Corn Country
by Warren, C. Henry
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
Item Price
A$23.00A$18.40
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About This Item
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1940. Orange cloth, black text to spine. 136 pp. includes Bibliography & Index. Colour Frontispiece. B/w Plates. Illustrated from Photographs, Paintings and Prints. Cloth is sunned on spine extending across top edges. Spine tips rubbed. Green felt pen remainder mark to top edge of text block. P/o details and gift inscription to front eps. Rear fep has two signatures. Pages clean, binding firm. The tradition, history and current [1940] status of corn production in Britain. Also discusses the transition from Open Field cultivation to Enclosure, with the consequent shift-over from farming for subsistence to farming for profit.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- All Booked
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004490
- Title
- Corn Country
- Author
- Warren, C. Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- B. T. Batsford Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Agriculture Corn-Production Farming History Science Technology England Britain
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - General; Technology; Science;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Text Block
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- Cloth
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- Sunned
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- Remainder Mark
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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