This vintage hardcover book makes a great gift for a mushroom aficionado! From Goodreads: This handy book by the late Mr. Krieger, America's foremost mycologist, is practically a library in itself. It offers the collector (both experienced and beginning) just about all the information he is likely to need on American mushrooms: their botanical position, mode of growth, structure, physiology, habitat, and ecology, economic importance both as food and as pests, preparation of edible forms (with recipes), varieties of poisonous mushrooms and the poisons involved, cultivation of edible mushrooms, the higher fungi systematically considered, and many special topics like fairy rings and luminosity. A very unusual feature is a rigorous modern evaluation of earlier books, with special reference to reliability.

The Mushroom Handbook
by Louis C. C. Krieger
1947 (Copyright date is marked as 1935)
Hardcover no dust jacket
Contains color and black and white illustrations

CONDITION: Fair condition - there is extensive water damage on the lower half as seen in photos however the pages are completely readable. No dust jacket. Price reflects condition.

This item is sold from a vintage boutique in Andover, Massachusetts.