Second edition of Eucalypt Domestication and Breeding

On pages 73 – 80, E. deglupta was one of twelve species covered in detail under sub-headings of natural forests, plantations, genecology, provenance variation, base populations for selection and conservation.

The first print run was a hard cover edition of one thousand, targeted at libraries, university student reading lists and other places where durability was seen as a requirement and was standard for the Oxford press at the time. This edition was priced at £55.00.

1994

Second edition of Eucalypt Domestication and Breeding

As a result of sending out flyers to the nearly 300 members of the Breeding Eucalypts Working Party of IUFRO, our eucalypt book sold well and the first printing ran out very quickly. The authors were contracted to produce a paperback edition at a lower cost. Vlad Mosmondor in the CSIRO Division of Forest Research Canberra designed the cover. This edition was first published on 4 August 1994 with only minor internal editorial changes and sold for £35.00. (In 1993-1994 £1.00 was equivalent to about A$2.00.)

This print run also sold out and a second print run of the paperback was undertaken in late September 1994.2The authors authorised future reprinting by digital means as required. Those copies have the

2 Since I was receiving 40% of the royalty on each copy sold, I could keep track of the sales. However, there were a number of pirated facsimile copies noticed in offices across Asia during my travels as a consultant for which neither the Oxford Press nor the authors received any remuneration.