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The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining, and Other Affairs of Plain Living
by Wigginton, Eliot (Ed)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/VG-
- ISBN 10
- 038507350X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385073509
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/VG-. Hard-to-find hardcover version with its original DJ of this very first book in the series of Foxfire books from the original wave of the environmental movement in the 1970s, aimed at fostering sustainable living in harmony with nature. Lavishly illustrated with diagrams & black-and-white photos. A FIRST EDITION, 8th printing from 1972 in 384 pages, including Index, this hardcover small 4to has beige cloth-covered boards, lettered in light brown to spine. Condition is Near Fine: exceptionally clean & bright, binding tight & square, hinges secure, pages creamy white with very mild tanning to edges, else unmarked. The unclipped DJ is VG-, marred by chipping to both ends of spine, with paper loss, lesser chipping & rubbing to extremities, including corners. Nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Synopsis
The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining The "Foxfire" books began as a student-produced magazine in 1966 that contains stories and interviews from elders in their rural Southern Appalachian community. The books are anthology collections of material from The Foxfire Magazine , edited and published by Eliot Wigginton.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
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- 022505
- Title
- The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining, and Other Affairs of Plain Living
- Author
- Wigginton, Eliot (Ed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 038507350X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385073509
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- ENVIRONMENTALISM SUSTAINABLE LIVING NATURE FARMING HOLISTIC ORGANIC CROPS FOOD GROWING VEGETABLE FAMILY FARM EARTH NATURAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature/Gardening/Environmentalism;
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