The Deep South States of America;: People, politics, and power in the seven Deep South States
Norton, January 1974. Hardcover. Jacket chipped and clipped. More
Atlanta & The South
City on the Verge
Basic Books, May 2017. Hardcover. What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century Atlanta is on the verge of tremendous rebirth-or inexorable decline. A kind of Petri dish for cities struggling to reinvent themselves, Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the country, gridlocked..... More
Staff Pick
Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son
Knopf, January 1941. Hardcover. Sunned (especially on the spine) and quite shelfworn. Toning. Non-authorial gift inscription on front free endpaper. More
White Columns In Georgia
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
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
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
Notes for a New Map
Georgia Map Office, 2004. Pamphlet. 12mo. {5' x 7 & 1/2'}; Ginger colored cardstock cover. Like new. 16 pages. More
Why New Orleans Matters
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
Hidden History of Old Atlanta
The History Press, February 2021. Paper Back. Old Atlanta may conjure images of southern belles and Civil War ruination, but the full story stretches back millennia, even before the first known residents arrived five thousand years ago. From centuries of Native American settlements that ended with the removal of the..... More
Living With the West Florida Shore (Living with the Shore series)
Duke University Press, November 1984. Soft Cover. Oblong softcover. {9 & 1/4' x 6') MIld shelfwear. Foxing to textblock edges.[222 pp.]. More
Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family
Penguin (Non-Classics), May 1997. Trade Paperback. The intersection of Peachtree Street, historically the residential and commercial street of Atlanta's white elite, and Sweet Auburn, the spiritual main street of Atlanta's black community, mirrors the often separate but mutually dependent worlds of whites and blacks in this southern city. In "Where..... More
Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family
Penguin (Non-Classics), May 1997. Trade Paperback. The intersection of Peachtree Street, historically the residential and commercial street of Atlanta's white elite, and Sweet Auburn, the spiritual main street of Atlanta's black community, mirrors the often separate but mutually dependent worlds of whites and blacks in this southern city. In "Where..... More
WHERE PEACHTREE MEETS SWEET AUBURN: The Saga of Two Families and the Making of Atlanta
Scribner, May 1996. Hardcover. Remainder mark on bottom edge. More
They Sought a Land: A Settlement in the Arkansas River Valley, 1840–1870
University of Arkansas Press, July 1997. Hardcover. This well-researched study of one group of pioneers taking part in the westward expansion of the United States during the nineteenth century tells an illuminating story. The prosperous farming families who left established comforts in North Carolina and South Carolina to trek in..... 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
Cross Creek
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
Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
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
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
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
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
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
Hosea Williams: A Lifetime of Defiance and Protest
University of South Carolina Press, January 2022. Paper Back. The first comprehensive study of one of America's most gifted civil rights activists and political mavericks When civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressman John Lewis said of him, Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one..... 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
What Men Don't Tell Women
Little Brown & Co (T), April 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & solid & near fine all around. Signed by Blount on front free end page. More
The Complete Lunch Box: The Life and Works of Deacon Lunch Book, a Cornucopia of Southern Culture
Drewry Lane Bookmakers, September 1994. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. First/first; Oblong octavo (10' x 8'). Bright, clean, sound, no markings. Well cared for & gently read. Faint shelfwear along wrapper edges. Hard to imagine a better collector's copy. One of a kind selection of all things Deacon. RIP you Georgia..... More
The Complete Lunch Box: The Life and Works of Deacon Lunch Book, a Cornucopia of Southern Culture
Drewry Lane Bookmakers, September 1994. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. First printing. Tight, clean copy. Very minor shelfwear on the cover. 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
