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Product Description: Originally published in 1914, this handbook is still as essential for the modern builder as it was for the homesteader of the last century. This guide contains step-by-step instructions for building “worry-free” shelters, including special settings such as a sod house, a tree house, an “over-water” camp, a bog ken, and much more...read more
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9781599213330 | 2 edition (Lyons Pr, August 1, 2008), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Originally published in 1914, this handbook is still as essential for the modern builder as it was for the homesteader of the last century.
Product Description: In 1963, Noel Perrin, a 35-year-old professor of English at Dartmouth College, bought an 85-acre farm in Thetford Center, Vermont. For the next forty years he spent half his time teaching, half writing, and half farming. "That this adds up to three halves I am all too aware," he said, sounding a characteristic, self-deprecating note of bittersweet amusement at the chalk on his coat, the sweat on his brow, and the mud (and worse) on his boots...read more
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9781567923070 | David R Godine Pub, April 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In 1963, Noel Perrin, a 35-year-old professor of English at Dartmouth College, bought an 85-acre farm in Thetford Center, Vermont.
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9781567922004 | David R Godine Pub, November 1, 2004, cover price $15.95
9781567920581 | David R Godine Pub, January 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss rural life, county fairs, stone walls, acid rain, mulching, barns, ponds, pollution, and progress
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9780874518405 | Dartmouth College, October 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays examine classics of children's literature that have been forgotten or neglected over time
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9781584653523 | Dartmouth College, August 1, 2003, cover price $15.95
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9781567921250 | 1 edition (David R Godine Pub, May 1, 2000), cover price $15.95
Product Description: One of four volumes of incisive essays on rural life that addresses not only the many how-to questions that bedevil country dwellers, but also the larger direction that life is taking on this planet. Perrin, a transplanted New Yorker and now a "real" Vermonter, candidly admits his early mistakes while giving concrete advice on matters such as what to do with maple syrup (other than put it on your pancakes), how to use a peavey, and how to replace your rototiller with a garden animal...read more
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9780879234676 | David R Godine Pub, October 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss farm life, porcupines, potatoes, the birth of a calf, land taxes, home improvements, maple syrup production, wildflowers, and horses
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9781567920574 | David R Godine Pub, November 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: One of four volumes of incisive essays on rural life that addresses not only the many how-to questions that bedevil country dwellers, but also the larger direction that life is taking on this planet.
9780140076851 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1985, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss farm life, porcupines, potatoes, the birth of a calf, land taxes, home improvements, maple syrup production, wildflowers, and horses
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9780879237738 | Reissue edition (David R Godine Pub, January 1, 1995), cover price $11.95
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9780871564979 | Reprint edition (Sierra Club Books, September 1, 1994), cover price $12.00
Essays discuss the experiences of an American student at Cambridge, New York City in the nineteenth century, the treatment of dogs in seventeenth-century Japan, changing styles of rhetoric, the Latin names of American Catholic dioceses, and other subjects
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9780874515510 | Rep sub edition (Dartmouth College, April 1, 1991), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss the experiences of an American student at Cambridge, New York City in the nineteenth century, the treatment of dogs in seventeenth-century Japan, changing styles of rhetoric, the Latin names of American Catholic dioceses, and other subjects
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9780874516760 | Reprint edition (Dartmouth College, May 1, 1994), cover price $12.95
Product Description: In the spring of 1991, Noel Perrin flew from Vermont to California to pick up his newly outfitted electric car, a former gas-guzzling Ford. It would not be easy, but Perrin planned to drive Solo--as the car was soon dubbed--home, a 3,100-mile drive...read more
Hardcover:
9780393034073 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1992), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The author describes how he drove his newly outfitted electric car from California to Vermont, and then put the car into daily service as a pollution-free commuter vehicle
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9780393335194 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 30, 1992, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In the spring of 1991, Noel Perrin flew from Vermont to California to pick up his newly outfitted electric car, a former gas-guzzling Ford.
Hardcover:
9781560543640 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 1992), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss rural life, county fairs, stone walls, acid rain, mulching, barns, ponds, pollution, and progress
9780879239145 | David R Godine Pub, October 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss rural life, county fairs, stone walls, acid rain, mulching, barns, ponds, pollution, and progress
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780929627007 | Scarecrow Enterprises, April 1, 1991, cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9780879232320 | David R Godine Pub, June 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Having moved from New York fifteen years ago to become a Vermont farmer, Perrin recounts his mistakes in adjusting to country life and offers advice on such topics as sugaring, raising sheep, and making butter
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9780879238339 | Reprint edition (David R Godine Pub, December 1, 1990), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Having moved from New York fifteen years before to become a Vermont farmer, Perrin recounts his mistakes in adjusting to country life and offers advice on such topics as sugaring, raising sheep, and making butter
9780140055610 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Having moved from New York fifteen years ago to become a Vermont farmer, Perrin recounts his mistakes in adjusting to country life and offers advice on such topics as sugaring, raising sheep, and making butter
Hardcover:
9780816131846 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1981), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on the practice and philosophy of country life yields advice for sometime farmers, explores the differences between country and city, and considers the problems all transplanted city-dwellers must deal with
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9780879238346 | Reprint edition (David R Godine Pub, December 1, 1990), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on the practice and philosophy of country life explores the differences between country and city, and considers the problems all transplanted city-dwellers must deal with
9780140059205 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1981, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on the practice and philosophy of country life yields advice for sometime farmers, explores the differences between country and city, and considers the problems all transplanted city-dwellers must deal with
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9780874514308 | Univ Pr of New England, April 1, 1988, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: One of Americaâs finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place.
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9780874514322 | Dartmouth College, March 1, 1988, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: One of Americaâs finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place.
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9780874515794 | 20 anv edition (Dartmouth College, February 1, 1992), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes the building of a sugarhouse and the making of maple sugar in Vermont
9780874513790 | Dartmouth College, August 1, 1986, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Describes the building of a sugarhouse and the making of maple sugar in Vermont
Miscellaneous:
9781603424080 | Storey Books, January 8, 1983, cover price $3.95
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9780882662268 | Storey Books, January 8, 1983, cover price $3.95
STATED FIRST PRINTING. 1992 Nonpareil(David R. Godine) trade paperback, Noel Perrin (The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It, Centennial Edition). The history of censorship of the written and spoken word in England and America. (view table of contents)
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9780879238612, titled "Dr. Bowdler's Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America" | Reprint edition (David R Godine Pub, May 1, 1992), cover price $14.95
9780756764364, titled "Dr. Bowdler's Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America" | Ill edition (Diane Pub Co, January 1, 1992), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: STATED FIRST PRINTING.
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