Homesteading
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The Foxfire Book
by Eliot Wigginton
The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining
The "Foxfire" books began as a student-produced magazine in 1966 that contains stories and interviews from elders in their rural Southern Appalachian community. The books are anthology collections of material from The Foxfire Magazine, edited and published by Eliot Wigginton.
The "Foxfire" books began as a student-produced magazine in 1966 that contains stories and interviews from elders in their rural Southern Appalachian community. The books are anthology collections of material from The Foxfire Magazine, edited and published by Eliot Wigginton.
Permaculture
by Bill Mollison
Permaculture (permanent agriculture) is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter, and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order. Permaculture design is a system of assembling conceptual, material, and...
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Homesteading Books & Ephemera
Foxfire 2: Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin's, Wagon Making and More Affairs of Plain Living
by Wigginton, Eliot (Edited by)
New York, New York: Anchor Books / Random House, Inc., 1973. Paperback. New. Later Printing New, modern print of the second volume of the beloved classic series of self-sufficiency, plain living, and rural folkways. Packed and shipped with care.
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SGD 27.43
The Foxfire Book (The Foxfire Series #1)
by Wigginton, Eliot and His Students
NY: Anchor / Doubleday, 1972. 1st Edition. Paperback. Collectible - Near Fine. 6"x8.25". 384 pp. 50th printing. Cover design by Catherine Hopkins. Cover photo courtesy of The Foxfire Fund, Inc. Spine slight slant, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Minimal edge and shelf wear. USED GIFT QUALITY. In the late 1960's, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine "Foxfire" in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern...
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SGD 68.76
HOW TO LIVE BETTER ON LESS A Guide for Waste Watchers
by Jurgensen, Barbara
Augsburg Publishing House. Near Fine. 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed and signed by author on title-page: "For Sandy, As you move to a parish. Barbara Jurgensen". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 143 pages; Signed by Author .
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SGD 13.75
Dont Get Sick: The Hidden Dangers of Camping and Hiking (Second Edition)
by Tilton, Buck and Rick Bennett
Seattle, Washington: The Mountaineers, 2002. MMPB. Good+. Practical tips on outdoor safety and health dangers in the wilderness. Bumping in places, bending marks on back cover. Interior clean and spine is tight. Packed and shipped with care.
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SGD 4.06
Pheasant Breeding and Care
by Delacour, Jean
Neptune City, New Jersey: T.F.H. Publications, Inc., 1973. Paperback. Very Good. Unusual vintage work on raising pheasants, with black and white photos inside. AP-6450. Cover rubbing and has a crease towards bottom corner of cover due to bumping. Packed and shipped with care.
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SGD 16.43
Common Fleshy Fungi
by Christensen, Clyde M
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Burgess Publishing Co., 1955. Spiralbound. Good+. Revised Edition Vintage 1950s mushrooming guide. Typical edgewear but clean pages. Packed and shipped with care.
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SGD 8.18
Chickens in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide
by Luttmann, Rick and Gail Luttmann (Illustrated by Sidney Quinn)
Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, Inc., 1976. Paperback. Good+. Later Printing Your backyard can be the source of the best eggs and meat you've ever tasted. The answer is chickens! ** Vintage chicken-raising guide, complete with original receipt bearing instructions on proper raising of hatchlings and other folksy goodness. Spine is sunned, front outside corner is bent a bit, otherwise a typical VG used book. Packed and shipped with care.
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SGD 6.81
Raising the Home Duck Flock: A Complete Guide
by Holderread, Dave
Hardback. Very Good.
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SGD 2.85
Foxfire 3: Animal Care, Banjos and Dulcimers, Hide Tanning, Summer and Fall Wild Plant Foods, Butter Churns, Ginseng and Still More Affairs of Plain Living
by Wigginton, Eliot (Edited by)
New York, New York: Anchor Books / Random House, Inc., 1975. Paperback. New. Later Printing New, modern print of the third volume of the beloved classic series of self-sufficiency, plain living, and rural folkways. Packed and shipped with care.
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SGD 27.43
BACKROADS 3 Plain Folk and Simple Livin'
by Coffey, Lynn
Lynn Coffey. As New. 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed and signed by author on half title-page: "The old mountain ways are still the best ways ~ blessings, Lynn Coffey Dec. 2009". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 296 pages; Signed by Author .
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SGD 24.75
Hand-Book of Ready Reference
by Andrew Gardinier (Editor)
1897 hardcover as pictured. A very interesting reference volume for farmers and stockmen as of the late 19th century with detailed sections on horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry as well as chapters on potatoes and fruit growing, basic veterinary and legal issues. Also includes fold out manikins to display the anatomy of the horse and the cow. Several contemporaneous newspaper clippings detailing treatment for various animal ailments are loose in the book. Binding is firm. Tan cloth boards with...
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SGD 59.13
Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them
by Cobleigh, Rolfe
Algrove Publishing, 2000. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition with a few small stains on cover only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Reprinted from 1909, heavily illustrated, 288 pages. Contents include: Barns and stock, Poultry and bees, Garden and orchars, Field and wood, Gates and doors, Handy pig catcher, Carcass derrick, Transfer cart for small animals,...
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SGD 39.96
Build a Pond for Food & Fun: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-19
by Young, D
Storey Books, 1997. Trade paperback. New.
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SGD 14.62
The Next Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools
by Stewart Brand
Random House Inc, November 1981. Novelty. Used - very good/No Jacket. Publisher: Rand McNally, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1981 Used - Very Good. Second Edition, First Printing, 1981, ISBN 0394707761. Clean copy, no writing or markings in text. Solid and square, no loose pages. Pictorial wrappers with a picture of the earth on the front and back, 608 pp. Page edges age darkened. The wrappers are mildly edge worn.
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SGD 64.63
Tularosa New Mexico 1910 Homesteader Letter
Tularosa New Mexico. Good. 1910. First Edition. Handwritten letter from homesteader Althea Corey Thompson to a cousin in Pennsylvania about homesteading outside of Tularosa New Mexico in 1910. Letter describes the landscape with greasewood and mesquite, growing alfalfa, and keeping chickens, the town of Tularosa, and personal and family details. On letterhead from the Los Angeles Times. Approximately 8 1/2 by 5 3/8 inches. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 4 pp .
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SGD 48.13
Fences, Gates and Bridges: A Practical Manual
by Martin, George A
Stephen Greene Press, 1974. Trade Paperback. Fine/Very Good. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light wear, some edge wear, no tears. 191 pages with sections on Rail frnces, Primitive fences, Stone, sod fences, board tences, picket, barb-wire, fence, hedges, streams and fullies, making and setting posts, gates, fastenings, wickets, stiles, fence...
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SGD 26.18
Cloudburst: Handbook of Rural Skills and Technology
by Marks, Vic (ed.)
Cloudburst Press, 1974. Oversize Hardback. Good. Turner, Ted. Book shows light wear to covers only, back cover has stains, a little edge wear. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Fragile binding. Packed with homesteading info of all kinds with lavish how-to illustrations and mechanical drawings on subjects such as building a 16 ft. personal dome, splitting shakes, pit privies, poultry housing, sauna, harnessing the small stream, water wheel design, Michell turbine, wooden...
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SGD 76.92
The Best Fences (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin, A-92)
by James Fitzgerald
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1984-01-11. Paperback. Fine .
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SGD 16.45
BACKROADS 3 Faces of Appalachia
by Coffey, Lynn
Quartet Books. Near Fine. 2016. Third Printing. Softcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages .
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SGD 24.75
The Complete Soapmaker: Tips, Techniques & Recipes for Luxurious Handmade Soaps
by Coney, Norma
New York, New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later Printing Popular guide for making soaps at home. Some corner bumping, otherwise remains in nice shape. Packed and shipped with care.
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SGD 9.56
Keeping Bees with Ashley English
by English, Ashley (Author)
New York, New York: Lark Crafts / Sterling Publishing Co., 2011. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Hard Cover Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.
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SGD 18.56
Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake, 1805
by Sloane, Eric
Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2004. Oversize Hardback. Near Fine/Fine. XL. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small bump on lower corner of front cover. A great many illustrations of tools, shops, trade skills of the time, such as making a wooden pail, grinding corn, hauling water, using a plumb-bob, making hay-ricks, rick ornaments, etc. 8 1/2""w x 11 1/4""h. 108 pages.
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SGD 53.90
