The covers are creased and lightly stained , internally the book is immaculate. Conarty was a lecturer on Soil Culture, a grower of prized vegetables, herbs and fodder. Index: Part I - Miscellaneous. Part II Insect Pests and Fungus Disease: Their Prevention and Destruction. Part III Vegetables and how to grow them. Part IV Culinary Herbs: How to grow them. All this in 160 pages. No publishing date stated, the preface, made up of assorted reviews has both 1922 and1924. First edition? (There is an ad on the front paste down for a man's clothing shop which boasts: "Bargainised to the LIMIT every Saturday". Please take note english language purists.)