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Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers, 1974. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. First published in 1792, Robert Baily Thomas' Old Farmer's Almanack was distributed annually thereafter for more than 100 years. In 1904, using the Farmer's Almanack as a base, Professor George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard University originally published this study of early New England farm life and lore. He presents a fascinating compilation of information covering a wide spectrum of activities of both major and minor significance to the farmer of the day. 403pp.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920. 3rd ptg. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Some edge wear. Front and back cover have some lighter spots.

Joel Norse, 1857. Joel Norse 1857 Good/ Tattered Tannd cover, some edgewear and chipping to bright clean text. Product DescriptionIncludes: November; Lead; Selecting Seed Corn -- Timely Hint; A Wooden Barometer; Culture of Cranberries in Meadows; The Curculio; Retreat of Swallows; Prince's Yellow Gage Plum (illustrated); A Plea for Dwarf Pears; Wheat Crop in Vermont; Guano; Meteorological Intelligence; Things in Essex County; Extracts and Replies; Relation of Trees to the Sil; by Wilson Flagg; The Things I Raise, No 2, Burrs Sweat Corn; Little Things by the Way Side; Profits of Sheep; The Concord Grape; Apios Tuberosa, or Ground Nut; The Wheat Crop; Letters from Mr French; Teh Curculio; Oricular Bread; Hymn of the Farmer; Chinese Farming; Design for a Suburban House (illustrated); Master Cutter -- s in Ioway; Uncle Toby's Cow; Trial of Sugar Can; Transplanting Hickory and Chestnut Trees; Middlesex Agricultural Society; Cause of the Failure of Fruit; Spring Wheat -- Sugar Cane; Smut Upon the… Read More

Joel Norse, 1857. Joel Norse 1857 Fair/ Tattered tanned cover, tattered soiled pages. Product DescriptionIncludes: October -- The Atmosphere; Good For Nothing Soils; Drain Tile; Letter from Mr. French; Can the Plum be Saved From the Curculio; Horse-Rading; Potato -- The Original Root; Pears and Grapes; Boston Fan Mill (illustrated); Wheat Crop; Habits of the Curculio; Chinese Sugar Cane; No Apples This Year; Extracts and Replies; Onion and Other Crops; Letter from Mr. Brown; New Appler Parer (illustrated); Winter Wheat; Haycocks; Letter from England; Apple Tree Borer; Influences of Farming; Exxex County Stock (Chart); Why Grain Should Be Ground; Work-Shops and Stormy Days; Thank God for All (poem); The Old Soldier; The Wild Turkey; The Things I Raise; Head-Work in Farming; More Wise Than Ambitious; Horticultural Literature; Criticisms; Horse-Racing; Utility of Appearance; Kindness to Animals; Charcoal; Bee Culture; Columbian Gage Plum (illustrated); U. S. Agricultural Exhibition; Underdraining;… Read More

Joel Norse, 1857. Joel Norse 1857 Fair/ Tattered soiled tanned cover, tattered soiled pages. Product DescriptionIncludes: December -- Appearances of Trees in Winter; Chinese Sugar Cane; Farmers' Clubs; A Great Yield of Oats; Sausage Stuffers; Whitewashing Trees; Is This Anybody's Picture Winter Weat; The Chemist in the Laundry; proper Time For Pruning; Healthful Diet; The Pipe of War; Cutting Potatoes; Willard'd Patent Root-Cutter (illustrated); young Men and the Farm; New hampshir State Show; Agricultural Fairs in Vermont; Much in a Barn; Fashion (poem); The Canker Worm; Extracts and Replies; hydreaulic Cement -- Its Uses; Destructive Insects; Stone Drains -- Contruction; Small Potato Experiment; Harvesting Corn; massachusetts State Show; A Good Potato Crop; Gathering and Preserving Winter Fruit; Iron Meet Cutter (illustrated); Position in Readin; Ants -- Their Senses and Habits; A Good Cow; Mysteries of a Junk of Coal; Influences in Farming; The Barlett Pear (illustrated); Thw Waste of… Read More

Joel Norse, 1857. Joel Norse 1857 Fair/ Tattered soiled tanned cover, tattered soiled pages. Back cover torn at spine in plastic bag to keep it from tearing further. Product DescriptionIncludes: September; Notes from Main; Letter from Mr. Brown; About Guano; Fruit-Tree Borers; Mr. French in England; Dresden Ware and its Discoverer; Ode on Solitude; Grape Vine Protector (illustrated); Philosophy of Hoeing; False Estimate of the hay Crop; Whtewashing Trees; Do Roots or Tubers Mix Prejudice Against Agricultural Periodicals; Hay-Caps; National Trial of Reapers and Mowers at Syracuse NY; Chinese Sugar Cane; Yellow Bell Flower Apple; Spirit of the Agricultural Press; How to Destroy Weeds; Summer Care of Trees; Philosophy in Court; Upland Culture of Cranberries; About Maple Sugar; Cheese-Making in Vermont; A Fine Flock of Sheep; The Honey Bee; Swallows; Little Things; Rustic Villa (with drawing and floor plans); Make hay While the Sun Shines; Cabbage Insects; Lameness from Contracted Heels; Salt; An English… Read More

Joel Norse, 1857. Joel Norse 1857 Fair/ Tattered soiled tanned cover, tattered clean bright text. Product DescriptionIncludes: The Value of Rocks; Little Things by the Way-Side; Baden Corn -- Seed Corn; Culture of Roots; Charter Oak Grap; My Own Sweet Wife; Butter Making; Breeding Animals; Culture of Onions Beautify Your Home; Decrease of Horned Cattle; Transactions of the Frnaklin Co. Agricultural Society; Lunar Influences; Intersgint Chemical Discovery; Extracts and Replies; Self-Acting Farm Well (illutrated); Measurement of Milk; Cabbages; Ornithology; How to Raise Young Stock; poultry Roosts; Extracts and Replies; A Horse Power; Plowing the Deep; Home Industry; Items in Agriculture; Robin's Come; Report of a Small Garden; Penobscot Plum (illustrated); Chines Norther Sugar Cane; State of main Potato; Electric Agency of Trees and Plants; Skinning Animals; Indian Mode of Preparing Skins; Experiments and Theorizing Barn Swallows; Meadow Muck and Cotswold Sheep; The Jenny Lind Potato; Keep… Read More

Harvard University Press, 1924T. hardcover. Good. . Book has shelf wear. Pages are tanned.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920, 1920. 3rd ptg. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xiv, 403 pages : frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, plates, map, facsimiles ; 23 cm.

Williamstown, MA: Corner House, 1974. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine Dust Jacket. (14)403pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Originally published in 1904. Nicely designed in the manner of era of the subject. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Benjamin Blom. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Almanac, Human Interest, Everday Life)

Boston: W. Ware and Co, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover with mylar dust jacket. Bound in publishers red cloth. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Good binding and cover. Paste-in slip on title page reads "John Graham Moseley, With Compliments of the Publishers (signed) Horace Everett Ware." Offsetting on contents page, resulting from a 1910 newspaper clipping that praises the Almanack as containing "everthing that is necessary and much that is delightful." Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Ships daily.

Williamstown MA: Corner House Publishers, 1974. Hardcover. NF/VG+, bumping to top and bottom of spine, slight indentation to fore edge, dust jacket is shelfworn with a half inch closed tear and some wrinkling at the bottom of front near spine. octavo. Reprint Embellished with engravings

Boston, MA: Darling & Keith, 34 Merchants Row, 1880. 54 x 76 cm. Spinach for the farm garden. Take care of the milkers. Bone dust as a fertilizer. Wheat in New England. Editorial: ""A New Society"" discusses new, scientific approach to agriculture. New agricultural colleges and experiment stations being developed. Initiative of American Pomological Society in meeting at Rochester. Excellent illustrated ads for Baldwin's American Fodder Cutter, Nourse New I X L Swivel Plows and Boomer & Boschert Cider Press. Newspaper, tears in folds, fair. . Catalogs: Farming.

Boston, MA: William Ware and Co., 1904. Book. VG+. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt, deckled text block edges, top edge in gilt. 1st edition. Modest shelf wear, a bit rubbed at corners and spine extremities. Both hinges slightly starting, but binding is quite firm, with clean interior. xiv,403 pp., embellished with engravings. Better than typically found..

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1920. Book. VG+. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt, deckled text block edges. Lower title with 1920 date, copyright page w/ stated 3rd ptg.: Mar. 1921. Modest shelf wear, minor exposure at bottom corners. Firm binding, clean interior beyond slight and scattered foxing. xiv,403 pp., embellished with engravings..

Williamstown, Mass.: Corner House, 1974. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. 403pp. , facsims., map, ports. 21 cm.

Miami, FL: HardPress Publishing, 2013. Facsimile Reprint. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Facsimile Reprint. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Near Fine w/sporadic highlighting, else Fine and unmarked. xi, 516pp inc. Additions and Corrections.

VG/no dustjacket William Ware & Co Boston 1904 1st hardcover 8vo, 403 pp, engravings, index, top edge gilt. Based on the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert B. Thomas' Farmers Almanack. Name pencilled at the top front endpaper. Spine slightly sunned and worn at extremities. Solid and clean.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 4th imp. (December 1924). 403pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt titles to cover and spine. VG copy, binding square and tight, spine titles dulled, small ink name to ffep, tissue-guard at frontis, internally excellent, no jacket . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1924.