About this title: This compilation of engrossing facts and anecdotes, illustrated with the author's own pen, captures the living legacy of America as seen in "the things that were." The author lovingly describes the careers of dowsers, tithingmen, sawyers, nailers, plumbum-men (plumbers), barber-surgeons, sellmongers, fence-viewers, and other old-time artisans and ...
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls, New York
Date Published: 1956
Description: Good in Fair dust jacket; Light wear to covers but they have white foxing spots, wear, rubbing and soil to DJ with chips/tears around corners, edges and spine ends, light foxing to end pages, name sticker on back pastedown, binding tight, text clean. 13734. Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 123 pages. read more
Description: Very Good. 0486427609 Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light curve to the spine / light reading creases to the covers. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
Date Published: later printing, 1956
Description: Very Good-/Very Good-ex library hard cover. Large 8vo, boards, 123pp, illus. ex library in full dress. shelfwear, corners bumped, cover. crease front end page, edges darkened, clean and tight text. scrapes, small tears, dust jacket. art. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: DOVER PUBN INC
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780486427607ISBN:0486427609
Description: New. This compilation of engrossing facts and anecdotes, illustrated with the author's own pen, captures the living legacy of America as seen in "the things that were. " The author lovingly describes the careers of dowsers, tithingmen, sawyers, nailers, pl... read more
Description: Funk and Wagnalls, 1956. Great illustrations., Dust jacket sllighty rubbed, o/w Good, Book in Very Good+ condition Bright blue cloth covers. read more
Edition: First ed., later printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
Date Published: 1956
ISBN-13:9780308700420ISBN:0308700422
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. History of technology. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Hardcover, 10" x 7", 123 pages, a very good copy in a like dustjacket. read more
Description: Good. B000O3LEA8 Price-clipped jacket chipped and edgeworn, and jacket flaps foxed. Gift inscription. Small stain to upper edge. read more
"Sloane shows how farmers used the "seasons" to guide them in nearly everything they did. A season to cut, to clear, to till, harvest. Wonderful drawings. Clever ideas to help make the work easier. Sleighs to move rocks during icy weather. Stump pullers. A fascinating read for a true student of farming and American history."
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