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Burbank, Luther How Plants are Trained to Work for Man - Complete in 8 Volumes
New York P.F. Collier & Son Company 1921 Hard Cover Good No Jacket
"These eight volumes are not a compilation from the works or words of others, but a description of some of the results of actual work for the past fifty years among millions of living plants, including almost every one known to growers and many thousand species never seen in cultivation... There is a great amount of literature on the subjects, much of it theoretical only, or compilations of actual experimental work. This work, if carried on extensively, requires constant daily and hourly attention, and these volumes have been most written on paper pads during the occassional wakeful hours of night... Notwithstanding the fact that those who are making history seldom have time to record it, these records have been made for the benefit of those who follow, and it is hoped that this partial description of actual, vital, important, productive, and successful work may prove of unusual value to those who have not had any similar fortunate experience, but would be guided in the road to success." - From pages 17 through 20, Luther Burbank, 1920. Many dozens of colour plates throughout. Volume titles include: Plant Breeding; Grafting and Budding; Fruit Improvement; Small Fruits; Gardening; Useful Plants; Flowers; Trees/Biography/Index. Gilt lettering legible upon spines. Embossed green cloth-covered boards. Decorated endpapers. Bindings intact. Yellowing to contents and endpapers. Mild foxing to edges. Modest evidence of moisture exposure to front board and opening leaves of Vol. VI. Some spine lean to Vol. I. Prior owner's stamp upon verso of frontis of each volume, else unmarked. Average wear overall. A nice copy of this truly precious work prepared by the best plant breeder the world has ever known.
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851.85 CDN
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Burbank, Luther; Hall, Wilbur (editor) Partner of Nature *First Edition*
New York D. Appleton-Century Company 1939 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good
315 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates, including frontis of Luther Burbank. "Here, for the first time, the vast amount of material written by Luther Burbank during his lifetime is compiled and compressed into a single volume... Contains the cream of what the great naturalist had to say about his revolutionary experiments in plant-breeding. It is, too, the story of Burbank's life, for his life was his work, a work which has added so much to the world's knowledge and appreciation of growing things and to its material wealth." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with very light wear. Tight and square. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in a new archival-grade Brodart cover. A legend in his day, associating with Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, Luther Burbank is woefully unknown by the modern world, which benefits greatly from his efforts to this day. Very nice copy overall. A precious item for students of Burbank.
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214.03 CDN
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Burbank, Luther; Hall, Wilbur The Harvest of the Years
USA Houghton Mifflin 1927 Hard Cover Good No Jacket
296 pages including black and white photographic plates. "The biography of the world's greatest plant breeder. Luther Burbank was an incredible human being." - Your Humble Bookseller. "He wrote, and left behind him, first and last, more than a million words concerning his intimate friendships with plants, but what he felt and thought, what he aspired to, and how much he achieved, the things he saw in life and learned from his experience, what disappointments were his and what triumphs - the true picture of the gallant, lovable, kindly, shrewd, whimsical Luther Burbank will never be limned, in his own words, except in these pages." - Wilbur Hall, Page ix. Unmarked. Binding intact. Average wear to green boards. Gilt lettering upon spine and front board worn but legible. Solid working copy.
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109.95 CDN
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Burbank, Luther The Training of the Human Plant
New York The Century Co. 1907 Reprint Hard Cover Good+ No Jacket
99 pages. Frontis illustration of author. Originally published in 1906, this simple yet profound work will be of immense interest and value to parents deciding whether or not to home school their children. Luther Burbank was and remains the world's champion plant breeder, having single-handedly increased the world's food supply by many percent. In this work he applies his wondrous knowledge of raising plants, to the nurture of children. The best-selling "The Secret Life of Plants" refers to this book. Moderate to average wear. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Binding sound with moderate lean to spine. Black textured cloth-covered boards. Sound copy.
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171.18 CDN
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