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New York: C. M. Saxton. Poor with no dust jacket. 1859. Hardcover. Hard cover published by C. M. Saxton in 1859. No DJ. Green covers with gilt lettering and design on spine. Covers and spine are faded, with some stains and edge wear. Ends of spine have some small tears. Corners of covers are bumped and worn, with some splitting. Front endpaper has some writing in pencil. Some pages have stains, foxing or smudges. Top edge of pages has some small stains. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 424 pages .

Philadelphia: William Wood & Company. Good. 1897. Nineteenth Edition. Hardcover. Woodcuts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 758 pages; 1897 William Wood & Company. HC 19th edition. In original pebbled green cloth with pictorial vignette to cover and titles to spine in gilt. Binding somewhat shaken; hinges weak with endpages split in the gutters, now reinforced with archival japanese paper. Light fray to cloth at spine ends; gilt at spine a bit dulled. Light to moderate general toning to page stock, illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Prior ownership penned at front. Good only .

Derby, Millier & Copmany. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. 7th edition. (Fruit Trees)

New.

New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. Hard Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. Intact but worn and stained copy of this early edition Blind stamped green cover worn with bumped corners and worn edges. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine intact but worn. Lower front portion of spine at hinge cracked wih torn cloth. Endpapers dampstained to edges with lighter staining and overall age toning to other pages. Minor pencil marks to endpapers. Some smudging and spots to pages. Binding intact but weak and pages intact. Edge wear and some bends to pages. 421 pages.

New York, William Wood & Co, 1875, revised edition. . original gilt-lettered & stamped pictorial dark blue and black cloth, with images of gardening tools in gilt, rubbing to spine ends, front hinge starting but firm, very good. . 8vo; vi, [7] - 576 pp, fine color frontis, over 500 illus, lists of fruits varieties. . Hedrick-Woodburn: History of Horticulture in America p.489: "From the time of its first printing in 1846 down to 1900, the fruit book in America most used by fruit growers, nurserymen and later in colleges and schools was John Jacobs Thomas' The American Fruit Culturist." The first edition was a slim paper-covered volume with 30 woodcuts which became a popular and useful guide. It was subsequently expanded and is one of those books that got better over time. Most of the other editions did not have the fine colored frontispiece of fruit that this edition has. This edition has an extensive listing of fruit varieties and descriptions. A picture of this book is… Read More

New York: William Wood & Co., 1975. reprint. Hardcover. Good/None. 576 pages, beautiful full color lithograph of fruit as frontispiece, 500 b&w line illustrations. Brick red cloth with black and gilt design. Top 2 inches of spine cloth missing, binding still solid. Gutter cracked at Preface page. Record # 401987

Hardback. New.

New York: William Wood and Company, 1867. Book. Illus. by Illustrated with Four Hundred and Eighty Accurate Figures. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. A decent, second-hand copy with some soiling to covers, some shelfwear at rear, some wear to extremities of spine, one signature starting, owner's note on first blank, some evidence of dampstain to title-page, and some occasional minor spotting to pages (not affecting legibility). Overall, pages clean. Binding holding. [ Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair ].

New.

NY: William Wood & Co.. 1867. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small paper spine label, embossed stamp on title page and number on verso, ornate library withdrawn bookplate overall still a very good copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 511 pages; Green cloth, gilt spine, illustrated, index. **A bright and attractive copy. .