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  • Baker, Paula.
    THE MORAL FRAMEWORKS OF PUBLIC LIFE: Gender, Politics, and the State in Rural New York, 1870-1930.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a detailed look at a specific group of people - farmers in rural New York - starting at a time when feminist activity was at its height. Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5064526.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 26031
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  • WINTER FOX. by Brutschy, Jennifer. Illustrated by Allen Garns.
    Brutschy, Jennifer. Illustrated by Allen Garns.
    WINTER FOX.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A girl and her father go hunting for a fox who had stolen her pet rabbit - only to realize that the fox itself was hungry and deserving of pity. A lovely book with evocative illustrations by Allen Garns. The author's first book for children, and the first illustrated book by Garns. INSCRIBED by the author opposite the title page "To --- very special friends and neighbors" and dated in the year of publication. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-679-915249.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 61434
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  • LAMBS IN MARCH and Other Essays. by Greene, Anne Bosworth (1878-1961)
    Greene, Anne Bosworth (1878-1961)
    LAMBS IN MARCH and Other Essays.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: Century Co, (1928). Hardcover first edition - A collection of ten essays, including an account of her childhood in England in the 1880s, others on animals (one of taking their cat on the train with her daughter). Perhaps most noteworthy are two essays on Yosemite (one on sketching there and the other on Clouds Rest) and another called "Attempting Yellowstone." Ironically, considering the fact that several of these essays are about her life as an artist, this is illustrated with small drawings - decorations - by Katharine E Gray and not Greene herself. 274 pp.

    Condition: Very good overall in sage green cloth with navy blue lettering, gilt bands on front cover (bookplate, corners slightly bumped and frayed)

    Book ID: 61079
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  • YONDER. by Johnston, Tony; illustrated by Llyod Bloom.
    Johnston, Tony; illustrated by Llyod Bloom.
    YONDER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dial Press, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which is a tribute to the ordinary things of life - "Way over yonder, sometime in the nineteenth century, a young farmer plants a plum tree. The farmer marries, plows the land, and sheds his solitary way of life. Children, then grandchildren, are born; summer melts in to blazing autumn, into frozen winter; the plum tree blossoms and sheds its blossoms; the farmer grows old. Gradually on family's history is illuminated till it becomes as vivid as our own. " SIGNED on the title page by Johnston and dated 1988 in the year of publication. Illustrated with glowing oil paintings by Llyod Bloom, Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-803702779.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (bookplate on front pastedown, under dj flap)

    Book ID: 86822
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  • BEAN BLOSSOM DREAMS: A City Family's Search for a Simple Country Life. by Murphey, Sallyann J.
    Murphey, Sallyann J.
    BEAN BLOSSOM DREAMS: A City Family's Search for a Simple Country Life.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Hearst Books, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - While many of us dream of quitting city life in favor of a "carefree" country life, this is an account of the first two years in the life of one family who acted on their dreams - Sallyann, a print and broadcast journalist, her photographer husband, Greg, and their five-year-old daughter, Charley, leave their Chicago home for a rundown 22-acre farm in Brown County, Indiana. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Glenn Wolff. Includes appendices with recipes and garden plans. ISBN: 0-688123252.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 85855
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  • HEARTS ARE THE FIELDS. by Turngren, Ellen.
    Turngren, Ellen.
    HEARTS ARE THE FIELDS.

    Edition: Family Bookshelf edition.

    New York: David McKay Company, (1962.) dj. Hardcover - The author's third book. "Set in the farm country of Minnesota in the early 1900s, this is a novel about a domineering father and the interplay of his will and the wills of his children, who turn out to have minds of their own." Illustrated with decorations by Vera Bock. 183 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 74170
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  • Woods, Nancy.
    THE GRASS ROOTS PEOPLE: An American Requiem.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A tribute to the people of the Rocky Mountain West, in the plains, the valleys, mesas and mountains, written and photographed by Woods - and also a tribute to a dying way of life, that of rural America. Slightly oversized volume, printed on glossy stock, illustrated with many black and white photographs, illustrated endpapers. 174 pages.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (one closed tear on front cover and back cover of dj.)

    Book ID: 13329
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