The Sunsweet Story: A history of the establishment of the dried tree fruit industry in California and of the 50 years of service of Sunsweet Growers Inc.

Couchman, Robert

Published by Sunsweet Growers Inc., San Jose, CA, 1967

About this Item

Comprehensive account of the dried fruit industry, mostly prunes & apricots, in California. As the Foreword explains, the book was conceived as a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Sunsweet growers and grew beyond their expectations due to the enthusiasm of the author, himself long involved in journalism often about the fruit business. Founded as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association in 1917, today Sunsweet controls two-thirds of the world's prune production. The book covers the origins of the business, its beginnings in California, and development, both technological and financial, through 1965 or so. The book itself seems to have been a slow mover, as a label on the free endsheet notes it being given as a gift by the Cooperative League of the USA to Edward Slettom some 17 years after its publication. Slettom was head of the Minnesota Association of Cooperatives for several decades. We have a similar copy given to Walden Swanson, if you prefer, also involved in the Co-op movement. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear, corner bumped. Text clean, no names or marks besides the gift label; [8], 139, [4] pages; b/w photos, glossary, bibliography. Size: Quarto.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sunsweet Story: A history of the establishment of the dried tree fruit industry in California and of the 50 years of service of Sunsweet Growers Inc.
• Publisher: Sunsweet Growers Inc., San Jose, CA
• Publication Date: 1967
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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