Oranges by John McPhee [FIRST EDITION] • 5th Printing / 1978 • Farrar Straus & Giroux

Oranges by John McPhee FIRST EDITION • FIFTH PRINTING [1978] FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. Dust jacket has a few worn edges and some marbling to rear; but is otherwise, clean vibrant and in tact; now housed in a new archival quality brodart jacket protector. Book itself is beautiful; pristine blue cloth boards.   Reads flawllesly. A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Florida's Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida who may be the last of the individual orange barons. McPhee's astonishing book has an almost narrative progression, is immen