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1988rif. 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
1994rif. 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
1969rif. 530271New 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 else fine with Daniel Hoffman's inked notation on manilla envelope. 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
2005rif. 466360New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Black journalist and author Justine Rector. Biography of a formerly enslaved washerwoman from Nashville who spearheaded a call for reparations for slaves 70 years before the Civil Rights Movement. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1988rif. 455647New York: St. Martin's Press 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 330pp. Modest abrasion at the bottom of the page edges else near fine in near fine dust jacket. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1982rif. 414807New York: Arbor House 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 375pp. Small stain on page fine foredges crease in pastedowns corners lightly bumped very good in a very good dustwrapper with thin tideline on bottom spine edges spine sunned. Presentation copy Inscribed by the author on the front fly along with "Dick Arbor House hardcover books
1942rif. 415143New York: Harper & Brothers 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later printing with letter code "D-R". 271pp. Introduction by Captain Charles Sweeny. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped else near fine lacking the scarce dustwrapper. A Fighter Pilot's Story of World War II With the American Eagle Squadron. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1969rif. 407188Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Re-issue originally published in 1939. A little cocked near fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple of small tears. Warmly Inscribed by the author to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor. Vanderbilt University Press hardcover books
1936rif. 370212San Francisco: Gelber Lilienthal Inc 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. One of three hundred copies printed by the Grabhorn Press May 1936. Octavo. 174pp. Gilt-stamped leather spine papercovered boards. Illustrated with black and white plates. Loss of spine ends not affecting title owner's gift inscription on front fly thus very good minus in a good only unprinted dustwrapper with title penciled on spine extremities worn and chipped. Gelber, Lilienthal Inc hardcover books
1993rif. 296707Bellevue: Whalesong Inc 1993. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in wrappers. Whalesong Inc unknown books
1988rif. 22930NY:: Harper & Row. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0060205563 . First printing. Fine in a near fine lower corner of front flap is clipped dust jacket. . Harper & Row, hardcover books
1988rif. 616214New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 270pp. Illustrated. Topedge lightly foxed binding a touch cocked with a tiny bit of wear very good or better in lightly worn near fine dust jacket. "The grand-slam response to Al Campanis's controversial remarks about blacks in baseball. McGraw-Hill Book Company hardcover books
1939rif. 5098N.p. but New York City 1939. Very good. 20pp. of mimeographed text printed on rectos only stapled. Some dust-soiling and uneven toning to outer leaves soft central vertical fold throughout. A rare annual report authored by L.L. Berry secretary-treasurer of the New York-based Missionary Department of the A.M.E. Church for the year 1938-39. Llewellyn L. Berry 1876-1954 was born in Hampton Virginia and graduated from Hampton Institute. He served as pastor of various A.M.E. churches in North Carolina and Virginia between 1908 and 1933 before spending the last twenty-one years of his life as Secretary-Treasurer of his denomination's Home and Foreign Mission Department. The present report contains an opening message by Berry as well as sections on missionaries who have passed away in the last year "Visits to the Foreign Field" reporting on official visits to "all the mission fields in Africa" a separate section on the group's "Cuban Mission" which Berry attended a section on the the Voice of Missions the organization's official periodical and more. Most of the latter half of the report is comprised of a detailed financial report of the Missionary Department before Berry adds an optimistic conclusion. According to OCLC Columbia University is the only institution holding any annual reports from Berry with copies from 1933-34 and 1940-48; we could locate no institutional holdings for the present year. unknown books
1960rif. 77361London: Victor Gollancz 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Small chip and stain at the base of the spine and correspondingly on the jacket else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. A novel set in Tashiling in the Himalayas. Victor Gollancz hardcover books
1965rif. 615612Chicago: Poetry 1965. Softcover. Very Good. Volume CVI Numbers 1-2 a double issue. Octavo. 172 ads pp. Modest wear and shoulders rubbed very good or better. Prints poems by Wendell Berry Hayden Carruth Robert Creeley Robert Duncan Galway Kinnell Denise Levertov Charles Olson Adrienne Rich Anne Sexton Gary Snyder Philip Whalen and others. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn with their tiny sunned number label on the spine as well as an estate label designed by their son Jonathan Shahn. Poetry unknown books
1987rif. 34997New York: St. Martin's Press 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1959rif. 34998New York: Macmillan 1959. Hardcover. Good. Fine in good dustwrapper with some chipping and creasing with all four corners of the inside flaps clipped. Macmillan hardcover books
2009rif. 117835New York: Broadway Books 2009. two-toned cloth dust jacket. 8vo. two-toned cloth dust jacket. xiii iii 205 pages. B3-2009-2010. First edition. The author grew up in Wilmington Delaware. Broadway Books unknown books
1966rif. 107579NY:: Macmillan Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. Stated first printing library binding - NOT ex-library. Very good in a very good age toning small chip at the top of the rear flap fold both corners of front flap are clipped dust jacket.; 89 pages . Macmillan Company, hardcover books
1972rif. 64711San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very good. 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 jacket with sunning to the spine and light rubbing to the edges. Wendell Berry's second book of essays. Signed by Berry on the title page. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers hardcover books
2003rif. 97118Berkeley:: Counterpoint. Fine. 2003. Paperback. 1582436231 . With wood engravings by Wesley Bates. Second printing paperback. Fine in illustrated wraps. . Counterpoint, paperback books
1964rif. 328750Bristol: View Publications 1964. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. Cover by Ken Baird. Small octavo. 28pp. Stapled glossy wrappers rubbed and with wear to the extremities very good. Literary magazine featuring contributions from Charles Olson Louis Zukofsky Cid Corman Charles Tomlinson Henry Gifford Francis Berry and James. View Publications unknown books
1986rif. 85053Garden City:: Doubleday & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0385234503 . An early printing. Very good in a very good minor edge wear dust jacket. . Doubleday & Company, hardcover books
1978rif. 584086Durham North Carolina: Duke University Press 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 299pp. A bit of toning on the rear board near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing at the edges. Inscribed by Reynolds Price at his contribution; additional contributions by Francis Fergusson Wendell Berry Edouard Morot-Sir Germaine Brée Alain Bosquet Sandra Hochman Karl Shapiro Roger Shattuck and more. Duke University Press hardcover books
2011rif. 34569Berkeley: Counterpoint Publications. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some very minor wrinkling. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 189 pp . Counterpoint Publications hardcover books
