Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press, 2025. Robert Crumb; Sophie Crumb; Trent Call; Jim Stiles; et al. Limited Edition. Hardcover. The Monkey Wrench Gang 50th Anniversary Box is designed to accompany a copy of our new printing of the R. Crumb illustrated, hardbound edition of Edward Abbey’s environmental classic..... More
Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky; Fireside Industries Books, 2019. Hardcover. 93pp. Square octavo [23.5 cm] Illustrated paper over boards. Minor soiling to the rear board. Edited by Ben Aguilar. From the Publisher- "The traditional neighborly work of killing a hog and preparing it as food for humans is..... More
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. 109pp. Octavo. [20.5cm]. Illustrated Wraps. Essays by Wendell Berry regarding conservation of the natural world. He explores ideas from modern health care, to the practice of forestry with local focus and national resolve. Berry argues that there can never be a separation between global..... More
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 109pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with beige paper over boards. Boards a trifle cocked. Spine ends gently bumped. Roughly a dozen tiny, dot-sized stains on the bottom edge of the text block (pages clean and bright). In a dust jacket..... More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2002. Later printing. Paperback. 330pp. 23x15cm. White cover with painting. "The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty-one essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. These essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress..... More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2009. Later printing. Paperback. 234 pp. Octavo [23 cm] Paperback. NEW. From back cover: "Long before organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Wendell Berry was farming and writing with the purity of food in mind. For the last five decades, he has embodied mindful eating through..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 52pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 black cloth with brown paper over boards. Freedman A33.b. A sequence of poems about the land. This is Wendell Berry's sixth volume of poetry. Signed by Wendell Berry, with the date "4/15/07," on the title..... More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 182pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Rust-colored cloth over boards with a white ink stamped title on the spine. Publisher's orange topstain. With a miniscule amount of underlining, and a brief contemporary gift inscription on the title page. In the dust..... More
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 2012. Later printing. Paperback. 176 pp. Octavo [22cm]. Illustrated wraps. The title of this book is taken from an account by Thomas F. Hornbein on his travels in the Himalayas. "It seemed to me," Hornbein wrote, "that here man lived in continuous harmony with the land, as..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 118pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth with pale blue paper over boards. Slight lean to spine; rear board a hair warped. In an attractive dust jacket, with a couple of very shallow closed tears to the edges. A first edition..... More
San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 281pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with tan cloth covered boards, with light wear to the edges. In a dust jacket, with subtle sunning to the spine. Price sticker on front inside flap. Essays continuing many of the main..... More
Washington, D.C. Shoemaker Hoard, 2005. Bound Galley. Paperback. 162pp. Small octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very minor crease to the top fore-edge corner of the front wrap. With a Xeroxed note from the publisher, calling this a first pass galley, tucked in. From the rear wrap- "Author of over forty..... More
Berkeley: Counterpoint/Shoemaker Hoard, 2006. Second printing. Paperback. 152pp. 20 cm. Multicolored wrappers with brown backstrip. Includes bibliographical references and index. New book with no flaws. "For five decades, Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose, a writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his..... More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2010. Reprint. Paperback. 137pp. Octavo. Illustrated wraps. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 145pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth over brown boards. Black topstain. Title stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Extremities a bit faded. Spine ends bumped. In a price clipped dust jacket with a sun toned spine, and a...... More
California: Counterpoint, 1987. 16th printing. Paperback. 192 pp. Octavo [25 cm]. White wraps with woodcut illustration. "My work has been motivated," Wendell Berry has written, "by a desire, to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place." In Home Economics... Mr. Berry explores..... More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. 240pp. Octavo [22cm]. White boards with title stamped in black on spine. "Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the decades from World War II to the present moment. For those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital work..... More
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2012. Seventh printing. Paperback. 125pp. Octavo. [20.5cm]. Green wraps with black and white photo. A collection of essays by Wendell Berry regarding issues facing not only the United States but the earth itself. Berry tires to gain some hope from some examples of repair of Late Stage..... More
Washington, D. C. Counterpoint, 2000. Paperback. 363 pp. Octavo. [22.5cm] Wraps in two-tone white and brown spine and illustrated covers. Berry's "aching prose and strong sense of place . . . [put him] in the pantheon of Southern writers. This is an important novelist with prophetic things to say and..... More
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. 132pp. [20 cm]; illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Berry’s themes are reflections of his life: friends, family, the farm, the nature around us as well as within. He speaks strongly for himself and sometimes for the lost heart of the country. As he has..... More
Berkeley: Counterpoint LLC, 2014. Later printing. Paperback. 40pp. Octavo [21cm]; illustrated wraps. "During the otherwise quiet course of his life as a poet, Wendell Berry has become 'mad' at what contemporary society has made of its land, its communities, and its past. This anger reaches its peak in the poems..... More
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 2015. Later printing. Paperback. 176pp. Octavo [21cm]. Illustrated wraps. More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2013. Later printing. Paperback. 237pp. Octavo. [23 cm]. Blue wraps. For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical town on the banks of the Kentucky River, populated over the years by a cast of unforgettable characters living in a...... More
San Francisco: Counterpoint, 1988. First Edition, Advance reader's copy. Paperback. 125pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red wrappers with printed title. Near fine. Spine lightly sunned. A novel by the Kentucky poet farmer in his ongoing Port Williams Fellowship. It is 1976 and Andy Catlett, farmer and agricultural journalist, is walking the..... More
Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur Press, 1991. Limited Edition. Paperback. 13pp. Octavo [25cm]. Tan Fabriano Ingres Heavyweight paper wraps. Handset in Eric Gill's Joanna type & printed on a handfed C&P. Though limited, this copy has not been hand numbered. More