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Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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The People of Total Loss Farm. Fair in Fair jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Front Free Endpaper Pulled From Removal of Pocket, Sticker; Corners, Spine Bumped; Heavy Shelf Rub to Boards; Heavy Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Heavy Sticker Pull to Spine Area; Lightly Creased; Moderately Scuffed; Lightly Chipped; Heavy Fading Due to Sun Exposure (Spine); Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Stories and Scenes of Life on Total Loss Farm. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE PEOPLE OF TOTAL LOSS FARM: Hugh Beame, Pete Gould, Marty Jezer, Alicia Bay Laurel, Joan Marr, Raymond Mungo, Doug Parker, Robert Payne, Jeanne Pepper, Verandah Porche, Connie Silver, Ellen Snyder, Richard Wizansky, and others. EDITED BY: Richard Wizansky. WITH ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY: Josiah Adams, Vicki Goucher, Fritz Hewitt, Frank Kebbell, Sandra Marr, Andrew Mungo, David Mylin, Pip Rice, Bill Root, Harry Saxman, Peter Simon, Ron Squires. DESIGNED BY: Douglas Parker. CONTENTS: Richard-Preface; Richard-The Old Values; Ronnie-Before; Verandah and Richard-Skating Home from the Apocalypse; Ray-What This Community Needs: A Self-Indulgent Essay; Marty-How I Came Here; Pete-The Gander; Pete-How I Came to This Place; Pepper-Pepper's Vision; Richard-Who's in Charge; Verandah-The Making of a Culture Counter; Pete-Cheese-Making on the Small Farm; Pepper-The Butter Churn; Ellen-Bread; Pete-The Strudel; Richard-The Marquis' Good Foot; Ellen-How I Came to the Farm; Pete-Wood; Ray-I Had a Dream; Marty-Psychic Farming: The Organic Method; Richard-Blood Is Thicker Than Water; Hugh-Hugh Beame's Seasons; Marty-Total Loss Economics; Pepper-Lean Pickin's or Something for Nothing; Ellen-Living with the Animals; Fritz-Fritz and the Boys; Verandah-Max as Metaphor; Verandah-Give Me the Willies; Marty-Where Barf Barf Is; Bob-Hemorrhoids in Paradise; Ellen-The Well; Marty-Maple Sugaring: "Our Finest Hour"; Richard-A Nervous Appraisal; Richard-Queen Tillie's Needle; Alicia-How I Was Absorbed from Afar; Richard-Arrivals and Departures; Marty-Tunneling to California and Back or Psychic Farming, Part II; Verandah-An Essay in the Depresso; Marty-Breakfast on the Small Farm; Ellen-Vegetable Matters; Marty-Agriculture; Hugh-The Barrow Wright; Joan-Coping with Canning; Connie-Dyeing Is an Art Like Any Other; Verandah-Hats Made of Boredom; Richard-Rituals; Pepper-The Djellaba Story; Verandah-Empty Pockets Make the Most Noise; Bill-Christmas Day; Verandah-Taking the Horizontal; Richard-The Burning of the Library at Kajamunya; Letters from Ray Mungo; More Recipes; Epilogue. SYNOPSIS: To get away from it all, and back to the land, is the dream of an ever-increasing number of Americans. This is the story of a group of talented and temperamental people who made that dream come true by building a unique life together on a communal farm in New England. "Home Comfort" is the fanciful brand name of the well-worn, wood-burning stove that brings warmth and good eating to the kitchen of Total Loss Farm. Here it also serves as the title for a joyful collection of stories, essays, explanations, and wonderments drawn and written by this unusual family of friends and lovers. Invoking the spirit of Raymond Mungo's account of his first year on the farm (Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life), he and his fellow farm members set before us the different aspects, spiritual and practical, of their life. Explaining the founding of the farm, and its system of "systemless accomplishment, " they tell why they came, what they left behind, what they were seeking--and what they found. Standing back from their lives to look into the heart of their communal experience, they share with us not only their hard-won understanding of what it takes to forge a community--love, honesty, tolerance--but also the rituals of their day-to...
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973. Square and unmarked in full cloth binding. 329pp. Unclipped (8.95) jacket is rubbed along edges, offered now in a new mylar cover. The story of a group of talented and temperamental people who made a 'back to the land' dream come true by building a unique life together on a communal farm in New England. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Illustrated by Laurel, Alicia B. (illustrator) Fair. 0841502285. 329 pages. Presents one large and shared experience through the eyes and sensitivities of each of those who are proud of it. Rubber stamp upon front endpaper else unmarked. Fading and minor staining to brown cloth boards. Binding intact. Decent working copy.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; COLLECTIVE SETTLEMENTS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY GENERAL Home Comfort: Stories and Scenes of Life on Total Loss Farm Laurel, Alicia B. (illustrator) 329 pages. Presents one large and shared experience through the eyes and sensitivities of each of tho.
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