Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores. Color illustrations by Lydia Dabcovich.
Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 246 pages. Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that he had prostate cancer. Following forty-six intensive radiation treatments, Mosher set out alone in his twenty-year-old Chevy Celebrity on a monumental road trip and book tour across twenty-first-century America. From a chance meeting with an angry moose in northern New England to late-night walks on the wildest sides of America's largest cities, The Great Northern Express chronicles Mosher's escapades with an astonishing array of erudite bibliophiles, homeless hitchhikers, country crooners and strippers, and aspiring writers of all circumstances. Full of high and low comedy and rollicking adventures, this is part travel memoir, part autobiography, and pure, anarchic fun. From coast to coast and border to border, this unforgettable adventure of a top-notch American writer demonstrates that, sometimes, in order to know who we truly are, we must turn the wheel towards home.
Hardcover. New York, AMS Press, Inc. , Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover. Reprint of 1936 edition. B/w illustrations (maps/diagrams). Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages unmarked. Spine straight. Binding tight. Very good condition throughout. This volume is not only an admirable study in social and economic history, but a unique and valuable contribution to the history of American agriculture as well.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally & Company , BC Ed., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a matching dust jacket. The story of San, the foal, who became a colt, then a racehorse but finally made it back home to his family. 128 pages. Set in Vermont. B&w drawings by Albert Micale. Weekly Reader Book Club. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 282 pages. In 1994, a devout Catholic woman from Vermont began having religious visions and hearing the voice of the Virgin Mary. To spread word about her mystical experiences, she turned to the Internet. As Paolo Apolito records here, she is only one of many people who use the Web as a tool of religious devotion. Every day, thousands of Catholics--from Italy and Latin America to the United States and Bosnia--use the Internet to describe and celebrate apparitions of Mary, to exchange relics and advice in chat rooms, to make pilgrimages to religious Web sites, and to practice the rites of their faith online.But how has this potent new mix of technology and religiosity changed the way Catholics view their faith? And what challenges do the autonomous qualities of the Internet pose to the broader authority of Catholicism? Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. self-published, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light green stapled wrappers. 52 pages. Originally published in 1974 by the Vermont Historical Society. Thompson began his diary as a lad of 17 and continued to be a diary-keeper for 69 years. His jottings provide a telling portrait of himself and the world he lived in. Clean copy.
Softcover. Mayfield NY, DreamChase Features, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages plus an extensive index, bibliography. Illustrated with b&w photos, drawings. SIGNED BY COOK on the title page. Like new condition.
Hardcover. The McKernon Group. Inc., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 114 pages. Jack McKernon has created an easy-to-read guide for those about to embark on the adventure of building or renovating homes of their own. Pulling together details from his own experiences and those of his colleagues at the design-build firm he founded in Brandon, Vermont, he takes the reader through the process of creating a home that evokes the past but lives in the present. Illustrated with over 290 color photographs, the book offers narrative advice on finding and working with the right design-build contractor, siting the home on the property, incorporating elements of the Vermont vernacular farmhouse, ensuring convenience and comfort in the home, building responsibly, and designing a space that incorporates one's personal desires.
Hardcover. The McKernon Group. Inc., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 114 pages. Jack McKernon has created an easy-to-read guide for those about to embark on the adventure of building or renovating homes of their own. Pulling together details from his own experiences and those of his colleagues at the design-build firm he founded in Brandon, Vermont, he takes the reader through the process of creating a home that evokes the past but lives in the present. Illustrated with over 290 color photographs, the book offers narrative advice on finding and working with the right design-build contractor, siting the home on the property, incorporating elements of the Vermont vernacular farmhouse, ensuring convenience and comfort in the home, building responsibly, and designing a space that incorporates one's personal desires.
Burlington VT, Samuel Mills, 2nd Ed., 1809, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, 2 volume set. Second Edition, Corrected and Much Enlarged, after the first edition of 1794. 487 total pages. Vol. 1 does NOT have the folding map frontis. The handwritten name of Peter Starr (1778-1860) appears on the title page of both volumes. He was the head of a prominent Middlebury family whose name now graces two buildings: Starr Hall and Starr Library (now home to the Axinn Center). Brown calf covers with some rubbing and chipping to edges, red morocco spine labels with gilt lettering. Clean, tight set.
Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 225 pages. SIGNED BY MITCHELL on the title page. Three Vermont women enroll in a nature writing class, only to find themselves drawn into a plot to commit an act of destruction in the name of the environment. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Rutland VT, Tuttle Publishing Co,, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth, 87 pages, limited to 500 copies. SIGNED BY NAY on the half-title page. "This is the real authentic story of an old Vermont country doctor written not as fiction but as the life of one of Vermont's oldest physicians....that beloved figure, the old-fashioned country doctor..." Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Softcover. Montpelier VT, St. Michael's High School, 1940-1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nine stapled softcover booklets, 44-60 pages each, b&w photos. A history of this Vermont high school during WW2 and the post-war years. A few with ink name on cover, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Wellesley MA, Branden Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages, several b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY POTVIN on title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Vernon Thornblad. A young boy living in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1710 enjoys imaginary adventures with make-believe pirates, until the day that real pirates come ashore for evil purposes and leave him a remarkable memento. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Vermont Heritage Press, Revised Ed., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a rubbed, edgeworn dust jacket. Pictorial end papers. B&w illustrations throughout. Intact foldout of "Shelburne Shipyard in Winter" in winter circa 1920. This new edition adds essays by Arthur B. Cohn, director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, on Lake Champlain steamboats and ferries and recent developments in Champlain Valley Maritime archaeology. Clean copy.
Softcover. Montpelier VT, Lake Champlain Tercentenary Commission of Vermont, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible beige cloth covers, 167 pages plus pages of Press Comments. B&w illustrations. Museum bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 24 pages illustrated in color by Michael Donato. Award-winning author William Jaspersohn brings American history alive in a moving immigrant tale. The story retells the amazing, true saga of the Eurich brothers from Prussia, who arrive five years apart in America in the 1880s and who miraculously end up on neighboring farms in central Vermont. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket with a small closed tear. A Vermont farmer finishes his chores quickly with the help of a rolling pile of hay. Color illustrations by Gackenbach. Clean copy.
Softcover. Dorset VT, Two Damned Yankees, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 148 pages, b&w cartoons by Sandy Read. SIGNED BY TYLER on the front fly leaf. From the author's Introduction: Clean, bright copy. A follow-up book of recollections on the inhabitants of the Manchester/Dorset area of Vermont.
Softcover. Woodstok VT, The Woodstock Foundation, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 123 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY JANE AND WILL CURTIS on the front fly leaf. This work was published in observance of the 100th anniversary of Marsh's death in 1882. It graphically portrays the many-faceted career of this extraordinarily versatile Vermonter. Marsh is best known for his pioneering environmental study, Man and Nature, which was first published in 1864. Marsh was a lawyer, linguist, businessman, farmer, designer, Congressman, and diplomat (he was Minister to Turkey and to the newly-united Kingdom of Italy, where he spent the last twenty-one years of his life, a tour of duty unprecedented in American diplomacy). In Congress he supported creating of the Smithsonian Institution.
Softcover. Montpelier VT, Craftsbury Common Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages. In 1964 Ethan Hubbard began photographing and tape-recording the most unique and intriguing rural Vermonters he could find, believing that they were a vanishing race. B&w photos.
Hardcover. Williston VT, Williston Historical Society, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 383 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the half-title page. A meticulous town history with many photographs. Clean copy.