DARK TREES TO THE WIND
A Cycle of York State Years
By
Carl Carmer
Decorations by
JOHN O'HARA COSGRAVE II
Signed by the author
Details: "Here is a book like nothing else you have read for years. Carl Carmer weaves the pattern of his narrative out of people--people of an almost infinite variety and richness. Here are Lon Whiteman, America's greatest embezzler with a knack of victimizing bank presidents; Major Noah, who tried to establish Israel on American soil a hundred years ago; a girl named Lavender from the Ramapo mountains frozen to death in a sequin evening dress and--perhaps--returning to haunt the country twilight; the great Cayuga Indian who went to Geneva to get justice for his people; the incredible Fowlers, who designed octagonal houses and felt the bumps on people's heads--and dozens more. Here, too, are the wonderful, dry incisive stories that Yorkers tell each other, and in words and pictures, the flavor and color and people and scenery of an empire that is both a geography and a history.
Carl Carmer is a York Stater by birth as well as inclination. He is a graduate of Hamilton College, and though he has lived in the South for a number of years (the period when he was writing his first great success, Stars Fell on Alabama) most of his life has been spent in the state about which he writes so lovingly in this volume." (from the Dust Jacket)
The book has a pictorial binding and is signed by the author. The foreedge of the text block is untrimmed, the upper edge of the text block is dark green.
A great addition for your collection!
Condition: The book is in very good condition with a firm binding and clean pages. The dust jacket is showing edge wear. There is a 1 1/4" edge tear on the upper front spine fold; there are several small chips; otherwise the dust jacket is in good condition.
Note: The letter/number at the end of the title line
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