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ABCs of Early Americana currently out of print, please order other books individually
Contains five Eric Sloane books:
A Museum of Early American Tools. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of how farm tools and kitchen implements were used and made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age.
ABCs of Early Americana. A collection of American firsts—from the saltbox house to basketball, hex signs to ear trumpets, popcorn to rocking chairs—organized in an ABC format.
The Seasons of America Past. From "sugaring time," spring plowing, and June weddings, to strawberry picking, weeding season, the fall harvest, and cider making, Eric Sloane recounts the yearly cycle of seasons and how it shaped early American life.
Once Upon a Time. One of Sloane's last books, and in some ways his grumpiest (but not very), in this one he celebrates the character traits that served early Americans well: love of freedom, respect for the individual, sensible frugality, determined self-reliance, and love of God.
American Yesterday. Here Sloane explores the unique careers of dowsers, tithingmen, sawyers, nailers, plumbum-men (plumbers), barber-surgeons, sellmongers, fence-viewers, and other old-time artisans and craftworkers, illustrating the activities, customs, and things created by the people who made their living in "antique ways."
