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A Good House: Building a Life on the Land
by Manning, Richard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0802115039
- ISBN 13
- 9780802115034
- Seller
-
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green boards, light brown cloth spine with green foil titles, [xi], 238, [1] pp, 4 pp color photos, 4 pp b & w photos, 2 pp floor plans, bibliography. Previous owner's name in ink on ffep, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Half explanation of the technology, half memoir of the author's building of a timber-framed house near Missoula, Montana. Manning took special care to make the house as efficient and environmentally friendly as possible, and details his efforts in that direction as well. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.
Synopsis
A Good House is a chronicle of the year in which Manning set out to build his house and rebuild his life. Combining entertaining tales of the cast of characters who helped him build; practical information about wiring, roofing, and plumbing; and meditations on the struggle to integrate environmental and spiritual values into everyday life, this is a book about creating a solid foundation and building up from there—in a hosue, in a family, in living a good life.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CRBC00025
- Title
- A Good House: Building a Life on the Land
- Author
- Manning, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0802115039
- ISBN 13
- 9780802115034
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Crafts Building Construction Memoirs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crafts;
- X weight
- 32 oz
- Size
- 24 X 16 cm
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About the Seller
Twin City Antiquarian Books
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
About Twin City Antiquarian Books
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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