First Edition, First Print of poet and novelist Wendell Berry’s first novel, which was published when he was 26.

Nathan Coulter presents readers with their first introduction to what would become Berry’s life’s work, chronicling through fiction a place where the inhabitants of Port William form what is more than community, but rather a “membership” in interrelatedness, a spiritual community, united by duty and bonds of affection for one another and for the land upon which they make their livelihood.

Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Stated first printing. Hardcover: Very Good or better. Jacket: Good or better, some wear and tear to corners and some extremities. Not price clipped.