Three on Community
Boise, Idaho: Limberlost Press, 1996.
Limited First Edition. Paperback.
First Edition. Limited to 800 copies. Foreword by Tom Lyon. Includes Gary Snyder’s Coming into the Watershed; Wendell Berry’s Conserving Communities; & Carole Koda’s Dancing in the Borderland & Finding Our Common Ground in North America. Printed and bound during the spring of 1996 by Rick and Rosemary Ardinger. The type is Linotype Garamond. The paper is Masa, sewn by hand into handmade marigold paper endsheets.
From the forward by Tom Lyon: This compact little book is a kind of Baedeker, except it is not about travel in the old sense. It is about seeing where we already are – not a change of scene but of mind. Its map shows the contours of knowledge, of place and self and group, that perhaps all of humanity once had, a learning that now greatly needs to be revived and extended. A few centuries of extraordinary, fascinating mobility have weakened our most basic footing on the earth and with each other. Today the tyranny of a placeless, faceless, global economy threatens to cut the old ties completely, leaving most of us with no reference but our own feverish activity… In the last analysis, perhaps what we can say for sure is only that we are all here. These three clearheaded writers start from our present, shared place in the historical stream, and in creative, democratic engagement with the rest of us, think ahead bravely.
Item #901119ISBN: 093159280
5-1/8 x 7-3/4”, Japanese sewn binding, handmade paper wrappers, folded sheets, 66pp.
Very good.
Price: $85.00