Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1971. Square 8vo (9x9), white cloth with black and gilt blind stamped titles, black endpapers. 95pp plus 48 photographic plates. First edition with no other printings listed. Price clipped dust jacket mildly worn to panels, a few faint soil marks to front panel, creasing.....
Rodale Press, 1978. 8vo, tobacco paper boards, black titles, 181pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (7.95) mildly toned to panels, slight crease to front flap. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A guide in praise of traditional no-till or do-nothing farming methods by the Japanese farmer- philosopher, with a preface.....
Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1960. 8vo, black cloth with white titles, black topstain, illustrated endpapers, 204pp. First edition, first printing. Unclipped dust jacket (3.50) toned to panels, chipping and faint loss to spine crown, a small smudge to outer edge of front panel. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Contents clean.....
San Francisco: North Point Press. 12mo, white softcover wrappers with orange paper dust jacket, 89pp. First softcover issue, simultaneously issued in cloth. Dust jacket unclipped (6.00), spotted at edges of wrappers. Contents clean, binding firm. Six part volume of pastoral and spiritual verse by the Kentucky agrarian, includes the notable.....