Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised Canadian writer's second novel. Finalist for the Giller Prize for fiction. Illustrated with photographs. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-676971008.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Berry's first book of essays - written when he was still an almost unknown young writer. The chapter headings (and the topics themselves) are provocative, dealing with environmental, political and social issues - The Tyranny of Charity; The Landscaping of Hell - Strip-Mine Morality in East Kentucky; The Nature Consumers; The Loss of the Future; A Statement Against the War in Vietnam and more. 213 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book - a memoir about family and farming which teaches a lesson about the risks that make life worth living. Unsure of what he wanted to do, the summer he was thirty-one, Crawford returned home to work on the farm for the summer harvest at New Morning Farm - 75 acres tucked in south-central Pennsylvania where his parents had been growing organic vegetables for almost forty years. SIGNED on the title page with the words "My second autograph ever" and dated in 2013 . 256 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book - a memoir about family and farming which teaches a lesson about the risks that make life worth living. Unsure of what he wanted to do, the summer he was thirty-one, Crawford returned home to work on the farm for the summer harvest at New Morning Farm - 75 acres tucked in south-central Pennsylvania where his parents had been growing organic vegetables for almost forty years. INSCRIBED on the title page. 256 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1942. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An uncommon account of one family's journey to the Northwest and the panhandle of Idaho. Driven from their Colorado sheep farm after a long struggle with the dust-bowl conditions of the late 1930s, Nelle Davis and her husband migrated, with their two children, to the second growth forests of northern Idaho to begin again as stump ranch farmers. SIGNED on the front endpaper with the word "sincerely." Synopsis from the dust jacket has been pasted onto the first blank page. 245 pp.

Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing, (2006). SIGNED first edition - Autobiographical account of life on a small farm in Virginia during the Depression Years. The author mentions his fascination with planes even then - he went on to work in the manned space program for NASA. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 1+41206290X.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942 dj. Hardcover first edition - "A new streamlined America is being built to meet the world of tomorrow". A book writen as the US was coming out of the Depression and before it was actively involved in World War II - focuses on the years from 1932-1940 with information on dam building, soil conservation, the TVA, the CCC project, etcs. Map endpapers. CCC Projects: Great Depression: T.V.A. Jay Franklin is a pseudo for John Franklin Carter. Illustrated with Farm Security Administration photographs. xvi, 287 pp.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1981.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Iowa-born author's first major collection of poems, rooted in his farm upbringing and infused with a reverence for the land and the labor of working the land. Praised by such writers as Raymond Carver, Gary Snyder and William Stafford. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrations by Barbara Arnold. 80 pp. ISBN: 0-914742-590.

New York: Harper & Row, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a sequence of poems on the life of a serious farmer, based on Hughes' experiences in Devon rearing beef cattle and sheep. Illustrated with drawings by Leonard Baskin. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0120169.

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - "It's the stuff of dreams: a Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean island of Majorca. But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and "experiences," and it isn't long before they realize that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners." Illustrated with drawings at the beginning of each chapter. 226 pp. ISBN: 1-585745480.

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second memoir, a sequel to Snowball Oranges. "Spring is approaching; the neighboring rooster, General Franco, is crowing earlier and louder; and the author, a Scottish farmer who, with his family, has left his homeland to grow fruit in Mallorca, is up to greet the gorgeous island dawn. . . As Kerr and his family try to adjust their Scottish farming experience to the Mallorcan climate, they are on a steep learning curve, both cultural and agricultural. " Illustrated with drawings at the beginning of each chapter. 231 pp. ISBN: 1-585746371.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A serious book on an important topic - the food we eat - lightened by Kingsolver's wonderful writing and sense of humor, and her passion for the topic. A must read for everyone who eats. Recipes. Illustrated with drawings by Richard A. Houser. References. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0852550.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1913. First edition - "From broke to badass on a Northern Michigan farm." When Link's marriage ends in divorce after 19 years, and she is facing bankruptcy and foreclosure, she is still determined to save the farm, and to raise her sons there. 209 pp.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - His highly praised first novel, about the life of a Devon village as they live through the devastating drought year of 1984, as told through the eyes of a 13 year old girl, the youngest child in a family of prosperous farmers. In addition to praise from such diverse writers as Salman Rushdie and A. S. Byatt, one British reviewer called it "more perfect than any first novel deserves to be." Winner of the the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award in 1993 and the Hawthornden Prize in 1994. 310 pp. ISBN: 1-556114230.

New York Morrow, 1968. dj. Hardcover - August Derleth called this 'A persuasive adventure in country living, written with beguiling warmth and charm.' - the story of the a family's devotion to their Wisconsin farm and how they restored its natural wonders and beauty. Map endpapers. Illustrations by Lydia Rosier. 232 pp

New York: Promontory Press, (1982.) dj. Hardcover - Omnibus edition containing three works written and illustrated by Sloane and originally published in 1954-1956: American Barns and Covered Bridges; Our Vanishing Landscape, and American Yesterday. Each work is paginated separately as follows: 112, 107 and 123 pp. Somewhat oversized format. ISBN: 0-88365-6485.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author which focuses on the five children, originally from an Iowa farming family, over three decades. "Each chapter covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change." SIGNED on the title page. Longlisted for the National Book Award. 395 pp. ISBN: 978-0307700315.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. SIGNED first edition - A novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author which focuses on the five children, originally from an Iowa farming family, over three decades. "Each chapter covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from World War I, and going up through the early 1950s, with the country on the cusp of enormous social and economic change." Longlisted for the National Book Award. The first book in a planned trilogy. SIGNED on the title page. 395 pp.