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Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: And How to Build Them

Product Description: Originally published in 1914, this handbook is still as essential for the modern builder as it was for the homesteader of the last century. This guide contains step-by-step instructions for building “worry-free” shelters, including special settings such as a sod house, a tree house, an “over-water” camp, a bog ken, and much more...read more

By Noel Perrin (foreword by)

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9781599213330 | 2 edition (Lyons Pr, August 1, 2008), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Originally published in 1914, this handbook is still as essential for the modern builder as it was for the homesteader of the last century.

Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer

Product Description: In 1963, Noel Perrin, a 35-year-old professor of English at Dartmouth College, bought an 85-acre farm in Thetford Center, Vermont. For the next forty years he spent half his time teaching, half writing, and half farming. "That this adds up to three halves I am all too aware," he said, sounding a characteristic, self-deprecating note of bittersweet amusement at the chalk on his coat, the sweat on his brow, and the mud (and worse) on his boots...read more

By Terry Osborne (foreword by) and Noel Perrin

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9781567923070 | David R Godine Pub, April 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In 1963, Noel Perrin, a 35-year-old professor of English at Dartmouth College, bought an 85-acre farm in Thetford Center, Vermont.

Last Person Rural

Essays discuss rural life, county fairs, stone walls, acid rain, mulching, barns, ponds, pollution, and progress

By Noel Perrin

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9781567922004 | David R Godine Pub, November 1, 2004, cover price $15.95

9781567920581 | David R Godine Pub, January 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss rural life, county fairs, stone walls, acid rain, mulching, barns, ponds, pollution, and progress

A Child's Delight

Essays examine classics of children's literature that have been forgotten or neglected over time

By Noel Perrin

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Hardcover:

9780874518405 | Dartmouth College, October 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays examine classics of children's literature that have been forgotten or neglected over time

Paperback:

9781584653523 | Dartmouth College, August 1, 2003, cover price $15.95

Local Vertical: Poetry

By Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh and Noel Perrin

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9781567921250 | 1 edition (David R Godine Pub, May 1, 2000), cover price $15.95

Third Person Rural: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer

Product Description: One of four volumes of incisive essays on rural life that addresses not only the many how-to questions that bedevil country dwellers, but also the larger direction that life is taking on this planet. Perrin, a transplanted New Yorker and now a "real" Vermonter, candidly admits his early mistakes while giving concrete advice on matters such as what to do with maple syrup (other than put it on your pancakes), how to use a peavey, and how to replace your rototiller with a garden animal...read more

By Noel Perrin

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Hardcover:

9780879234676 | David R Godine Pub, October 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss farm life, porcupines, potatoes, the birth of a calf, land taxes, home improvements, maple syrup production, wildflowers, and horses

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9781567920574 | David R Godine Pub, November 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: One of four volumes of incisive essays on rural life that addresses not only the many how-to questions that bedevil country dwellers, but also the larger direction that life is taking on this planet.

9780140076851 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1985, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss farm life, porcupines, potatoes, the birth of a calf, land taxes, home improvements, maple syrup production, wildflowers, and horses

Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879

By Noel Perrin

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Paperback:

9780879237738 | Reissue edition (David R Godine Pub, January 1, 1995), cover price $11.95

Life With an Electric Car

By Noel Perrin

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Paperback:

9780871564979 | Reprint edition (Sierra Club Books, September 1, 1994), cover price $12.00

A Noel Perrin Sampler

Essays discuss the experiences of an American student at Cambridge, New York City in the nineteenth century, the treatment of dogs in seventeenth-century Japan, changing styles of rhetoric, the Latin names of American Catholic dioceses, and other subjects

By Noel Perrin

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Hardcover:

9780874515510 | Rep sub edition (Dartmouth College, April 1, 1991), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss the experiences of an American student at Cambridge, New York City in the nineteenth century, the treatment of dogs in seventeenth-century Japan, changing styles of rhetoric, the Latin names of American Catholic dioceses, and other subjects

Paperback:

9780874516760 | Reprint edition (Dartmouth College, May 1, 1994), cover price $12.95

Solo: Life With an Electric Car

Product Description: In the spring of 1991, Noel Perrin flew from Vermont to California to pick up his newly outfitted electric car, a former gas-guzzling Ford. It would not be easy, but Perrin planned to drive Solo--as the car was soon dubbed--home, a 3,100-mile drive...read more

By Noel Perrin

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Hardcover:

9780393034073 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1992), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The author describes how he drove his newly outfitted electric car from California to Vermont, and then put the car into daily service as a pollution-free commuter vehicle

Paperback:

9780393335194 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 30, 1992, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In the spring of 1991, Noel Perrin flew from Vermont to California to pick up his newly outfitted electric car, a former gas-guzzling Ford.

Last Person Rural

Essays discuss rural life, county fairs, stone walls, acid rain, mulching, barns, ponds, pollution, and progress

By Michael McCurdy (illustrator) and Noel Perrin

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Hardcover:

9781560543640 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 1992), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss rural life, county fairs, stone walls, acid rain, mulching, barns, ponds, pollution, and progress

9780879239145 | David R Godine Pub, October 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss rural life, county fairs, stone walls, acid rain, mulching, barns, ponds, pollution, and progress

First Person Rural

By George Capaccio and Noel Perrin

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780929627007 | Scarecrow Enterprises, April 1, 1991, cover price $14.95

First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer

Having moved from New York fifteen years before to become a Vermont farmer, Perrin recounts his mistakes in adjusting to country life and offers advice on such topics as sugaring, raising sheep, and making butter

By Noel Perrin

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Hardcover:

9780879232320 | David R Godine Pub, June 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Having moved from New York fifteen years ago to become a Vermont farmer, Perrin recounts his mistakes in adjusting to country life and offers advice on such topics as sugaring, raising sheep, and making butter

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9780879238339 | Reprint edition (David R Godine Pub, December 1, 1990), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Having moved from New York fifteen years before to become a Vermont farmer, Perrin recounts his mistakes in adjusting to country life and offers advice on such topics as sugaring, raising sheep, and making butter

9780140055610 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1980, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Having moved from New York fifteen years ago to become a Vermont farmer, Perrin recounts his mistakes in adjusting to country life and offers advice on such topics as sugaring, raising sheep, and making butter

Second Person Rural: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer

A collection of essays on the practice and philosophy of country life explores the differences between country and city, and considers the problems all transplanted city-dwellers must deal with

By Noel Perrin

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Hardcover:

9780816131846 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1981), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on the practice and philosophy of country life yields advice for sometime farmers, explores the differences between country and city, and considers the problems all transplanted city-dwellers must deal with

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9780879238346 | Reprint edition (David R Godine Pub, December 1, 1990), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on the practice and philosophy of country life explores the differences between country and city, and considers the problems all transplanted city-dwellers must deal with

9780140059205 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1981, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on the practice and philosophy of country life yields advice for sometime farmers, explores the differences between country and city, and considers the problems all transplanted city-dwellers must deal with

A Reader's Delight

Product Description: One of Americaâs finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place.

By Noel Perrin

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Hardcover:

9780874514308 | Univ Pr of New England, April 1, 1988, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: One of Americaâs finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place.

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9780874514322 | Dartmouth College, March 1, 1988, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: One of Americaâs finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place.

Amateur Sugar Maker

Describes the building of a sugarhouse and the making of maple sugar in Vermont

By Robert MacLean (illustrator) and Noel Perrin

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9780874515794 | 20 anv edition (Dartmouth College, February 1, 1992), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes the building of a sugarhouse and the making of maple sugar in Vermont

9780874513790 | Dartmouth College, August 1, 1986, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Describes the building of a sugarhouse and the making of maple sugar in Vermont

Making Maple Syrup

By Noel Perrin

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Miscellaneous:

9781603424080 | Storey Books, January 8, 1983, cover price $3.95

Making Maple Syrup: The Old-fashioned Way

By Noel Perrin

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Paperback:

9780882662268 | Storey Books, January 8, 1983, cover price $3.95

Dr. BowdlerÂªs Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America

STATED FIRST PRINTING. 1992 Nonpareil(David R. Godine) trade paperback, Noel Perrin (The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It, Centennial Edition). The history of censorship of the written and spoken word in England and America. (view table of contents)

By Noel Perrin

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Paperback:

9780879238612, titled "Dr. Bowdler's Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America" | Reprint edition (David R Godine Pub, May 1, 1992), cover price $14.95

9780756764364, titled "Dr. Bowdler's Legacy: A History of Expurgated Books in England and America" | Ill edition (Diane Pub Co, January 1, 1992), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: STATED FIRST PRINTING.

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