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1974réf. 571240Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a couple tiny tears on the rear flap fold. Connected stories most of which appeared in The New Yorker. The second in a series of novels titled Certain Shadows. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1966réf. 571242Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Light toning at board edges near fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny nicks and a couple short tears and a lightly toned spine. A Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award novel. The first in a series of novels titled Certain Shadows. Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press hardcover books
1989réf. 580145Sag Harbor New York: Permanent 1989. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Gray printed wrappers. Slightly sunned spine a bit of soiling on topedge and front cover very good or better. Permanent unknown books
1974réf. 581959Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Topedge faintly soiled else near fine in a very good dust jacket with slight fading and staining to the spine and a bit of the rear panel. Connected stories most of which appeared in The New Yorker. The second in a series of novels titled Certain Shadows. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1966réf. 581966Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Boards lightly foxed with slight tanning at edges near fine in a faintly tanned very good dust jacket with just a touch of foxing and a couple tiny dampstains. A Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award novel. The first in a series of novels titled Certain Shadows. Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press hardcover books
1969réf. 555354New York: The Hudson Review 1969. Softcover. Near Fine. Volume XXII Number 3 Autumn 1969. Illustrated with black and white plates of "Contemporary Art in New Guinea" by Ulli Beier. Printed wrappers. Near fine with toning to the wrappers. Contributions by E.M. Cioran W.H. Auden Raymond Durgnat Daniel Curley Philip Levine Daniel Hoffman Wendell Berry Stephen Farbert Ulli Beier B.H. Haggin Zulfikar Ghose George Scott-Moncrieff J. Mitchell Morse Herbert Liebowitz Bernard Bergonzi Vernon Young Roger Sale James P. Degnan Joyce Carol Oates William H. Youngren and Marvin Murdrick. Featuring an article "Valery: L'Homme d'esprit" by W.H. Auden. Poems: "Broken Laws" by Daniel Hoffman "The Slopes of Waban" by Wendell Berry. Review of "Fiction Chronicle" by Joyce Carol Oates and more. The Hudson Review unknown books
2007réf. 547968New York: Ballantine 2007. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Binding slightly cocked with creases on the spine tiny tears and puncture holes on cover very good. Ballantine unknown books
1980réf. 548374Hertfordshire: The Starwheel Press 1980. Unbound. Fine. Broadside portfolio. Five broadsides each measuring approximately 8½" x 12" and with an original Signed etching; the artists are Helen Hawley Mary Norman Clarissa Upchurch Corridan Graddon and George Szirtes. Accompanied by two slightly smaller sheets a title page and contributor list and laid into a portfolio with printed paper label. The broadsides are fine; the portfolio is very good or better with some creasing at the corners. Each broadside is Signed by both the poet and artist. With an Autograph Letter Signed from contributor and press cofounder George Szirtes on Star Wheel Press stationery thanking someone for their order laid in. A handsome production issued in 52 copies only printed on handmade paper. The poems are "Air and Clod" by James Berry; "Among Friends" by John Ormond; "Dream" by Emma Rose; "In St. Philip's Churchyard" by Fred Sedgwick; and "Ah Babel" by Anne Stevenson. OCLC locates five sets three in the U.S. Delaware Emory UC San Diego. The Starwheel Press unknown books
1969réf. 530272New York: The Hudson Review 1969. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated with black and white plates of "Contemporary Art in New Guinea" by Ulli Beier. Brown and white wrappers in the original manilla envelope addressed to fellow author Daniel Hoffman. Octavo. 374-560pp. Spine slightly cocked wrappers lightly age-toned near fine. Contributions by E.M. Cioran W.H. Auden Raymond Durgnat Daniel Curley Philip Levine Daniel Hoffman Wendell Berry Stephen Farbert Ulli Beier B.H. Haggin Zulfikar Ghose George Scott-Moncrieff J. Mitchell Morse Herbert Liebowitz Bernard Bergonzi Vernon Young Roger Sale James P. Degnan Joyce Carol Oates William H. Youngren and Marvin Murdrick. Featuring an article "Valery: L'Homme d'esprit" by W.H. Auden. Poems: "Broken Laws" by Daniel Hoffman "The Slopes of Waban" by Wendell Berry. Review of "Fiction Chronicle" by Joyce Carol Oates and more. The Hudson Review unknown books
1975réf. 470481Crete Nebraska: The Best Cellar Press 1975. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 36pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Faintest sunning at the extremities else a fine copy. An elusive title. The Best Cellar Press unknown books
1985réf. 526142London: The Salamander Press for The Society of Authors 1985. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Cover by Ruth Hope. Edited by John Fuller and Howard Sergeant. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Slight foxing on interior wraps with modest foxing on page edges tiny crease on the cover very good. Contributions by: Lisa St. Aubin de Teran Carol Ann Duffy Peter Armstrong Iain Bamforth Paul Berry R. W. Burns Martin Crucefix Hilary Davies John Greening James Harpur Mike Imlah John Lees Pippa Little John McKendrick Christopher Meredith Michael O'Neill Deirdre Shanahan Bill Smith and Michael Stokes. The Salamander Press for The Society of Authors unknown books
1982réf. 519087London: New Beacon Books Ltd 1982. Softcover. Fine. First edition wrappered issue. Pages lightly tanned else fine. James Berry's second collection of poetry. Berry was born and raised in Jamaica; he moved to the United Kingdom in 1948. He has received the Order of the British Empire and his collection of short stories A Thief in the Village was a 1989 Coretta Scott King Honor Book. New Beacon Books Ltd unknown books
1976réf. 516028London: Limestone Publications 1976. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Edited with an Introduction by James Berry. Spine tanned and bottom corner a bit bumped throughout very good in wrappers. Includes poems by James Berry Jamaica Faustin Charles Trinidad Cresswell Durrant St. Vincent Cy Grant Guyana A. L. Hendriks Jamaica Frank John Trinidad Linton Johnson Jamaica Rudolph Kizerman Barbados Claude Lushington Trinidad E. A. Markham Montserrat Jimi Rand Barbados and Paul St. Vincent Antigua. Limestone Publications unknown books
1980réf. 515575Hertfordshire: The Starwheel Press 1980. Unbound. Fine. Broadside portfolio. Five broadsides each measuring approximately 8½" x 12" and with an original Signed etching; the artists are Helen Hawley Mary Norman Clarissa Upchurch Corridan Graddon and George Szirtes. Accompanied by two slightly smaller sheets a title page and contributor list as well as two adjacent advertisements laid into a portfolio with printed paper label. The broadsides are fine; the portfolio is slightly creased at one corner else fine. Each broadside is Signed by both the poet and artist. A handsome production issued in 52 copies only printed on handmade paper presumably by The St. Albans Paper Company with their advertising card laid in. The poems are "Air and Clod" by James Berry; "Among Friends" by John Ormond; "Dream" by Emma Rose; "In St. Philip's Churchyard" by Fred Sedgwick; and "Ah Babel" by Anne Stevenson. OCLC locates five sets three in the U.S. Delaware Emory UC San Diego. The Starwheel Press unknown books
1969réf. 527519Iowa City Iowa: The Prairie Press 1969. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 63pp. Linen spine stamped in red on spine and green decorated paper-covered boards printed in red. Foxing on fore-edge of the text block else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. An elusive title of the poet's third collection of verse. The Prairie Press hardcover books
1998réf. 509465New York: St. Martin's Griffin 1998. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Oblong 12mo. 110pp. Glossy pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. The sequel to the author's bestselling Sckraight from the Ghetto. St. Martin's Griffin unknown books
1995réf. 425877New York: Counterpoint 1995. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Essays. Counterpoint unknown books
1997réf. 425876Washington D.C.: Counterpoint 1997. Softcover. Fine. First Counterpoint paperback edition. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Poetry. Counterpoint unknown books
1979réf. 387108Augusta Georgia: Cotton Lane Press 1979. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Fading on the spine with some rubbing else very good review copy with slip laid in. Cotton Lane Press unknown books
1865réf. 383120London: Longmans Green and Co 1865. Hardcover. Fair. First edition. Three volumes. Octavos. All three volumes are signed on the front free endpaper: "C. Napier / Coates Hall 1870". Located in Edinburg Coates Hall now St. Mary's Music School was originally designed by David Bryce for the Napier family in 1850. Spine backs are faded old dampstaining to the boards else good interior text pages are clean and tight. Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover books
1990réf. 363330New York: St. Martin's Press 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. A small bump on the rear board top edge else near fine in a very good dust jacket with wear on the corners short tears and light foxing on along the page edges. Signed by the author. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1972réf. 355746New York: Curtis Books 1972. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Wrappers. Photos by Mark Sennet. A bump on the top edge and a small abrasion on the front wrapper else very good. Signed by Richard M. Dixon. Curtis Books unknown books
1992réf. 324225New York: Vantage Press 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Vantage Press hardcover books
1988réf. 559287New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second printing. 270pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket. "The grand-slam response to Al Campanis's controversial remarks about blacks in baseball. McGraw-Hill Book Company hardcover books
1994réf. 523198New York: Pantheon Books 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Wendell Berry to David Ignatow: "To David Ignatow with much respect & with love from his old friend Wendell Berry Pantheon Books hardcover books