Always Coming Home

Notes

• This work is structured more as an anthropological study than a novel, and contains quite a number of separately titled poems, songs and stories. Some of them (The Trouble with the Cotton People, The Visionary, Dira, Time in the Valley, It Was Never Really Different, A Song Used in Chumo When Damming a Creek or Diverting Water to a Holding Tank for Irrigation, A Bay Laurel Song, An Exhortation from the Second and Third Houses of the Earth) have been published by themselves.
• Of the first edition, Ursula writes (in Locus #301): The boxed hardcover with cassette, called the "deluxe edition" by the publisher came out simultaneously with the trade paperback. "The boxed hardcover sold out very promptly, but new boxes were produced for it. ... As for the unboxed hardcover without cassette, this is the "library edition" ... for librarians who thought they did not want to handle the cassette. If this means that there are actually three first edition, I can only say *sigh* -- forget it. The cassette is part of the book, anyhow."

• "First edition." • First printing, full number line 85 86 87 88 89 MPC 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. • Month of publication from Locus1. • Boxed edition with cassette titled "Music & Poetry of the Kesh". Music composed by Todd Barton, words by Ursula K. Le Guin. • Price not visible on this edition; taken from Locus1. • The cover for both the box and book is a photo that is not credited. • The last numbered page is 523 and after this is a page with an illustration and the song Stammersong on page [525]. • This edition, as is, was also distributed by the SFBC, without a number, for $14.98 in Feb '86.