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9781523668854 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 24, 2016, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Camouflage Simplified, first published in 1942, is a fascinating World War II look at the science and art of camouflage to hide and protect aircraft, structures, highways, ships and more.
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9780486491035 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, July 17, 2013), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In addition to his roles as a celebrated artist and folklorist, Eric Sloane was TV's first weatherman and an author whose popular books offer fascinating combinations of history, lore, and practical information.
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9780385046633 | Doubleday, June 1, 1963, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Pencil sketches accompany descriptions of early American objects from the almanack and johnny-cake to the niddy noddy and zig-zag fence.
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9780486498089 | Dover Pubns, December 19, 2012, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: From Almanack, Bathtub, and Conestoga Wagon to X-Brace, Yankee, and Zig-Zag Fence, this sketchbook of antiquities revisits delightful words and inventions of old-time America.
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9781607964759, titled "A Reverence for Wood" | Gardners Books, June 28, 2012, cover price $27.00
9780805012934, titled "A Reverence for Wood" | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1990), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Looks at how early American settlers made barns, tools, and utensils from wood, and tells how to recognize common North American trees
9780308700482 | Funk & Wagnalls Co, June 1, 1955, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The special knowledge of which wood is suited to which task, the ready identification of native trees, the reverence for wood, the instinctive knowledge that wood can warm the soul as well as the body -- these virtues of a bygone age are revived in Eric Sloane's remarkable work.
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9781607964742, titled "A Reverence for Wood" | Lightning Source Inc, November 19, 2013, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Refreshingly written, delightfully illustrated book remarks expansively on the resourcefulness of early Americans in their use of this valuable commodity - from the crafting of furniture, tools, and buildings to the use of such by-products as charcoal and medicine.
9780486433943, titled "A Reverence for Wood" | Dover Pubns, February 18, 2004, cover price $11.95
9780345319913 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, December 1, 1987), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: The special knowledge of which wood is suited to which task, the ready identification of native trees, the reverence for wood, the instinctive knowledge that wood can warm the soul as well as the body -- these virtues of a bygone age are revived in Eric Sloane's remarkable work.
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9780486463032, titled "A Museum of Early American Tools" | Dover Pubns, May 19, 2008, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Venture back into the handmade world of apple butter paddles, hay forks, and other traditional implements with this fascinating and charmingly illustrated book.
9780805012927, titled "A Museum of Early American Tools" | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1990), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Shows, and describes the construction and use of a variety of hand tools, including axes, hammers, adzes, wedges, chisels, gouges, planes, saws, bit braces, blacksmithing tools, hay implements, and scythes
9780803847460 | Hastings House Pub, March 1, 1983, cover price $14.95
9780308700468 | Funk & Wagnalls Co, June 1, 1958, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Venture back into the handmade world of apple butter paddles, hay forks, and other traditional implements with this fascinating and charmingly illustrated book.
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9780486425603, titled "A Museum of Early American Tools" | Dover Pubns, November 14, 2002, cover price $9.95
9780345326119 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1991), cover price $9.00
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9780486463049 | Dover Pubns, May 19, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: For his fifteenth birthday in 1805, Noah Blake received a little leather-bound diary.
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9780486455945 | Dover Pubns, February 4, 2008, cover price $11.95
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9780385076890 | Doubleday, June 1, 1966, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Discusses the style and character of early American schoolhouses and examines the equipment found in these classrooms
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9780486456041, titled "The Little Red Schoolhouse" | Dover Pubns, June 5, 2007, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Examines the physical buildings and equipment used in early American schoolhouses, providing a glimpse of a simpler time in American educational history.
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9780486450971 | Dover Pubns, October 27, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The finest "cloudscape" painter of his generation, Eric Sloane enjoyed traveling back in time to explore how early American farmers interpreted and embraced weather signs.
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9780486451022 | Dover Pubns, July 21, 2006, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Eric Sloane always asserted that "Drawing clouds and sky is an important part of art study," pointing out that nearly every great picture features sky space.
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9780486451008 | Dover Pubns, August 4, 2006, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: What triggers a tornado?
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9780486447735 | Dover Pubns, April 10, 2006, cover price $11.95
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9780486447971 | Dover Pubns, February 3, 2006, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: One of America's favorite folk artists, Eric Sloane started out as an itinerant sign painter—a profession that took him from New England to New Mexico and many places in between.
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9780486443577 | Dover Pubns, December 7, 2005, cover price $9.95
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9780896586871 | Reprint edition (Voyageur Pr, September 30, 2005), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A new edition of the classic guide to Americana by the acclaimed late artist provides a varied overview of American lore and accomplishments, all organized alphabetically and including the artist's hand-lettering and captions explaining the origin and use of items ranging from the saltbox house and popcorn to rocking chairs and hex signs.
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9780803853973 | Reissue edition (Hastings House Pub, November 1, 1982), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Discusses the handicrafts, home life, work ethic, religious beliefs, relationship with nature, and other aspects of the daily life of the early American pioneers and farmers
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9780486444116 | Dover Pubns, August 23, 2005, cover price $7.95
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9780896586802 | Ill edition (Voyageur Pr, March 31, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Voyageur Press is proud to publish this new edition of Eric Sloaneâs classic folksy history of American weather.
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9780883940761 | Reissue edition (Book Sales, August 1, 1988), cover price $9.98
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9780486442204, titled "The Seasons Of America Past" | Dover Pubns, March 16, 2005, cover price $14.95
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9780486441016 | Dover Pubns, February 28, 2005, cover price $10.95
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9780396083375 | Dodd Mead, May 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Excerpts from a teenager's diary interspersed with the author's comments and illustrations depict the lifestyle and crafts of rural New England
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9780486436661 | Dover Pubns, December 13, 2004, cover price $12.95
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9780844667317 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, February 1, 1989, cover price $19.80 | About this edition: Written with humor and affection, and enhanced with 81 of the authorâs charming, historically accurate drawings, Our Vanishing Landscape takes readers on a leisurely sojourn through a bygone era.
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9780486436784 | Dover Pubns, October 20, 2004, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Written with humor and affection, and enhanced with 81 of the author’s charming, historically accurate drawings, Our Vanishing Landscape takes readers on a leisurely sojourn through a bygone era.
9780345332165 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1985), cover price $8.00 | About this edition: This book takes readers on a leisurely journey through a bygone era with fascinating accounts of canals, corduroy roads, and turnpikes, waterwheels and icehouses, colorful road signs and their painters, circus folk, and more.
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9780486433851 | Dover Pubns, March 16, 2004, cover price $10.95
9780801546655 | Reprint edition (E P Dutton, September 1, 1979), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A delightful blend of serious meteorology and beautiful illustrations, this informative book displays the many talents of Eric Sloane.
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9780486427607 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, May 7, 2003), cover price $9.95
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9780308700406 | Funk & Wagnalls Co, June 1, 1954, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The architecture and history of the barns and bridges built by the farmer-carpenter are depicted in drawings and text
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9780486425610 | Dover Pubns, January 27, 2003, cover price $10.95
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9780896585652, titled "Eric Sloan's an Age of Barns: An Illustrated Review of Classic Barn Styles and Construction" | Voyageur Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $16.95
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