Earthly PossessionsFirst UK edition and impression from 1977 in VG condition, there is a pen mark to front blank endpage, no other internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, the jacket has some minor scuffing and wear to extremities, now in removable protective sleeve. About Earthly Possessions Earthly Possessions is a 1977 novel by Anne Tyler. This, Tyler's seventh novel, followed Celestial Navigation and Searching for Caleb and preceded her award winning novels