Farmers of forty centuries or permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan

by King, ranklin, iram

$40 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Emmaus, PA: Organic Gardening Press, ca 1949 . Later edition, 8vo, pp. 379, 5 ; 209 text illustrations; original full red cloth; bookplate of Edward J. De Witt on free endpaper; light edge-wear, near fine. A classic of organic agriculture stemming from a 9-month fact-finding mission across Asia. First privately published in 1911 as a rebuke to the prevailing ideas in the US at the time, it started to gain popularity in the UK starting in the 30s during a

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