Berry, WendellABAA
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1982réf. 72051San Francisco: North Point Press 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED. 60pp. Duodecimo 18.5cm. Bound in light beige cloth; title stamped in gilt on the spine. In a glossy illustrated dust jacket. Flaps of dust jacket are very lightly toned. "A book of elegies of remembrance and praise. At issue are the qualities that transcend the dying and inform the living. It is the sum of life and death combined that is the Great Cycle of the earth the Wheel. North Point Press hardcover books
1977réf. 71944San Francisco: Sierra Club Books 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED. 228pp. Large octavo 25 cm Bound in navy cloth with title stamped in white ink on spine and blind stamped on front board. Light rubbing and bumping at the spine ends and corners of the covers. Spine just a tad rolled back. In the printed dust jacket with a couple of very short closed tears to the edges and a very minor gouge to the surface of the rear panel. Signed by Wendell Berry on the title page. Berry's powerful and eloquent argument that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline including valid criticism of the environmentally irresponsible agribusinesses of the modern world. Sierra Club Books hardcover books
2009réf. 19056Berkeley: Counterpoint 2009. Later printing. Paperback. New. 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 his land practices and his writing. In recognition of Berry's influence Michael Pollan offers an introduction to this new collection. Counterpoint paperback books
1979réf. 8242First edition limited to 300 unnumbered copies signed by Berry on the limitation page. Full cloth-covered boards with gilt stamped lettering on spine. Printed dustjacket. Published simultaneously by The Deerfield Press and The Gallery Press. No priority. Illustrated by Timothy Engelland. Printed by Harold McGrath and bound by Museum Bookbindings. Contents are the title poem and "Grief." Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. The Deerfield Press & The gallery Press hardcover books
1962réf. 30476London: Blandford Press 1962. cloth dust jacket. small 4to. cloth dust jacket. 420 pages. Third edition. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Jacket rubbed along spine ends else a near fine copy. Blandford Press unknown books
2006réf. 50780Emeryville: Shoemaker Hoard 2006. Uncorrected proof for the first edition. Signed and dated "5/19/07" by Berry on the title page. Illustrated glossy perfect-bound wraps. Publisher's two page announcemnt material laid-in with a letter from an associate publicist. Spine lightly bumped with a small rub on the front wrap. Near Fine condition. Unusual as such. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Galley/Proof. Shoemaker Hoard paperback books
1980réf. 30370Berkeley: North Point Press 1980. First edition. Stapled wraps. Signed and dated "3/24/03" by Berry on the last page of the poem. Above his signature Berry has written the salutation "With good wishes." Drawing by Bruce McGaw. Unread copy in Fine condition. Soft Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Chapbook. North Point Press paperback books
1994réf. 72024New York / San Francisco: Pantheon Books 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED. 210pp. Octavo 21cm. 1/4 beige cloth with speckled beige boards. Title stamped in green ink on spine. Author's initials stamped on front board. Small ownership mark on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is very mildly toned and the corners of the flaps are a bit creased. A return to one of Berry's favorite places the fictional town of Port William Kentucky. Contains seven interrelated stories. Pantheon Books hardcover books
2019réf. 65222Lexington KY: The University Press of Kentucky; Fireside Industries Books 2019. Hardcover. Near Fine. 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 either a fine art or a shameful mess. It requires knowledge experience skill good sense and sympathy" writes Wendell Berry in the essay portion of this book. In November 1979 as in years before neighborly families gathered to do one of the ceremonious jobs of farm life: hog killing. Tanya Berry had been given a camera by New Farm magazine to photograph Kentucky farmers at work and for two days at the farm of Owen and Loyce Flood in Henry County she captured this culmination of a year's labor raising livestock. Here in the resulting photographs published for the first time the American agrarian tradition is shown at its most harmonious with strong men and women toiling with shared purpose towards a common wealth. Tanya Berry reveals intimate expressive moments: the teams of young men hoisting animals by physical strength onto a gambrel and wagon for butchering women grinding meat and mixing sausage and readying hams for preservation and the solidarity of human beings coming together in reverence for the food they would eat the lives and bodies which would be taken and those which would be strengthened. The University Press of Kentucky; Fireside Industries Books hardcover books
2006réf. 1417000New York: Columbia University Press 2006. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo viii xi 313 pages. In Very Good condition lacking the issued dust jacket. Spine black with silver lettering. Boards have very slight wear including faint sunning and previous bookshop's sticker to the rear. Text block has very slight wear with previous owner's bookplate to verso to the table of contents page. Illustrated. First edition first printing. NOTE: Shelved in Column L. 1417000. FP New Rockville Stock. Columbia University Press hardcover books
1987réf. 72013San Francisco: North Point Press 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 192pp. Octavo 21 cm Green cloth over boards. With only very trivial dulling to the upper extremities. In the illustrated dust jacket with creasing to the top edge of the front panel and light shelfwear. Berry's exploration of what it means to make oneself "responsibly at home." "Novelist and poet Berry offers an eclectic group of essays on subjects ranging from economics and education to agriculture and the feminist movement. In 'Six Agricultural Fallacies' for example he argues in his typically individualistic way that agriculture cannot be considered an industry because industry centers on machinery which is not alive while agriculture is a matter of living and breathing organisms. He also maintains that a factory may break down and machinery will fall into disrepair but that soil when properly used will never 'wear out.' Elsewhere he praises the art of working by hand. Noting that he is not an authority on many of his subjects he gives his opinions nonetheless which help make this collection quirky and amusing." - Publisher's Weekly. North Point Press hardcover books
1998réf. 61424Berkeley CA: Counterpoint 1998. reprint. Paperback. New. 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 death peace and hope. Counterpoint paperback books
2007réf. 51052Counterpoint 2007. First Shoemaker & Hoard Edition Second Printing. Paperback. New. 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 by Wesley Bates and an introduction by James Baker Hall. Counterpoint paperback books
1988réf. 67294San 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 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. Two thousand miles from his home in Kentucky he begins to remember people the land and the comfort of knowing his place intimately. Andy's reveries evoke a membership governed by the principles of humanity and love. Inspiring and eye-opening Remembering follows Andy's journey out of darkness and into the warm light of community. Freedman A69.a. Counterpoint paperback books
2022réf. 63478Berkeley: Counterpoint 2022. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 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 as advocate for rational land use and the right-size life these stories of Wendell Berry's offer entry into the fictional place of value and beauty that is Port William Kentucky. Berry has said it's taken a lifetime for him to learn to write like an old man and that's what we have here stories told with grace and ease and majesty. Wendell Berry is one of our greatest living American authors writing with the wisdom of maturity and the incandescence that comes of love. These thirteen new works explore the memory and imagination of Andy Catlett one of the well-loved central characters of the Port William saga. From 1932 to 2021 these stories span the length of Andy's life from before the outbreak of the Second World War to the threatened end of rural life in America. Counterpoint hardcover books
2015réf. 71001Washington DC: Counterpoint 2015. Later printing. Paperback. New. 176pp. Octavo 21cm. Illustrated wraps. Counterpoint paperback books
1980réf. 58535San Francisco: North Point Press 1980. First Edition. 12mo pp. 89. Fine in a dj spine faded to yellow as usual. Freedman A38a. Signed and dated 1983 by Berry on the title page. poems. North Point Press unknown books
2014réf. 53663Berkeley CA: Counterpoint 2014. First Edition. 8vo pp. 288. Fine in dj. Signed by Wendell Berry. A marvelous exchange of letters from 1973 to 2013. Counterpoint unknown books
2005réf. 51708Washington DC: Shoemaker Hoard 2005. First Edition. 8vo pp. 152. Fine in fine dj. Inscribed by the author to Janet 6/3/05 This was published the first week of June 2005. Freedman A127-c. A scarce collection of poems. Shoemaker, Hoard unknown books
1995réf. 31138Washington DC: Counterpoint 1995. First Edition. 8vo pp. 109. Fine in dj. OP. Inscribed and dated by the author. Freedman A-102. A scarce collection of essays that was issued in a small edition. Counterpoint unknown books
2005réf. 34537Washington DC: Shoemaker & Hoard 2005. First Edition. 8vo pp. xii 180. Fine in dj. Signed and dated by the author. 16 essays on politics and morality by the Kentucky author of "Hannah Coulter Shoemaker & Hoard unknown books
1964réf. 1377382New York: George Braziller 1964. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Oblong Octavo unpaginated. In Very Good condition and housed in publisher's Very Good black slip case. Bound in publisher's white cloth with black lettering to spine. Minor shelf wear. Textblock clean. Signed flat by Wendell and Shahn in rear. Shelved in Case 12. 1377382. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. George Braziller hardcover books
1933réf. 47965New York: Junior Literary Guild and Harcourt Brace and Company 1933. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Junior Literary Guild and Harcourt Brace and Company 1933. Reprint. Octavo 20.5cm; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 12230pp.; frontispiece illus. throughout. Shallow chips and small losses to dust jacket margins rear panel spine edge rather dampstained though cloth remains unaffected; a Very Good copy in About Very Good jacket. Scarce young adult novel a follow-up to the author's "Illustrations of Cynthia." This work follows Cynthia as she pursues a successful career in commercial art in New York City. Junior Literary Guild and Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
1986réf. 2352702Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1986. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 1x1x1. Signed by author. Reprint. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper 'Eric Ken Stabler'. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners owner address label on front endpaper. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1986 Hard Cover. ix 244 1 pp. A firsthand account of Ken 'Snake' Stabler's life from his childhood as a poor boy in Alabama's Redneck Riviera to his football success under the great Bear Bryant. Stabler and the Oakland Raiders won Super Bowl XI 1976 season. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
2008réf. 2343153New York: Columbia University Press 2008. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8x5x1. Second printing. An excellent copy. 2008 Trade Paperback. viii 440 pp. Set in post-World War II Shanghai The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao a girl born of the longtong the crowded labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant and this fleeting moment of stardom becomes the pinnacle of her life. During the next four decades Wang Qiyao indulges in the decadent pleasures of pre-liberation Shanghai secretly playing mahjong during the anti-rightist Movement and exchanging lovers on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Surviving the vicissitudes of modern Chinese history Wang Qiyao emerges in the 1980s as a purveyor of "old Shanghai"―a living incarnation of a new commodified nostalgia that prizes splendor and sophistication―only to become embroiled in a tragedy that echoes the pulpy Hollywood noirs of her youth. From the violent persecution of communism to the liberalism and openness of the age of reform this sorrowful tale of old China versus new of perseverance in the face of adversity is a timeless rendering of our never-ending quest for transformation and beauty. Columbia University Press paperback books
