New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second of what is sometimes referred to as her Texas trilogy - three novels focused on the crushing difficulty of the life of tenant cotton farmers in Texas and the plight of the farmer in general by this Texas-born folklorist and novelist. A significant association copy INSCRIBED by the author on the title page 'For Mr. Alexander Legge, with appreciation of his services to the American farmer" and dated July 29, New York City. Legge was President of International Harvester from 1922 until his death in 1933, chairman of the Federal Farm Board under President Hoover, and one of the founders and principal contributors to the Farm Foundation in 1933.

London: George Allen and Unwin Limited, (1965). Hardcover first edition - Detailed information on 16 steam engines, each illustrated with a full color tipped in photograph and black and white photographs. Foreword by L. T. C. Bolt, plus general operating instructions for owners/novices. Oblong format. 94 pp.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1898. Hardcover first edition - Includes a report of the chemist who has been working on sugar experiments and a field report on every beet-sugar growing area in the US. Illustrated with 2 large colored folded maps. Index. 240 pp.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1958. Hardcover first edition - Includes 2 sections of phographs - at the front of the book and inserted in the middle - plus maps. Index. 603 pp. Map endpapers.

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.

1948. Includes detailed proceedings, financial reports, reports from local granges, and more.
Several pages of "In Memoriam." Small format, 4 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches. 189 pp, index inside rear cover.

Oregon: 1960. Includes a from of by-laws for Pomona, Subordinate and Juvenile Granges. As amended at the Annual Meeting, June 1960. Index. Small format, 4 by 7 inches. 74 pp.

Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1919. First edition - The introduction describes this compilation as the first to bring together in a single volume all of the laws relating to the diary and livestock industries enforceable by the Department of Agriculture. Included is information on diseases and quarantining, the inspection of meat, the purity of milk and sale of imported butter, the registration of stallions,brands, cruelty to animals, and more, including fence, estray and trespass laws. Index. 133 pp.

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.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1962. First edition - Illustrated with drawings, pp 637-688. Final issue in volume 32.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1962. First edition - Illustrated with charts and photographs, Literature cited, pp 501-539.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1962. First edition - Illustrated with charts. Literature cited, pp 471-500.

New Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta & New York: Amerind Publishing, (1976). Hardcover first edition - An uncommon monograph, translated from the Russian. Illustrated with photographs, maps (including one folding map). References. 68 pp.

New York: Macmillan, 1930. Hardcover first edition - In an attempt to deal with the farm price and surplus problems, President Hoover created the Federal Farm Board. It was designed to allow cooperatives to hold crop surpluses and market them in an orderly fashion. One of the first important acts of the farm board was setting up a $20 million grain sales corporation, headquartered in Chicago. This book sets forth problems facing agriculture and the scope of the Agricultural Marketing Act. Chapter headings include: Economic factors which led to the Passage of the Agricultural Marketing Act; The Drive for Farm Relief; Loans; Price Insurance; Clearing House Associations; Advisory Commodity Committees; Possiblities and Limitations of the Farm Board, and more. 197 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - His first work of nonfiction, a book inspired by the birth of his son, which led him to explore the importance of food in our lives, and especially where that food comes from - a study both of factory farming of animals and the more humane family farms. A rather passionate indictment of the entire practice of factory farming. SIGNED on the title page. Notes, 329 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. SIGNED on the title page. 371 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-577736.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - A publication of the Food Research Institute, growing out of concern about whether or not food production in Africa will keep pace with the growing population - focuses on the foods which have been most important in Africa: millet and sorghums, maize, rice, yams, plaintains, etc. Notes, appendix, name and subject indexes. Map endpapers. 305 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Hardcover - Illustrated with many photographic plates. Frontispiece of a fold-out map of Minnesota and Wisconsin. The 'heartland,' agriculture, fishing, creativity (including Frank Lloyd Wright) are just some of the topics covered. Index. 312, x pp.

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.

Visalia - Corralitos: By the authors, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful large format book, using anecdotes, slices of history, observations and yarns, to give voices to the black and white photographs which capture the essence of this vast agricultural region in the heart of California. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0935330003.

Oxford & Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, no. 23. Study of thesignificant economic and social changes which have occurred in rural Africa in the colonial and post-colonial periods - looking at factors like migration, nomads, land rights, famines, and much more. Bibliography and index. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-631158553.

Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute, 1985. First edition - Focuses on the breakdown between a people and their natural support systems - with famine and the threat of famine as one of the results of this breakdown - and on what can be done to restore these systems: the soil, the forests. Specifically deals with population issues. Charts, notes. 81 pp. ISBN: 0916468-658.

Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1961.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with many black and white photographs, this book takes a look at the history of American farms. Review copy with photograph of author laid in.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at small farmers in the parish of Minho- and at how issues like technical changes, fragmentation of the land, etc affect them. Photographs, graphs, notes, references, index. 177 pp. ISBN: 0-8165-12442.