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. 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. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket. 288 pages. A detailed study of how industrialized farming is changing America's rural communities and small farm families. Circa post WW2. Sticker on spine of dj, otherwise clean, no markings.
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. 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. 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. 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, 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.
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. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages, black and white photographs throughout. Foreword by Cornell Capa. Clean copy.
Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Webb Publishing Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Dark green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. 124 pages with numerous photos & diagrams in text. A bright copy with a similar dust jacket. Clean copy. "A personal story of the author's experience of 33 years with nut culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Includes his failures as well as final successes."
Hardcover. NY, Nesterman Publishing., 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth stamped in gilt. 263 pages, b/w illustrations by Al Coleman. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the front fly leaf. A memoir of growing up on farms in central and western New York before the turn of the century. A hilarious account that recalls all the joys and a few of the mishaps that accompanied Horse and Buggy days on the farm. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Bruce Humphries, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth covers with green and white dust jacket that shows wear, label on spine. 184 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, no markings.
Softcover. Dixfield ME, Coburn Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages. Originally published in the early 1970s as The Cow Economy and reprinted many times over, Keeping a Family Cow has launched thousands of holistic small-scale dairy farmers and families raising healthy cows in accordance with their true nature. The book offers answers to frequently asked questions like, 'Should I get a cow?' and 'How Much Space do I need?' in addition to extensive information.
Hardcover. Stanford University Press, reprint, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 327 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 246 pages, b&w plates. Very good, clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Macdonald & Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages, dust jacket with minor wear. B&W illustrations by Frank Martin.
1944, Book: Very Good, Color art of farmer looking down on son holding reins. Painting by N. C. Wyeth, 10 X 13", mailing label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. Kalamazoo, Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 524 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather covers with rubbing along edges. Narrow 1" separation at top of front cover hinge.Gilt title on spine. Clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Albany NY, Luther Tucker & Son, 1st, 1866, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, spine ends worn. 12mo; 338 pages. Brown cloth with gilt stamping, fading to spine, tiny holes to cloth along spine, illustrated with 400 engravings. Volume 4 only, covers 1864-5-6.Covers all aspects of agriculture and rural life. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean internally.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 134 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Frontis illustration, The Spoon and Bicolor Pear Gourds, in full color. Over 35 full page illustrations in bw. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Light toning throughout. Original dust jacket with moderate wear, tears, chips, price-clipped, & now protected with a plastic cover. A very nice volume.
Hardcover. Newton Abbot UK, David & Charles, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket with moderate wear. Clean, tight copy. Hill shepherds are the unsung heroes of British rural life. As indispensable to the nation's economy as the flocks they tend, these tough, gifted men and women deserve our recognition and gratitude. Edward Hart, an ex-farmer, has lived and worked with shepherds for many years. Originator of the idea for a Shepherd of the Year award, he now describes the life of a typical hill shepherd, including the daily round, seasonal changes, home life, hobbies and events. There are practical sections on the shepherd's work, his tools and their uses, whilst entertaining chapters cover the annual sales and shows, crafts such as crook-making and social pleasures.
Hardcover. Rochester NY, D. D. T. Moore, 4th Ed., 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed green cloth with the gilt sheep on front and lettering on spine. Still bright and square, illustrated with woodcuts. A sound, solid example of this CIvil War-era manual of sheep domestication. Minor foxing, some pencil marking on endpapers, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In more than four decades as president of The Land Institute, Wes Jackson became widely known as one of the founders of the sustainable agriculture movement for his work on perennial grains and Natural Systems Agriculture. But Jackson's contribution to contemporary intellectual and political life goes well beyond plant breeding. Ever since he created one of the first university environmental studies programs in the early 1970s, Jackson has been exploring the human predicaments around sustainability and justice, asking questions that pull not only on agriculture and ecology but also on politics, economics, and culture. That work has appeared in four sole-authored books by Jackson, but nowhere is there an accessible summary of his key ideas. Robert Jensen provides a short, elegant introduction to Jackson's ideas on ways to provide humanity with a truly sustainable foundation in grain agriculture, presented in a way that connects to the growing concern about climate change and other ecological crises. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Indianapolis, State of Indiana, 1st, 1870, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with blind-stamp design, gilt title on spine. 432 pages interspersed with dozens of b&w detailed engravings of farm machinery from the period. Light foxing throughout.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, in a bright dust jacket with only minor wear. B&W drawings by John Lawrence. Observations of a rural year in Gloucestershire.
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