THE GASTEROMYCETES OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES AND CANADA

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928. ix, 201 pages, plus 123 full-page plates. Original brick-red cloth. 28 x 20 cm. Heavy speckling to the spine (insect nibbling) and a little to the covers; both hinges cracked and the front just holding; brief ink note on f.f.e.p. Moderate foxing to some plates, mostly marginal but with a slight impact on the images in a few cases; foxing to the margins of text pages facing the glossy plates; mild toning to the matte plates. Good only, but a serviceable reference copy. FIRST EDITION. A significant study of a group of fungi including puffballs, stinkhorns, birds' nest fungi, and false truffles, describing over 150 species in great detail. A concise artificial key is provided. William Chambers Coker (1872-1953) was a widely esteemed authority on mycology and, like his co-author, John N. Couch, a professor of botany at the University of North Carolina. "This is a comprehensive treatment of Gasteromycetes . . . The plates include reproductions of photographs, photomicrographs, and drawings, and they illustrate both habit and microscopic details of the great majority of the species discussed." --"Books from Chapel Hill," p. 48.