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A Song For Every Season, A Hundred Years of Sussex Farming by: Copper, Bob

A Song For Every Season, A Hundred Years of Sussex Farming
by: Copper, Bob

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.

Record # 381660

Price: $12.00 
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Cultivator, The: A Monthly Publication devoted to Agricultureby: New York State Agricultural Society

Cultivator, The: A Monthly Publication devoted to Agriculture
by: New York State Agricultural Society

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.

Record # 402699

Price: $100.00 
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Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformedby: Jane Adams (Ed.)

Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed
by: Jane Adams (Ed.)

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.

Record # 374339

Price: $20.00 
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Land Drainage and Flood Protectionby: Etcheverry, Bernard A.

Land Drainage and Flood Protection
by: Etcheverry, Bernard A.

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.

Record # 375058

Price: $15.00 
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Loving and Leaving the Good Life (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Nearing, Helen

Loving and Leaving the Good Life (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Nearing, Helen

Hardcover. Post Mills VT, Chelsea Green, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY HELEN NEARING on the title page. illustrated with black and white photographs covering the many years of Helen and Scott Nearing. Here for the first time, Helen Nearing writes about a relationship with the young Krishnamurti, and when she went to Scott Nearing at the age of 24, he was 45; and their move to Vermont in 1932. Then in 1953, their move to Maine. Helen's memoir of their life together and an inspiring testimony to the ideals they stood for: self-sufficiency, simplicity, social justice, and peace. Clean copy.

Record # 396283

Price: $28.00 
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Ninety years of Family Farming:  The Story of Lord Rayleigh's and Strutt & Parker Farmby: Gavin, Sir William

Ninety years of Family Farming: The Story of Lord Rayleigh's and Strutt & Parker Farm
by: Gavin, Sir William

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.

Record # 371218

Price: $15.00 
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Old Stan's Diary: Autumn and Winter on the Farmby: Goodland, Norman

Old Stan's Diary: Autumn and Winter on the Farm
by: Goodland, Norman

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.

Record # 406023

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Rural Affairs: A Practical And Copiously Illustrated Register Of Rural Economy and Rural Taste, Including Country Dwellings, Improving and Planting Grounds, Fruits and Flowers, Domestic Animals, and all Farm and Garden Processes -  V

Rural Affairs: A Practical And Copiously Illustrated Register Of Rural Economy and Rural Taste, Including Country Dwellings, Improving and Planting Grounds, Fruits and Flowers, Domestic Animals, and all Farm and Garden Processes - V

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.

Record # 410660

Price: $30.00 
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Rural Artists of Wisconsinby: Barton, John Rector

Rural Artists of Wisconsin
by: Barton, John Rector

Hardcover. Madison, WI, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume dedicated to the rural art originating in Wisconsin. Discusses 30 different artists and contains illustrations (color and black/white) of their pieces. Good condition; cloth bound book shows some wear on the edges of the covers. No dust jacket. Commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the University of Wisconsin by means of the work of rural Wisconsin artists such as Ambrose G. Ammel, Joan Arend, John M. Black, WIlliam H. Boose, Frances Burt, Frank H. Engebretson, Francis D. Grady, Louis Grebetz, Rachel Gertrude Grimm, Lois Ireland, Arthur Johnson, and many more.

Record # 804772

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Shepherd's Sight: A Farming Lifeby: Barbara McLean

Shepherd's Sight: A Farming Life
by: Barbara McLean

Softcover. Ontario CA, ECW Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover/Advanced Reading Copy, 228 pages. A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherd. For 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her 70s, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the physically taxing work that is her central source of meaning and satisfaction. Through her unsentimental gaze, we witness the highs and heartbreaks of delivering and rearing lambs, the shearing and spinning of wool, the wildlife in the woods (and occasionally in the house), and the garden produce moving from seed to harvest to table. Even after half a century on this land, McLean is still making fresh observations, and she shares them in evocative, elegant prose. As she moves through the calendar year, she also reflects on years past, offering a long view on climate, stewardship and agriculture. With its vivid description and absorbing storytelling, Shepherd's Sight offers an unforgettable glimpse of a life lived on the land. Clean copy.

Record # 397335

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The Brave New World (SIGNED COPY)by: Nearing, Helen & Scott

The Brave New World (SIGNED COPY)
by: Nearing, Helen & Scott

Hardcover. Harborside ME, Social Science Institute, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 247 pages. SIGNED BY THE NEARINGS on the front fly leaf. The authors have also written about homesteading and living off the land - both were vegetarians. Scott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, and advocate of simple living. This volume describes their experiences on trips to the Soviet Union and People's China in 1957-58. Light tanning to endpapers, otherwise clean.

Record # 387883

Price: $25.00 
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The Hill Shepherd (SIGNED COPY)by: Edward Hart

The Hill Shepherd (SIGNED COPY)
by: Edward Hart

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.

Record # 385072

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The Hog: The Treatment of the Breeds, Management, Feeding, and Medical Treatment of Swine; With Directions for Salting Pork and Curing Bacon and Hams by: Youatt, Wil

The Hog: The Treatment of the Breeds, Management, Feeding, and Medical Treatment of Swine; With Directions for Salting Pork and Curing Bacon and Hams
by: Youatt, Wil

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.

Record # 374287

Price: $50.00 
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The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise On The Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheepby: Randall, Henry S.

The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise On The Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep
by: Randall, Henry S.

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.

Record # 374125

Price: $70.00 
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Till the Cows Come Home: County Fair Portraits (SIGNED COPY)by: Nelken, Dan

Till the Cows Come Home: County Fair Portraits (SIGNED COPY)
by: Nelken, Dan

Hardcover. Heidelberg GR, Kehrer, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages, hardcover with color photos throughout. Photographer Dan Nelken takes a loving look at farm animal competitions at American county fairs, ca. 1998 - 2007. Clean, no dust jacket issued.

Record # 352324

Price: $35.00 
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Year of the Pigeons, Theby: Moore, John

Year of the Pigeons, The
by: Moore, John

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.

Record # 406022

Price: $15.00 
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