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The Country of Marriage
by Berry, Wendell
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First Edition, Second Printing (letter line BCDE on copyright page). Hardcover. Tall duodecimo. 7-3/8 x 4-3/8 inches. 53 pp. Near Fine / Very Good. Publisher's teal cloth over board. Spine stamped with particulars in silver. ISBN-10 stamped in silver at lower right corner of back board. Cream endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket shows $4.95 on front flap. Photo of author on rear flap. Very light wear to tips and spine ends, else Fine. Interior clean, bright, and unmarked. Dust jacket mildly rubbed with light toning and creasing to edges. Miniscule closed tear at upper edge of rear panel. Now in protective archival sleeve. Wendell Berry's fifth book of poetry. Very scarce in hardcover. Freedman A21b.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000100
- Title
- The Country of Marriage
- Author
- Berry, Wendell
- Format/Binding
- Publisher’s teal cloth over board
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Second Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Pages
- 53
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights Bookstore opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in 2008. We are a "mom & pop" business, and we live in the same building. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. We offer a modest, but diverse, selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian items, as well as select higher quality new books. We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand. And consider visiting us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District, and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
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