Search Results: living the good life by helen and scott

Schocken Books, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Shocken, 1989. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good+. 5 x 8 "; 411 pages. Light wear to covers and creasing to front bottom cover corner.

New York: Schocken Books, 1989. Paperback. As New. 411p. A softcover book in fine condition, apart from price sticker residue on the back. Account of the authors' back-to-the-land lifestyle.

When urban life was becoming oppressive early in 1932, educators Helen and Scott Nearing moved to Vermont to farm, to live healthfully, to build with stone, heat with wood, to read and to write. After 15 years, they moved to Harborside, Maine, with their adaptive skills to begin again with another stone house. They were already well beyond "retirement age" at 95 and near 80. This account is of their Maine continuing experiment in alternative lifestyles.

New York: Schocken Books. Near Fine. 1989. Paperback. 0805209700 . Book is in pristine condition. "This new edition of 'Living the Good Life,' and 'Continuing the Good Life,' brings together in one volume the Nearings' classic guides to the theory and practice of rural homesteading." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 411 pages .

Schocken Books, Inc., 1971. Hardcover. How to live sanely and simply in a troubled world. Good unclipped dust jacket; light shelfwear and edge chipping in spine area. Pages clean, binding tight.

New York & Harborside ME: Schocken Books/ Social Science Institute, 1976. Fourteenth printing. Paperback. Near Fine. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. xx, 213 pages. Signed "Roslyn from Helen" by Helen Nearing on half-title page. Condition of the book is Very Good; light spots at top of front cover, light diagonal crease on rear cover, text is very clean. Maine RGR

New York: Schocken Books, 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fifth printing. 213 pp. including index. Lightly bumped at the top corners. The leaves are lightly toned around their margins. Otherwise fine. The dust jacket has light edge wear. The price, $4.95, is present on the front flap..

New York: Galahad Books, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Full brown paper boards. xx, 213 pp., [12 pp.] B&W photos. Offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket is lightly bumped to extremities, a few short tears to top edge, small spot of wear to spine foot. This book, like Walden, is deeply rooted in an enduring American tradition of dissent from the majority and respect for the land. It is the distillation of 20 years in the woods, and it offers wisdom and practical guidance to city dweller and prospective homesteader alike.

Schocken Books, 1971. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good-. Good solid book, Ex-library. Jacket has wear but is now covered.

New York: Schocken, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1970. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Fourth Printing. Has some wear and signs of age. DJ has a few wrinkles and tears. Wrapped in protective mylar. Introduction by Paul Goodman. Photo of Helen and Scott in introductory pages. As a personal note, I love this cover. They should have kept it for the paperback. I also had the chance to meet Helen Nearing at her farm in the early 1990s. This book is a classic. Agriculture

Schocken Books, 1972T. paperback. Good. .

Schocken Books, 1973-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Schocken, 5th printing, 1971. Hbk, 213pp, 5th printing, illustr portrait frontis and a section of b+w photos, dj very faintly rubbed at extremities, otherwise fine, unclipped ($4.95) and now in protective sleeve, pages slightly toned at the margins, otherwise a fine, clean tight and unmarked text, becoming harder to find

209 pp. Front cover slightly cupped, otherwise a VG copy.

Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute. VG+ in a VG, bit edgeworn slipcase. 1954. hardcover. hardcover. 12mo . 209, 146pp . Scarce together in the original slipcase. .

Harborside, Maine: Social Science Institute, 1954 In Slip Case. Perfect Set Of The Nearing' S Scarce Works. Bibliography Of Social Science Handbooks Rear, Also Earlier Works Of Scott Nearing Rear.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine.

Harborside, ME: Social Science Inst.. Hardcover. 1954. 8vos 209, 146pp . Near Fine with no DJ. B&W Photographs. This is a two volume set housed in a gray cardboard slipcase in VG condition with no splitting. Gray cloth spines with decorated boards. Very slight red remainder mark to front edges. Living the Good Life: Being a Plain Practical Account of a Twenty Year Project in a Self-Subsistent Homestead in Vermont, Together With Remarks on How to live Sanely & Simply in a Troubled World. Helen Knothe Nearing (February 23, 1904 – September 17, 1995) was an American author and advocate of simple living. Helen knothe and Scott Nearing started a relationship in 1928 and married nearly 20 years later, in 1947. The couple lived in rural Vermont where they grew much of their food and erected nine stone buildings over the course of two decades. They earned money by producing maple syrup and sugar from the trees on their land and from Scott Nearing' s occasional paid lectures. In 1952, Helen… Read More

Harborside, ME: Social Science Institute, 1954. First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small octavo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. xii, 209, xii, 146 pp. Near fine with only mild toning to the interior boards and front free endpapers, with a very good original sleeve that has mild shelf wear and a bump along the top opening. The sleeve has a gold "Signed" sticker affixed to the lower left. Both editions are signed in neat blue ballpoint. "Living the Good Life" is authored and signed by both Helen and Scott. "Man's Search" is authored and signed by Scott alone.