Touchstone, April 1997. First Thus. Trade Paperback. First published by now-defunct New Orleans publisher Robert L. Crager in 1949, the book remains funny and informative, generally accepted as a standard reference about the Crescent City. Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Streets of New Orleans! details the interesting stories of..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, July 1992. Trade Paperback. Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter. For all those who have read and cherished the Foxfire books, here is a loving portrait of a fondly..... More
Arcadia Publishing, February 2010. Trade Paperback. Join author and Huntsville native T. Gary Wicks as he uncovers the beginnings and inventions that influenced air and space engineering in Alabama and America. The air age in Huntsville began more than a century ago with Will Quick's design and construction of a...... More
Pelican Publishing Company, November 1990. Hardcover. Buddy Stall offers his insider's knowledge of the most interesting city in America. In dustjacket with edge wear/darkened edges. Blue textured paper covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Sticker residue back panel of DJ.Tightly bound.[250 pages]..... More
Longstreet Press, May 2000. Hardcover. The former White House chief-of-staff recalls his youth in the civil rights-era South, his years in Washington during the Carter administration, and his battle with three different types of cancer. Clean, tight copy. More
Louisiana State University Press, March 1967. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. Underlining in inks & pencil. Dog-earred pages. Soiling, creasing, scuff marks, & soiling. Heavy foxing & dust stains textblock edges, espcially at top. Previous owner's name inked front cover and half title page. Stains to interior pages. First paperback..... More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, November 1970. Hardcover. Octavo. In mildly edgeworn DJ. Front flap clipped. Heavy foxing of jacket verso and darkened spine verso. White cloth covered boards with black lettering upon spine. Heavy foxing & darkening to boards. Crimson end pages. Previous owner's nameinked upper right corner of..... More
University Alabama Press, September 2011. Hardcover. This historical memoir by the widely recognized scholar, Wayne Flynt, chronicles the inner workings of his academic career at Samford and Auburn Universities, as well as his many contributions to the general history of Alabama. Flynt has traveled the state and the South lecturing..... More
Princeton University Press, June 1969. Hardcover. The description for this book, Populism to Progressivism in Alabama, will be forthcoming. Previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper and front of jacket. Pages toned and foxed, especially on edges. Jacket clipped; else, a very good copy in jacket. 390 pgs... More
Ballantine Books, May 1997. Trade Paperback. THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF A BRUTAL ACT OF HATE "At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast--but..... More
Harcourt, November 1997. Trade Paperback. As we move toward the end of the century, Southern values have become American values. Southern politicians lead both political parties, and the South has powered the rightward shift in American politics over the course of the past three decades. The South is far and..... More
NewSouth Books, March 2022. Hardcover. From his childhood in New Orleans to Howard University as a boy of fifteen, from his work as a young pastor in Alabama to his leadership role in the SCLC, from serving as the first Black congressman from Georgia since Reconstruction to serving as the..... More
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, October 1991. Hardcover. A narrative of the events of 1978 in McIntosh County, Georgia, when the first black man was elected as a county commissioner. More
Review Publishing & Printng Company, February 1936. First Edition. Cloth. Red cloth covered boards with washed out spots of discoloration scattered over front & rear board. Dustjacket missing, if there ever was one. Sun-bleached spine with gold lettering. Signed (with lengthy inscription) on front free end page, by Thomas Gamble..... More
J.W. Burke, January 1936. Reprint. Stapled Pamphlet. {9' x 12'} In flexible textured cardstock with silver & brown inked front panel illustration & lettering. Dust staining rear cover panel. Non authorial inscription title page. Semi-transparent fly leaf over title page (1st page) & Afterword (last page). [52 pp.]. More
Scribner, January 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. In the aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, riots broke out in 110 cities across the country. For five days, Atlanta braced for chaos while preparing to host King's funeral. An unlikely alliance of former student radicals, the middle-aged patrician mayor, the no-nonsense..... More
Knopf, June 2001. Hardcover. 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
George Peabody College for Teachers, 1927. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Heavily worn. Darkened at margins. Library catalogue number on small white label affixed to lower left corner of front cover. Re-enforced by clear tape, now darkened with age. Presentation copy, inscribed 'Presented to the Atlanta Historical Society by Stiles..... More
Joseph W. Watson/ Avera Press, 1982. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo with dust stains to textblock edges. Slight give to binding. Tiny indentation mark to front board fore-edge near top right corner. Small smudge of soiling front end pages. Burgundy cloth with gold lettering. 1983 reprint of 1973 original. [340 pages.]... More
Gwinnett Historical Society/BookCrafters, Inc., 1995. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo issued without dustjacket. Black cloth with gold lettering. Facsimile reprint, 1995. Clean, sound, tightly bound. Foxing/dust stains textblock top edge. Slight bow to boards. List of other Gwinnet Historical Society publications, printed on red stock, laid in. [502 pp.]. More
Gwinnett Historical Society, January 1992. First Edition. Cloth. Green cloth with gold lettering. Clean, sound, without markings. Tight binding. Transcribed, Edited, Indexed, with Introductory Remarks by John V. Moore, Jr. [320 pp.]. More
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
Hill Street Press, March 2000. Hardcover. When Celestine Sibley died in August 1999, hundreds of thousands of her fans mourned for weeks and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution celebrated her life with daily coverage and a special 24-page supplement of which over 1.5 million copies were published. There is no one more..... More
Peachtree Publishing, November 1999. Hardcover. More
