Pay Dirt: Farming & Gardening with Composts

Way ahead of his time, this pioneering environmentalist, natural food advocate, & editor of Organic Gardening Magazine offers a comprehensive guide to making & using compost to enhance the soil in your own garden or farm.In 242 pages with Bibliography, this is a FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1946, with an Introduction by Sir Albert Howard, scattered black-and-white illustrations, & photo frontispiece. From a nutrition foundation library, with card pocket & stamps in front, old paper call # to lower spine, this octavo has brown cloth-covered boards, stamped with green lettering to front & spine. Condition is Good+: very clean with slight dust dulling to exterior page edges. Binding strong & straight, pages off-white & significantly tanned, with some neat pencil underlining/marks in early chapters that is unobtrusive & easily erased. Offsetting to pages 104-105 from newspaper clipping tucked in.The unclipped DJ (with orig. $3.00 price intact to front flap) is Poor, missing most of the spine, but now nicely protected in new clear mylar cover which holds it all together! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day

Product Info

Publisher: Devin-Adair Company

Year: 1946

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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Country: United States