Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (inscribed)
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. A scarce signed copy of the first printing, here inscribed to no recipient on the half-title page: "In honor of our oldest teachers, the plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer." As detailed in articles about the sensation that this book has become, Braiding Sweetgrass had a first printing of only 8,000 copies, most of which were probably bought by libraries; no major newspaper reviewed it. In 2020, five years after the paperback was first released, Braiding Sweetgrass made the New York Times bestseller list for paperback nonfiction and it hasn’t left—this week, Feb 22, 2026, is its 303rd week on the list (currently #12). As of 2024, it had sold more than 2 million copies. A word-of-mouth phenomenon. We've been watching for about five years, and this is the first signed hardcover copy we've found. So far as we can tell, there aren't even any other hardcover copies on the market. Priced accordingly. Very good with faint foxing to the outer edge of the text block and perhaps a dozen dogeared pages. In a very good minus jacket with light foxing to some margins. A book of our times, and scarce, more so signed. Very good / Very good. Item #1881
ISBN: 9781571313355
Price: $4,750.00 save 5% $4,512.50