Make Friends With Your Land Wickenden 1949 1st Edition Organic Farming

by Leonard Wickenden

$65 · Offered by eBay

First edition

Make Friends With Your Land: A Chemist Looks at Organiculture Leonard Wickenden Foreword by Joseph W. Frazer Illustrated by E. W. Bartlett The Devin-Adair Company, New York, 1949 — stated FIRST EDITION (see copyright page photo) An early, hard-to-find classic of the organic-farming movement, published alongside Rodale's Pay Dirt and Sir Albert Howard's The Soil and Health. Two chapters first appeared in Organic Gardening magazine. 131 pages plus bibliography, wood-engraving style illustrations. Condition — Good, no dust jacket Plum cloth boards clean and bright, gilt device to front board, spine lettering clear (see photos) Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, light age toning Front hinge is cracked at the gutter of the front free endpaper but holding — shown in photo 5. Priced accordingly. No dust jacket. No writing, stamps or ex-library marks found. Ships from Canada, packed flat in a rigid mailer with corner protection. Buyer pays calculated Canada Post shipping. Best Offers welcome. Rocket Rippers  — cards, collectibles and the occasional great old book.

• Publisher: Devin-Adair
• Year: 1949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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