Yuma, AZ: Yuma County Chamber of Commerce. 1930s promotional brochure. 20 pages, 9 x 8 inches when unfolded, extensively illustrated with half-tone photographs, double-page map at center. Showcases Yuma's businesses, irrigation and agricultural production (dates, figs, cotton, alfalfa, grapes, lettuce, canteloupes, pecans, grapefruits), mining, recreational opportunities. The last page describes..... Item #21238
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Facsimile reprint of the 1859 edition published by D. Appleton and Company. 130 pp, bound in green cloth. Light shelf wear to boards, bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean and tight. No dust jacket. The author was a British Member of..... Item #2356
Frankfort, KY: Capital Office, John D. Woods, Public Printer, 1885. Hardcover. Very good. 476, with two color folding maps (one geological), tables. December 31, 1885. An in-depth and fascinating report from the state of Kentucky. Includes sections on Kentucky thoroughbred and trotting horses, Kentucky tobacco report, the whisky industry in..... Item #152
Lindsay, CA: Hall & Burr, 1929. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, 271 pp, in original green textured cloth (faux leather) boards. Stamp of Tienken Drug Co. of Lindsay, California on endpapers and at least one interior page, a few pages with small stains or smudges, otherwise unmarked, clean and sound. Promoting..... Item #21228
Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, 1918. Softcover. Good. USDA Bulletin No. 719. August 29, 1918. 15 pp, with 2 maps, one photographic illustration. Foxing, general cover wear; good. Interesting content on how "women whose homes are on the farms are taking advantage of the improvement in means of..... Item #21170
Albany, NY: C. Van Benthuysen, Printer to the Legislature, 1856. Hardcover. Very good. 336 pp, with 4 plates, index. Original cloth boards show moderate general wear; endpapers foxed, ownership markings on flyleaf, text clean and binding sound. Fitch was a natural historian and entomologist whose extensive studies helped scientists to..... Item #2327
Miami: Everglade Land Sales, 1912. Hardcover. Very good-. Second edition, much enlarged from the first, published in 1911. 8vo, 226 pp + index, illustrated with half-tone photographs and line drawings. Original pictorial cloth boards, rebacked, with new endpapers (original endpapers also retained). Some staining to front board, otherwise clean and..... Item #20506
Raleigh, NC: E.M. Uzzell & Co., 1912. Softcover. Near fine. 58 pp, in original wrappers. Light spotting to edges, interior clean and tight. Includes a paper on "The Mission of the Departments of Agriculture and Agricultual Workers in the South" by the Texas Commissioner of Agriculture and another on "The..... Item #2819
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1910. First Edition. Soft cover. Very good. 28 pp, illustrated in original stapled wrappers. Foxing to rear cover, else fine. Everything you need to know about muskrats, including their habits; ability to destroy crops, fish, tidal meadows, dams, and other property; economic uses (furs); and..... Item #11873
Melbourne: Printed and Published by the Mining Standard for the Tasmanian Government, 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8.5 x 10.5 inches. 148 pp, with b/w illustrations, maps, and ads. A scarce promotional work, with text offering descriptive and statistical information on tourist attractions, hydro-electric development, mining, timber resources, agriculture (fruit..... Item #14346
Lansing, MI: Michigan State Grange, 1928-29. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Four issues: Volume 8, Nos. 3 & 4 (May/June and Aug/Sept 1928); Vol. 9 Nos. 4 & 5 (June/July and Aug/Sept 1929). Each issue measures 9 x 12 inches and is 16 pages. All have an old vertical folding..... Item #20603
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939. Hardcover. Fine. #25 of 500 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. 8 x 10.5 inches, 333 pp, indexed, with a color frontispiece, 103 illustrations from old prints and photographs, and endpapers and chapter heads by Wiese. Original brown cloth, stamped..... Item #14163
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Wendell, NC: Tobacco Consultants, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 350 pp, extensively illustrated with color photographs. Green cloth boards show mild shelfwear. Binding tight and square, text unmarked. No dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Intended "to provide growers, industry representatives, county extension agents, agricultural teachers, students..... Item #14084
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. Softcover. Very good. "Author's Edition," printed separately, from the Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture for the Year 1888. Original sewn wrappers. Printed slip reading "Compliments of J.M. Rusk, Secretary of Agriculture" tipped in on verso of front wrapper. pp. 3-5-324 + 13 plates..... Item #20856
