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Bail, Murray: Eucalyptus : A Novel
Softcover, Harvest Books, San Diego, CA, 1999 0156007819 / 9780156007818
Very Good, 0.71 x 7.95 x 5.28 Inches; 264 pages; Minor edge wear, a few tiny spots on page ends, visible when book is closed. "Once upon a time, on a property in western New South Wales, a man named Holland plants hundreds of varieties of eucalyptus trees, then decrees that only the suitor who can name each and every one of them will be worthy to marry his beautiful daughter, Ellen. Many men try and fail. Then along comes Mr. Roy Cave, a man renowned in the eucalyptus world. It's obvious that he is hardly the stuff romantic dreams are made of, and Ellen's Prince Charming turns out to be a mysterious young stranger who finds her wandering among her father's trees and spins her tale after tale, each one tied to a different kind of eucalypt. As the weeks go by, Mr. Cave continues to successfully identify every tree on the property, thus drawing ever closer to his prize. Meanwhile, Ellen's other suitor captures first her imagination and then her heart."
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Bank, Mirra: Anonymous Was a Woman : A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art - and the Women Who Made It
Softcover, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1979 0312041861 / 9780312041861
Very Good, 0.4 x 9.9 x 6.9 Inches; 128 pages; Tall softcover, slight edge wear. Many b&w and color illustrations of the traditional handicrafts, needlework, and paintings created by American women, together with excerpts from their diaries and letters.
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Barnes, Kim: Hungry for the World : A Memoir
Hardcover, Villard, New York, NY, 2000 0375502289 / 9780375502286
Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket, 0.9 x 8.7 x 6 Inches; 256 pages; Two small red marks on jacket on spine. Minor edge wear to jacket. "This memoir, revisiting territory that Barnes first explored in 'In the Wilderness', focuses on her establishing her independence from her Pentecostal family. Growing up in rural Idaho, she felt bound by the dictates of her father and their religion and rebelled because she was hungry for the larger world outside those confines."
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Breece, Hannah: A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska : The Story of Hannah Breece
Softcover, Vintage Books, New York, NY, 1995 0679776338 / 9780679776338
Very Good+, 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 Inches; 336 pages; Slight edge wear, text clean and unmarked. "When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote, lawless wilderness of gold prospectors, bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests. She spent fourteen years education Athabaskans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher. Her eyewitness account of America's last frontier is more than an adventure story: it is a powerful work of women's history."
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Bubel, Nancy: Nancy Bubel's Handbook of Garden Projects for All Seasons
Softcover, Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA, 1993 0875965725 / 9780875965727
Very Good+, 1 x 9 x 6.5 Inches; 312 pages; Slight edge wear. Text clean and unmarked. "Projects grouped by season to help you learn how to attract beneficial insects, grow herbs indoors, invite birds to your garden, craft a cornhusk wreath, create an apple doll, and much more!"
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Cannon, Hal: Cowboy Poetry : A Gathering
Softcover, Gibbs M. Smith, Salt Lake City, UT, 1990 0879052082 / 9780879052089
Very Good, 0.55 x 6.69 x 4.17 Inches; 216 pages; Small softcover with minor edge wear, jacket has a few light creases and a small tear at top. "The finest collection of cowboy poetry published since the pioneering work of John Lomax over fifty years ago."
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Chappell, Fred: Brighten the Corner Where You Are : A Novel
Softcover, St. Martin's Griffin, New York, NY, 1990 0312050577 / 9780312050573
Very Good-, 0.6 x 8 x 5.5 Inches; 212 pages; Slight edge wear, small remainder mark across top and bottom of page edges near spine and tiny doodle at top of page ends. Text clean and unmarked. "Narrated with wit and engaging high spirits by his son Jess, this brief, sparkling novel re-creates the comic episodes that constitute Joe Robert Kirkman's last day as high school teacher in Tipton, North Carolina, in 1946: running afoul of a bobcat high in a poplar tree; rescuing a child from drowning; accepting a tribute from the parents of a suicide; coping creatively with the touchy subject of evolution in his general science class; discovering the humanity of the black janitor; coaxing a goat from a roof; and losing a Socratic argument to the shyest student in his world history class. With his open, Marxist (Harpo) view of the postwar world, Kirkman is a riotous, riveting fictional creation. A superb comic work."
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Colletti, Jack J.: The Art of Woodcarving
Softcover, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977 0130492396 / 9780130492395
Very Good-, 0.4 x 9.1 x 6.7 Inches; 138 pages; Minor edge wear, text clean and unmarked. Many b&w photos. "Colletti shows the beginner how to master the tools and techniques of this challenging art form, from simple scroll work, high-relief sculptures, pierced and three-dimensional carvings, and an interesting project of detailed carvings of the zodiac signs."
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Cooper, Patricia J. Allen, Buferd, Norma Bradley: The Quilters : Women and Domestic Art : An Oral History
Softcover, Anchor Press / Doubleday, New York, NY, 1977
Very Good-, Minor edge wear. Very light water stain on spine and top corner of back cover, not affecting pages. Text clean and unmarked. Color and b&w photos. "A unique oral history of the relationship between a domestic art form and a way of life." The authors spoke with and recorded the voices, history and stories of quilters from Texas and New Mexico in the early 1970s.
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Covington, Dennis: Salvation on Sand Mountain : Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
Softcover, Penguin Books, New York, NY, 1996 0140254587 / 9780140254587
Very Good-, 0.5 x 7.7 x 5 Inches; 272 pages; Some edge wear, tiny tear at top corner of spine. A few light scuffs on back cover. Text clean and unmarked. Includes b&w photos. " 'Salvation on Sand Mountain' is a story of snake handling and strychnine drinking, of faith healing and speaking in tongues. It is also the story of one man's search for his roots--and, in the end, of his spiritual renewal. Writer Dennis Covington came to this ecstatic form of Christianity as a reporter covering a sensational murder case; Glen Summerford, pastor of the Church of Jesus with Signs Following, had been accused of attempting to kill his wife with rattlesnakes. There, in a courtroom filled with journalists and gawking spectators, Covington felt the pull of a spirituality that was to dominate his life for the next several years. Attending Summerford's church out of curiosity, he soon forged close friendships with some of the worshippers, began attending snake-handling services throughout the South, and eventually took up snakes himself. Covington traces the snake handlers' roots in regional history, and writes of the deep spiritual alienation of mountain people from the secular modern world they have so recently joined."
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Grafton, Carol Belanger: Trades and Occupations : A Pictorial Archive from Early Sources
Softcover, Dover Publications, New York, NY, 1990 0486263622 / 9780486263625
Very Good-, Dover Pictorial Archive; 0.55 x 11.81 x 8.9 Inches; 208 pages; Minor edge wear, a light tea stain at top of page ends. Text clean and unmarked. "Over 1,100 ready-to-use illustrations selected from rare original sources, mostly 19th-century, featuring men and women in both familiar and unusual trades and occupations, from policeman and fireman, doctor and nurse to bell ringer, chimney sweep, musician and sculptor."
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Hanrahan, Tom; Thorndike, Kelly: Your Maine Lands : Reflections of a Maine Guide
Softcover, Polar Bear & Company, Solon, ME, 2009 1882190912 / 9781882190911
Very Good+, 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.4 Inches; 96 pages; Slight edge wear. Text clean and unmarked. "On behalf of Maine's Department of Conservation, a master Maine guide introduces the free amenities of the nearly one million acres of Maine's public lands, including hunting and fishing, with advice on how to prepare for a visit to the North Maine Woods. Features thirty-eight illustrations by Kelly Thorndike. With a foreword by Governor John E. Baldacci and an introduction by Commissioner Patrick K. McGowan, Department of Conservation."
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Holden, Edith: The Country Diary : Cookery Notes
Hardcover, Bloomsbury, London, England, 1993 1854711334 / 9781854711335
Very Good, 0.4 x 9.1 x 7 Inches; 128 pages; Slight edge wear, a few red marks on spine. Light wrinkle at edge of first page and rubbed spot (pencil mark erased). Text clean and unmarked. "A mouth-watering collection of traditional Victorian and Edwardian recipes, illustrated with Edith Holden's delightful watercolours from the international bestseller 'The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady'. Includes room for your own notes.
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Jones, Edward P.: The Known World : A Novel
Softcover, HarperCollins, New York, NY, 2003 0060557559 / 9780060557553
Very Good, Some edge wear, tiny tear at bottom of spine. "Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave, in Manchester County, Virginia."
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Kohlman, Oley: Cowboy'n The Way it Was
Softcover, 1994 1879894068 / 9781879894068
Very Good+, Signed by Author, 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 Inches; 170 pages; Minor edge wear. Remainder mark at top edge of pages, visible when book is closed. Signed and inscribed by Kohlman on first page. Includes b&w photos and illustrations. "Oley Kohlman tells the true story of how he became a cowboy in North Park, Colorado, in the thirties."; Signed by Author
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Lambton, Lucinda: Beastly Buildings : The National Trust Book of Architecture for Animals
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, MA, 1985 0871130661 / 9780871130662
Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket, 0.6 x 10.2 x 7.7 Inches; Large hardcover, top edge has small dent. Jacket is slightly worn at edges. Text clean and unmarked. "Fascinating collection of over 200 eccentric, bizarre and beautiful examples of buildings built to house animals. From a Grecian temple for pigs to an Arabian palace for bees and Gothic 'ruins' for cows and sheep, this book is sure to provide much entertainment for the animal lover."
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Masui, Kazuko & Tomoko Yamada; Robuchon, Joel (foreword): French Cheeses : Eyewitness Handbooks: The Visual Guide to More Than 350 Cheeses From Every Region of France
Softcover, Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Handbooks, New York, NY, 1996 0756753368 / 9780756753368
Very Good, 0.1 x 5.9 x 0.6 Inches; 240 pages; Minor edge wear, a few tiny tears at edges of paper jacket. A few light pencil checkmarks next to several cheeses. Outstanding photographs of the hundreds of cheese varieties to be found in every province of France, including the history, method of production, type of milk used and even recommended wine, beer or spirits to complement the cheese. "Although many guides to the art of fromagerie exist, none provide such visual detail and at-a-glance information as Masui and Yamada. They categorize 350 cheeses in a dictionary format, divided by regions of production, and add succinct sidebars about manufacturing processes and the definition of specific terms (i.e., the distinction between artisanal and industriel), generally enlightening even the most blase of cheese buyers. Like many California wines, few of the cheeses produced in limited quantities even leave the country, so the compilation here yields many surprises. There is a massive amount of reference data to be consumed and savored piece by piece. A glossary and a list of producers, shops, and markets are appended."
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McCloskey, Marsha; Martin, Nancy: A Dozen Variables
Softcover, That Patchwork Place, Bothell, WA, 1987 0943574412 / 9780943574417
Very Good, 0.2 x 10.8 x 8.2 Inches; 64 pages; Slight edge wear. Former owner's name on first page. Includes patterns for variations on the Variable or Sawtooth Star design. Includes Oklahoma Star, Rising Star, Checkerboard Stars, Starlight, Shoo Fly Star and more.
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