The Unforeseen Wilderness (Signed)
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1971. Photography by Gene Meatyard. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Berry on half title. Square octavo. 9 x 8.75 inches. 96 pp, plus photos. Association copy from the Estate of Robert F. Sexton, M.D. Laid-in card with gift inscription from Rena and John Jacob Niles. Dr. Sexton's wife, Nancy Sexton, née Niles, was a niece of John Jacob Niles, the composer, singer, and collector of traditional ballads, known as the "Dean of American Balladeers." Original price-clipped dust jacket with photograph on front panel. Publisher's original cream-colored cloth over board. Spine lettering gilt stamped on black field. Black & white photographic frontispiece and 48 full-page black & white photographic illustrations by Ralph Eugene (Gene) Meatyard. Case slightly age toned. Internally bright and unmarked. Dust jacket lightly edge-worn with minor loss at rear upper tip, one small closed tear to lower front panel, light toning to spine and edges, creasing and small ink mark to rear panel. Dust jacket now in removable archival protective cover. Freedman A17.2. Very Good / Very Good-. Item #0000095
Price: $900.00