By Helen Morgenthau Fox
New York   The Macmillan Company
8.5" by 5" xiv, 262pp.
A smart second printing of this very scarce volume on gardening for the kitchen from American botanist Helen Morgenthau Fox.
By Helen Morgenthau Fox

1943 Gardening for Good Eating

New York   The Macmillan Company
8.5" by 5" xiv, 262pp.
A smart second printing of this very scarce volume on gardening for the kitchen from American botanist Helen Morgenthau Fox.
£150.00
: 0.75kgs / : 966T52

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Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

Second printing, published the same year as the first. Very scarce work. Illustrated throughout. Intended for the gardener who does their own cooking, or the cook who does their own gardening. Providing informative and simple instructions for planting and cultivating your own vegetables and herbs for home cookery. With chapters on the soil, seeds, planning and sowing, forgotten vegetables, edible plants, salads, fruit gardens, home-grown teas, preserving, and more. Written by Helen Morgenthau Fox, an American botanist and author of popular gardening books. Illustrated by Louise Mansfield, an Irish artist and painter.

Condition

In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the cloth. Minor fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper.

Very Good

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