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
Counterpoint, 2008. Rorer, Abigail. Later printing. Hardcover. 26pp. Quarto [31 cm]. 1/4 tan cloth over green illustrated paper boards. Attractive dark green end papers. No dust jacket as issued Illustrated with engravings by Abigail Rorer. Foreword by Ed McClanahan. The joke of the Mad Farmer Poems is that in a...... More
Counterpoint, Copyright 2008. Rorer, Abigail. Later printing. Hardcover. 26pp. Quarto [31 cm]. 1/4 tan cloth over green illustrated paper boards. Dark green end papers. No dust jacket as issued Illustrated with engravings by Abigail Rorer. Foreword by Ed McClanahan. Published by arrangement with Press on Scroll Road. The joke of..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 204pp. Octavo [21cm]. Black boards, with title stamped in white on spine. Publisher's black topstain. The head of the spine is very mildly bumped, and there is a previous owner's gift inscription on the front free endpaper. In a dust jacket..... More
Shoemaker & Company, 2022. First edition. Paperback. 513pp. Octavo [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. Wendell Berry demands "a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others." He writes, "To deal with so great a problem..... More
New York: George Braziller, 1964. Ben Shahn. First edition. Hardcover. [38pp] Oblong sextodecimo [17.5 cm by 22.5 cm] White cloth with title in black on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Housed in black slipcase. Illustrated thoughout by Ben Shahn. Second work from the noted author. Freedman A2. 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
Printed for Black Swan Books by Larkspur Press, 2013. Limited edition. Broadside. SIGNED. Broadside measuring 10 x 14". Printed in black. 73 of only 100 copies. Signed by Kentucky writer and environmentalist Wendell Berry in pencil. "Poet, novelist, and environmentalist Wendell Berry lives in Port Royal, Kentucky near his birthplace..... More
San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 340pp. Octavo [21 cm] Brown cloth boards quarterbound in light brown cloth spine. In the illustrated dust jacket with subtle discoloration to the spine. Eleven essays, with the majority drawn from "The Long-Legged House," "The Hidden Wound," "The Unforeseen Wilderness,"..... More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2008. Later printing. Paperback. 103 pp. Octavo. White and blue covers. It is 1976 and Andy Catlett, farmer and agricultural journalist, is walking the streets of San Francisco at dawn. In the eight months since losing his right hand to a corn-picking machine, he has also lost himself..... 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
Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 2004. Bates, Wesley. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Unpaginated. Sextodecimo [16.5cm] 1/4 gray cloth with decorative paper over boards. With the dust jacket. Number 98 in an edition of 100 copies printed on Magnani Velata paper and handbound by Carolyn Whitesel. Attractive fine press edition of poems..... More
New York: Pantheon, 1993. First edition / uncorrected bound galleys. 161pp. Octavo [21 cm] Yellow printed wrappers. Very good. Freedman A93a. More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2016. First edition. Paperback. 153pp. Octavo. [21cm] Illustrated Wraps. A collection of Sabbath poems from 2014 and 2015 combined with 'The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation'. More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2004. Second edition. Paperback. 440 pp. 23x15cm. White and blue cover with painting. A collection of stories that focuses on five generations of residents in the town of Port William, Kentucky. "Wendell Berry has constructed an almost perfect fiction, a sublime meditation on how irrevocable loss is redeemed..... More
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2019. First Edition; Later Printing. Paperback. 122pp. Sextodecimo. Illustrated wraps. "First published in 1972, “Think Little” is cultural critic and agrarian Wendell Berry at his best: prescient about the dire environmental consequences of our mentality of greed and exploitation, yet hopeful that we will recognize war..... More
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 1998. reprint. Paperback. 216pp. Octavo. [20.5cm]. Illustrated Wraps. A collection of Berry's poetry, based around his Sunday morning walking meditations where he observed the world through his poetry. This book gathers all of his single works to date, embracing that which is elemental to human life-- beauty..... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996. Third edition - first printing. Paperback. SIGNED. 234pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. Spine is a touch rolled. Scratching and rubbing to wraps. One small spot of soiling on textblock fore-edge. Inscribed and dated by Wendell Berry on the title page. Berry's powerful and eloquent..... More
New York: North Point Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 210pp. Octavo [20.9cm]. Blue-grey cloth over boards. Author and title stamped in gold on the spine. Head of boards very lightly sunned. Bright red illustrated dust jacket. Spine of dust jacket slightly faded. Dust jacket unclipped. Signed and inscribed by..... More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2019. First edition. Paperback. 158pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]. Blue pictorial wraps. As part of Counterpoint’s celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry comes this reissue of his 1986 classic, The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. Those stories include “Thicker Than Liquor”, “Where Did They..... More
Counterpoint, 2007. First Shoemaker & Hoard Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. 64pp. Octavo [23cm]; illustrated wraps. A collection of poems that Berry wrote while looking out the multi-paned window of "The Long-Legged House". This edition is a copy of the Bob Baris Press on Scroll Road handpressed edition with wood engravings..... More
Washington, D.C. Counterpoint, 1996. First edition / uncorrected bound galleys. Paperback. 149pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Red printed wrappers. Very good. Freedman A103a. The author's fifth novel, continuing to tell the stories of the characters of the Port Williams fellowship. More
New York: Counterpoint, 2018. Later printing. Paperback. 167 pp. 20x13cm. Off-white pictoral covers with title printed in black. "Wendell Berry's latest collection contains five stories that return to one of his favorite places, the fictional town of Port William Kentucky...As always, he richly evokes the region's farmland and hamlets, and..... More
Versailles: Adela Press, 1996. Limited edition chapbook. Paperback. SIGNED. Number 202 of 400 chapbooks printed on Natur Text paper, sewn into Gainsborough wraps, and numbered. Design, composition, and presswork by Alan Cornett at Larkspur Press. Near fine, with a light crease to the rear wrap. Signed by Wendell Berry on..... More