📚 Soil Science

The living skin of the land: profile, chemistry, erosion, and the agriculture built on a few fertile inches.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject soil science in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The nature and properties of soils	Thomas Lyttleton Lyon	1922	42
	The nature and property of soils	Nyle C. Brady	1974	20
	Advances in Soil Science	B. A. Stewart	1984	18
	The nature and properties of soils	Harry Oliver Buckman	1960	17
	Soil conditions and plant growth	Edward J. Russell	1912	16
	Soils	Michael J. Singer	1995	11
	Soils	Roy Luther Donahue	1958	9
	Fundamentals of soil science	Charles Ernest Millar	1943	8
	Applied Principles of Horticultural Science	Laurie Brown	2008	8
	Handbook of Soil Terminology, Correlation and Classification	Pavel Krasilnikov	2009	8
	Pedology	Ewart Adsil FitzPatrick	1971	7
	Soils	Riccardo Scalenghe	2006	7
	Soils and soil fertility	Louis M. Thompson	1950	6
	Dirt	David R. Montgomery	2007	6
	Soils of the Past	Gregory J. Retallack	2008	6
	Introduction to soil science	G. W. Leeper	1948	5
	Fundamentals of soil science	Henry D. Foth	1977	5
	Soil science & management	Edward J. Plaster	1985	5
	Essential soil science	M. R. Ashman	2002	5
	Soil Science Simplified	Thomas J. Sauer	2011	5
	Soil Science	David L. Rowell	2014	5
	Archaeological Sediments and Soils	Anthony J. Barham	2016	5
	Managing Soil Health for Sustainable Agriculture Volume 1	Don Reicosky	2018	5
	Précis de pédologie	Philippe Duchaufour	1960	4
	Soils of the world	Juan Papadakis	1964	4
	Glossary of soil science terms	Soil Science Society of America	1971	4
	Fundamentals of soil science	H. D. Foth	1972	4
	The Albrecht papers	William A. Albrecht	1975	4
	Soils and geomorphology	Peter W. Birkeland	1984	4
	Advances in Soil Science	E. G. Beauchamp	1986	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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