Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm [Signed]

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995. 1st ed.; 4th printing. Octavo cream paste-down, brown cloth spine in cream jacket: xii, 233 pages: illustrations; 22 cm Fine in a near fine+ to fine (-) jacket. Light soiling/rubbing to jacket in near fine - dust-jacket. Hardcover.

Author inscribed; Contents: Spring work -- Workers of the land -- As if the farmer died -- New farm, old pests -- Learning to fail -- Summer work -- Family farm -- Wild walks -- Harvests -- September is not to be trusted -- Year begins -- Autumn work -- Orphaned -- Farming with ghosts -- Winter work -- Return of the egret. "An eloquent piece of nature writing by a young author with a farmer's calluses and a poet's soul, this book is about saving a peach, saving a farm, saving a family, saving a way of life--it is a story about finding "home."--Publisher description. Peach growers -- California -- Del Rey -- Biography -- Japanese American farmers.