Seven Houses: A Memoir of Time and Places. With Illustrations by Peter Parnall.
first edition
[1973] · New York
by Johnson, Josephine W.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1973]. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 159 pp. Near-Fine, with slight fading to edges, in a like dust jacket. Illustrated with photos. “...Miss Johnson has taken the houses she has lived in, the essential memories of certain times, places and landscapes that mark our lives, as the theme for a book of uncommon power and distinction. Beginning with her mother’s family house, and describing with clarity and without any false nostalgia that vanished life of prosperous small-town America...In each of them she has observed not only the slow changes of life and her own minutely examined emotions, but also that larger world of nature that has always been her central concern. Seven Houses is a memoir, a confession, a book about the search for one’s roots and that love for the land that is far more deeply rooted than one’s own life can be. Like The Inland Island, it is a book that leaves the reader dazzled with sulight, ears ringing with birdsong. It is, quite simply, a beautiful and moving experience.” (Inventory #: 70625s)