A long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a people called the Kesh. But Always Coming Home is not the story of the Kesh. Rather it is the stories of the Kesh - stories, poems, songs, recipes - Always Coming Home is no less than an anthropological account of a community that does not yet exist, a tour de force of imaginative fiction by one of modern literature's great voices.
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A long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a people called the Kesh. But Always Coming Home is not the story of the Kesh. Rather it is the stories of the Kesh - stories, poems, songs, recipes - Always Coming Home is no less than an anthropological account of a community that does not yet exist, a tour de force of imaginative fiction by one of modern literature's great voices.
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Seller's Description:
Good. Size: 9x6x2; Book and audio cassette in original slipcase. First printing with number line to 1. Wraps show light toning and edgewear, sunning to spine, three reading creases to spine. Binding sound. Thin full-vertical stains at pages 48-49, extended to bottom of textblock. Interior is otherwise clean with the text else unmarked. Tape present. Slipcase worn and slightly faded.
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Very Good. Size: 9x2x6; Book and audio cassette in original slipcase. First printing, with full number line to 1. Inscribed by Le Guin to a previous owner on a previous bookstore's bookplate, adhered at inside front cover. Wraps very good with light edgewear, minor sunning to spine, and slight wrinkles to spine at each spine end, without effect on binding. Faint crease to front hinge; spine square and uncreased. Binding sound. Pages clean and bright, unmarked. Tape present, with the cassette's label also slightly sunned. Slipcase toned, scuffed, and edgeworn, particularly near corners, with tiny points of fraying to the corners of the opening and a small closed tear to center top of the opening, between the book and cassette slot.
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Like New. Size: 9x2x6; Book and audio cassette in original slipcase. First printing, with full number line to 1. Inscribed by Le Guin to a previous owner at the title page. Cassette tape present in case. Slipcase very good, lightly toned with a few spots of minor scuffing/shelf-wear. Book inside in near fine condition with light edgewear at spine foot. Spine square and uncreased; binding sound. Pages clean and bright, text unmarked.
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Like New. Size: 9x2x6; Book and audio cassette in original slipcase. First printing, with full number line to 1. Signed by author Ursula Le Guin at the title page. Additionally signed at the title page by composer Todd Barton and artist Margaret Chodos. Cassette tape present, in case, with the liner notes also signed by Barton. Slipcase very good with a few minor spots of light scuffing/shelf-wear. Book inside in very good condition, clean and bright with light edgewear, one faint reading crease to spine; binding sound. Interior free of markings.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Salesman's Dummy. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Dummy, preceding every state of later proof copies, for the first edition. Seventeen unsewn signatures. 523 numbered pp with endsheets. Signed by LeGuin on the title sheet. Includes the eventual trade edition dustjacket. Dustjacket with minimal edgewear; it is in Very Good condition. First page of the first signature (the eventual front free endpage) slightly mussed; otherwise, in Fine condition.