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. Baltimore MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 356 pages, b&w illustrations. Starrs offers a detailed and comprehensive look at one of America's most enduring institutions. Richly illustrated with 130 photographs and maps, the book combines the authentic detail of an insider's view (Starrs spent six years working cattle on the high desert Great Basin range) with a scholar's keen eye for objective analysis. Tracing the geography and history of ranching in the United States, Starrs tells how Anglo settlers first encountered the open grasslands of the West - an environment alien to most of the European experience." Clean copy.
Hardcover. Norwich, Conn., Henry Bill Publishing, reprint, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 715 pages, with over 350 engravings and maps, gilt decorated cover and spine on green cloth, all edges marbled. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Lexington KY, Commercial Printing Co. , 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. 305 pages, b&w illustrations. How to raise sheep as a business. Contents include: Choosing the breed of sheep; Selecting and judging sheep; fattening commerical lambs; producing and, handling wool; marketing lambs and sheep; etc. Name on front fly leaf, hinges have some loss of paper, otherwise a solid, clean copy.
Softcover. London, Faber and Faber, reprint, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 200 pages, b&w illustrations. A softcover reprint of a hardcover first published in 1954. Small stain to edge of copy block, not affecting pages, Mild shelf wear, uncommon title.
Hardcover. NY, C. M. Saxton, reprint, 1862, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 231 pages, engraved drawings by William Harvey. Edited by A Stevens. Brown embossed cloth covers with library bookplates on front endpapers but no other markings.
Hampshire UK, Drift Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, green wrappers, 170 pages, b&w illustrations, map. The author went to the Falklands as a young man to work on a sheep farm. His memoir offers a personal glimpse of the harsh but rewarding life of the Islands in the 1950s. Previous owner's inscription on inside cover, otherwise clean.
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. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth in a lightly worn dust jacket that has a sticker on the spine. The author was 53 when he quit his 30 year career as a newspaperman and decided to be a dairy farmer. Clean copy.
