(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Hippie) Richard Wizansky, ed. Home Comfort: Stories and Scenes of Life on Total Loss Farm

Illus. with drawings. Jacket. First Edition. NY: Saturday Review Press, [1973].

A fantastic gathering of essays, stories, memories and recipes from Total Loss Farm, with contributions from numerous commune members, including Raymond Mungo, Hugh Beame, Pete Gould, Alicia Bay Laurel, Jeanne Pepper, and others. Total Loss Farm was a renowned 1960s-70s hippie commune and back-to-the-land refuge located in Guilford, Vermont. Founded in 1968 by radical journalists including Raymond Mungo, it was a counterculture community focused on literature, environmentalism, and alternative lifestyles. Residents focused on communal living, gardening, wood-splitting, cooking, and writing, often with little money and no rigid structure.

Chapters by contributors include Vegetable Matters, Maple Sugaring, Psychic Farming: The Organic Method, Living with Animals, Cheese-Making on the Small Farm, Brad, The Butter Churn, etc. Illustrations are wonderful and sadly unattributed.

Chipping to jacket spine head and upper corners, a bit of fading to jacket spine; owner's name to front free endpaper, worming to lower gutter of front free endpaper, else very good.

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