The Wheel by Berry, Wendell

San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1982. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. One cloth edition issued, 2099 copies printed. Freedman A46b.

San Francisco: North Point Press (1st Printing, 1982). Small hardcover with dust jacket, both in very good+ condition, 60 pages. Light fingerprint smudging from use on covers of dust jacket. No chips or tears. Previous owner's name has been covered with white-out on FFEP. THE WHEEL is WENDELL BERRY'S eighth collection of poetry. It is a book of elegies, of remembrance and praise. At issue are the qualities that transcend the dying and inform the living. It is the sum of life and death combined that is the Great Cycle of the earth, the Wheel. Wendell E. Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of The National Humanities Medal, and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is also a 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berry was named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. On… Read More

San Francisco:: North Point Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0865470782 . A collection of poems. First edition. SIGNED by the author. Trace foxing on top edge, else near fine in a near fine, price clipped dust jacket.; 60 pages; Signed by Author .