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A HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE IN ONTARIO (2 volumes)
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Saunders, 1970. Two volumes, octavo, brown cloth. pp 180 + plates; 264 + plates. Index in each volume. Glue residue to each rear pastedown and to recto of front free endpaper in Vol. II; light evidence of something removed from upper front free endpapers; else fine, jacketess copies, in card slipcase. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45436More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
A VILLAGE IN A VALLEY
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Doubleday, Doran and Gundy, 1934. Green pictorial cloth stamped in black, green decorated endpapers. pp (xiv), 319. [3] pp, illustrations in text. Light sunning to the green top page edges and extreme tips of spine, page edges yellowed, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has nicks and shallow chip to spine tips, faint spine yellowing, small nicks to panels, nearly fine otherwise, flap price intact. Quite a nice copy of the uncommon Canadian issue, made from US sheets. Illustrations for dust jacket and book by Rex Whistler. The third of his books about gardening in a tiny Huntingdonshire village.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 26180More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION IN CONTINENTAL AND TROPICAL CLIMATES
Edition: First Edition
London: Constable, 1921. Octavo, blue cloth. pp (xvi), 268, (4). Sunning to spine and upper margin of covers; text paper lightly toned; tidy ink name inside front cover; else a VG+ clean, tight and unworn copy. Fertilizers, wells and pumping, patures natural & artificial, cattle, pigs, carobs, sheep, ostriches, cereals, apples, asparagas, onions, potatoes, citrus, grapes, walnuts, pistachioes, tropical fruits, and more. Author was former Inspector of Irrigation in Argentina.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 39147More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
Aphids on the World's Crops: An Identification and Information Guide
New York: John Wiley, 2000. Second edition. Small quarto, glossy pictorial boards. pp x, 465. 51 b&w photo plates, illustrations in text, references. Small paper loss to lower inner corner of front pastedown from removed sticker, else fine. In print at USD 456.00 (07/16). Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46098More details Price: USD $250.00 USD $225.00 -
BRAVE HARVEST: the life story of E. Cora Hind
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1945. Brown cloth. pp 275 + frontispiece portrait. Signed by the author. Ink gift inscription and later owner name on half-title leaf, else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy. "Ella Cora Hind (September 18, 1861 - October 6, 1942) was Western Canada's first female journalist and a women's rights activist." She was an expert on agriculture. Manitoba.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47985More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
CANADIAN AGRICULTURAL POLICY. The Historical Pattern.
University of Toronto Pres, 1946. Maroon cloth. xii, 304 pp. Spine lightly sunned, with one nick and light rubbing to spine tips; ink inscription to front pastedown; a VG clean copy otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 8884More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
CROP PESTS IN THE UK: collected edition of MAFF leaflets
London: Chapman & Hall, 1992. Tall octavo, glossy pictorial boards. pp (xiv), 490. Colour and b&w photos, index. Fine copy. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45937More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
DAYLILIES: the wold species and garden clones, both old and new, of the genus Hemerocallis
Edition: First printing
New York: Macmillan, 1934. Octavo, green cloth, spine gilt lettered. pp (xii), 119 + plates, some in colour. A VG+ clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names or text marks. A classic on the subject, reprinted several times.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 37706More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
DEEP FURROWS: Which Tells of Pioneer Trails along Which the Farmers of Western Canada Fought Their Way to Great Achievements in Cooperation 1918
Toronto: George J. McLeod, 1918. Second printing, a month after the first. Red pictorial cloth stamped in black. pp 303. Light yellowing and light foxing to page edges and endpapers, small ink owner name at front, else fine. Dust jacket has minor rubbing, light dust soiling, very small creased corner chip, VG+ otherwise. A nice copy of this bookabout farmers' movements in Western Canada. "This book is written fearlessly. It strips naked the TRUTH about the farmers, the banks, the railroads, the manufacturers and the politicians." Includes an Appendix listing first officers, directors, committees, etc., of the farmers's movement in Western Canada.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44064More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
DUTCH BULBS AND GARDENS. Painted by Mima Nixon
Edition: First printing
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1909. Tall squarish octavo, orange pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. ruled in black. pp xii, 176 + 24 colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Spine has a couple small green flecks, some flaking to the gilt; small dark spot to fore margin of front cover; page edges, endpapers, and first and last leaf yellowed; small chip to fore margin of rear free endpaper; light pencil Xmas,1913, gift inscription on half-title leaf; four digit ink number on front free endpaper; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Edition of 3K copies. Inman 143.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 38959More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
Effects of Crop Rotation on Potato Production in the Temperate Zones...
Edition: First edition.
Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. Octavo, glossy printed boards. pp (x), 310, (2, ads), (2). Small sticker scar inside front cover, else fine, no owner names or text marks. Proceedings of a conference held in Wageningen 14-19 Aug., 1988.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 31693More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
FARMER'S ADVOCATE AND HOME MAGAZINE FOR 1882. Volume XVI
London, Ontario: 1882. Contemporary half leather and marbled boards. pp 340. pp 342-44, Contents, bound at front. Text in triple columns. Many pictorial ads. Cracks to spine leather repaired; peeling to marbled paper on covers; front inner hinge repaired with rice paper; lower outer corner of pp 189-92 torn away with just a little loss of text; thumb-size brown spot to pp 57-68 with small loss of text; damp stains to endpapers; otherwise VG, clean and unworn internally, sound in the binding. Contains 12 issues, the full year for 1882. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Book: Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44790More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
FRUIT FARMING ON THE "DRY BELT" OF BRITISH COLUMBIA: the why and wherefore
London: The Times Book Club, 1912. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged (first was in 1909, 89 pp). Green cloth gilt lettered. pp 132, (4, ads). Note by Lord Strathcona on front pastedown, Author's Note on recto of front free endpapers, ads on rear endpapers and in text. Double page tinted map inserted at front. Many photos. Bit of bubbling to cloth; Niagaras-on-the-Lake, Ontario (big fruit-growing area) ink owner name at front; else a VG clean and unworn copy. Intended to encourage British farmers to move to British Columbia; Redmayne was attached to the British Columbia Information Bureau and Agency in London. "Literature relating to tobacco culture and manufacture" on 93-94. Literature relating to tobacco culture and manufacture": p. 93-94.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50176More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs (Princeton Field Guides)
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47106More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Gene Banks and the World's Food
Edition: First printing
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. Green cloth, pp 247, indexed. Fine in fine jacket, no owner marks.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47458More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
GERMAN AGRARIAN POLITICS AFTER BISMARCK'S FALL: the formation of the Farmers' League
Edition: First Edition
New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. Green cloth. pp 354, [2]. Small owner name label and ink signature at front; text paper lightly toned; small bump to lower outer corner of front cover; else a fine, jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44033More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
GOD MADE THE COUNTRY
Edition: First printing
New York: Knopf, 1946. Octavo, tan cloth lettered & decorated in gilt. pp (xxvi), 330, xx (Index), (2), [4]. Yellowing to page edges, else finde. Cream price-clipped dust jacket has small chips at head of spine and upper outer corners, VG otherwise. Vignette illustrations and design by W.A. Dwiggins. "Lives of great swriters from Hesiod to Tolstoy prove that literature, like life itself, is rooted in the soil of the good earth." Written by a well educated farmer and writer.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41861More details Price: USD $18.50 USD $16.65 -
GROWING NUTS IN THE NORTH
Edition: First edition.
St. Paul, Minnesota: Webb Publishing Co, 1953. Dark green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. pp [4], 124; numberous photos & diagrams in text. A fine bright & tight jacketless copy, no owner names. "A personal story of the author's experience of 33 years with nut culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Includes his failures as well as final successes." Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 27570More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
HOOTEN PAGNELL: the agricultural evolution of a yorkshire village
Edition: First US issue
New York / London: Longmans, Green / Edward Arnold, 1934. Tall octavo, purple cloth gilt. pp viii, 459 + plates. Index, illustrations in text. VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no owner names, no cover fading. A study since ancient times. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44246More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FRUITS
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43977More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96