A Field Guide to Getting Lost (inscribed to Herb Gold)
NY: Viking, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Herb Gold, best wishes, Rebecca Solnit (and Farley)" [the parenthetical difficult to parse . . . perhaps "and fondly"]. Uncommon signed, with no other copies available as of this writing. Herb Gold was an influential San Francisco novelist, journalist, and cultural critic who worked on the fringes of the Beat movement (and ultimately wrote about the Beat scene). As such this is a great Bay Area association, as Solnit has spent her adult life writing in Berkeley and San Francisco. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award among other prizes, Solnit remains one of our foremost cultural critics and public intellectuals, in the vein of Joan Didion, and is often a chronicler of the environment and the experience in various landscapes. This book is a series of autobiographical essays "about losing oneself in the pleasures of an experience, about wandering and being lost" and about "the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities." A near fine book with a minor bump to upper corner of front board and light bumping to spine ends. Also a raised seam on the front board along spine that seems a binder's error, and a remainder mark on lower text block face. In a very good jacket with edge wear/rubbing and one crease at bottom of front panel. An excellent association. Near fine / Very good. Item #1365
ISBN: 9780670034215
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