VERY GOOD
CONDITION
This sale is for a
vintage hardback edition entitled “Mushrooms
& Toadstools,” subtitled “A Study of the Activities of Fungi” by John Ramsbottom, with 84 FULL-PAGE
photographic plates by Paul L. De Laszlo and others and 58 in black-and-white.
It was published
by Collins, of London, is the June 1959 third impression of the October 1953
FIRST EDITION and is one of their highly collectable “New Naturalist” editions.
The contents
include:
·
Editor’s
Preface
·
Author’s
Preface
·
General
Introduction
·
Names
·
History
·
Habitats
·
Poisonous
and Edible Fungi: I
·
Poisonous
and Edible Fungi: II
·
Mushroom
Growing
·
Growth
·
Spore
Production and Spore Characters
·
Sex
·
Fairy
Rings
·
Rhizomorphs
and Scleroria
·
Ergot
and Cordyceps
·
Luminosity
·
Puff-Balls
and Earth-Stars
·
Stink-Horns
and Other Phalloids
·
Grasslands,
Marshes and Sand-Dunes
·
Mycorrhiza
and Other Fungal Associations
·
Woodlands
·
Dry
Rot
·
Bird’s
Nest Fungi and Other Gasteromycetes
·
Truffles
·
Penicillin
·
Bibliography
·
Index
The book measures
8.75 inches x 6.25 inches and has 306 pages + illustrations.
The book is in
good, neat condition for its age, with a similarly very good original
dust-jacket (not even price-clipped), a previous owner’s inscription at the
front, foxing mostly near the covers, and no other ink or pencil markings in
the book. The binding is good with no
loose or missing pages.
A wonderfully
illustrated vintage edition.
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