George Washington Carver: An American Biography

Rackham Holt

Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, NY, 1943

About this Item

Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, NY. 1943. Hardcover. First Edition (SD). Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a gift inscription on the title page 1943. Stated "This book is manufactured under wartime conditions in conformity with all government regulations controlling the use of paper and other materials." Book Condition: Very Good; fabric wear to head, tail, and tips; tape reside on endpapers from old book jacket. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($3.50); wear to tips; missing small pieces at head and tail. Gray cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine; embossed cameo of Dr. Carver on the front board. Deckled textblock fore edge. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 342 pp 8vo. From the Missouri woods to international fame, and all the steps in-between are recounted with affection and genuine appreciation. As a child he was nicknamed a "plant doctor". In college, he shifted from art to agriculture, and later taught at Iowa State Agricultural University. Then he went to Tuskegee, where under Booker T. Washington he was allowed all freedom in his experimentation. From his laboratory came evolutionary discoveries of saving waste, turning things to new uses (peanuts, sweet potatoes, and beans were among the things he worked with), making great contributions to the new science of chemurgy, and giving practical aid to his neighbors, black and white. A thinker, rather than a fighter, capable when problems of color arose, a scientist rather than a sociologist, he was not only a great man of his race, but of all mankind. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: George Washington Carver: An American Biography
• Publisher: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, NY
• Publication Date: 1943
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biographies
  • Science
  • Horticulture/Agriculture/Animal Science