Gary Snyder

The Old Ways [Signed]

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1977.

84 pp. Original pictorial wraps featuring artwork by Tom Polly, glossy front panel clean and bright; spine uncreased with only faint edge toning. Signed by Gary Snyder on the title page, without inscription. Interior crisp and unmarked.

The Old Ways: Six Essays by Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet of the Beat Generation collects six key prose meditations on nature, ecology, community, and indigenous wisdom.

Issued as part of City Lights’ influential Pocket Poets/Prose Series, this 1977 volume reflects Snyder’s mature ecological philosophy and his lifelong engagement with the “wild mind."

A signed first printing of Snyder’s pivotal collection — a cornerstone of post-Beat environmental literature and an essential work for collectors of Beat Poetry and American Counterculture Books. Case 6. 

. Near Fine. Item #285
ISBN: 0872860914

Price: $150.00