Calhoun Jr., C.L. Old Southern Apples. 1st. Ed. Pub. McDonald & Woodward, USA. 1995
pp.ix, 326 with 48 col. plates & line drawings. 4to. Fine hardback in thor. vg. dw. Title page inscribed by the author. Also comes with a loosely inserted handwritten postcard from the author, relating to him providing two Bevans Favorite apple trees, to the dedicatees. Also comes with the pre-publication advert for ‘Old Southern Apples’.
A book that became an instant classic when it first appeared in 1995, ‘Old Southern Apples’ is an indispensable reference for fruit lovers everywhere. It is ‘more than the story of apples, it chronicles a vanished way of life - subsistence farming in the South (USA) from the earliest English settlements to the mechanization of southern farms in the late 1920s’.
£150.00 [Ref: 71474]