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.

 

COMBINED POSTAGE - ALL BIDDERS: We offer 20% off the total postage & packing/shipping for additional items after the cost of the heaviest book – please wait for a combined invoice.

 

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Buyer to pay postage & packing

For UK Postage: 2nd Class/Parcels = £3.10;

or 1st Class = £3.90

 

European Union Postage: = 6.95 GB Pounds

 

USA Postage: Air Mail (USA) = 13.45 GB Pounds

 

Rest of the World Postage: Air Mail (Anywhere else in the World) = 10.70 GB Pounds

 

Unwinsbooks always obtain a proof of postage receipt from the Royal Mail.  Packages over Royal Mail size rules may be sent by courier (customer will be informed).

 

Goods will be WELL PACKAGED by Unwins Books and dispatched once payment has cleared.