Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 239

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(FOOD AND DRINK.) CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON. How to Grow the Tomato, and 115 Ways to Prepare it for the Table. 40 pages. 8vo, original printed self-wrappers; slightly darkened at the edges. Tuskegee, 1918

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One of the rarer Carver booklets. Carver points out that the tomato at this time was not known or used by people in the South, especially by people of color.