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The Art and Science of Country Living |
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Epsilon Sigma Phi Yearbook 1955-1956
Epsilon Sigma Phi 1957 Softcover Very Good
Numerous photographs of Epsilon Sigma Phi bigwigs. Owner name on front free endpaper, covers lightly soiled and creased, else a clean, tight copy. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 117 pages
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7.00 USD
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The General Education Board: an Account of its Activities 1902-1914
NY General Education Board 1915 Cloth Very Good with no dust jacket
A report of the activities of the General Education Board from 1902 to 1914. This Board was founded by John D. Rockefeller, and later incorporated by Congress as the fore-runner to the USDA's Cooperative Extension Service. Many photographs of the primarily agricultural education projects funded by the Board. Frontispiece photograph portrait of Rockefeller. Dark green cloth binding. Owner signature and bookplate on front free endpaper, homemade owner lending library pocket on rear pastedown. Boards lightly rubbed, else a clean, tight copy. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 240 pages
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11.00 USD
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Arnold, Eleanor (editor) Feeding Our Families: Memories of Hoosier Homemakers
Indiana Extension Homemakers Association 1983 Third Printing Softcover Very Good
First in the series "Memories of Hoosier Homemakers", an oral history project of The Indiana Extension Homemakers Association. Many photos. A collection of highlights from interviews with 243 Indiana farm families about canning, growing, food processing, butchering, freezing, milking, and selling homegrown foods from the late 19th century through the 1980s. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 153 pages
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15.00 USD
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Asdell, S. A. Cattle Fertility and Sterility
Boston Little, Brown and Company 1955 Second Printing Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket
Index, many photographs. Boards worn, jacket creased, soiled and missing several wedges. In jacket protector. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 227 pages
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11.00 USD
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Barrett, Major J.L.M. Practical Jumping
London Country Life Ltd. 1930 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Illustrated by Charles Simpson
Green cloth boards with tan cloth backstrip. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, else a clean, tight copy of this elegant equestrian volume. Jp; 4to 11" - 13" tall
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17.00 USD
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Berry, Romeyn Stoneposts in the Sunset
Watkins Glen, NY Century House 1950 Pictorial Cover Good with no dust jacket Signed by Author
A collection of articles and essays on farming and history from the American Agriculturist and Gannett newspapers. Signed " With every wish" on title page. Boards soiled and rubbed. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author
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25.00 USD
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Bitting, A. W. ; Bitting, K. G. Canning and How to Use Canned Foods
Washington, D. C. National Canners Association 1916 Hardcover Good
Olive green cloth binding with gilt lettering stamped on front boards. Library stamps and labels on spine, title page and rear endpapers. Photos, illustrations. A history of home canning, description of factory-canned foods, and many recipes for using canned foods; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages
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12.00 USD
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Clawson, George Trapping and Tracking
Piscataway, NJ New Century Publishers 1977 0832919802 / 9780832919800 Later Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Illustrated by Ron Pittard
Owner name on table of contents page and front pastedown endpaper, jacket lightly tattered. Index, many illustrations. Author photo with two beavers in trap on rear jacket flap. Covers trapline equipment, traps, bait and scent, pelt preparation and the various fur-bearing animals one seeks to trap, from wolverines to raccoons to weasels. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 202 pages
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50.00 USD
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Creaton, David Beasts Go West
NY St. Martin's Press 1979 0312070497 / 9780312070496 First American Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Smiling author photo on rear jacket panel. Jacket scuffed, else a clean, tight copy. The author's humorous memoir of farming 70 acres of Cornish farmland and the crazy cows, love-sick sows and colorful residents that populate his Lannear Farm. Jacket art by Arthur Robins. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 251 pages
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13.00 USD
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Davison, Verne E. Homemade Fishing: Bass and Trout Waters You Can Build Yourself
Stackpole Books 1953 Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket
Head and tail of spine and edges of covers rubbed. Three stray ink marks on front free endpaper and top corner clipped. Few spots of foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket in mylar cover. Jacket price-clipped, sunned at spine and has some foxing to flaps. Library of Congress number 53-11204. Author photo on rear jacket flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 205 pages
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11.00 USD
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Devery, Glenn Building a Wilderness Retreat: The Wild 80
Stillwater, MN Voyageur Press 1989 0896580865 / 9780896580862 First Printing Hardcover Good in Very Good dust jacket
Musty. Illustrations by the author. The author relates his years building a weekend retreat on 80 acres of wilderness in Minnesota, his observations of nature, changing seasons, etc. ; Voyageur Naturalists Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages
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9.00 USD
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Faulkner, Edward H. A Second Look
Norman, OK University of Oklahoma Press 1947 First Edition Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
Green cloth binding. Boards rubbed, spine sunned and foxed. The author was a critic of prevailing plowing and farming methods and encouraged greater soil conservation and health through gentler disc plowing and other then-controversial methods outlined in this book. A Second Look is a greatly expanded version of his soil conservation theories as published in "Plowman's Folly" in 1943.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 193 pages
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55.00 USD
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Gipson, Fred; Langford, J. O. Big Bend: A Homesteader's Story
Austin, TX University of Texas 1977 B000HYX1VO Second Printing Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket Illustrated by Hal Story
Tan pictorial cloth binding. Jacket toned and tattered. Author photos on rear jacket protector. Many photos and illustrations by Hal Story. Index. Langford was a chronically ill traveling salesman from Mississippi who sought better health and a new start for his wife and toddler daughter in the desert Southwest, along the banks of the Rio Grande River in the Big Bend area of Texas. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages
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25.00 USD
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Hicks, Granville Small Town
NY Macmillan 1946 1125668202 / 9781125668207 First Printing Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket
Slate blue cloth binding. Pages heavily toned, jacket chipped and tattered. In jacket protector. The author lived in the Hudson River town of Grafton, New York, and reflects on the positives and negatives of being an intellectual living in a rural area. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages
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20.00 USD
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Hoover, Helen The Years of the Forest
NY Alfred A. Knopf 1973 0394475380 / 9780394475387 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket Illustrated by Adrian Hoover
Boards worn at corners and spine with 1/2" missing from heel of spine, spine cocked, jacket chipped at corners and spine. In jacket protector. Many pen and ink drawings. A lovely book about the author's escape to their remote Minnesota log cabin and the joys and pitfalls of "wilderness housekeeping". ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 319 pages
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7.00 USD
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