Shakers

Ann the Word - The Life of Mother Ann Lee

Founder of the Shakers

by Nardi Reeder Campion

Little, Brown & Company, First Edition, 1976

hardcover, very good condition

former library book with usual library markings

208 pages,  clean and crisp pages

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Shaker Furniture - The Craftmanship of an American Communal Sect

by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews

Dover Publications, 1964

vintage softcover, 135 pages

very good condition

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Mostly Shaker From The New Yankee Workshop

by Norm Abram

Little, Brown & Company, 1992

softcover, 214 pages

fair condition

some pages are slightly wrinkled and a few pages towards the back of the book are slightly stained along the bottom of the page

still provides a good reading copy

our price:   $4.50 plus media mail shipping

Shaker Style

by John S. Bowman

JG Press, World Publications Group, 2004

oversized hardcover, excellent condition

dustjacket shows slight wear

pages are clean and crisp, 112 pages

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

CD - Simple Gifts - Shaker Chants and Spirituals

Shakers of Sabbathday Lake

Schola Cantorum - The Boston Camerata

Joel Cohen

Erato Disques, 1995

total time: 59:53

$6.95 plus media mail shipping

God Among the Shakers - A Search for Stillness and Faith at Sabbathday Lake

by Suzanne Skees

Hyperion, 1998

First Edition stated

softcover, 277 pages

very good condition - unmarked and intact

$8.95 plus media mail shipping

Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture and
Woodenware - Vol. II

by Enjer Handberg

Berkshire Traveller Press, 1975

former library book with usual library markings

softcover, 86 pages

fair condition

our price:   $6.95  plus media mail shipping

Shaker Hearts

by Ann Turner

paintings by Wendell Minor

Harper Collins Publishers, 1997

First Edition stated

beautiful hardcover,  40 pages

excellent condition

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The Four Seasons of Shaker Life - An Intimate Portrait of the Community at Sabbathday Lake, Maine

Folkways - Arts - Faith

by Gerard C. Wertkin

photographs by Ann Chwatsky

Fireside Book, 1986

softcover, 189 pages

very good condition - unmarked and intact

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Mostly Shaker From The New Yankee Workshop

by Norm Abram

Little, Brown & Company, 1992

softcover, 214 pages

like new condition

our price:   $9.50 plus media mail shipping

Simple Gifts - 25 Authentic Shaker Craft Projects

Complete Step-By-Step Instructions from the Editors of Garden Way Publishing

Storey Communications, 1st Printing, 1990

hardcover, 132 pages

like new condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Work and Worship Among the Shakers

Their Craftsmanship and Economic Order

by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews

Dover Publications, Inc., 1982

softcover, 224 pages

very good condition - unmarked and intact

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Simple Gifts - A Memoir of a Shaker Village

by June Sprigg

Alfred A. Knopf, 1998

First Edition stated

hardcover, 228 pages

very good condition - clean and crisp pages

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The Earth Shall Blossom - Shaker Herbs and Gardening

by Galen Beale and Mary Rose Boswell

The Countryman Press, 1991

softcover, 264 pages

like new condition

$10.95 plus media mail shipping

Shakers World - A magazine for the scattered

friends of Shaker -    We Thank Thee Kindly

Volume 1 - Number 1 - May 1996 - ISSN 1087-0466

Shakers World - Manchester, CT

magazine - 31 pages - very good condition

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Shakers World - A magazine for the scattered

friends of Shaker - The Little Pilgrim

Volume 1 - Number 4 - Feb. 1997 - ISSN 1087-0466

Shakers World

Manchester, CT

magazine - 36 pages - very good condition

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The Shaker Messenger

Volume 17 - No 3 - March 1996

ISSN 0270-9368

The Shaker Messenger

Holland, MI

magazine - 28 pages - very good condition

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The Shaker Messenger

Volume 17 - No 2 - Nov. 1995

ISSN 0270-9368

The Shaker Messenger

Holland, MI

magazine - 28 pages - very good condition

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Shaker Boy

by Mary Lyn Ray

beautifully illustrated by Jeanette Winter

Browndeer Press, 1994

hardcover, 48 pages

former library book with usual library markings

fairly good condition - no notes or highlighting

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Shaker Your Plate:

Of Shaker Cooks and

Cooking

by Sister Frances A. Carr

United Society of Shakers, 1986

softcover - 154 pages

very good condition

crisp, clean, intact

$12.95 plus media mail shipping

Sister Jennie’s Shaker Desserts

Authentic recipes for easy use by modern cooks

by Arthur Tolve and James Bissland III

Gabriel’s Horn Publishing Co., 1983

vintage softcover - 48 pages

good condition

crisp, clean, intact

$5.50 plus media mail shipping

The Story of the Shakers

by Flo Morse

The Countryman Press, 1986

softcover - 109 pages

very good condition

crisp, clean, intact

$8.95 plus media mail shipping

The Shaker Cook Book - Not By Bread Alone

The unique recipes that have made Shaker cooking, baking and canning famous throughout the world

by Caroline B. Piercy

illustrated by Virginia Filson Walsh

Crown Publishers, Inc., 1953

vintage hardcover - 283 pages

very good condition

dustjacket shows wear

$14.95 plus media mail shipping

The Shaker Cook Book - Not By Bread Alone

The unique recipes that have made Shaker cooking, baking and canning famous throughout the world

by Caroline B. Piercy

illustrated by Virginia Filson Walsh

Crown Publishers, Inc., 1953

vintage hardcover - 283 pages

(pages 115-118 have stains and there is some writing

next to the recipe on page 116)

dustjacket shows great wear as depicted in photo

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

The Shakers - Hands To Work - Hearts to God

VHS Tape

Florentine Films - A film by Ken Burns and Amy Stechler Burns

VHS - 58 minutes, color, 1988

$8.95 plus media mail shipping

Seasoned with Grace - My Generation of Shaker Cooking

by Eldress Bertha Lindsay

edited by Mary Rose Boswell

The Countryman Press, 1987

softcover, 161 pages

former library book

good condition

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

The Best of Shaker Cooking

edited by Amy Bess Miller and Persis Fuller

authentic recipes from 19th century Shaker farm kitchens renowned for their delicious cookery and innovative use of natural foods and herbs

Macmillan Publishing, 1970

vintage softcover, 457 pages

fairly good condition considering age of book

cover shows wear

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The Shakers

Text by L. Edward Purcell

Crescent Books, 1988

hardcover, 128 pages

excellent condition

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How to Build Shaker Furniture - Revised Edition

by Thos. Moser

Sterling Publishing Co., 1977

softcover, 209 pages

like new condition

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The Best of Shaker Cooking - Revised and Expanded

edited by Amy Bess Miller and Persis Fuller

over 900 Easy-To-Prepare are Favorites From 19th-Century Shaker Kitchens With a New Introduction By Evan Jones Marking the Silver Anniversary of the Hancock Shaker Village Restoration

Macmillan Publishing, 1985

vintage hardcover, 496 pages

new condition

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Cooking in the Shaker Spirit

by James Haller with Jeffrey Paige

Yankee Books, 1990

signed by author

softcover, 202 pages

very good condition

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Shaker Cooking

edited by Jilian Stewart

Crescent Books, 1991

hardcover, 80 pages

excellent condition

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Seasoned with Grace - My Generation of Shaker Cooking

by Eldress Bertha Lindsay

edited by Mary Rose Boswell

The Countryman Press, 1987

softcover, 161 pages

very good condition

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

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Growing Up Shaker

by Sister Frances A. Carr

United Society of Shakers, 1995

softcover, 133 pages

good condition -

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Seasoned with Grace - My Generation of Shaker Cooking

by Eldress Bertha Lindsay

edited by Mary Rose Boswell

The Countryman Press, 1987

softcover, 161 pages

very good condition

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Simple Gifts - 25 Authentic Shaker Craft Projects

Complete Step-By-Step Instructions from the Editors of Garden Way Publishing

Foreword by June Sprigg

Storey Communications, 1990

hardcover, 132 pages

very good like new condition

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

The Gift to Be Simple - A Garland for Ann Lee

By Robert Peters

Liveright, 1975

First Edition

vintage softcover  - 114 pages

good condition

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Shop Drawings of Shaker Volume 2

Furniture & Woodenware

Ejner Handberg

Berkshire Traveller Press, 1991

softcover, 86 pages

very good like new condition

$6.95 plus media mail shipping

Shaker Boy

by Mary Lyn Ray

beautifully illustrated by Jeanette Winter

Browndeer Press, 1994

hardcover, 48 pages

former library book with usual library markings

good condition - no notes or highlighting

cover shows wear

our price:   $5.95 plus media mail shipping

The Sabbathday Lake Shakers: An Introduction

to The Shaker Heritage

by Sister R. Mildred Barker

The Shaker Press, 1985

staplebound softcover, 36 pages

very good condition - no notes or highlighting

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Alfred, Maine - The Shakers and the Village

by Harland H. Eastman

printed by Robert M. Wilson, 1986

vintage softcover, 100 pages

good condition

our price:   $16.95 plus media mail shipping

Shaker Village Views

by Robert P. Emlen

University Press of New England, 1987

vintage softcover,  198 pages

good condition -

former library book

our price:   $16.95 plus media mail shipping

Work and Worship Among the Shakers

Their Craftsmanship and Economic Order

by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews

Dover Publications, Inc., 1982

softcover, 224 pages

very good condition - unmarked and intact

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

The Shaker Messenger

Volume 7 - No 4 - Summer 1985

ISSN 0270-9368

The Shaker Messenger

Holland, MI

magazine - 36 pages - very good condition

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

Sister Jennie’s Shaker Desserts

Authentic recipes for easy use by modern cooks

by Arthur Tolve and James Bissland III

Gabriel’s Horn Publishing Co., 1983

vintage softcover - 48 pages

good condition

cover is lightly stained

$5.50 plus media mail shipping

The Best of Shaker Cooking

edited by Amy Bess Miller and Persis Fuller

authentic recipes from 19th century Shaker farm kitchens renowned for their delicious cookery and innovative use of natural foods and herbs

Macmillan Publishing, 1970

vintage softcover, 457 pages

good condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

How to Build Shaker Furniture - Revised Edition

by Thos. Moser

Sterling Publishing Co., 1980

vintage softcover, 209 pages

good condition

our price:   $14.95  plus media mail shipping

The Shakers

Text by L. Edward Purcell

Crescent Books, 1991

hardcover, 128 pages

excellent condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Simple Beauty - The Shakers in America

by William C. Ketchum, Jr.

Smithmark, 1996

hardcover, 128 pages

stunning photographs

excellent condition

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Shaker Textile Arts

by Beverly Gordon

University Press of New England, 1980

vintage hardcover,  329 pages

good condition -

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The Shaker Cookbook

Recipes and Lore from the Valley of God’s Pleasure

by Caroline Piercy and Arthur Tolve

Gabriel’s Horn Publishing Company, 1984

softcover, 176 pages

good condition

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The People Called Shakers

by Edward Deming Andrews

New Enlarged Edition

Dover Publications, 1963

vintage softcover, 351 pages

good condition

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Shaker - Life, Work, and Art

by June Sprigg and David Larkin

Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1987

vintage hardcover, 272 pages

excellent condition

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The Shakers

Hands to Work - Hearts to God

Their History and Visions from 1774 to the

Present

by Amy Stechler Burns & Ken Burns

An Aperture Book,

hardcover, 128 pages

good condition

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Maps of the Shaker West

A Journey of Discovery

A collection of maps and histories of better

known and lesser known Shaker sites in

Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and

Michigan beginning in 1800.

by Martha Boice, Dale Covington, Richard Spence

Knot Garden Press, 1997, First Edition stated

softcover, 140 pages

good condition

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Shaker Recipes and Formulas For Cooks and

Homemakers

Hundreds of practical hints and recipes

dyes  cleaning agents - medicines - vegetarian dishes - breads - frozen desserts - much more

by William Lawrence Lassiter

Bonanza Books, 1978

vintage hardcover,  302 pages

interior pages - very good condition

back of dustjacket has tiny tear that has been repaired

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The Shakers and Their Homes

A Concise History of the United Society

of Believers Called Shakers

Shaker Village, Inc., Canterbury, N.H., 1976

in collaboration with New Hampshire

Publishing Company

by Charles Edson Robinson

vintage softcover,  134 pages

very good condition -

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Summers at Watervliet

by Melba L. Hunt

published by the Kettering-Moraine Museum

and Historical Society - Kettering, Ohio, 1985

vintage softcover,  76 pages

very good condition -

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Recapturing Wisdom’s Valley

The Watervliet Shaker Heritage, 1775-1975

by Dorothy M. Filley

Albany Institute of History and Art, 1975

vintage softcover, 128 pages

very good condition

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Marila Fairbanks

A Handwritten Shaker Spirit Message

A Facsimile Reprint of the original 1842

manuscript

Shaker Village Work Group

softcover, 20 pages

good condition

sticker removal visible on front cover as

shown in photo

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A Collection of Shaker Thoughts

by Colin Becket Richmond

introduction by Eldress Gertrude M. Soule

Seventh Edition, 1990

softcover, 83 pages

very good condition

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Shaker Tested Recipes

Favorite Shaker Recipes Compiled

and Tested by the Canterbury Shakers

Canterbury, New Hampshire

vintage softcover,  24 pages

good condition

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Shaker Lane

by Alice and Martin Provensen

Viking Kestrel, 1987

vintage hardcover, 32 pages

interior pages - good condition

former library book

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The Shaker Image

Second and annotated edition

by Elmer R. Pearson and Julia Neal

Hancock Shaker Village, Inc., 1996

hardcover - 294 pages

excellent condition

$16.95 plus media mail shipping

Shaker Style

by John S. Bowman

Smithmark, 1995

oversized hardcover, good condition

dustjacket shows slight wear

pages are clean and crisp, 112 pages

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

Honorable Harvest - Shakers and the

Natural World

by Carl Benton Straub

United Society of Shakers

New Gloucester, Maine, 2009

softcover - 294 pages

excellent condition

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Hancock Shaker Village - A Guidebook

and History

by John Harlow Ott

Revised Edition

Shaker Community, Inc., 1976

softcover - 144 pages

excellent condition

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Pleasant Hill and Its Shakers

by Thomas D. Clark and F. Gerald Ham

Pleasant Hill Press, 1996

softcover - 104 pages

good condition

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Shop Drawings of Shaker Iron and Tinware

by Ejner Handberg

The Berkshire Traveller Press, 1976

vintage softcover - 87 pages

good condition

$7.95 plus media mail shipping

 

The Shaker Herb and Garden Book

by Rita Buchanan

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996

hardcover-  160 pages

beautiful photos

interior pages - good condition

former library book

our price:  $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Chosen Land

The Sabbathday Lake Shakers

photographs by Stephen Guion Williams

afterword by Sister Mildred Barker

David R. Godine Publisher, 1975

vintage hardcover - 40 pages

good condition

$18.95 plus media mail shipping

The Shakers

The American Religious Experience

by Jean Kinney Williams

Franklin Watts, 1997

vintage hardcover - 112 pages

former library book

good condition

$13.95 plus media mail shipping

The Shaker Garden

Beauty Through Utility

by Stephanie Donaldson

Trafalgar Square Publishing, 2000

hardcover - 168 pages

good condition

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

A Shaker Sister’s Drawing

Wild Plants Illustrated By Cora Helena Sarle

The Monacelli Press, 1997

hardcover-  86 pages

beautiful illustrations

interior pages - like new condition

dustjacket shows light wear

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CD - The Golden Harvest

More Shaker Chants and Spirituals

The Shakers of Sabbathday Lake

The Boston Camerata

Joel Cohen - Director

featuring the Members of the Harvard University

Choir and Members of Youth Pro Musica

total time: 76:36

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God Among the Shakers - A Search for Stillness and Faith at Sabbathday Lake

by Suzanne Skees

Hyperion, 1998

First Edition stated

softcover, 277 pages

very good condition - unmarked and intact

$8.95 plus media mail shipping

Shaker Architecture

compiled by Herbert Schiffer

Schiffer Publishing, 1979

vintage softcover, 190 pages

very good condition - unmarked and intact

$12.95 plus media mail shipping

Domestic Broils

Shakers, Antebellum Marriage, and the

Narratives of Mary and Joseph Dyer

edited with an introduction by

Elizabeth A. DeWolfe

University of Massachusetts Press, 2010

softcover, 190 pages

very good condition

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The Shaker Garden

Beauty Through Utility

by Stephanie Donaldson

David and Charles, 2000

hardcover - 168 pages

good condition

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

A Place in Time

The Shakers at Sabbathday Lake, Maine

photographs by Stephen Guion Williams

foreword by Gerard C. Wertkin

David R. Godine Publisher, 2006

softcover - 89 pages

good condition

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Fruits of the Shaker Tree of Life

Memoirs of Fifty Years of Collecting and

Research

by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews

Signed by Author Faith Andrews

The Berkshire Traveller Press, 1975

vintage softcover - 222 pages

good condition

$14.95 plus media mail shipping

Mary Whitcher’s Shaker House-Keeper

originally published in Boston in 1882

facsimile edition

published by Morgan & Morgan, Inc.

Reprinted from the library at Hancock Shaker Village

Hancock, Massachusetts

softcover - 34 pages

good condition

$18.95 plus media mail shipping

How to Build Shaker Furniture - Revised Edition

by Thos. Moser

Sterling Publishing Co., 1980

vintage softcover

cover has area affected by sticker removal

lightly stained and pages are slightly wavy

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The Shaker Garden - Beauty Through Utility

by Stephanie Donaldson

David & Charles, 2003

softcover

good condition

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The Community Industries of the Shakers

by Edward D. Andrews, PH.D.

New York State Museum Handbook 15

The University of State of New York, 1933

vintage softcover, 322 pages

interior pages - good condition considering

age of books

shows some light wear

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Shaker Songs

A celebration of peace, harmony, and simplicity

compiled and edited by Christian Goodwillie

with contributions from Joel Cohen

hardcover, 128 pages

Black Dog & Levanthal, 2002

interior pages - very good condition

includes a CD of traditional Shaker music with

performances by the Boston Camerata

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Shaker - A Collectors’s Source Book II

by Don and Carol Raycraft

Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1985

vintage softcover, 112 pages

good condition

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A Promising Venture

Shaker Photographs from the WPA

American Communal Societies Series

No. 7

by Lesley Herzberg

Richard W, Couper Press, 2012

softcover, 239 pages

good condition

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The Art of the Shakers

by Michael Horsham

Chartwell Books, 1989

hardcover, 128 pages

good condition

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The Kentucky Shakers

by Julia Neal

The University Press of Kentucky, 1982

hardcover, 102 pages

good condition

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The Shakers and the World’s People

by Flo Morse

The University Press of New England, 1987

vintage softcover, 381 pages

good condition

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How to Build Shaker Furniture

by Thos. Moser

Sterling Publishing Co., 1979

vintage softcover, 209 pages

good condition

our price:   $7.95  plus media mail shipping

The Shakers

Hands to Work - Hearts to God

Their History and Visions from 1774 to the

Present

by Amy Stechler Burns & Ken Burns

Portland House, 1990

hardcover, 128 pages

good condition

gift inscription written on front endpage

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