Search Results: Homesteading from Pistil Books Online

Breakout Productions Inc, 1997. Trade Paperback. Fine. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 128 pages with b&w photos, mechanical drawings.

Cloudburst Press, 1974. Oversize Hardback. Good. Turner, Ted. Book shows light wear to covers only, back cover has stains, a little edge wear. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Fragile binding. Packed with homesteading info of all kinds with lavish how-to illustrations and mechanical drawings on subjects such as building a 16 ft. personal dome, splitting shakes, pit privies, poultry housing, sauna, harnessing the small stream, water wheel design, Michell turbine, wooden undershot wheel, overshot wheel, frost damage prevention, gravity feed water supply, beehive defense, Indian berry picker, solar dryer, juice press, preserving juices, smoke curing and salting of fish, cheese making, home make forge, rural water works, hand operated washing machine, compost shredder.

Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2004. Oversize Hardback. Near Fine/Fine. XL. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small bump on lower corner of front cover. A great many illustrations of tools, shops, trade skills of the time, such as making a wooden pail, grinding corn, hauling water, using a plumb-bob, making hay-ricks, rick ornaments, etc. 8 1/2""w x 11 1/4""h. 108 pages.

Stephen Greene Press, 1974. Trade Paperback. Fine/Very Good. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light wear, some edge wear, no tears. 191 pages with sections on Rail frnces, Primitive fences, Stone, sod fences, board tences, picket, barb-wire, fence, hedges, streams and fullies, making and setting posts, gates, fastenings, wickets, stiles, fence law, country bridges, culverts.

Algrove Publishing, 2000. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition with a few small stains on cover only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Reprinted from 1909, heavily illustrated, 288 pages. Contents include: Barns and stock, Poultry and bees, Garden and orchars, Field and wood, Gates and doors, Handy pig catcher, Carcass derrick, Transfer cart for small animals, Management of kicking cows, Make the horse eat slowly, Homemade refrigerator, etc.