More Landmarks of Tennessee History
TN Historical Commission, January 1969. Hardcover. Some wear to the dust jacket, though it is wrapped in clear plastic. Yellowing and a few stains to text block. More
TN Historical Commission, January 1969. Hardcover. Some wear to the dust jacket, though it is wrapped in clear plastic. Yellowing and a few stains to text block. More
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
Hill Street Press, January 2002. Hardcover. Nearly a decade and a half before the novelist Margaret Mitchell conceived the immortal fictive world of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell the cub reporter was pounding the real-life streets of her Atlanta hometown in search of the who, what, when, and where..... More
Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd), November 1989. Hardcover. 2nd printing. More
Yoknapatawpha Press, March 1982. Trade Paperback. In the 1940s at his home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi, Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner told ghost stories to the children in his family. Faulkner's niece, Dean Faulkner Wells, has recounted the haunting and heartbreaking story of "Judith," the chilling tale of "The..... More
Knopf, June 2001. Hardcover. More
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
Viking Adult, September 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. More
The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. A warm, friendly inscription from Paul Hemphill on the front free endpaper. More
The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good all round. Mylar wrapped to preserve. More
Norton, January 1974. Hardcover. Jacket chipped and clipped. More
Bonanza Books, December 1988. Cloth. Quarto (9 & 3/3' x 10 & 1/4'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Pine green cloth covered boards with brown lettering on spine. Boards bowed. Non-authorial gift inscription front free end page. Slight mildew odor. Clean interior text without underlining, etc. 367 pages. More
Ecco, January 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 An essential, surprising journey through the history..... More
Regan Books, November 2005. Hardcover. Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a...... More
Duke University Press, November 1984. Soft Cover. Oblong softcover. {9 & 1/4' x 6') MIld shelfwear. Foxing to textblock edges.[222 pp.]. More
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
Scribner Book Company, March 1996. Trade Paperback. Cross Creek is the warm and delightful memoir about the life of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings--author of The Yearling--in the Florida backcountry. Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature. For the millions of readers raised on The..... More
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book, September 2013. Paper Back. Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life preserver, she washed onto a sandbar as the craft sank from view. That..... More
Milkweed Editions, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood..... More
Milkweed Editions, September 1999. Hardcover. Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent..... More
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
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
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
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
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