Search Results: AGRICULTURE & HORTICULTURE from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

[Asheville?, circa 1920's]. 31 pages. One diagram in the text. Original printed tan wraps [23.5 cm], with illustrated ad on rear wrap. Bound into later black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ex-library with small ink stamp on front wrap, several marginal stamps, tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, and small remnant of a removed call number sticker on the front board. Cloth binding is otherwise fine; pamphlet is otherwise good only. Top half inch of front wrap excised and filled-in with paper of a near match in color. Upper corners damped throughout, in no way impacting text. FIRST OF THIS EDITION. An apparent reprint of a 1884 pamphlet issued under the same title, which listed the co-authors as E. L. and F. P. Love. The work includes advice on growing tobacco (pp. 11-21) as well as recipes and instructions for curing it. The present edition includes a form bound at the front which obliged the purchaser to pay the author fifty dollars unless the purchaser complied with these terms:… Read More