Payne Hollow: Life On The Fringe Of Society, Signed Copy Hubbard, Harlan Kentucky

167pp, illustrated with numerous sketches by author, light general wear, bottom extremities worn thru in places, else very clean and bright, in dust jacket with the usual darkening at spine, and with very shallow chipping at bottom edge of rear panel as noted in picture, now housed in protective Brodart. CLIPPED AUTOGRAPH OF AUTHOR ATTACHED AT TITLE-PAGE: "Harlan Hubbard / Milton, KY 40045." The life of Kentucky naturalist, writer, and painter, and his wife, Anna, on the banks of the Ohio River at Payne Hollow, near Louisville, Kentucky. From our personal collection. We corresponded with the author from our bookstore in Louisville, KY, for several years, and also visited with him multiple times, at Payne Hollow, and in Louisville on occasion, such as when he was given the Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts by the KY Arts Council. He would also sign books through the mail as long as we included a self-addressed, pre-posted package for their return. From the opening paragraph, "This winter evening as I write within the circle of mellow lamplight, the sound of crushing ice comes up from the river as one slowly drifting floe after another rakes along the ridge of piled-up ice which forms the shore. It is an elemental earth-voice, like wind, rain and breaking waves, at once soothing and awful. In an interval of silence I look through the window into the cold, faint light of the young moon which hangs just over the distant ridge of hills beyond the river. It shines on the rippling water between the broad sheets of ice, reminding me of a summer night when the same moon's reflection on the smooth river is shattered by a soft breeze coming out of Payne Hollow." Unique.