One of 3500 copies. Bound in the publisher's original white cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt.

Things Themselves: Essays and Scenes

Reynolds Price

Atheneum

Published in 1975, The Surface of Earth is the monumental narrative that charts the slow, inextricable twining of the Mayfield and Kendal families. Set in the plain of North Carolina and the coast and hills of Virginia from 1903 to 1944, it chronicles the marriage of Forrest Mayfield and Eva Kendal, the hard birth of their son, Eva's return to her father after her mother's death, and the lives of two succeeding generations.  The Surface of Earth is the work of one of America's supreme masters of fiction, a journey across time and the poignantly evoked America of the first half of our century that explores the mysterious topography of the powers of love, home, and identity. In his evocation of the hungers, defeats, and rewards of individuals in moments of dark solitude and radiant union, Price has created an enduring literary testament to the range of human life.

The Surface of Earth: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Ballantine Books

Now in her mid-fifties, Kate Vaiden recalls her early life growing up, after the violent death of her parents, an orphan in small towns in North Carolina and Virginia in the 1930s and 1940s

Kate Vaiden

Scribner

This paperback edition of the acclaimed 1987 hardcover is a collection of essays exploring a variety of subjects including other writers, music, cooking, religion, and many more.

A Common Room: Essays 1954 - 1987

Essays & Correspondence

In this love story set in North Carolina and Tennessee, Wesley Beaver plans to abandon his thirty-year marriage to Rosacohe Mustian, but his decision forces them to confront questions of faith, commitment and will, love and good heartedness

Good Hearts

Contemporary

Athenaeum

This collection of forty-five essays comprises a wide variety of subjects including other writers, music, cooking and food, religion and the dogy, politics, childhood, sexuality, and human understanding

A Common Room, Essays 1954-1987

History & Criticism

Scribner Paper Fiction

Book by Reynolds Price, Price, Reynolds

August Snow

Price, Reynolds

Dramas & Plays

Dramatist's Play Service

THE STORY: NIGHT DANCE, opens in 1945. Genevieve's husband, Wayne, is due home any day now from World War II which has recently ended. Porter, who has made the Navy his life, is already home, enjoying Roma's cooking and catching up on the news. Nea

Night Dance. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Homemade: Signed Edition

North Carolina Wesleyan

A poem signed by the author in a limited edition of 176 copies

House Snake

Poetry

LORD JOHN PRESS

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