How to live in the country without farming by Milton Wend - 1944

New York: Doubleday, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. A very good plus first edition in a very good dustjacket. Blue cloth boards, toning to pastedowns and endpapers. Dustjacket shows small tears and loss along edges, unclipped. 316 pp, including index. Octavo. A World War II book containing everything from accounts to weaving. "24 chapters for newcomers on their flight from the city that include all technics of country living for the productive country home, where income from non-agricultural services is preferable. It is a thoroughgoing guide, honest, sometimes deliberately hardboiled about obstacles, but reasonable and seemingly practical in all matters pertaining to moving to and living in the country. From the buying of the land, repairs and improvements, indoors and out, to self-maintenance from garden, orchard, field, livestock, etc., to listing 120 money earning urban occupations that can be practised in small communities, home industries, planning, education, health -- this is a commonsense manual." --- Kirkus Review 1944