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We are offering One Thousand American Fungi by Charles McIlwaine. The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. How to Select and Cook the Edible; How to Distinguish and Avoid the Poisonous. Author’s Edition – Limited to Seven Hundred and Fifty Copies Numbered and Signed by the Author. (8 1/4 x 12 1/4; 704 pages) Charles McIlwaine was President of the Philadelphia Mycological Center, and Honorary Member Salem County and Gloucester County, N. Toadstools, Mushrooms, Fungi – Edible and Poisonous. With dozens of colored single-sided plate illustrations with many different kinds of mushrooms on each plate and black and white illustrations; plus many black and white photographs and drawings throughout the text. Pages 1 through 620 list the Classes of Fungi, with sub-classes. Pages 621 through 633 are on Toadstools by W. Carter, MD and Professor of Physiology, University of Texas, Galveston – Poisoning and its Treatment; Two Classes of Poisonous Mushrooms – those containing minor irritant poisons that act locally in the gastro-intestinal tract, and those containing major poisons that act on the nerve centers after absorption. Pages 635 through 659 have Recipes for Cooking and Preparing for the Table. CONDITION – the pages of the book and illustrations are Excellent; all pages are intact and clean with no tearing or foxing. The covers show wear and soiling, with corner bumps. The spine also shows wear and has the remnants of a library sticker that appears to have had the catalog number on it. There was separation of the front cover end paper at the hinge, which was repaired with acid-free archival mending tape. And, as you can see, the front cover has the Bigelow Free Library sticker on it.

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