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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. _____A beautifully produced study of 32 plants common around Wichita, Kansas, with an emphasis on their medicinal uses._____ . _____ "Sharing the heritage of the Great Bend Prairie, the makers of this book have sought to give it regional flavor, concerning themselves with plants indigenous to the vicinity of Wichita, between 97¯ and 98¯ west of Greenwich, and between 37¯ and 38¯north._____This work may well mark the first printed appearance of the word "forbal," thought to be a natural development and elision of the terms "forb" and "herbal." For this book treats, in general, of forbs rather than herbs, although the reader will._____encounter discussions of several plants that are neither." --from the introduction. _____ Number 184 of a limited, letter-press edition, hand bound in cloth._____ Illustrated with full-color linocuts, printed in multiple passes. _____ Though the colophon calls for 350 copies, fewer than 200 were actually finished._____ The production was begun in 1962 but not completed until 1991, evidence of the labor-intensive nature of this sort of craftsmanship._____.…