My Land Has A Voice (Inscribed)
New York / Toronto / London / Sydney: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. A collection of twenty short stories by Jesse Stuart, gathered from magazines (about 1939–1965). They are set in his eastern Kentucky / W-Hollow country with farms, hollows, moonshine, kin, shooting matches, and talk.
Jesse Stuart (1906–1984) was the Greenup County poet-novelist of Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow, Taps for Private Tussie, and The Thread That Runs So True. These stories are the same world in shorter form -- realistic, sometimes edged with tall-tale or mild fantasy, usually with a clear moral or comic point.
ABOUT THIS COPY: This inscribed copy is a fifth printing. Boards are a two-toned cream cloth and and seafoam green paper. Covers are plain with black and burgundy lettering on a cloth spine. Deckled foredge. Endpapers are a light mint green. 243 pp. Illustrated dust jacket is lovely with monochromatic teal, black and off white colors.
CONDITION: Both book and dust jacket are VG+ with minor shelfware. Unmarked except for author's inscription. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. A delightful copy of stories about Kentucky. Full refund if not satisfied. Very Good + / Very Good +.
Item #081849
Price: $30.00