Seeds of Man: An Experience Lived and Dreamed by Woody Guthrie [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1976

Seeds of Man: An Experience Lived and Dreamed by Woody Guthrie 

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1970] W.W. NORTON & COMPANY

Hardcover with dust jacket in good reading condition.  Dust jacket shows wear and tear; housed in an archival quality jacket protector.   Book reads nicely; a few tiny stains to boards and some soiling to text block.

Seeds of Man is based on Woody Guthrie’s adventurous 1931 trip through Texas. Nineteen-year-old Woody, accompanied by family members, drives from Pampa in the Panhandle to the rugged Big Bend country in a wheezing Model-T Ford truck. They are searching for a silver mine that Uncle Jeff had discovered and then lost. This autobiographical novel, originally published in 1976—nearly ten years after Woody Guthrie’s death—shows how his father’s search for riches was a dead-end street. The characters dare and do, drink Papa’s high-proof whiskey, eat out of cans, meet real characters, make love, and sing the lively songs composed by Woody along the way.