William Least Heat Moon Blue Highways 1982 Prairy Erth 1991 Publisher's Eds

Description: Two books by William Least Heat Moon. Both by the original publisher, not the book club. The author is considered a travel writer, and chronicler of American life. 1. Blue Highways - A Journey into America. Photographs by the author. 1982, 17 printing. 421 pages. 6 1/4 by 9 1/2 inches. $17.95, price still intact on the front flap. "When 'Least Heat Moon' (the translation of the tribal name in his mixed blood) lost his job in a college in Missouri, he got a half-ton Ford van, packed a few necessaries including Leaves of Grass and Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, and set out to follow the track of various ancestors and write a book about America...Least Heat Moon has a genius for finding people who have not even found themselves, exploring their lives, capturing their language, and recreating little (or big) lost worlds, or moments. In short, he makes America seem new, in a very special way, and its people new. Blue Highways is a magnificent and unique tour, with the price of gasoline no object." - excerpt off the front jacket flap, written by Robert Penn Warren. Sample contents: East by Southeast / West by Southwest / North by Northwest / Westward / Index of Towns and Cities. Condition: This copy has the look and feel of a book that was never opened for reading. The binding is tight; no sign of page turning. There is some scuffing to the dust jacket, and wear at the edges, mostly along the top. The interior is clean. 2. Prairy Erth. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 1991, First Edition. 624 pages. 6 1/4 by 9 1/2 inches. $24.95, price still intact on the front flap. "Prairy Erth is a vigorous and exalted evocation of the American land, its people, its past, its hopes. The very word 'prairyerth,' an old geological term for the soils of our central grasslands, captures the essence of the American tall-grass country. Only a writer of William Least Heat-Moon's gifts could find in a single Kansas county the narrative of an American epic, the nonfiction equivalent of the great American novel." - excerpt off the front jacket flap. Sample contents: Crossings - On Roniger Hill / Gladstone - In the Quadrangle / Thrall-Northwest - Down in the Hollow / Bazaar - A Night at Darla's / Hymer - With the Grain of the Grid / Homestead - The Life and opinions of Sam Wood. Condition: Some scuffs and scratches on the jacket surface. Wear along the top edge. Smudge marks on the leading page edge. The book has been read, but the interior is clean. Pages 605-615 are bent at the bottom corners. According to bookfinder.com, a website that surveys 150 million books for sale online, there are 46 copies of this First Edition book for sale, ranging from $10.25 to $59.50, based on condition. Thank you.

Price: 59.95 USD

Location: Temperance, Michigan

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