Octavo in green cloth boards; illus.; 332 p., 24 cm. From dust jacket flap: "In 1899 four impoverished Italian immigrants borrowed funds to establish a business importing tropical fruit from Central America to New Orleans. By the 1960s, their corporation, Standard Fruit and Steamship Company, had become the leading importer of bananas into the United States." Fine copy in Very Good(++) dust jacket. Light wear to edges and corners of dust jacket; minor shelf-rubbing; else excellent copy; boards are sharp; pages are bright, free of marks and creases; binding is tight and square. Bookseller Inventory #
Title: Tropical Enterprise: Standard Fruit and ...
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Publication Date: 1978
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Edition: Presumed First.
Book Description Louisiana State University Press, 1975. First Edition. A fine copy in a vg++ edgeworn d.w. Seller Inventory # 76300