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
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
New York: Pantheon, 1993. First edition / uncorrected bound galleys. 161pp. Octavo [21 cm] Yellow printed wrappers. Very good. Freedman A93a. 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
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, CA: Counterpoint, 2021. Reprint. Paperback. 71pp. Duodecimo [15.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. "A brief meditation on the role of technology in his own life and how it has changed the landscape of the United States from 'America’s greatest philosopher on sustainable life and living' (Chicago Tribune). 'A number of people, by now..... 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
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
New York: The Library of America, 2019. Second Library of America printing. Hardcover. 1702pp. Octavo [21cm]; two volumes in a slipcase, green cloth covered boards with gilt title on spine. Wendell Berry (b. 1934) is a writer whose life’s work has been dedicated to “what I value most in the..... More
Lewiston, ID. Confluence Press, Inc., 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 223pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with a white ink stamped title on the spine. Near fine. The foot of the spine is gently bumped. The dust jacket is in near fine condition as well. This work contains an..... More
New York: Random House, 1993. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF. 420pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] White and blue printed wrappers. Near Fine book in Near Fine dust jacket. Rear panel of jacket is blank. "PROOF" stamped on inside of jacket. One of only a handfull of proofs produced for..... More
New York: Random House, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 420pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] 1/2 black cloth over white boards with title gilt stamped on backstrip. Slight rubbing to dust jacket. Signed by the author, Charles Bowden, on the title page in black ink. More
New York: Doubleday, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 342pp. Large octavo [24 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with brownish red paper covered boards. Near fine / Near fine. Publisher's author photo laid in. Sarah Bird's previous novel, The Mommy Club, won the Texas Institute of Letters Best Fiction of the Year award..... More
New York: Brooklyn Artists Alliance, 2010. Paperback. Unpaginated, 24cm. Red and light blue saddle-bound illustrated wraps. Issue 9, Numbered edition of 750. Idaville is an illustrated short story about a boy detective who never grew up and a girl who did. For Leroy, solutions have always been as easy as flipping..... More
New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1995. Advance reading copy. Paperback. SIGNED. 400pp. Octavo [21 cm] White and black printed wraps. Very good. The extremities are lightly soiled, and very slightly stained. Label stain on rear wrap. Spine ends bumped. Remainder mark in black pen on the bottom edge..... More
Roma: Arcana Editrice, 1979. Italian text. Paperback. 140pp. Octavo [20 cm]. Illustrated wraps. Lightly bumped on edges and corners, faded at the spine. Clean and unmarked. Very Good. Conversazioni inedite con Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg...1974-1979. Many illustrations. More
Livingston, MT: Clark City Press, 1996. Second printing, association copy. Hardcover. SIGNED. 154pp. Octavo [22 cm] Tan cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Near fine, in a very good dust jacket, with light staining (more so on the rear panel). Ex-libris Tom Russell. Inscribed by..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1931. First edition in English. Hardcover. 274pp. Octavo [23 cm] Orange cloth over boards stamped in brown and gilt. There are a number of very tiny, light stains to the upper extremities, the spine ends are gently bumped, and there is a previous owner's..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1984. First American edition. Hardcover. 173pp. Large octavo [24 cm] 1/2 natural cloth with olive green cloth covered boards. Very good plus. The edges of the spine and covers are very subtly bumped, rubbed and faded. The top edge of the text block is..... More
Cape Town, Pretoria: Human & Rousseau, 1978. Third edition. Hardcover. 170pp. Octavo [22 cm] Gray paper covered boards with a white ink stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the covers are lightly rubbed and bumped. There are a couple of very small stains on the front..... More
Cape Town, Pretoria: Human & Rousseau, 1978. Third edition. Hardcover. 245pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown paper covered boards with a white ink stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the covers are bumped and lightly rubbed. The dust jacket is in very good condition as well. The..... More
Cape Town, Pretoria: Human & Rousseau, 1969. Hardcover. 220pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Brown paper covered boards with a white ink stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the covers are gently rubbed and bumped. The spine is ever so slightly rolled. There is an ink stamp on..... More
Cape Town, Pretoria: Human & Rousseau, 1978. Third edition. Hardcover. 147pp. Octavo [22 cm] Brown paper covered boards with a white ink stamped title on the spine. Very good. The edges of the covers are bumped and lightly rubbed. Very slight spine slant. There are several very small light stains..... More