HIGH TIDE IN TUCSON: ESSAYS FROM NOW AND NEVER: THE LIMITED EDITION by Kingsolver, Barbara (Author) & Mirocha, Paul (Artist/Illustrator) - 1995

New York City, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 275 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. One of Barbara Kingsolver's finest achievements. Limited Slipcased Edition of 150 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. The Limited Slipcased Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Paul Mirocha: Regular-sized volume format. Green cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on the spine, as issued. Text by Barbara Kingsolver. Art by Paul Mirocha. Pictorial hard board slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In publisher's original shrinkwrap (opened only on the spine side for inspection). Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in her only Limited Edition format thus far, Barbara Kingsolver's "High Tide In Tucson: Essays From Now And Never". Her debut collection. "In these twenty-five essays, she returns to her favored literary terrain to explore the themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Her canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places. Defiant, funny, courageously honest, 'High Tide In Tucson' proves once again that there is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature" (Washington Post). Beautifully supplemented with original art by Paul Mirocha. An absolute "must-have title for Barbara Kingsolver collectors. <b><i> This is a copy of the Limited Slipcased Edition of 150 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by Barbara Kingsolver. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Slipcased Edition still available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Orange Prize in 2009 for "The Lacuna". One of the greatest American writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BARBARA KINGSOLVER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0060172916.