Publisher:
Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books: 2005
First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean burgundy boards with green spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs and maps. 320 pages with index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The story of scientific exploration, botanical history, politics, profiteering--and a tiny aphid (Phylloxera vastatrix) from America that almost destroy...
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