Publisher:
Kingfield, ME: Laura Hall Dunham, 1993. First Edition.
Seller ID: 61023bd
Signed by the Author. Octavo, paperbound (slick, illus. light blue wrappers), 85 pp. Fine. From lower cover: Mrs. Havel V. Hall attended a one room school in Sebec, Maine and Fox-Croft Academy. She was married 67 years to John Hall, formerly of Sangerville, now of New Portland, Maine and reared three children. She wrote her autobiography so that her nine grandchildren would know how she spent her childhood in the horse-and-buggy days of the early 1900s on her grandfather's farm. Hall's daughter, Laura Hall Dunham of Cassabassett Valley, a writer for many years, brings to life not only h... View More...
Octavo, lavender cloth & brown boards (hardcover), xiii, 273 pp. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. From dust jacket: The authors chose maple sugaring as a way of getting an honest living. Unwilling to sustain loss of personal freedom as wage earners and in flight from the city, they hoped to rediscover in New England the secrets of rural America: Òsimplicity, adequacy, decency, neighborliness, self-respect, and a never-ending attachment to the marvels of the life of nature and of society that we contact on every side and of which we are integral parts.Ó The Maple Sugar Book shares wi... View More...
Publisher:
Hinckley, Maine: Good Will Publishing Company, 1932. First Edition. Only two hundred and fifteen copies of this book have been printed, of which this is number 30.
Seller ID: 9919gcs
Signed and inscribed by the author. Octavo, green cloth backed boards (hardcover), 147 pp. Near-Fine, with darkened spine. View More...
