agriculture

Hardcover. Rochester, Chase Brothers Company, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible tan cloth covers, 134 pages. Illustrated with beautiful, bright, full color illustrations and blow-in sheets of flowers and fruit. A fine, bright copy. No date but appears to be early 1900s.

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, b&w illustrations. The story and rural life of three Generations of the Copper Family. Large section of old English country songs with scores. No dust jacket, bookplate, name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston MA, Joseph Breck & Sons, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages illustrated throughout with detailed b&w engravings. A trade catalog featuring everything from coal forks and cider mills to hay rakes and manure spreaders. Textured maroon cloth with gilt lettering. The book itself is warped but the pages are crisp and clean. An excellent visual resource.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., Eleventh Ed., 1857, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 637 pages. Hardcover. Eleventh Edition - 1857. Black & white illustrations. Varying degrees of foxing to pages 349-356 - this due to leaves being pressed between pages at some point. Overall, pages are bright and unmarked. Original brown cloth covers with faded spine and edges. Firm binding.

Hardcover. NY, Orange Judd Pub. Co, 4th Ed., 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, gray/green cloth in a very worn, chipped dust jacket. 467 pages, b&w illustrations/photos. Label on dj spine, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. White River Junction VT, Chelsea Green Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Named one of the Best Wine Books of 2014 by The New York Times, An Unlikely Vineyard tells the evolutionary story of Deirdre Heekin's farm from overgrown fields to a fertile, productive, and beautiful landscape that melds with its natural environment. Is it possible to capture landscape in a bottle? To express its terroir, its essence of place-geology, geography, climate, and soil-as well as the skill of the winegrower? That's what Heekin and her chef/husband, Caleb Barber, set out to accomplish on their tiny, eight-acre hillside farm and vineyard in Vermont. Challenged by cold winters, wet summers, and other factors, Deirdre and Caleb set about to grow not only a vineyard, but an orchard of heirloom apples, pears, and plums, as well as gardens filled with vegetables, herbs, roses, and wildflowers destined for their own table and for the kitchen of their small restaurant. They wanted to create, or rediscover, a sense of place, and to grow food naturally using the philosophy and techniques gleaned from organic gardening, permaculture, and biodynamic farming. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Outing Publishing Company, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, 177 pages. Green cloth cover with black lettering and design. Corners and edges of spine are bumped. Some faint staining on back of cover. Previous owner's inscription and library date stamp on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Woodstock VT, The Countryman Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Over 200 photographs taken at country fairs; a nostalgic look into the past. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Soiling to dust jacket top edge on front panel. Mild age toning to prelim pages. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Softcover. Boston, E.G. Bradshaw Company, 1905, Book: Fair, Softcover, 96 pages stapled. Minus wrappers, if it ever had any. A fascinating sales booklet, listing farms for sale n the New England area. Detailed descriptions, prices. Some with photos. Exterior pages worn, soiled chipped.

Hardcover. Toronto, Canada, George Brown, Rebound 1st Edition, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Hardcover. Rebound edition. Domestic shipping only. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpapers. Previous owner's name and date of acquisition on preliminary page in pencil. Bright blue bound cover boards. Some light tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding very good. Pages unmarked. Spine straight.

Softcover. Charleston SC, Arcadia Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, profusely illustrated with b&w historical photos. The history of Chester County, the fastest developing county in Pennsylvania, is revealed by the uses of the land through the years, from the agriculture and industries of the nineteenth century to the specialty agriculture and service industries of today. Chester County visits the landscape and community that has endeared generations of residents. Rediscover Saturday night movies at the Warner Theatre in West Chester and root-beer floats at the Guernsey Cow in Exton. Visit the industries that built a strong economy in Chester County, such as Lukens Steel and the Sharples Separator Company, and learn about the site of a paper mill that is now a nature preserve for rare Brandywine bluebells. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, North Point Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Hardcover. Albany NY, New York Agricultural Society, 1st, 1834, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages, the first 12 issues of this early farming periodical, each 16 pages. Issues start with March 1834 and continue through February 1835. Bound in linen covered boards with a calf spine. Nice condition, minor foxing.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black lettering, 342 pages, illustrated in b&w. Ist published in 1915. Previous owner's name inside front cover.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Foxing to top edge of dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, American Sheep Breeder Compny, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt lettering, 96 pages plus ads in rear. b&w illustrations. Gilt faded on cover and spine, clean copy. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the different types of cheese made in America, specifically focusing on cheeses made from cow, sheep, and goat milk. The author delves into the history of cheese-making in America, discussing the various techniques and methods used to produce cheese. The book also includes detailed descriptions of different cheese varieties, their flavors, textures, and uses. It is a valuable resource for cheese enthusiasts, historians, and anyone interested in the history and culture of cheese-making in America.

Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, Wilmer Atkinson Company, N/A, 1914, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages, hardcover. No map. Directory of farms in Bucks County, PA from 1914. Heavy rubbing and edgewear to panels. Spine cracked/detached at front and rear endpapers. With black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A bright and clean copy.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 161 pages. In this overview of the origins and development of black societies in southern Africa, Martin Hall reconstructs the region's past by throughly examining both the archaeological and the historical records. Beginning with the gradual southward movement of the earliest farmers nearly two thousand years ago, Hall tracks the emergence of precolonial states such as Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe. Farmers, Kings, and Traders concludes with the devastating effects of colonialism. Through a close reading of the accounts of early travelers, colonialists, archaeologists, and historians, Hall places in context the often contradictory histories that have been written of this region. The result is an illuminating look at how ideas about the past have themselves changed over time. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, William S. Meyers/Chilean Nitrate Committee, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, stapled binding, decorated brown wrappers. No date but section cites corn experiments of 1919, so circa 1920. B&w photos. Clean.

Softcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 338 pages. In North America industrial agriculture has now virtually displaced diversified family farming. The prevailing system depends heavily on labor supplied by migrants and immigrants, and its reliance on monoculture raises environmental concerns. In this book Jane Adams and contributors--anthropologists and political scientists among them--analyze the political dynamics that have transformed agriculture in the United States and Canada since the 1920s. The contributors demonstrate that people become politically active in arenas that range from the state to public discourse to relations between growers and their contractors or laborers, and that politics is a process that is intimately local as well as global. The farm financial crisis of the 1980s precipitated rapid consolidation of farms and a sharp decline in rural populations. It brought new actors into the political process, including organic farmers and environmentalists. Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed considers the politics of farm policy and the consequences of the increasing alignment of agricultural interests with the global economy. The first section of the book places North American agriculture in the context of the world system; the second, a series of case studies, examines the foundations of current U.S. policy; subsequent sections deal with the political implications for daily life and the politics of the environment.

Softcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2010, Softcover, 224 pages. Combining 165 contemporary and historical photographs, the author's background introductions, historical accounts of farming dating to the first settlers, and narratives by the Wyman family, the reader is given a detailed visual and first-person narrative of a working farm in Vermont.

Softcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 224 pages. Combining 165 contemporary and historical photographs, the author's background introductions, historical accounts of farming dating to the first settlers, and narratives by the Wyman family, the reader is given a detailed visual and first-person narrative of a working farm in Vermont.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 258 pages, b&w illustrations. Written in 1929, when Marc Bloch was 42 years young, page after page of this book infects with the exhuberance of a difficult project turning out well.Bloch chose to write a history of the social impact of economic events on everyday life. Back then that meant to take a long and winding road through uncharted territory. For documentary evidence on how the common people lived by working the land - on "oxen, wheeled ploughs or crop rotations" - was scarce and much of it had to be drawn from neighbouring disciplines. Considered a classic in it's field, this is the first US edition, translated from the French by Janet Sondheimer. Dust jacket spine faded, otherwise a clean, tight copy.