Boston: David R. Godine, 1979. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Near Fine-Collectible/VeryGood. Stephen Harvard. FIRST ED. / THIRD PRINTING. 6.25"X9.25" 124 numbered pages. Set in Linotype Janson by Anton Hanson in Leipsic between 1660 & 1687. See second photo for Table of Contents. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), PON on ffep. Mended tears to DJ. Secure ship w/track #. These essays, all concerned with countryish things, range from intensely practical to mildly literary. Transplanted from New York fifteen years ago and now a real-life Vermont farmer, Noel Perrin candidly admits to hilarious early mistakes ("In Search of the Perfect Fence Post") while presenting down-to-earth advice on such rural necessities as "Sugaring on $15 a Year," "Raising Sheep," and "Making Butter in the Kitchen."
But, as everyone who has read his essays in The New Yorker , Country Journal , and Vermont Life will confirm, not everything Perrin writes is strictly about the exigencies of country life. While one essay seems to discuss the use of wooden sap buckets, it really addresses the nature of illusion and reality as they coexist in rural places.

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Seller: Blacks Bookshop (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 16163
Title: First Person Rural
Author: Perrin, Noel
Illustrator: Stephen Harvard
Format/Binding: Hardcover_boards
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine-Collectible
Jacket Condition: VeryGood
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: BCE/BOMC
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0879232323
ISBN 13: 9780879232320
Publisher: David R. Godine
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1979

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