Indianapolis IN: Indiana Historical Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket; Owner inscription on front end paper. 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Travel journal of Robert Dale Owens. Covers a year of wandering after his 16-month stay in the utopian New Harmony community in Indiana. R. D. Owens was the eldest son of Robert Owens who founded New Harmony . B&W illustrations. Laid in map of "Harmony on the Wabash 1814-1825" in fine condition. In lightly-textured wraps. A clean, tight, near fine copy and a fascinating view of a man of strong opinions traveling in 1827. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo .

Detroit MI: Harlo Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; Very slightly rolled. Spine tail bumped. Tail, tail edges, and tail corners rubbed. Two previous owners' names to front endpaper. DJ has a major chip at the spine head, minor chips and wrinkles to other edges, a bit of soil. 1983. Not First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Recounts the lives of Samuel VanderMeer ("Uncle Sam") and Nola Pease ("Aunt Nola") and their friends and family in the Kentucky mountains from 1923-1969. First person accounts of mountain life: horses, preaching, childbirth, molasses boiling, weddings, schooling, swimming holes, and slingshots. B&w photo plates. SIGNED and inscribed on front endpaper by the author "Sincerely/Nola Vander Meer/May 1985/Jude-24-25." Spelling of the last name seems to vary by occasion or whim. can be VanderMeer or Vander Meer. Excellent primary material for the historian. Clean and conservatively VG in a VG- DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 239 pages .