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W.W. Norton & Company, New York, Published 2025. Hardcover, xiv, 346 pp. with 16 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm; First Edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout and a sixteen-page plate section.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. White paper-covered boards with black lettering on the spine; light bumping to the edges of the covers and mild shelf wear. Binding is tight. Pages otherwise unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket in green and white tones with a black-and-white period photograph of the Seabrook family in a horse-drawn carriage with the Seabrook Farms water tower on the front, white title lettering, and review excerpts on the rear panel; price intact at $31.99. A few small nicks and light creasing to the edges with mild shelf wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.John Seabrook's history of Seabrook Farms, his own family's southern New Jersey agricultural empire, which under his grandfather C.F. Seabrook became one of the world's largest frozen-food producers (Life magazine called it "the biggest vegetable factory on earth") and which under his father Jack Seabrook collapsed amid succession disputes, hidden secrets, and lawsuits. Traces three generations of family ambition, ruin, and reinvention, while uncovering the labor history of the farm: the 1934 Black laborers' strike, the WWII-era Japanese American resettlement, and the immigrant workforce that built the family's fortune. Illustrated with period photographs from the Seabrook family archive.