Friend Sykes (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Food, Farming and the Future - Friend Sykes Faber & Faber first edition by one of the pioneers of organic farming. Sykes argues for soil restoration, sustainable agriculture, and long-term food security- decades ahead of his time. A key text in the history of ecological farming. Aqua blue cloth covers with gilt text to spine. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and tight within. Sound copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition, Special Edition. First edition copy with the original dust jacket.

Condition: Good. 1951. 5th Impression. 298 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Jacket is tanned all over. Moderate loss to jacket edges and corners.

Condition: Good. 1946. First Edition. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations and rear folded map. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil and pen markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Visible wear marks to boards.

Condition: Good. 1948. 3rd impression. 298 pages. White pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. Boards are slightly bowed. Prominent forward lean to text block. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Considerable loss to jacket edges and corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback volume with price-clipped dust jacket. 294 pp., with B/W images. Binding firm. Foxing spots to the endpapers and page edges. Pen marks in the margins of pages 45, 47, 70, 118, 119, 184 and 198 (see sellers images for an example). General wear and foxing to the dust jacket, including some tears along the top edge. DJ has been wrapped in a clear protective cover. Size: 8" - 9" tall. Weight: 525g.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A bright, unmarked copy.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Rodale, 1959. Hard cover, first American edition. VG condition in VG dust jacket; a nice clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. brown cloth, first American edition, jacket is in mylar and missing part of lower spine, 392 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published: 1947. 1st Edition / 2nd Impression. DESCRIPTION: Illustrated with black and white photographs and two fold out maps to the rear. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. A few bubble to the front and rear paste downs. Clean sharp cloth. Tightly bound with lightly toned intact endpapers and strong hinges. Clean unmarked pages. Sharp tightly folded map. DJ Condition: Good: Light wear, chipping and creasing to upper and lower edges. Two small holes to lower front corner region. Unclipped. Size: 22.5cm by 14cm. AUTHOR: E.B. Sykes was a British agricultural writer and editor associated with the early organic-farming movement. Working closely with the ideas of Sir Albert Howard, Sykes specialised in presenting soil-fertility research in a clear, practical form for farmers and smallholders. His work emphasised composting, humus formation, and biological approaches to soil management during a period dominated by the rise of synthetic fertilisers. BOOK RESUME: Humus and the Farmer belongs to the mid-century movement that reshaped agricultural thought, emerging as part of the wider organic-farming tradition influenced by Sir Albert Howards earlier work. This volume by E. B. Sykes, helped translate Howards principles of soil fertility into practical guidance for ordinary farmers at a time when industrial agriculture was accelerating. Its outlines how composting, crop rotation, and natural soil processes can restore fertility and improve yields without heavy chemical intervention. Sykes, drawing on Howards pioneering research, emphasises long-term soil health as both an economic and ecological imperative.

Brown Cloth. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. Tidy mid-brown cloth boards, clear gilt spine titling, no wear to speak of. Some brown offsetting to flyleaves, no markings and text clean. Yellow DJ is tight and crisp with minor freckling to the panels. Unclipped and overall bright appoearance. Size: 8vo.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First American edition, dustjacket is edgeworn and lightly splattered, contents unmarked 270 pp.