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Hard cover, 8vo, in green cloth with title to spine in gold, 407pp. First Edition. Inscribed by Author to front free endpaper dated 1952. A work of popular botany, exploring such questions as the health of soil, erosion, time of planting, the production of nursery stock and more. The author, John Asch was the son of the noted Yiddish novelist Sholem Asch, and was active in establishing agricultural colonies in Palestine. His study of the life of plants took him to nurseries and agricultural institutions around the United States and abroad. Illustration in black and white by Tabea Hofmann (1905 - 1954), an American botanical artist. Condition: Crimping at head of spine; small amount of edge wear to d.j. Now in mylar. OCLC No. 13856387.
Ref: BOT 7570
$85.00