Berry

A Place on Earth: Revision his mother's copy signed and limited

1983Best.-Nr. 2203San Francisco: North Point Press 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A nice association copy: his mother's copy Signed by Berry and numbered 2/100 of a limited signed edition opposite the title page presumably he kept the first copy or gave it to his wife. Uncommon or scarce signed the only copy available as of this writing. As an accompanying letter of provenance explains after the book came back to Berry following his mother's death he donated it to the Pendleton County Public Library in Kentucky to help it rebuild after its collections were lost to a devastating flood. As Berry's preface explains this book is a revision of an out-of-print novel first published in 1967 substantially revised and cut by about a third. He concludes the preface: "This then is not a new book but a renewed one." Set in his fictional town of Port William Kentucky the land itself and its rhythms are the essential character. Handsome auburn paper boards with a blue cloth spine. Very good with very mild rubbing to corners and spine ends and faint foxing to text block faces. In a very good or better jacket with just a hint of toning to the pale rear panel's edges but the jacket is slightly misaligned on the book possibly a printer's error as it seems a little small. A sweet copy. More about the book: "Part ribald farce part lyrical contemplation Wendell Berry's novel is the story of a place-Port William Kentucky-the farm lands and forests that surround it and the river that runs nearby The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace winter into spring browning flood destruction into greening fields absence into presence lost into found." . North Point Press hardcover

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