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What are People For?; Essays by Wendell Berry
by Berry, Wendell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0865474370
- ISBN 13
- 9780865474376
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: North Point Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +. SIGNED. 210pp. Octavo [20.9cm]. Blue-grey cloth over boards. Author and title stamped in gold on the spine. Head of boards very lightly sunned. Bright red illustrated dust jacket. Spine of dust jacket slightly faded. Dust jacket unclipped. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads "To _____ with appreciation and every good wish", is signed and dated 3/6/2009. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59221
- Title
- What are People For?; Essays by Wendell Berry
- Author
- Berry, Wendell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0865474370
- ISBN 13
- 9780865474376
- Publisher
- North Point Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Wendell Berry; Essays; People: First edition; Signed; santa monica 2021
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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