BERRY, Wendell; MEATYARD, Ralph Eugene (photographer).

The Unforeseen Wilderness.

An Essay on Kentucky's Red River Gorge.

Stock Code

100359

Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky, 1971

£750

A rare double-signed first edition of this poetic work originally published to save the Red River Gorge in Kentucky from destruction by a proposed Army Corps of Engineers' dam; the arresting photography by subsequently renowned experimental photographer Gene Meatyard was the result of many trips undertaken with Wendell Berry into the Appalachian hills, where the photographer's ashes were scattered after his death (obviously) in 1972.

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First edition, first printing (with text-block on copyright page flush to right margin), signed by the author and the artist on half-title; small 4to (225 x 210 mm.); black & white photographic frontispiece and 48 full-page black & white photographic illustrations by Gene Meatyard, internally fine; publisher's off-white cloth, a very good copy, in original dust-jacket with photograph to upper panel, price-clipped, a little minor rubbing, but overall a near fine example.