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Indianapolis: Bowen Merrill Company, 1898. Hardcover. Fine. Indianapolis: Bowen Merrill Company, 1898. Fine. 269 pages, 254 of which are this title. The remaining pages contain an interview by Russel M. Seeds with James Whitcomb Riley titled "James Whitcomb Riley's Stories of the Humorist, Edgar Wilson Nye". Six b&w illustrations, red & black printing on the title page Red binding with lettering and illustration on the front in bright gilt, with white and black. Top edge gilt.

Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A.: Univ Pr of Kentucky, 1998. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Fine. Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A.: Univ Pr of Kentucky, 1998. First Printing. Very Good +/Fine. Clean and crisp with occassional highlighting within. Magazine article about Joyce Dyer folded inside the front of the book. Thirty-five women writers from Appalachia define the region in a larger, more generous, and more intricate way that it has been defined before, dispelling many demeaning stereotypes of the region. The writers tell their compelling stories with poignancy, eloquence, forthrightness, and humor. A new American literary renaissance is ablaze in the Southern Highlands--the very place so often depicted by outsiders as dimly lit. 35 photos.

New York: Heritage Press. Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase-Very Good+. New York: Fine/Slipcase-Very Good+ 8 3/4" x 11", beautifully designed based on the 1934 edition from Limited Editions Club Red title on title age and also in margins of interior pages Page edges stained red Boards are covered in green and cream marbled paper, cream spine with red title block and gold lettering Re slipcase is firm with a paper scuff measuring 3 1/2" x 1" at the widest point Original glassine wrapper folded in the back Sandglass number II:18 laid in

Kent, Oh: Kent State University Press, 2019. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A gently read copy, as new. These lyrical meditations delve into life on Fleming's farm, the impacts of the mining and drilling industries, fox hunting, homesteading families, the lives of agriculturalist Louis Bromfield and John Chapman (better known as Johnny Appleseed), and Ohio's Amish community. Fleming finds that our very concept of freedom must be redefined to include preservation and respect for the natural world.

New York: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. In this collection, Robinson examines "our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson's ... prose and boundless humanity are on full display"--.