A Rainbow
by Berry, Wendell; Wesley Bates (Illustrator)
Kentucky: Larkspur Press, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. New/New. 32pp. Octavo. [22cm] Blue cloth over boards. Letterpress printed and hand bound. Part of an edition of 600 copies printed on Mohawk Superfine paper. Includes wood engravings by Wesley Bates. "Larkspur Press books are highly collectible for their scarcity, beauty, and that they are important works. They often feature Kentucky... Read More
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Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food
by Berry, Wendell
Berkeley: 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... Read More
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A Small Porch
by Berry, Wendell
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2016. First edition. Paperback. new. 153pp. Octavo. [21cm] Illustrated Wraps. A collection of Sabbath poems from 2014 and 2015 combined with 'The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation'.
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The Hidden Wound
by Berry, Wendell
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2010. Reprint. Paperback. New. 137pp. Octavo. Illustrated wraps.
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Another Turn of the Crank
by Berry, Wendell
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. New. 109pp. Octavo. [20.5cm]. Illustrated Wraps. Essays by Wendell Berry regarding conservation of the natural world. He explores ideas from modern health care, to the practice of forestry with local focus and national resolve. Berry argues that there can never be a separation between global ecosystems and human communities because they are... Read More
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The Hidden Wound
by Berry, Wendell
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good -. SIGNED. 145pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth over brown boards. Black topstain. Title stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Extremities a bit faded. Spine ends bumped. In a price clipped dust jacket with a sun toned spine, and a small loss at... Read More
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Nathan Coulter (Signed by Wendell Berry / Wallace Stegner's copy)
by Berry, Wendell
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 204pp. Octavo [21cm]. Black boards, with title stamped in white on spine. Publisher's black topstain. Illustrated endpapers. Bottom fore-edge corner of the front board bumped. Several of the preliminary pages, including the title page are darkened, most likely from an article about Wendell Berry having been... Read More
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Amish Economy
by Berry, Wendell; Linocuts by Laura Lee Cundiff
Versailles: Adela Press, 1996. Limited edition chapbook. Paperback. SIGNED. Number 202 of 400 chapbooks printed on Natur Text paper, sewn into Gainsborough wraps, and numbered. Design, composition, and presswork by Alan Cornett at Larkspur Press. Near fine, with a light crease to the rear wrap. Signed by Wendell Berry on the title page.
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The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
by Berry, Wendell
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2015. First Counterpoint Edition; Later Printing. Paperback. New. 240pp. Octavo [23cm]; photo illustrated wraps. Originally published by Sierra Club Books in 1977. Berry's argument that good farming is a work of culture and a work of faith and hope. He argues that todays agribusiness has taken us away from the land and family. He sees... Read More
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A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural
by Berry, Wendell
San 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... Read More
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Jayber Crow
by Berry, Wendell
Washington, D. C.: Counterpoint, 2000. Paperback. New. 363 pp. Octavo. [22.5cm] Wraps in two-tone white and brown spine and illustrated covers. Berry's "aching prose and strong sense of place . . . [put him] in the pantheon of Southern writers. This is an important novelist with prophetic things to say and a poetic way of saying them. ... Read More
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That Distant Land: The Collected Stories
by Berry, Wendell
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2004. Second edition. Paperback. NEW. 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 through a renewed sense of kinship with... Read More
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Remembering
by Berry, Wendell
San 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... Read More
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Remembering
by Berry, Wendell
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2008. Later printing. Paperback. as NEW. 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. Two thousand miles from his home... Read More
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Given: New Poems
by Berry, Wendell
Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker Hoard, 2005. Bound Galley. Paperback. Fine. 162pp. Small octavo [20.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. With a Xeroxed note from the publisher, calling this a first pass galley, tucked in. From the rear wrap- "Author of over forty books of fiction, poetry, and essays, WENDELL BERRY has farmed a hillside in his native Henry County, Kentucky,... Read More
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Fidelity: Five Stories
by Berry, Wendell
New York: Counterpoint, 2018. Later printing. Paperback. as NEW. 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 his characters are fiercely individual...Mr. Berry's... Read More
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A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership
by Berry, Wendell
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2013. Later printing. Paperback. New. 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 single place over a long time. In... Read More
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Given:; Poems
by Berry, Wendell
Berkeley: Counterpoint/Shoemaker Hoard, 2006. Second printing. Paperback. NEW. 152pp. 20 cm. Multicolored wrappers with brown backstrip. Includes bibliographical references and index. New book with no flaws. "For five decades, Wendell Berry has been a poet of great clarity and purpose, a writer whose imagination is grounded by the pastures of his chosen place and the rooms and porches... Read More
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The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership
by Berry, Wendell
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2019. First edition. Paperback. New. 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 Go?”, “It Wasn’t Me”, “The Boundary”, “That... Read More
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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
by Berry, Wendell
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977. Uncorrected proof. Paperback. Very Good. SIGNED. 207pp. Octavo [21 cm] Blue printed wraps. Publisher's slip mounted to the half title page, with some glue staining. Fading to the spine and upper extremities of the wraps. Signed by Wendell Berry on the title page. Berry's powerful and eloquent argument that good farming... Read More
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The Unsettling of America Culture & Agriculture
by Berry, Wendell
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977. Third printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED. 228pp. Large octavo [25cm]. Bound in navy cloth, with title stamped in white ink on spine, and blind stamped on front board. Spine ends very gently bumped and rubbed. Printed dust jacket has one small spot of soiling on front panel, along with a short,... Read More
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Farming: A Hand Book
by Berry, Wendell
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 118pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth with pale blue paper over boards. Slight lean to spine; rear board a hair warped. In an attractive dust jacket, with a couple of very shallow closed tears to the edges. A first edition of this book of poems... Read More
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Sabbaths 1987
by Berry, Wendell
Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur Press, 1991. Limited Edition. Paperback. As new. 13pp. Octavo [25cm]. Tan Fabriano Ingres Heavyweight paper wraps. Handset in Eric Gill's Joanna type & printed on a handfed C&P. Though limited, this copy has not been hand numbered.
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How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership
by Berry, Wendell
Berkeley: 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... Read More
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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
by Berry, Wendell
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 228pp. Small quarto [25.5 cm] Navy blue cloth with a white ink stamped title on the spine, and an embossed title on the front cover. Extremities very lightly rubbed; top fore-edge corner of the front board just a little bumped; bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown.... Read More
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