East of the Chesapeake [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING] [LIMITED EDITION # 2666/4500] [VINTAGE 1998]

Turner, William H.

Published by Turner Press, Onley, Virginia, 1998

About this Item

As new condition forest green cloth boards with gold front cover decorations/illustrations and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction by Tom Horton; Prologue; and Epilogue. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, drawings, marbled colored front and rear endpapers and color photographic frontispiece. Also in includes a bound-into-the-volume matching forest green satin ribbon page marker. All page edges are gilt and all pages are in as new condition. Signed by the author with black Sharpie/marker on a preliminary page directly above the notation "This book is number 2666 in an edition of 4500." "In East of the Chesapeake Bill Turner writes about characters who might have inspired the likes of Daymon Runyon or Erskine Caldwell. Not that Turner is another Runyon or Caldwell. He isn't. He's Bill Turner. An original. In sculpting terms, a one-off. In writing about folks like Bill White and Jim Bogs, about Sweetheart, Froggy, Cabell and Mitt. Turner writes about honest-to-goodnesss characters. Mostly, [the book] is about the people, places and events which molded Turner into the same kind of character. Had Cabell Mapp outlived the author, he might have been the writer, Turner the subject. Mix these characters with Turner's fascination of the outdoors and things wild, plus his rooted love of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the title's inspiration, and you have the makings of a promising read. Add Turner's bent for storytelling and you have an enthralling read. Most chapters will make your chuckle. Some may make you laugh out loud. Others, like Froggy's Garden, may bring a tear. Are all the stories true? Are they all fiction? Are they a mixture of the two? Does it really matter?" - Bob Hutchingson, The (Norfolk) Virginian Pilot. "Bill Turner has done it again! Another wonderful memoir of growing up and living in a place wonderfully out of sync with the rest of our one-size-fits-all world. Turner uses his familiarity with Virginia's Eastern Shore much the way that William Faulkner uses his semi-mythical Mississippi county to create a cast of characters-rogues and heroes alike - whose adventures and misadventures we recall - and chuckle over - long after we've put his books down." - George Reiger, author of The Heron Hill Chronicle and Wanderer on My Native Shore. Seller Inventory # 003574

Bibliographic Details

Title: East of the Chesapeake [SIGNED FIRST EDITION...

Publisher: Turner Press, Onley, Virginia

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Turner, William H.

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition