A More Goodly Country: A Personal History of America by John Sanford

New York: Horizon Press, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Nice clean unmarked copy.

New York, NY: Horizon Press, 1975. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 285 pages. 6 3/8" X 9 1/2" (8vo). The uniqueness of the "personal history" is in John Sanford's writing in so great a variety of voices astonishing in their authenticity - voices of the American character, beginning in A.D. 1000 with Leif Ericson and ending with the atom bomb, which opened the most significant era in our history. One micro-tear on dust jacket spine tail. Spine head slightly bumped.

NY: Horizon, (1975).. First edition.. 285 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Laid-in is a 1982 4 page “New Introduction” by Sanford, printed to accompany copies upon Black Sparrow Press assuming distribution of this title.

New York:: Horizon Press,, (1975). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (minor toning and sunning to the dust jacket).. First printing. Beginning in A.D. 1000 with Leif Ericson and ending with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, this book presents - in poetic prose - a searing personal history of the United States, told in almost 200 voices over the years. Sanford later commented about this book that "It was, and it is, an unrelenting and accusatory book. No one who values his country can find its charges easy to bear-and yet I value my country, too, and the book was written only to make it better." It is a book that exposes the rapaciousness and the cruelty and self-interest often underlying our country's history. Sanford was blacklisted by the House for Unamerican Activities in the 1950s and one wonders if this book would find a publisher today. Sanford was also the recipient of the PEN Award and the Los Angeles Times Lifetime… Read More

Horizon Press -, 1975. Hardcover/pub.1975/Gd. condition/285 pages - A prose epic of America. Published on the eve of America's bicentennial. A imaginative text of witness is a masterpiece. [KN124215]. Hard Cover. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.