Search Results: Vermont from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Bradford VT, printers.: Town of Thetford, Vermont / Opinion Publishing Co., 1897. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued.. 1 30 p. Paper bound, stapled binding, plain cover w/ title Thetford Town Report 1897. Selectmen for 1896: WH Sargent, HF Willoughby, J Taylor; other officers listed. Treasurer's report (Wm P Ladd). Selectmen's Account. Highways and Bridges. Road Commissioner's Account. Overseer of Poor. School Director's Account. Dog License. Statement of Finances of the Town. Lists of Births (18), Marriages (10), Deaths (30) for 1896. Report of the Superintendent of Schools w/ Tabulated Statements. 2 pages advertisements. Perspective notes: Selectmen paid 4 individuals for "snowing bridges", $10 total; perhaps these were covered bridges requiring snow placed for the horse-drawn sleighs. Also, e.g. F Pushee was paid $2 for "sawing wood" for Laura Heaton by the Overseer of the Poor.

Canaan NH.: Phoenix Publishing., 1973. Unabridged.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket.. 1 208 p. Simplicity, nature, integrity, gardening, farming, sharing, and understanding has marked the Farm and Wilderness Camps summer education and activity programs for three decades prior to this history by educator Kenneth Webb, who with Susan Howard Webb have grown this opportunity for families. Quaker-based, campers arrive in Plymouth and Mount Holly, Vermont, each summer for 4 to 8 weeks. In 1973, there were six camps, sprouted from an original camp for young boys, joined by another camp for young girls, then by a teen-age work projects camp. A small Native American lifestyle camp followed, located remotely, joined by a small wilderness hiking and canoeing experience for middle-schoolers. The need for activities for the youngest children began with a program for staff families, and evolved into a regional day camp. Standards have been guided by the original Webb… Read More

Canaan NH.: Phoenix Publishing., 1973. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket.. 1 Tan cloth over boards. Brown titles, small cover graphics. 196 p. 24 cm. Simplicity, nature, integrity, gardening, farming, sharing, and understanding has marked the Farm and Wilderness Camps summer education and activity programs for three decades prior to this history by educator Kenneth Webb, who with Susan Howard Webb have grown this opportunity for families. Quaker-based, campers arrive in Plymouth and Mount Holly, Vermont, each summer for 4 to 8 weeks. In 1973, there were six camps, sprouted from an original camp for young boys, joined by another camp for young girls, then by a teen-age work projects camp. A small Native American lifestyle camp followed, located remotely, joined by a small wilderness hiking and canoeing experience for middle-schoolers. The need for activities for the youngest children began with a program for staff families, and evolved into a regional day camp. Standards have been guided by the… Read More

Town of Athens, Vermont.. First edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Contents intact; some volumes have minor edge wear, short tears. Each had been sealed with 1 or 2 tape strips for mailing. Each has postage stamp for period, addressed to same Windsor VT resident. Slight odor; not.... 11 11 volume set. Paper covers, stapled bindings. 6x8.75in. Not complete, 11 Reports over 17 years. Mandated for each Town, an Annual Report for the preceeding year's Town Government and School income and expenses includes Vital Statistics, and the Warrant of local election and action articles for the next Town Meeting at which any of the Town's registered voters may have his/her say. Good genealogical reference, as well as local history, year-to-year. Town Reports contain the names of volunteer elected and appointed officials, as well as employees. In some reports: Delinquent tax list; School Supt. Report; Dog Licenses; Public Health Services; Old Age Assistance; lots of Accounts.

Rutland VT.: Academy Books., 1998. First edition. Stated 1st.. Trade paperback. Fine. Signed by author.. 1 143 p. Trade paperback. Dark blue textured paper w/ color photo paste-on. front, framed w/ gold borders. 22 cm. Essays (52) about natural life at a restored Vermont farmhouse near Rutland VT. Author Margaret Waddington, M.D., retired from her career as a Rutland Hospital neurologist and neurology textbook illustrator, and put her photography and writing talents to work chronicling rural life and habitat.

Rutland VT.: Academy Books., 1997. First edition. Stated 1st.. Trade paperback. Fine. Signed by author. Inscribed by author, 1997.. 1 126 p. Dark blue textured paper w/ color photo paste-on, front. Gold double line front borders. Gold titles, front, spine. Photography from a 1996 fall wildlife photography workshop at Mountain Top Inn, Chittendon VT, using a Siberian tiger and other animals from the Triple "D" Game Farm of Montana. Waddington was among the attendees and turned her experience into a whimsical few chapters among other nature essays centered at her restored Rutland, Vermont, area farmstead.

Plymouth VT.: Farm and Wilderness Foundation., 1989. First edition.. Trade paperback. Fine.. F&W Archival B&W photos.. 1 95 p. Paper covers w/ wraparound B&W graphic from event photo. 8.5x11 in. RARE: Educators, the Webbs founded residential summer camps on Woodard Reservoir in Plymouth VT, adding others on Lake Ninevah in Mount Holly. Their programs followed Quaker principles, and practiced organic farming, rural skill building, community service, conservation, swimming, canoeing, hiking, folk music and dance, arts, simple cooperative living. The boys' camp Timberlake was first, then Indian Brook for girls, and Tamarack Farm coed work camp for teens, Flying Cloud embraced Native Nations values and traditions, and Salt Ash Mountain drew younger teen coeds exploring hiking and canoeing regional trips. Campers have been diverse geographically, racially, economically. Staff members have been educators, graduate students, and former campers. Over 8 weeks, campers often went home with… Read More

Rutland VT.: The Tuttle Company / Marble City Press., 1925. First edition. Same date, Title and Copyright pages.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Page 27, a publisher's glued typed correction for timeline, 1907-1908, else near fine. Minor spine end, corner wear.. Various photographers. Maps not credited.. 1 Dark green cloth over boards, blind-stamped narrow border, white titles, front. End papers: floral wallpaper pages. [11]-186 p. 21 cm. "From Rhymes of Vermont rural life by Daniel L. Cady": p. 155-188. Includes flyer announcing this publication. Biography of Vermont native and U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. Author was one of his teachers. Plymouth, Vermont, was and still is a small agrarian mountain community in central Vermont. The Coolidge family has always been central to Plymouth. For decades since his Presidency, the village has been a touring museum to that legacy. This publication has numerous B&W photos, poetry, timeline information.

Newark, Vermont: The Janus Press, 1980. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 42 p. Includes illustrations. Black card stock covers, gray cover titles, illustration (leafless tree in wind). 8.5x11in. Black marker illustrations; text in play format. The Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater performs toward social and political awareness. "Several quotations are taken from '13 Days, A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Robert Kennedy', " WW Norton, 1971-1969. Edition of 3, 500 copies.

Taftsville VT.: The Countryman Press., 1976. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. Author inscription to another, August 1976. Lower edge has damp stain with red cover bleed to jacket. Book pages clean.. Karpin, Florence Baker (Illustrated by).. 1 63 p. Red cloth over boards. Bold black titles. 23 cm. Pen&Ink jacket art: soldiers. Inside full-page Pen&Ink art. True account of a Strafford, Vermont, family, with strong English ties and traditions. Their loyalties are challenged. Of 9 sons, 8 joined the Loyalist's Queen's rangers, fighting with Burgoyne in 1777. The youngest joined the Patriots. : after, the surviving Loyalists also joined the Patriots. The tale is fictionalized, but based on fact. Written for youth, but of interest to adults as well.

Bellows Falls VT.: Steam Press of A.N. Swain., 1874. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Age-toning. Spine end wear. Clean interior with some marked references. Rear hand-written name list w/ page numbers.. 1 169 p. Pebbled brown cloth over boards. Stamped gilt titles, front, spine. Vermont crest, back cover in gold. Original edition. Subtitle: "And its inhabitants from the first settlement of the town to 1874". Part I: List of Letters, Speeches, Poems for Centennial; Part II: History and key citizens in 13 chapters; Part III: Names, alphabetical order; List of steel-cut style Illustrations, Portraits.

Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Company, 1911. First edition.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Dark blue leather over boards 8x11", gold titles, white and gold circular seal "Excelsior" on cover chipped where cover blemished by 1.5x1" stain. Minor foxing, aging, a few small spots on cover; map/illustrations.... 0 534 p. Includes: illustrations, maps, index. Explorer Samuel Champlain of the French Territories, in 1609, was the first white man to set foot on soil in what is now northeastern New York State. In 1909, that discovery was celebrated. Ten pages offer an historical perspective, the bulk of the book is about the celebration and the individuals central to the event. "Libretto of the Play of Hiawatha" follows; also Geology, historical episodes, travelers' remarks about Champlain Valley (New York State and Vermont).

Brattleboro VT.: Stephen Greene Press., 1961. 2nd edition, stated. 1st in 1950 by Rinehart & Co.. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Firmly-bound book, marred only by top page block foxing. Jacket shows random soiling plus underside foxing.. Daly, George (Illustrated by).. 1 255 p. 22 cm. Pen&Ink artwork beginning chapters plus full-pages. Bibliography. Index. In the historian-author's Foreword dated February 1961, he writes "No commonwealth, unless it is Texas, is presumed to have a more widely acknowledged personality than Vermont". He adds at the end of his Foreword, the citizens whose stories are recounted here, "were not chosen because they are all historically important but because they are the kind of people and events that have always been characteristic of Vermont--and because Vermont is what they made it". 17 chapters and an Epilogue follow.

Hartland VT.: Solitarian Press (Self-published)., 1931. Aristo Edition.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. 2nd free endpaper missing. Foxing to spine. Slight sun-fade. Minor edgewear. P.83-84 has crescent water stain on border only. Lower back cover has shadow of water damage.. 1 93 p. Includes illustrations. Printer's ornaments, title page woodcut, first letters in blue. Black text. Blue cloth over boards; gold titles; gold enhanced darker blue cover illustration. 4.25x7.25in. Stitched binding. Poetry: Edition of 250 copies, each hand-numbered, this is 106. Tacked onto reverse free endpaper: blue tinted bookplate sized photo: "An Old Landmark Beside Lull Brook / One of the Kodak Pictures of 1902". Mr. Flower notes with each poem at end where and when he wrote it. He owned his own press in Hartland VT; this is one of 9 special edition titles listed at back. The materials quality is excellent.

New York / Boston / Chicago.: Silver, Burdett & Company., 1913. "b"; Earlier 1890, 1895, 1904.. Hard cover. Good. Binding loosening at end papers, 3 inches lower front, single layer, rear.. 1 102 p. Author's 1904 Preface: "Each new edition has been revised".

Secaucus NJ.: Citadel Press., 1976. 3rd printing.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Jacket has lower edge tears, creasing, light scuffing. Volume has light cover blemishing. Near fine.. Kaminsky, Peretz (Designed by).. 1 Dark red cloth over boards. Black spine titles. Photo-based jacket cover graphics, B&W; red titles. 223 p. 29 cm. B&W photos: concerts, movies. Audience: General/trade. Movie and concert events featuring Rock 'n' Roller Elvis Presley, attractively catalogued; informative history. Timeline format included.

New York: Henry Holt, 1948. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Light spine end and corner wear.. 1 Green cloth over boards. Maroon spine titles. 212 p. 21 cm. Memoir in the voice of a youth who is growing up in the home of his maternal grandfather, near Mount Meshach. "Grandpa was as rich as sin and as mean as a suitcase full of Simon Legrees...Grandpa and I hated each other, " recalls the author of his life at 14 among a large extended family. HIs grandfather made his excape from Vermont on a family trip north to Montreal, where he died.

New York.: Hurst & Company.. No date; circa 1850.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Inscribed: "Floyd from Great-Aunt Harriet Jones Smith" (Claremont NH estate). Cover fabric aging.. 1 428 p. Tan cloth over boards, decorated in red and black art: 2 youths in sports garb with oak and acorn border. Spine shows acorns, oak leaf. Art repeated on blue on tan jacket. 19 cm. American Revolutionary War era history includes early history of Vermont in New England. Extensive Contents and Introduction, which begins in 1534 when a French exploring ship captained by James Cartier, found the mouth of a great river, naming it the St. Lawrence after an August 10th festival. When a larger expedition was mounted the following spring, the explorers believed that had found the passage to the East Indies. Two hundred leagues later their travel came to a halt by what is now known as Niagara Falls. It would be a century of regional exploration, interacting with natives of… Read More

Boston.: Houghton Mifflin., 1961. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. Cary, Louis F (Illustrated by).. 1 192 p. Includes maps. Light green woven cloth over boards. Two dark green illustrated discs, front: Piper logo, Frontier woodsmen. Illustrated jacket: green, white, black. Artwork same inside. Youth biography of Vermont region Revolutionary War leader and "hero of Ticonderoga". Recommended for ages 9-12. This biography includes his early years.

Taftsville VT.: The Countryman Press. Reprinted from Syracuse University Press., 1974. Unabridged.. Trade paperback. Very good.. 1 Trade paperback. 368 p. Author Charles A Jellison is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. He writes of Ethan Allen: soldier, politician, publicist, land speculator, and "aspiring traitor" in early Vermont. Described as a "towering, tempestuous man", Ethan Allen has been the subject of several biographies, and many are reverential. The author points to his 4 years of research and the support found in doing so.