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  • HAZARD AND THE FIVE DELIGHTS. by Noel, Christopher.
    Noel, Christopher.
    HAZARD AND THE FIVE DELIGHTS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming age story set in rural Vermont. Noel was a Granta regional finalist. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-394554981.

    Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dustjacket (remainder line).

    Book ID: 79041
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  • HAZARD AND THE FIVE DELIGHTS. by Noel, Christopher.
    Noel, Christopher.
    HAZARD AND THE FIVE DELIGHTS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming age story set in rural Vermont. Noel was a Granta regional finalist. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-394554981.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 79040
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  • FIRST PERSON RURAL: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer. by Perrin, Noel.
    Perrin, Noel.
    FIRST PERSON RURAL: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    Boston: Godine, (1978.) dj. Hardcover - The first book in his delightful series of essays on adjusting to, and learning to appreciate, the rural life - among the topics in this book are buying a pick-up truck and a chainsaw, selling firewood, grades of maple syrup, and more. Illustrated by Stephen Harvard. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-2323.

    Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (a couple of small ink spots to edges of textblock, tear to front cover of dj, other edgewear) .

    Book ID: 81349
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  • THIRD PERSON RURAL: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer. by Perrin, Noel.
    Perrin, Noel.
    THIRD PERSON RURAL: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    Boston: Godine, (1983.) dj. Hardcover - Third volume of essays by this urban man turned framer and teacher, now living in Thetford Vermont and teaching at Dartmouth. The NY Times Review stated that "Perrin makes a fine defense of country living, not as a retreat from the world but as a place to use one's talents to battle it out. These essays for guaranteed to amuse confirmed urbanites and set them dreaming of the country." Included are such topics as the gourmet potato grower, farm flowers, a cow's plea to vegetarians and more - but despite the often light-hearted tone, but the underlying theme - how to preserve and protect the land - is serious. Illustrated by Robin Brickman.188 pp. ISBN: 0-879234679.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (gift inscription).

    Book ID: 83332
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  • SECOND PERSON RURAL: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer. by Perrin, Noel.
    Perrin, Noel.
    SECOND PERSON RURAL: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Godine, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second volume of essays by this urban man turned framer and teacher, now living in Thetford Vermont and teaching at Dartmouth. The NY Times Review stated that "Perrin makes a fine defense of country living, not as a retreat from the world but as a place to use one's talents to battle it out. These essays for guaranteed to amuse confirmed urbanites and set them dreaming of the country." Included are such topics as lamb to lamb chop, winter in the woods, Vermont silences and more - but despite the often light-hearted tone, but the underlying theme - how to preserve and protect the land - is serious. Illustrated by F. Allyn Massey.152 pp. ISBN: 0-879233419.

    Condition: Very near fine in dark green cloth in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 87217
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  • Perrin, Noel.
    FIRST PERSON RURAL: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    Boston: Godine, (1978.) dj. Hardcover - The first book in his delightful series of essays on adjusting to, and learning to appreciate, the rural life - among the topics in this book are buying a pick-up truck and a chainsaw, selling firewood, grades of maple syrup, and more. Illustrated by Stephen Harvard. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-2323.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 35454
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  • Raftery, Gerald.
    SLAVER'S GOLD.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Vanguard, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - A story for older children set against an authentic background of country life in Vermont and the Underground Railroad as a group of children try to find out if there is any truth in the stories Grandpa told about an old house.

    Condition: Near fine in a slightly rubbed, but overall near fine, dustjacket.

    Book ID: 11531
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  • Stone, Abigail.
    RECIPES FROM THE DUMP.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York & London: Norton, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - a humorous and heart-warming story with recipes to fill your soul and warm your stomach, the story of a young single mother who lives next the dump in Leadbelly, Vermont.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 13441
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  • ROYALL TYLER. by Tanselle, Thomas G.
    Tanselle, Thomas G.
    ROYALL TYLER.

    Edition: First printing.

    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The first book-length study of Royall Tyler (1757-1826), a distinguished Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and a writer who is generally considered to be one of the most significant figures in American Literature in the Period just after the Revolution." This focuses mostly on his literary work - as a playwright, novelist, poet and essayist. Illustrations, chronology, selected bibliography, notes and index. xvi, 281 pp

    Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket (slight sunning to spine of dj).

    Book ID: 78044
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