Country Wisdom Almanac - 373 Tips, Crafts, Home Improvements, Recipes, and Homemade Remedies
Excerpted from Storey Publishing’s Country compiled by Amy Rost
Wisdom Library
Tess Press, 2012
brand new book - 316 pages
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Reader’s Digest Back to Basics - How To Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills - Second Edition
edited by Norman Mack
Reader’s Digest, Fourth Printing, 1983
hardcover, 456 pages
excellent condition - pages are clean and crisp
front cover has a light scratch
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...from a New England farm
by Clarence E. Hale
with photographs by Alice Moulton
vintage softover, 95 pages
Phoenix Publishing, 1975
very good condition - pages are clean and crisp
gift inscription on front end page
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The Foxfire Book
hog dressing, log cabin building, mountain crafts and foods, planting by the signs, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing, moonshining, and other affairs of plain living
edited with an introduction by Eliot Wigginton
vintage softcover, 384 pages
First Edition - collector’s item
Anchor Books, 1972
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The Lore of the Land
by John Seymour
wonderful illustrations by Sally Seymour
Shocken Books, 1983
First American Edition
hardcover, 151 pages
excellent condition
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Rural Wisdom
Time-Honored Values of the Midwest
by Jerry Apps
Amherst Press,
First Edition, 1998, third printing
softcover, 120 pages
excellent condition
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Build-It-Yourself Homestead
by the Editors of Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine
Rodale Press, 1973
vintage softcover booklet, 96 pages
good condition
some age discoloration spots
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Sundials - Their Theory and Construction
by Albert E. Waugh
Dover Publications, 1973
vintage softcover, 228 pages
very good condition
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Home Power!
compiled by the editors of Organic Gardening and Farming
third printing, 1980
vintage softcover, 96 pages
very good condition
a few pages have small crease
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Hobby Farm - Living Your Rural Dream for Pleasure and Profit
by Carol Ekarius
Hobby Farm Press, BowTie Press, 2005
softcover, 272 pages
very good condition
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Fences, Gates and Bridges
A Practical Manual - 300 illustrations
by George A. Martin
Alan C. Hood & Co., Inc., 1992
softcover, 192 pages
new condition
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Building Fences & Gates
How To Design and Build Them From the Ground Up
by Richard Freudenberger
Lark Books, 1997
softcover, 144 pages
like new condition
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The Best of The Old Farmer’s Almanac
The First Two Hundred Years
edited by Judson Hale
Random House, 1992
softcover, 244 pages
good condition
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Community Dances Manual Books 1-7
130 Traditional English and American Contras, Squares, Big Circles, Mixers, Waltzes, Polkas, and Marches
accompanied by 140 traditional tunes with guitar chords
Series Editor: Douglas Kennedy in association with the English Folk Dance and Song Society
new introduction, glossary, and bibiography/discography by Tony Parkes
A Dance Horizons Book
Princeton Book Company, 1967
former library book with usual library markings
vintage softcover, 128 pages
good condition - no marks or notes
$21.95 plus media mail shipping
Barns - THeir History, Preservation, and Restoration
texts and photographs by Charles Klamkin
Bonanza Books, 1979
vintage hardcover, 162 pages
interior pages - very good condition
dustjacket has tiny tear that has been taped
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Deep in the Green - An Exploration of
Country Pleasures
by Anne Raver
Vintage Books, 1996
vintage softcover, 280 pages
very good condition
$6.50 plus media mail shipping
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Upcountry - Reflections from a Rural Life
by Robert Kimber
Down East Books, 1991
softcover, 168 pages
like new condition
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The Old Farmer’s Almanac Sampler
edited by Robb Sagendorph
Ives Washburn, Inc., 1957
signed by author
antique hardcover, 306 pages
good condition considering age of book
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Down on the Farm
A Picture Treasury of Country Life in America in the Good Old Days
commentary by Stewart H. Holbrook
pictures assembled and collated by Milton Rugoff
Bonanza Books, 1954
antique hardcover, 188 pages
fascinating vintage black and white photos
dustjacket shows light wear
good condition considering age of book
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Country Acres
Country Wisdom for the Working Landscape
by David Larkin
Houghton Mifflin, 1998
hardcover, 160 pages
very unique book with wonderful photographs
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Better Homes and Gardens Living The Country Life
Decorating - Gardens - Collectibles - Homes
edited by Gerald M. Knox
First Edition
Meredith Corporation, 1985
hardcover, 320 pages
very good condition
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Little House in the Suburbs - Backyard Farming and Home Skills for Self-Sufficient Living
Grow your own food - Cook meals from scratch Keep bees, chickens, and goats - Make skincare
and house-cleaning products - Create heartfelt
gifts - build community spirit
by Deanna Caswell and Daisy Siskin
Betterway Home, 2012
softcover, 256 pages
good condition
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The Compassionate Carnivore
Or, How To Keep Animals Happy, Save Old MacDonald’s Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat
by Catherine Friend
Firt Da Capo Press Edition, 2008
hardcover, 291 pages
very good condition
former library book
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More Essays of A Sometime Farmer -
Second Person Rural
by Noel Perrin
Penguin Books, 1980
152 pages
softcover, good condition
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Cloudburst - A Handbook of Rural Skills &
Technology
by Vic Marks
illustrated by Ted Turner
Cloudburst Press, 1974
vintage softcover, good condition
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Living on a Few Acres
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978
hardcover
432 pages - very good interior pages
$16.95 plus media mail shipping
Grow It! The Beginner’s Complete In-Harmony-With-Nature Small Farm Guide - From Vegetable and Grain Growing to Livestock Care
by Richard W. Langer
Saturday Review Press, 1972,
vintage hardcover, very good condition,
no marks or notes - all pages are without notes or writing
dustjacket shows slight wear
365 pages -
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A Few Acres and Security
Your Complete Guide to Independence with
Little Capital and Lots of Contentment
by L.W. Steelman
Greenberg, Publisher, 1951
vintage hardcover, 332 pages
book shows wear
webbing is exposed and there is
toning of pages due to age
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Cornell Field Crops Handbook
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences - a Statutory College of the State University, at Cornell University, 1978
softcover, 160 pages - very good interior pages
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The Encyclopedia of Country Living
Practical advice, invaluable information, and
collected wisdom for folks and farmers in the
country, city, and anywhere in between. Includes how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, can peaches, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, catch a pig, cook on a wood stove, and much, much more.
by Carla Emery
Sasquatch Books, 1994, Ninth Edition
oversized softcover, 858 pages - good interior pages
$14.95 plus media mail shipping
The “Have-More” Plan
“A Little Land - A Lot of Living”
by Ed and Carolyn Robinson
Garden Way Publishing, 1973
vintage softcover, 70 pages -
good interior pages
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Two Acre Eden
Finding the Good Life on Your Own
Piece of Land
by Gene Logsdon
Warner Paperback Library,
First Printing, July 1972
vintage softcover, 206 pages -
pages are tanned due to age of book
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Country Living - A Guide for City People
Buying property, remodeling a house, living
off the land, organic farming, and much more
by Jerome Belanger
Award Books, 1973
vintage softcover, 280 pages -
pages are tanned due to age of book
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The Home Workplace
compiled by the Editors of Organic
Gardening and Farming Magazine
Rodale Press, 1981
vintage softcover, 127 pages -
good condition
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The Homestead Kitchen & Cellar
A Guide to Living Off The Land
by Grant & Holly Gilmore
Lancer Books, 1973
252 pages
vintage softcover, good condition
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Stillmeadow Sampler
by Gladys Taber
Parnassus Imprints, 1981
softcover, 282 pages
vintage softcover, good condition considering
age of book - a few pages have dog-ear creases
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The Suburban Farmer’s Handbook
A comprehensive guide to growing and
preserving your own food and drink
by Jack Kramer
Doubleday & Company, 1977
vintage hardcover, 182 pages
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Suburban Safari - A Year on the Lawn
by Hannah Holmes
Bloomsbury Press, 2005
hardcover, 182 pages
New Book!
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Trees, Why Do You Wait?
America’s Changing Rural Culture
by Richard Critchfield
Island Press, 1991
gift inscription on first page
softcover, 271 pages
good condition
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Maine Pilgrimage - The Search for an
American Way of Life
by Richard Saltonstall, Jr.
Drawings by Polly Warren
Little, Brown & Company, 1974
gift inscription on first page
vintage hardcover, 353 pages
interior pages - good condition
dustjacket shows light wear
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Henry & Bettie - The Washington-Bedinger
Family Story
Homestead on the Prairie
by Mildred Bedinger Rhea
Winston-Derek Publishers, 1990
author’s copy
gift inscription by author on front end page
hardcover, 226 pages
very good condition
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Country Wisdom Almanac - 373 Tips, Crafts, Home Improvements, Recipes, and Homemade Remedies
Excerpted from Storey Publishing’s Country compiled by Amy Rost
Black Dog & Levanthal Publishers, 2008
brand new book - 316 pages
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Reminisce - Life on the Farm - a tribute to those working the land, tending the animals and living the wholesome lifestyle
edited by Catherine Cassidy
RDA Enthusiast Brands, LLC, 2017
like new condition
hardcover, 208 pages
$11.95 includes media mail shipping
A Study of Rural Society - Fourth Edition
by Jihn H. Kolb and Edmund deS. Brunner
under the editorship of William F. Ogburn
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952
vintage hardcover, 532 pages
good condition - a few pages have markings
from where paper clips were used
wonderful vintage black and white photos
$15.95 includes media mail shipping
Whole Farm Planning
Ecological Imperatives, Personal Values and
Economics
Northeast Organic Farming Association
written by Elizabeth Henderson and Karl North
Northeast Organic Farming Association
Interstate Council, 2004
softcover, 92 pages
good condition
$8.95 includes media mail shipping
Why Farm
Selected Essays & Editorials
by L.R. Miller
softcover, 95 pages
$9.95 includes media mail shipping
Farmer Pirates & Dancing Cows
essays by Lynn R. Miller
Small Farmer’s Journal, 2006
softcover, 221 pages
like new condition
$14.95 includes media mail shipping
The One-Straw Revolution
An Introduction to Natural Farming
by Masanobu Fukuoka
New York Review Book, 2009
softcover, 190 pages
like new condition
$14.95 includes media mail shipping
The Suburban Farmer’s Handbook
A comprehensive guide to growing and
preserving your own food and drink
by Jack Kramer
Doubleday & Company, 1977
vintage hardcover, 182 pages
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A Book of Country Things
told by Walter Needham
Recorded by Barrows Mussey
Stephen Greene Press, 1965
vintage hardcover, 166 pages
good condition
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A Book of Country Things
told by Walter Needham
Recorded by Barrows Mussey
Stephen Greene Press, 1965
vintage hardcover, 166 pages
good condition
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Down on the Farm
A Picture Treasury of Country Life in America in the Good Old Days
commentary by Stewart H. Holbrook
pictures assembled and collated by Milton Rugoff
Bonanza Books, 1954
vintage hardcover, 188 pages
fascinating vintage black and white photos
dustjacket shows light wear
good condition considering age of book
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The Almanac of Rural Living
by Harvey C. Neese
William Morrow and Company, 1979
vintage softcover, 488 pages
good condition considering age of book
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American Rural Life
A Textbook in Sociology
by David Edgar Lindstrom
The Ronald Press Company, 1948
vintage hardcover, 385 pages
good condition considering age of book
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Self-Reliance Book One
A collection of ideas, articles, and stories from
Self-Reliance Magazine
Backwoods Home Magazine, 2016
edited by Jessie Dunning
softcover, 287 pages
like new condition
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The Farm Book
text by Charles E. Roth
R. Joseph Froehlich
The Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1975
vintage softcover, 95 pages
interior pages - good condition
front cover has a line marking as shown in photo
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Pictures from the Country
A Guide to Photographing Rural Life and Landscapes
by Richard W. Brown
Camden House Publishing, 1991
hardcover, 144 pages
interior pages - good condition
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The Outhouse Revisited
Photographs by Sherman Hines
Text by Don Harron
Firefly Books, 1996
hardcover, 93 pages
interior pages - good condition
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Hills of Home - The Rural Ozarks
Photographs: Roger Minick
Writings: Bob Minick
Drawings & Etchings: Leonard Sussman
Ballantine Books, 1976
vintage softcover, 163 pages
interior pages - good condition - shows light wear
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The Encyclopedia of Country Living
Practical advice, invaluable information, and
collected wisdom for folks and farmers in the
country, city, and anywhere in between. Includes how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, can peaches, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, catch a pig, cook on a wood stove, and much, much more.
by Carla Emery
Sasquatch Books, 1994, Ninth Edition
oversized softcover, 858 pages -
shows light wear
$13.95 plus media mail shipping
Country Wisdom
by David Larkin
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997
hardcover, 160 pages
interior pages - good condition
beautiful photos
binding has been taped
no dustjacket
$6.95 plus media mail shipping
Reminisce - Life on the Farm - a tribute to those working the land, tending the animals and living the wholesome lifestyle
edited by Catherine Cassidy
RDA Enthusiast Brands, LLC, 2017
like new condition
hardcover, 208 pages
$11.95 includes media mail shipping
Upcountry - Reflections from a Rural Life
by Robert Kimber
Lyons & Burford, 1991
hardcover, 168 pages
some toning on outer edges of pages
gift inscription signed by author on title page
and inside cover
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Hooper’s Pasture from Maine to Vermont
by John S. Hooper
The New England Press, 1982
vintage hardcover, 197 pages
good condition
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The Face of Rural America
The 1976 Yearbook of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1976
vintage hardcover, 284 pages
good condition
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North of Now
A Celebration of Country and the Soon to
Be Gone
by W.D. Wetherell
The Lyons Press, 2002
softcover, 264 pages
good condition
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The Green Year
by Barbara Webster
W.W. Norton & Company, 1956
First Edition
vintage hardcover, 270 pages
good condition
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Stone Work
Reflections on Serious Play & Other Aspects
of Country Life
by John Jerome
Viking, 1989
hard cover, 200 pages -
good condition
former library book
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North Country
A Personal Journey Through the Borderland
Howard Frank Mosher
Mariner Books
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997
softcover, 259 pages -
good condition
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Pictures from the Country
A Guide to Photographing Rural Life and Landscapes
by Richard W. Brown
Camden House Publishing, 1991
hardcover, 144 pages
interior pages - good condition
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Tips From the Old Country Folk
compiled by Elizabeth Drury
Conari Press, 2005
hardcover, 96 pages
interior pages - good condition
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Recreational Farming
Finding and Working Your Own Place in the
Country
by Eric Winter
McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1978
vintage hardcover, 162 pages
interior pages - good condition
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1,628 Country Shortcuts
From 1,628 Country People
compiled by the Editors of Country and
edited by Roy Reiman, 1994
hardcover, 194 pages
good condition -
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The Old Farmer’s Almanac’s Book of Country Essays
by Benjamin Rice
Yankee, Inc., 1974
vintage hardcover, 64 pages
good condition -
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A Book of Country Things
told by Walter Needham
Recorded by Barrows Mussey
Stephen Greene Press, 1965
vintage hardcover, 166 pages
good condition
dustjacket shows wear
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The Home Workplace
compiled by the Editors of Organic
Gardening and Farming Magazine
Rodale Press, 1981
vintage softcover, 127 pages -
good condition
$9.95 plus media mail shipping
