MACHINES OF PLENTY - PIONEERING IN AMERICAN AGRICULTURE
by Holbrook, Stewart H
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Company, 1955. First Editiion. Octavo. First printing. 246 pp. 17 illustrations in text., the history of steam followed by the use of gasoline engines applied to architecture; affecting labor, the need for larger land plots, and access to wider markets; a marvelous telling of how agriculture set the pace in America for the world. Bound in blue cloth lettered in gilt, backed in black cloth, spine lettering gilt, a very good copy in good pictorial dust jacket showing edge wear and rubbing to rear panel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009228
- Title
- MACHINES OF PLENTY - PIONEERING IN AMERICAN AGRICULTURE
- Author
- Holbrook, Stewart H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Editiion
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- AGRICULTURE HISTORY U.S. - FARM MACHINERY
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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