SEYMOUR, John. The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency.

(London): Faber & Faber, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 28.7cm by 22.6cm. 256 pages. Foreword by E.F. Schaumacher. Seymour’s influential manual of practical self-reliance, a comprehensive and highly visual guide to smallholding and domestic self-sufficiency, covering agriculture, animal husbandry, food production and preservation, traditional crafts, and rural technologies. The work is notable for its integration of step-by-step instruction with densely illustrated layouts, reflecting both the countercultural “back-to-the-land” movement of the 1970s and Seymour’s own experience as a smallholder. The book became a cornerstone text of the modern self-sufficiency movement, widely reprinted. This a very good copy in dust jacket. Scarce in the first printing and in this hardcover issue.