home comforts Stories and Scenes of Life on Total Loss Farm

Saturday Review Press, New York, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. 900 g; 336 pages, last five pages blank, intentionally, illustrated throughout by members of the community, and includes recipes, designs for clothing, poetry, animal husbandry, short stories, and relationships. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, faded on the back strip section, with two short tears at the left-hand side top and bottom of the front panel, and a black-and-white photograph of the people of total loss farm. Ownership inscription at the top right of the front end page. Invoking the spirits of Raymond Mungo's account of his first year on the farm (Total Loss Farm: a year in the life), he and his fellow farm members set before us the different aspects of spiritual and practical, of their life. Explaining the founding of the farm, and its system of "system was accomplishment," they tell us why they came, what they left behind, what they were seeking -- and what they found. -- front fold over blurb Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Anthropology; Sociology; Local History -- America; ISBN: 0841502285. ISBN/EAN: 9780841502284. Inventory No: 0221397. . 9780841502284