Mushrooms and Toadstools: An Account of the More Common Edible and Poisonous Fungi of Conada
by Gussow, H. T. and W. S. Odell
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Wilmington, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Ottawa: Minister of Agriculture, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto, dark green cloth with gilt mushroom motif on cover. 274pp. with index, list of genera and species, glossary and bibliography. Illustrated with 128 plates; 2 in color the others black and white photographs. Very good but for damage at the margin of page 129, and the two color plates have notes in ink in the margins, one more so than the other. Includes sections on culture and preparaton as food as well as stories of poisonings.
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- Bookseller
- Austin's Antiquarian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13128
- Title
- Mushrooms and Toadstools: An Account of the More Common Edible and Poisonous Fungi of Conada
- Author
- Gussow, H. T. and W. S. Odell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Minister of Agriculture
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Science; Natural History; Mushrooms; Toadstools
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