay reduced 57% with fresh orange and lemon juice"; One-page illustrated ad for the new Ford V-8; Vintage one-page color ad for Sunkist oranges; Berry Shortcake recipe; Interior design article; Certo ad features photo of Iowa jelly and jam champion Mrs. C. Osborne; Very attractive one-page color-illustrated ad for Wesson Oil (to be used in mayonnaise) features pastel country scene; Bisquick ad features photo of Eleanor H. Dewey of Minneapolis; One-page Pond's face powder ad features color illustrations of Miss Whitney Bourne, Miss Charlotte Young, Miss Lilla Fiskk, Miss Mary Weld, Mrs. Edward Burns and Mrs. Frederic Bellinger; Several pages of lovely color illustrations of ladies' dress fashions; Photo of Edna Wallace Hopper in ad for her "Special Restorative (skin) Cream"; Vintage color comic-format ad for Lifebuoy and Rinso inside back cover cover topics such as B.O. and clothes boiling; Nice color-photo ad for Ivory Soap on back cover; and much more. Small faint date stamp atop back cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Openings at each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this delightful vintage issue. Magazine
723 entires (circa 100 p.) Hardcover Very good condition
Back pastedown cracked, cover corners bumped and worn, spine worn top/tail, down edges.
Collana: Narrativa, ottobre 1999. Traduzione di Leonella Prato Caruso. Rilegato con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
in-12, IX-118 pp., 60 gravures, tableau depliant h.t., broche, couv.— RARE. Dos usage sinon bon etat. [HA109-1]
128 pages. Features: Fatter beef from cheaper roughage; Feeding guides for supplement A; Now the plants bite back; Look what's happening to hogs; How i made the cage system work; You can dry baled hay; Saving work with water; Bloat; A 'wired' hand for every farm; New method saves $2-a-pound seed; Range-bull record, artificially bred; Carts ease dairy chores; Here's low-cost range and brooding equipment; Learning how to judge land; They've made weed control work; The Biggest Liar in Alaska (fiction); Gangway for Tomorrow (conclusion); Jeff Davis, Mississippi rebuilds for youth; Elsa Dean with daughters Wilma and Nancy. Ads: GE fridges (color, inside front cover); '52 Buick; Champion spark plug ad features 10,640 acre fruit farm at Bakersfield, CA with J.A. Di Giorgio and J.C. Lyttle; Super '88' Oldsmobile; Ford trucks (color); International Trucks (color, Treamside Farm); Oliver tractors (66, 77 and 88); Lee work clothes; Chevrolet trucks; Dodge trucks - featuring Sam Harrod of Frankfort, KY; Sheppard diesel tractors; Moorman's ad features William Lally and family of Dane County, WI; Jeep (one page with 4 photos); Harley-Davidson (Marlon Brando-style male shown riding); Ford cars; Hudson cars (color); Studebaker trucks (color); Infamous color-illustrated ad for Camel cigarettes on back cover says "More Doctors Smoke Camels". Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
in-8°, 117 pp., planches en couleurs, photos n&b, broche, couv. Bon etat. [BL-6]
grand in-8°, 227 pp., illustrations en couleurs, reliure à spirales, couv. illustree. Bel exemplaire [NV-13] Un guide indispensable pour fortifier votre sante.
Undated but appears to be circa early 1900s. 24 pages. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this charming and diminutive vintage canning guide. Book
Paris Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique, bibliothèque du Jardinier - 1878 - In-12 broché - traces d'humidité - 167 pages.
12mo [19 x 13 cm]; xviii, [ii], [13] - 136 pp, frontis (Duchess D'Angouleme pear tree), illustrations including full page,. original pictorial gilt cloth, spine faded from the sun, very lightly foxed on some leaves, a very good, solid copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Hedrick and Woodburn p. 536. An early American work on growing pears, with details on all aspects. A table shows the price of pears over several years for a number of varieties. Some of the illustrations are of tools need for growing pear trees.
in-8 carre, 160 pp., dessins in-t, broche, couverture illustree plast. Bon etat. [TA-1]
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 1st edition. Reprint of the original by Redoute (1759-1840) Golden Ariels No. 4. Intro claims 24 prints, but this edition's contents lists only 18, of which one is loose (Camelias, Narcisses et Pensees) in this copy and one is missing (Camellia panache). Existing plates, however are all full size (9 1/4 x 6 3/4's), printed on one side only, and very bright, suitable for framing.
8vo [23.5 x 15 cm]; xi, 273 pp, numerous illustrations from the drawings of Vicki Herzfeld Arlein, some full page, index. original cloth-backed boards, dj (not price clipped), fine and clean, unused. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A detailed and fascinating work on fruits that are not usually grown but worth trying for those getting tired of the usual apples and pears, fruits such as pawpaw, medlar, juneberry, maypop, kaki, persimmon, raison tree, elaeagnus, actinidia, jujube, jostaberry, and many more.
Features: Plastics vs. clay - one man's experience; orchid genera illustrated - IV; hints on potting and potting media; Brassia antherotes (B. longissima) - collector's item; germination and growth of orchids on banana fruit tissue and some of its extracts; Broughtonia Hybrid genera; Solite - South Florida's controversial Potting medium; Cymbidium suave; The ten most common questions asked about Phalaenopsis; A standard cymbidium culture calandar - a Gripp on growing. Some tearing along cover fold. Book
Toulouse Privat 1941, In-8 broché de 136 pages. Bon état. GAUSSEN : LES FORETS DE LAVEDAN. GOBON : LES VALLUMS MORANIQUES ET LES TERRASSES DES DERNIERES GLACIATIONS DANS LA REGION PREPYRENEENNE ET SON AVANT PAYS. PERRIER : L'OR EN LIMOUSIN. D.F. LA PRUNE D'AGEN.
20 pages. Features: Where the Beauties Are - They Migrate to the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. - with photos of Barbara Ahl; Battle Rankin, Barbara Jean Gup, Fran Eddy, Wing Eng Lee, Jayne Lahey and George Ann Miller; Impressions of Former First Lady Abigail Adams; Men Are Out and Women Are In - hiring in favor of ladies in Washington - with small photos of Rose McKee, Mary I. Bunting, Jane Fiquet Hanna, Liz Carpenter, India Edwards and Lee Walsh; Protocol Rules for Wives New to Washington, D.C.; White House Fare - LBJ's Presidential table has ranged from home style to elegant (with photo of LBJ and his wife at home in Texas. Nice color ads for: Dole Pineapple, Pillsbury Mocha Fudge cake mixes, Dole frozen fruit drink mix, Helene Curtis Tender Touch Bath Oil. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
in-12, 156 pages, figures, broche, couv. Tres bel exemplaire. [TX-20]
Book is in excellent condition; binding seems a little brittle from age, but book shows little wear. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Part of Waveland Press Case Studies series, a detailed anthropogical study with maps, tables, songs, b&w photos. 236 pages.
Paris, "Encyclopédie Agricole", J.-B. Baillière et Fils, s.d. (1936). Petit in-8 broché, 458 pages avec des illustrations. Bon état.
103 pp., abondamment illustré
in-12, 284 pages, figures, couverture illustree en couleurs. Tres bel exemplaire. [TX-20]
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 48 pages. Full bright red cloth boards are sharp and square, with tiny spot near spine. 7 1/4"w x 8 1/2"h. Beautiful illustrations in color and b&w by Arnold Dobrin. Contents: What is Fruit? Fruit Families; Pomes; Drupes; Berries; Conclusion; Index.
Undated. Circa 1980? "You can paint almost any subject or kind of decoration on porcelain. My personal interest has always been the study of flowers and fruit, so I have not attempted to cover other possibilities here. The tools and techniques which are described are those which I find most helpful." - the author. Jean Sadler is internationally recognized by porcelain artists for her paintings of flowers and fruit. She captures their beauty with an unusual combination of subtle shadows, strong contrast and graceful line arrangement. All colour. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book