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The Art of The Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
by Wendell Berry
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1582431469
- ISBN 13
- 9781582431468
- Seller
-
Covington, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
Counterpoint Press, Washington, D.C, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed. Good Book/Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. First printing as stated. Edited and introduction by Norman Wirzba. SIGNED IN PERSON BY WENDELL BERRY DIRECTLY TO THE TITLE PAGE. Maroon quarter paper binding with cream textured paper over boards, gilt stamped initials on front, gilt stamped title on spine, and green endpapers. Covers are clean. Small stain to bottom edge of front cover. Gilt is bright. Edgewear to head of spine. Tail of spine bumped. Upper corners are lightly bumped. Dust jacket shows edgewear to top and bottom, Heavy sunning to spine, rubbing to spine ends and corners. Age tanning to top edge of flaps, creases to corners of front flap. Some stains on fore edge of textblock, light soiling to all edges. Dust jacket shows some edgewear to all extremities. Dust jacket is not price clipped with $26.00 price on the front flap. Dust jacket is protected in mylar sleeve. Mylar sleeve shows some shelfwear. Tail edge of textblock shows some soiling and spots of dampstaining. Hinges strong. Binding tight and square. Several pages show dog-eared upper and lower corners but otherwise clean and unmarked. 327 pages. 6-1/4 X 9-1/4.
Synopsis
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry’s seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now–elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers each of her two husbands, and all places and community connections threatened by twentieth–century technologies. At risk is the whole culture of family farming, hope redeemed when her wayward and once lost grandson, Virgil, returns to his rural home place to work the farm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roebling Point Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4380
- Title
- The Art of The Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
- Author
- Wendell Berry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1582431469
- ISBN 13
- 9781582431468
- Publisher
- Counterpoint Press, Washington, D.C
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.c., U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 6x1x9
- Bookseller catalogs
- Wendell Berry Signed Collection;
- X weight
- 22 oz
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Roebling Point Books
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Covington, Kentucky
About Roebling Point Books
Roebling Rare is the online/antiquarian books division of Roebling Point Books, with bricks-and-mortar locations in Covington and Newport KY.
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