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Perdue Research Foundation, . First Edition. Hardcover. Good, Solid Hardbound, Usual Markings from The Garden Center Of Greater Cleveland Botanic the Eleanor Squire Library. Quarto, Illustrated Cloth. 1975 B & W Photographs, Tables Quarto, Illustrated Cloth, , pp.623, Temperate Fruits, Nuts, Citrus Avacados, Figs D35top

West Lafayette: Perdue University Press, 1979. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, no jacket. Very Good Some wear to edges and corners; bumping to corners; some rubbing/wear to covers; some soiling/staining to covers; slanting to spine; some soiling to page edges; pages yellowing; former owner's address stamp to inside front cover; wear to spine edges; some bumping to head/foot of spine. Extra postage will be necessary for rushed or international orders due to weight of book.

West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1975. Illustrated, thick quarto, pp xviii, 623, very clean internally, pictorial boards slightly worn and rubbed, corners slightly bumped. A very comprehensive work on temperate fruits and nuts, and subtropical fruits. Very heavy - extra postage may be required, [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador to Laos. While living in Tunis, his wife asked him to look for a cookbook on fish because she did not recognize any of the local varieties. Not being able to find one he wrote one himself. The… Read More

West Lafayette IN: Purdue University Press, 1975. 623 pages. 8 in x 10 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in. Illustrated with black and white figures including photographs, tables and maps. Pages, endpapers clean, v/g condition. Black cloth illustrated on upper cover in color with yellow title. Edges and corners lightly worn. VG. Hard Cover.