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Rodale Press, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. No Edition Remarks. 164 pages. No dust jacket. Salmon cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Cracked at the hinges. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine. Staining to front board.

Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (9.25" x 6"), clothbound, burnished-red boards, with encircled graphic to front, and black lettering to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. and two bumped corners, one normal drop-result, the other quite slight. Peach-colored endpapers. Binding solid. Black and white photographs. 164 pp. Part One chapters include a handful of general topics -- Stone Mulches under Trees, Farming with Stones, Reasons, the Stone Vegetable Garden. Part Two covers a series of articles by practicioners and experts with such specific examples of plantings and quality/quantity of resultant yields asan orchard, a lemon tree, baby orange tree, hedgerow, strawberries, and even fuchsias. Calling rocks, the "parents of the soil" author/publisher/master gardener-mulcher Rodale cites and discusses sound reasons for mulching with stones. These include the fact that "a rock-mulch does not permit grass or weeds to spring up in its domain, its conservation of… Leer más

Rodale Press. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ; Mauve cloth cover is rubbed at spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and pristine. Dust jacket is lightly tattered at corners with a 1" tear but clean, bright, and in good+ condition. Publisher's price of $3.00 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ); 9.0 X 6.2 X 0.7 inches; 164 pages .