THE UNSETTLING OF AMERICA: CULTURE & AGRICULTURE by Berry, Wendell - 1977

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977. First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated 7/23/94. About fine: Trifling rub to lower extremes, minor cracking to upper gutter paper. In about fine price-clipped dust jacket. First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated 7/23/94. 8vo. ix (iii), 228p. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth with white spine title, the upper cover with the title stamped in blind. An important book, widely reprinted, but signed first edition are quite scarce.

"The awareness that farming cannot be considered as an issue separate from the larger culture rules out the easy answer... Berry does examine some creative options and possibilities in how other agricultural societies work with the land, and discusses some contemporary marginal approaches: homesteading, farm co-ops, alternative technologies, peasant agriculture. His conclusions will be controversial: his ideas are profoundly conservative on one hand and fiercely radical on the other. But this is above all a book that will change minds, a work of passion, eloquence, and conviction." (Jacket blurb).