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Pencil sketches accompany descriptions of early American objects from the almanack and johnny-cake to the niddy noddy and zig-zag fence. Briefly discusses the use of the alphabet in early America.
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9780385046633 | Doubleday, June 1, 1963, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Pencil sketches accompany descriptions of early American objects from the almanack and johnny-cake to the niddy noddy and zig-zag fence.
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9780486498089 | Dover Pubns, December 19, 2012, cover price $10.95
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9780486463032, titled "A Museum of Early American Tools" | Dover Pubns, May 19, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This delightful evocation of simpler times and the tools that built America has always held a special place in the hearts of lovers of Americana and Yankee ingenuity.
9780805012927, titled "A Museum of Early American Tools" | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1990), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Shows, and describes the construction and use of a variety of hand tools, including axes, hammers, adzes, wedges, chisels, gouges, planes, saws, bit braces, blacksmithing tools, hay implements, and scythes
9780803847460 | Hastings House Pub, March 1, 1983, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Fresh, informal, direct, and expressive, A MUSEUM OF EARLY AMERICAN TOOLS covers early tools and the wooden and metal artifacts that our forefathers made with them.
9780308700468 | Funk & Wagnalls Co, June 1, 1958, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Fresh, informal, direct, and expressive, A MUSEUM OF EARLY AMERICAN TOOLS covers early tools and the wooden and metal artifacts that our forefathers made with them.
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9780486425603, titled "A Museum of Early American Tools" | Dover Pubns, November 14, 2002, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made.
9780345326119 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1991), cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Fresh, informal, direct, and expressive, A MUSEUM OF EARLY AMERICAN TOOLS covers early tools and the wooden and metal artifacts that our forefathers made with them.
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9780486463049 | Dover Pubns, May 19, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Hailed by Library Journal as "informative and nostalgic," this unique book was based on a diary discovered in an old farmhouse.
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9780486455945 | Dover Pubns, February 4, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Combining two of Mr.
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9780385076890 | Doubleday, June 1, 1966, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Discusses the style and character of early American schoolhouses and examines the equipment found in these classrooms
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9780486456041, titled "The Little Red Schoolhouse" | Dover Pubns, June 5, 2007, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Examines the physical buildings and equipment used in early American schoolhouses, providing a glimpse of a simpler time in American educational history.
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9780486450971 | Dover Pubns, October 27, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The finest cloud painter of his generation -- and one of Dover's most popular authors -- travels back in time to explore how early American farmers interpreted and embraced weather signs.
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9780486451022 | Dover Pubns, July 21, 2006, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: One of the first books of its kind, Sloane's "talk on clouds" does much more than teach you how to draw.
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9780486451008 | Dover Pubns, August 4, 2006, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: What triggers a tornado?
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9780486447735 | Dover Pubns, April 10, 2006, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: In a rare autobiographical work, the beloved "cracker-barrel philosopher" shares his experiences on the roads he drove during two voyages from New York to his beloved Taos — in 1925, and again in 1960.
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9780486447971 | Dover Pubns, February 3, 2006, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: From one of America's favorite folk artists — 74 pen-and-ink sketches created when Sloane traveled the country as a sign painter in the early 20th century.
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9780486443577 | Dover Pubns, December 7, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Sloane instructs readers how to glean climate information by "reading" such natural phenomena as winds, skies, and animal sounds.
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9780896586871 | Reprint edition (Voyageur Pr, September 30, 2005), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A new edition of the classic guide to Americana by the acclaimed late artist provides a varied overview of American lore and accomplishments, all organized alphabetically and including the artist's hand-lettering and captions explaining the origin and use of items ranging from the saltbox house and popcorn to rocking chairs and hex signs.
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9780803853973 | Reissue edition (Hastings House Pub, November 1, 1982), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Discusses the handicrafts, home life, work ethic, religious beliefs, relationship with nature, and other aspects of the daily life of the early American pioneers and farmers
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9780486444116 | Dover Pubns, August 23, 2005, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: This nostalgic text brims with gentle philosophies and descriptions of how we used to live — self-sufficiently — on land, in homes, and among things built by hand.
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9780896586802 | Ill edition (Voyageur Pr, March 31, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Voyageur Press is proud to publish this new edition of Eric Sloane’s classic folksy history of American weather.
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9780883940761 | Reissue edition (Book Sales, August 1, 1988), cover price $9.98 | About this edition: A charming book that takes readers through a full year's activities.
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9780486442204, titled "The Seasons Of America Past" | Dover Pubns, March 16, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A charming book that takes readers through a full year's activities.
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9780486441016 | Dover Pubns, February 28, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: With words both wise and droll — along with his inimitable line drawings — Sloane re-creates the flavor of the country store in all its delightful moods: as a meetinghouse, a public forum, and an entertainment center.
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9780396083375 | Dodd Mead, May 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Excerpts from a teenager's diary interspersed with the author's comments and illustrations depict the lifestyle and crafts of rural New England
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9780486436661 | Dover Pubns, December 13, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This reprint of an actual early-19th-century diary provides today's readers with an engaging rarity: a 15-year-old's brief, concise notebook and Sloane's 72 drawings and explanatory narrative.
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9780844667317 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, February 1, 1989, cover price $19.80 | About this edition: This book takes readers on a leisurely journey through a bygone era with fascinating accounts of canals, corduroy roads, and turnpikes, waterwheels and icehouses, colorful road signs and their painters, circus folk, and more.
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9780486436784 | Dover Pubns, October 20, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This book takes readers on a leisurely journey through a bygone era with fascinating accounts of canals, corduroy roads, and turnpikes, waterwheels and icehouses, colorful road signs and their painters, circus folk, and more.
9780345332165 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1985), cover price $8.00 | About this edition: This book takes readers on a leisurely journey through a bygone era with fascinating accounts of canals, corduroy roads, and turnpikes, waterwheels and icehouses, colorful road signs and their painters, circus folk, and more.
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9780486433851 | Dover Pubns, March 16, 2004, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Delightful blend of serious meteorology and beautiful illustrations takes readers on a voyage of discovery as the versatile author traces a single air mass from the Canadian Rockies to northern New England and its effect on Americans from varied backgrounds — including a bush pilot in Canada, and a New England sailor.
9780801546655 | Reprint edition (E P Dutton, September 1, 1979), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Delightful blend of serious meteorology and beautiful illustrations takes readers on a voyage of discovery as the versatile author traces a single air mass from the Canadian Rockies to northern New England and its effect on Americans from varied backgrounds — including a bush pilot in Canada, and a New England sailor.
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9780805012934, titled "A Reverence for Wood" | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1990), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Looks at how early American settlers made barns, tools, and utensils from wood, and tells how to recognize common North American trees
9780308700482 | Funk & Wagnalls Co, June 1, 1955, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The special knowledge of which wood is suited to which task, the ready identification of native trees, the reverence for wood, the instinctive knowledge that wood can warm the soul as well as the body -- these virtues of a bygone age are revived in Eric Sloane's remarkable work.
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9780486433943, titled "A Reverence for Wood" | Dover Pubns, February 18, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Refreshingly written, delightfully illustrated book remarks expansively on the resourcefulness of early Americans in their use of this valuable commodity — from the crafting of furniture, tools, and buildings to the use of such by-products as charcoal and medicine.
9780345319913 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, December 1, 1987), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: The special knowledge of which wood is suited to which task, the ready identification of native trees, the reverence for wood, the instinctive knowledge that wood can warm the soul as well as the body -- these virtues of a bygone age are revived in Eric Sloane's remarkable work.
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9780486427607 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, May 7, 2003), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This compilation of engrossing facts and anecdotes, illustrated with the author's own pen, captures the living legacy of America as seen in "the things that were.
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9780308700406 | Funk & Wagnalls Co, June 1, 1954, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The architecture and history of the barns and bridges built by the farmer-carpenter are depicted in drawings and text
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9780486425610 | Dover Pubns, January 27, 2003, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This lovingly written book presents reliable records of such vanishing forms of architecture as the American barn and covered bridge.
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9780896585652, titled "Eric Sloan's an Age of Barns: An Illustrated Review of Classic Barn Styles and Construction" | Voyageur Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This is a re-issue of Sloane's classic folksy history of barn folklore, architecture, and history, which has been out of print for twenty years.
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9781931014007 | 1 edition (Garrigues House Pub, December 1, 2000), cover price $55.01
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9780517147894 | Random House Value Pub, January 1, 1996, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Looks at implements, inventions, and everday items from early American life
9780805012941 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1990), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A guide to American firsts includes apples, drovers, Kentucky rifles, odometers, weather vanes, and oxen yokes
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