Farming: A Hand Book

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 inspired by the land in Kentucky where Wendell Berry was born, married, lives, farms, and writes. These poems reflect a unity of language and consciousness, dexterity and thoughtfulness, that has placed Wendell Berry in the upper echelon of contemporary American poets.