Continuing the Good Life: Half a Century of Homesteading by Nearing, Helen & Scott - 1979

Schocken, 1979. hardcover. Acceptable. 8x5x0. ex-library used copy with stickers, sunning to pages, age wear. fast shipping

New York, New York: Schocken Books, 1979. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/None. Volume itself has red cloth covers with gilt lettering on the spine. Pages 10 & 11 are lightly discolored because someone had left a newspaper clipping between these two pages. A touch of edge and corner wear. An inspection of the work finds no underlining, no highlighting, no owner names, no bookplates, no dogeared or folded pages, not ex-libris, no remainder marks. A very serviceable copy.

New York: Schocken Books, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Later printing (2). Shelf wear to the book, more to the jacket; which has one closed tear, is soiled, spotted, else clean and unmarked. First published stated, second printing by number line. Helen and Scott Nearing started a relationship in 1928 and married nearly 20 years later, on December 12, 1947. The couple lived in rural Vermont where they grew much of their food and erected nine stone buildings over the course of two decades. They earned money by producing maple syrup and sugar from the trees on their land and from Scott Nearing's occasional paid lectures. In 1952 the Nearings moved to a homestead in Maine near Cape Rosier where they continued growing much of their own food. They cultivated blueberries as a cash crop. The couple were counter-culture exemplars. As a young woman Helen (1904 – 1995) had a romantic relationship with Krishnamurti while Scott Nearing (1883 –1983) was an American radical… Read More

NY: Schocken Books. VG in VG DJ. (1979). 2nd ptg. The great-grandparents of the back-to-the-land movement, the Nearings abandoned the city in 1932 for a rural life.... . DJ price clipped & fading toward edges. .

New York: Schocken, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Printing. 194 pp, index, b/w illustrations, 8vo, red boards. Fne, near fine dust jacket.

Schocken. Good. 1979. Soft Cover. (O75) .