first edition Hardcover
1970 · Boston
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 the foot of the spine. Signed by the author in black ink on the front free endpaper.
A first edition of Wendell Berry's book-length essay about racism. The Village Voice refers to this work as "One of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time."
From the dust jacket-
"If the white man has inflicted the wound of racism upon black men, the cost has been that he would receive the mirror image of that wound into himself... I want to know, as fully and exactly as I can, what the wound is and how much I am suffering from it. And I want to be cured..."
This copy is significant because it is signed by both Wendell Berry and his wife and fellow homesteader, Tanya Amyx Berry, on the title page. Wendell and Tanya were married in the spring of 1957. In addition to being an artist and agrarian deeply ensconced in the Kentucky community, Tanya is also the one who reads Wendell's first drafts and provides immediate feedback. (Inventory #: 68031)
A first edition of Wendell Berry's book-length essay about racism. The Village Voice refers to this work as "One of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time."
From the dust jacket-
"If the white man has inflicted the wound of racism upon black men, the cost has been that he would receive the mirror image of that wound into himself... I want to know, as fully and exactly as I can, what the wound is and how much I am suffering from it. And I want to be cured..."
This copy is significant because it is signed by both Wendell Berry and his wife and fellow homesteader, Tanya Amyx Berry, on the title page. Wendell and Tanya were married in the spring of 1957. In addition to being an artist and agrarian deeply ensconced in the Kentucky community, Tanya is also the one who reads Wendell's first drafts and provides immediate feedback. (Inventory #: 68031)
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