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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Pioneer Farm Life on the Canadian Prairies, in the early 20th Century. First published in installments in the Western Producer, a newspaper from Saskatoon. Collected and published in book form c1956 [book is not dated]. A bright, clean copy - the first edition. Published with semi-stiff covers in an almost canvas cloth. 132 p. : illustrated by William Perehudoff ; 26 cm. Can be shipped via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, or via the USPS Media Mail, in card sleeve. From $5.00 to $9.50 depending on exact end weight etc. Those requiring Tracking in Canada will find postage considerably more. Tracking with all shipments to the USA. Image available if required. Overseas orders, Postage, at cost, determined by final weight and destination. William Perehudoff (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Canadian Edition. 132pp. Illustrated. Prev. owner name inked on ffep. Light brown cloth over stiff card w black lettering on cover. Bumping to corners. Front hinge cracking top 5cm. Joints are sound. No DJ as issued. Small quarto: 25.5 x 17cm. n.d. c1956. A compilation of installments first published in The Western Producer, an agricultural weekly with circulation throughout Western Canada. Perehudoff, Bill (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. None -as Issued. First Edition. Part of the opening of these 132 pages dedicates them to `cranky old prairie bachelors'. (That's a good thing !) Bull Perehudoff did the b/w drawings accompanying. READ more about : coyotes, wild ducks, Hiram's barn cat, Red Fife wheat, bucksaw, underground granaries, and hardware store. The year is 1904 and the locale: The Assiniboia. Cond : Boards are brown with black lettering. No cover graphics. Issued w/o dust jacket - ?? Not a hi-gloss publication. (First appeared as newspaper serials, book has no given date.) Light general wear. Minor soiling. No names nor marks. Almost collectible ! QUote (p. 122) : " I had drawn up a notice announcing the celebration : sports, races for men, women, boys and girls, baseball, football, following by a dance in the evening. Ladies to bring cake. Gents 50 cents. The wag here propsed that ._._._. . " Size: Quarto. B/W Drawings (illustrator).…

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 40pp. Newsprint [43cm x 27.5cm / 17" x 11"]. Ten bifolia (sheets folded vertically once to form forty pages). Age toned throughout. Occasional light creasing, fore-edges lightly bumped. Small ink stamped address on the rear cover page, for mailing, reads: "Library for Social and Technological Alternatives | Box 472 | Fairfax, CA 94930." Earth First! is a group of radical environmentalists that formed in the American Southwest in the spring of 1980, founded by Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and Ron Kezar, among others. Earth First! quickly came to national attention with their "cracking" of Glen Canyon Dam activist stunt, which was performed and filmed in the spring of 1981. Edward Abbey is considered to be the "literary father" of the group. "Earth First! is the beginning of the new, bold environmental movement. And 'Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal' is its voice" (Dave Foreman, Editor). Rear cover half-page illustration by Lone Wolf Circles dated '88 is untitled and depicts a ranch hand herding a large group of branded cattle in front of mountain peaks, above which shows, in a dreamy puff of clouds, some of the much wilder and disappearing Western animals: a buffalo, a wolf, a fox, a wolverine. Cover story by Howie Woke is entitled "Stop the Forest Service!" Cover illustration entitled "The Forest Service Cometh" by Christoph Manes depicts the grim reaper scything down a patch of old-growth forest. David Gaines (1947-1988) obituary printed on page 3. Full-page ad "EF! Local Groups Merchandise" with "Usual Disgusting Plea for Money" on page 15. Curious article on page 25 entitled "Deep Ecology and Magic: Notes of a Sleight-of-hand Sorcerer" by David Abram ("David Abram, in addition to being a spell-binding magician, is a philosophy teacher at SUNY"). Edward Abbey's review of Wendell Berry's work "Home Economics" is printed on page 32. Wendell Berry's "My Answer to Edward Abbey" follows on page 33. Other credited Earth First! staff for this issue include: John Davis (Managing Editor), Kris Sommerville (Business Manager), Charles Conner (Shipping & Mailing), Helen Wilson (Cartography), Mike Roselle (Roving Editor), David Cross (Roving Editor), Roger Featherstone (Roving Editor), Art Goodtimes (Poetry Editor), Christoph Manes (Associate Editor), and Tucson Earth First! Group (Mailing). A long list of additional Contributing Editors, Correspondents, and Contributing Artists follows on page 2. …

[circa 1955]. (Limp cloth) Very good, no dust jacket. 132pp. Illustrations. A previous owner's name and address on the front endpaper and the top of the spine is bumped and torn on the inside hinge. Illustrations by Bill Perehudoff. Locale: ; Alberta; Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Western Canada, Pioneer Life--Western Canada). …