Southern History
Policing Greene: A Policeman at the Sunset of the Jim Crow South
Independently published, August 2018. Paper Back. More
The Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America's Millionaires
University of Georgia Press, June 1989. Reprint. Cloth. From its inception in 1886, the Jekyll Island Club included in its elite membership the nation's wealthiest families, among them the Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, and Morgans. Far from the hectic northern cities where the members tended their fortunes, this private island refuge..... More
Monroeville: Literary Capital of Alabama (Images of America)
Arcadia Publishing, October 1998. Paper Back. Monroeville is the county seat of Monroe County, a county older than the state of Alabama itself. Located in what was the western Creek Nation, Monroeville became the center of county business in 1832, eighteen years after the surrender of the Creeks to Andrew..... More
A church, a school
Abingdon Press, January 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. {5' x 7 & 1/4'} In heavily edgeworn, tape repaired, flap clipped DJ. Brick red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine & facsimile author's signature in black on front panel. Burgundy end pages with publication date, '1959' in black ink..... More
Ebb Tide-Flood Tide: Beaufort County...Jewel of the Low Country
Tabby Manse Inc, December 2001. Hardcover. Ebb Tide?Flood Tide is Lynn McLaren's photographic journey through the island--studded area in the Low Country of South Carolina nourished by two inlets of the Atlantic Ocean, Port Royal Sound and St. Helena Sound. These two large sounds cause the ebb and flood of..... More
Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985
Univ of Georgia Pr, January 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. In jacket with edgewear. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Ochre colored end pages. Foxing to textblock top edge & fore-edge. [560 pages]. More
Classic New Orleans
University of Georgia Press, September 1993. Oversized Hardcover. Golden Coast books on classic Southern cities chronicle the social and cultural histories of each locale as expressed and revealed through architecture. All are lavishly produced in full color and blend archival and contemporary illustrations with provocative scholarship and charming anecdotes. Each..... More
Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home
Yoknapatawpha Press, October 1981. Soft Cover. In this collection of essays Willie Morris explores the subject of "home" and what it means to Americans. Morris takes the reader on a chronological journey of places he lived and worked: as a student at the University of Texas in Austin, as Rhodes..... More
Just and Righteous Causes: Rabbi Ira Sanders and the Fight for Racial and Social Justice in Arkansas, 1926-1963
University of Arkansas Press, December 2018. Hardcover. Winner, 2019 Booker Worthen Prize from the Central Arkansas Library System. A dedicated advocate for social justice long before the term entered everyday usage, Rabbi Ira Sanders began striving against the Jim Crow system soon after he arrived in Little Rock from New..... More
Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina -- (Two volume set) -- To Which is Added, the Original Fee Bill of 1791 With the Signatures in Facsimile; the Rolls of Attorneys Admitted to Practice, from the Records at Charleston and Columbia, etc., etc.
S.G. Courtenay & Co., 1859. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Brown umber with gold lettering along spines. Blind stamped or more likely tooled decorative floral corner patterns and borders front board both volumes. Dust staining to boards and textblock edges. Stains most noticable bottom textblock edge at fore-edge lip. Darkening/tanning margins..... More
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Ecco, January 2022. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South--and thus of America--by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration." --Isabel Wilkerson..... More
Remember Me to All
Mountain Arbor Press, November 2017. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; Signed by the authors at title page; An excellent copy. More
The History of South-Carolina from its first settlement in 1670, to the year 1808 two volumes, rebound)
David Longworth, for the author, 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter bound: black leather spine with gold lettering and black corners. Gilt border lines. Burgundy cloth covered bords fill up five sided space between front and rear. Marbled end pages. The original rough fore-edged first edition actual book has survived the..... More
Southern Cultures Volume 1, Number 1 Fall 1994
Duke University Press, January 1994. Paper Back. {'7' x 10'} Clean & sound. [140 pages]. More
Lucid Intervals
Mercer University Press, 1983. Hardcover. In dust jacket. Signed & inscribed on f.f.e.p. by Bob Steed to the Chief Executive Officer and Commission Chairman of DeKalb County, Georgia, and owner of Manuel's Tavern. 'To my friend Manuel Maloof who is like another Dekalb county natural wonder, Stone Mountain -- durable..... More
Run With the Horsemen
Peachtree Publishers, August 1982. Hardcover. A boy's account of growing up through the rituals of life on an ancestral farm in middle Georgia between the big wars. It is a rueful, humorous story of the people in one rural county, but the telling cuts so deep it breaks through to..... More
Run with the Horsemen (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)
Penguin (Non-Classics), July 1984. Trade Paperback. Porter Osborne Jr. is a precocious, sensitive, and rambunctious boy trying to make it through adolescence during the depression years. On a red-clay farm in Georgia he learns all there is to know about cotton chopping, hog killing, watermelon thumping, and mule handling. School..... More
Run with the Horsemen (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)
Penguin (Non-Classics), July 1984. Trade Paperback. Porter Osborne Jr. is a precocious, sensitive, and rambunctious boy trying to make it through adolescence during the depression years. On a red-clay farm in Georgia he learns all there is to know about cotton chopping, hog killing, watermelon thumping, and mule handling. School..... More
When All the World Was Young (Contemporary American Fiction)
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1992. Trade Paperback. The year is 1942 and Porter Osborne, Jr., is safely ensconced in medical school. He is physically safe, although taunted by the beckoning finger of Uncle Sam. Haunted by the family motto, "Remember who you are, " Porter wrestles with a flood of conflicting..... More
Ah, Sweet Mystery
Harper Collins, June 1991. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. Signed by Sibley on title page. More
Small Blessings
Doubleday, June 1977. First American. Hardcover. In spine sunned dust jacket. First/first. More
Small Blessings
Doubleday, June 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. [Octavo in jacket with tanning & marginal foxing & sun lightened spine. Burgundy cloth covered spine with gold lettering along spine edge. Off white paper covered boards with embedded fibers. Celestine Sibley's signature in ink front free end page. Also on same page a...... More
Tokens of Myself
Longstreet Press, October 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. {7' x 9 & 1/2'} First/first. In edgeworn dustjacket. Front flap is clipped. Tan cloth spine with gold lettering alongs spine. Forest green textured paper covered boards. [160 pages]. More