Category: Agriculture and Farming

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; A Year of Food Life

By: Kingsolver, Barbara

Price: $12.00

Publisher: USA, HarperCollins Publishers : 2007

Seller ID: 11032

ISBN-13: 9780060852559

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

6.5" x 9.5", 370 pages. Clean Ex-Library. Single sticker on spine, previous owner's stamp, covered by marker inside on front end paper. NOT price-clipped. Dust jacket in good condition other than the single sticker. "With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it." Narrative, recipes, illustrations. Our book number 11032.
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The Contrary Farmer

By: Logsdon, Gene

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, Chelsea Green Publishing Company : 1995

Seller ID: 17037

ISBN-13: 9780930031749

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Like New

9" x 6", 237 pages. New book, never read, some very minor shelf wear to edges and corners. Amusing guide to farming a family farm. Advice, suggestions, and humor. Our book number 17037.
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Gardening With Cactus

By: Mabe, Rex E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: USA, Potpourri Press : 1974

Seller ID: 36070

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

48 pages. 8.5"x 5.5". Paperback stapled cover in good condition, pages firm. pages 14 and 15 yellowed from newspaper clipping dated Dec. 1966 "The Christmas Cactus Is a Yuletide Delight." Our book number 36070
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The Egg And I

By: MacDonald, Betty

Price: $20.00

Publisher: United States, J.B. Lippincott Company : 1946

Seller ID: 4047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8.25" x 5.5", 287 pages, Green cloth-covered boards. Twentieth Impression, October 1946. Book clean, sound, very little wear. Some fading to spine and tops of boards, previous owner's name and address on front paste-down. Humorous account of the life of the author in the chicken business... in the early twentieth century. Our book number 4047.
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Earth Ponds

By: Matson, Tim

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Woodstock, Vermont, The Countryman Press

Seller ID: 26021

ISBN-13: 9780881501551

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8" x 10", 150 pages. Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, Seventh Printing 1997. A new book with some aging to the edges and corners from shelf wear. The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance and Restoration. A "bucolic art form." Our book number 26021.
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How to Attract Birds in the East Central United States. Farmer's Bulletin 912.

By: McAtee, W.L.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Washington, Government Printing Office : Issued February 1918, Revised May 1922

Seller ID: 1070

Binding: Ephemera

Condition: Acceptable

9.25" x 6", 16 Pages. Issued February 1918, Revised May 1922. Paper aged, inside pages have been crumpled, but are not torn. Some stains. Family heirloom, has been used by a farmer. "Birds feed upon practically all insect pests. They are voracious, able to move freely from place to palace, and exert a steady influence on keeping down the swelling tide of insect life." One in a series of pamphlets to aid farmers and homesteaders in attracting birds to their homesteads. Our book number 1070.
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The Original Birdhouse Book

By: McNeil, Don

Price: $15.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Bird Watcher's Digest Press, P.O. Box 110, Marietta, Ohio 45750, 614.373.5285 : 1993

Seller ID: 1076

ISBN-13: 9780914718369

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Used - Like New

Eighth Edition, 1993. 112 pages. Chapters include: A Simple Birdhouse, One Swallow Does Not Make A Summer, The Martins, Tiny Tenants, Woodpeckers, Wood Ducks, Owls and Kestrels, The Shelf Nest Specialists, Predators and Competitors, Feeders and Extras, Baths and Beverage, Bluebirds Sing With Sadness, U.S. and Metric Measures, Birdhouses and Shelf Dimensions, Further Reading, and an Index. Our book number 1076.
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Homestead Year

By: Moffett, Judith

Price: $15.00

Publisher: United States, Lyons & Burford, Publishers : 1995

Seller ID: 17038

ISBN-13: 9781558213524

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

9.25" x 6.5" x 1.25", 298 pages. Good book in good dust jacket - some foxing to page block. Gardening diary by a writer who only spent one year at farming. In town. A concentrated experience. How she did it. Her poor husband. Our book number 17038.
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Bean Blossom Dreams

By: Murphey, Sallyann J.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: United States, Hearst Books : 1994

Seller ID: 4048

ISBN-13: 9780688123253

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8.5" x 5.75", 318 pages. Very clean copy of a first edition, no dust jacket. First person account of first-time farmers, homesteading memoir. Our book number 4048.
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This Country Life, Making the most of the simple life

By: Ogden, Samuel R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: United States, Rodale Press, Inc. Book Division : 1973

Seller ID: 17036

ISBN-13: 9780878570522

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

9.5" x 6.25", 207 pages. Very clean copy with complete dust jacket, clean text, some wear and tear to edges of dust jacket, never read. Ideas on farming, crafts, country school, and primitive Bed & Breakfast ideas, collected from previous publications beginning in 1946. How to move from the city to the farm and what to do when you get there. Our book number 17036.
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The Living Garden

By: Ordish, George

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1985

Seller ID: 26020

ISBN-13: 9780395387801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

9.5" x 6.5", 263 pages. Small dent to facing endpaper. Clean text, Very good dust jacket. The 400-year History of an English Garden. Our book number 26020.
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Peconic River Herb Farm Garden Planning Guide

By: Peconic River Herb Farm

Price: $3.00

Publisher: USA, Iron Horse Graphics, Ltd : 1993

Seller ID: 36069

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

15 page pamphlet. 8.5"x 5.5". Guide lists Herbs, Sun Loving Perennials, Woodland Perennials and Ornamental Grasses. Our book number 36069
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Second Person Rural; More Essays of a Sometime Farmer

By: Perrin, Noel

Price: $45.00

Publisher: USA, David R Godine Publisher, Boston : 1980

Seller ID: 1135

ISBN-13: 9780879233419

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

9.24" x 6.25", 152 pages. Very good book in very good dust jacket. Clean text. A few small foxing spots on page block. Philosophical essays on farming and rural life. Our book number 1135.
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Second Person Rural

By: Perrin, Noel

Price: $6.00

Publisher: United States, Penguin Books : 1981

Seller ID: 1133

ISBN-13: 9780140059205

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

7.75" x 5", 152 pages. Significant foxing to cover and block. Book has clearly been on a farm. Text unmarked, binding sound, most wear is from being on a shelf. Creaseat hinge of cover, but none on spine. Humorous essays on the joys of part-time farming and rural living. Our book number 1133.
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The Woman Gardener

By: Perry, Frances

Price: $24.95

Publisher: USA, Printed in Great Britain, Farrar, Straus & Cudahy NY : 1955

Seller ID: 26016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

9" x 5.75", 384 pages. Very nice hardcover copy in excellent condition. Small tears to corners of dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gold title on spine. No marks in text. Gardening book written in the 1950s to appeal to the sensibilities of women by a woman. Our book number 26016.
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The Language of Flowers, Penhaligon's scented Gardening Journal

By: Pickles, Sheila

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Great Britian, Harmony Books : 1992

Seller ID: 36066

ISBN-13: 9780517586792

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

96 pages. 8.5"x 6.5". Flower gardens as depicted in artists paintings. Purportedly scented with Violetta. Clean, color prints. Stain on top of page block, otherwise like a new book. Each print has a blank page opposite for YOU to write your own thoughts. Our book number 36066.
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Among The Pond People

By: Pierson, Clara D.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: USA, E.P.Dutton And Company, 31 West 23rd Street, New York : 1901

Seller ID: 6067

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

7 5/8" x 5 1/4", 210 pages. 12 illustrations on glossy paper in black and white. Page 19 illustration has come loose, but is present. Cloth on boards covers with art on the front and spine, some wear to the art. Some wear to the bottom of the spine at the hinges. Front and back endpapers are split at the hinges, spine is secure and all pages but p. 19 are clean and secure. Stories of the creatures and plants that lived in a North American pond in 1901. Our book number 6067.
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A Place of My Own

By: Pollan, Michael

Price: $12.00

Publisher: United States, Delta : March 1998

Seller ID: 1501

ISBN-13: 9780385319904

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

8" x 5.25", 321 pages. Clean copy. paper shows age, binding sound, no marks in text, minor scuffs to corners and edges. Philosophical and analytical look at building your own space, the history of architecture, and how we can make our own house from the ground up. Our book number 1501.
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Reader's Digest Practical Guide to Home Landscaping

By: Reader's Digest editors

Price: $20.00

Publisher: USA, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. : 1972

Seller ID: 178

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

10.5' x 8", 479 pages. Some soil to edges and corners, minor shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Guide to Lawn maintenance, Outdoor living, Planting, Landscaping, and useful do-it-yourself projects for your Lawn and Garden. Our book number 178.
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Questions and Answers About Bees

By: Reigot, Betty Polisar

Price: $13.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Scholastic Book Services : 1983

Seller ID: 36044

ISBN-13: 9780590321334

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

7.5" x 9". 40 pages. Previous owner's name and date on title page. Clean copy in Very Good condition. As new. MUCH more than a children's book. With the diminishing Bee population in the United States, a must read for anyone interested in food. Without bees most crops are not possible. Robert Parker Andrews paintings are beautiful, Betty Polisar Reigot's explanations are complete and easily understood. Our book number 36044.
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Category: Agriculture and Farming