Vintage, April 2009. Trade Paperback. In the final volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winner's bestselling and beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin' and continued with Ava's Man, this evocative family memoir" (Boston Globe) delivers an unforgettable rumination about fathers and sons. Bragg documents a mesmerizing journey..... More
Da Capo Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white..... More
Arcdia Publishing, October 2011. Trade Paperback. Just the name The Varsity can set generations of mouths watering. What started in 1928 as one man s efforts to bring affordable food to students, grew quickly into a fast food institution. The world s largest drive-in since the 1950s, The Varsity s...... More
Arcadia Publishing, December 2013. Trade Paperback. When Benjamin Franklin Burdett and his son Arthur developed their streetcar suburb of Brookwood Hills in 1922, they chose land on the cusp of change, straddling the city and county line. The area, once populated by Native Americans, was the site of the opening..... More
Arcadia Publishing, December 1999. Trade Paperback. Over 200 vintage images document the history of Avondale Estates, uncovering the development of its early businesses to the citizens who first called it home. Founded in 1924 by self-made millionaire George Francis Willis, Avondale Estates is a unique planned community--the only documented one..... More
Da Capo Press, August 2006. 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..... More
Arcadia Publishing, June 2005. Trade Paperback. McDowell County was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1858, two years before the start of the American Civil War. In 1863, the county was one of the 55 that separated from the Old Dominion to form West Virginia, thus..... More
America Through Time, May 2019. Trade Paperback. "Atlanta has a rich and complex history worth remembering, but its desire to become the next booming sensation puts it at risk of becoming a tear-down city. Before our eyes, historic buildings are being knocked down for apartments, parking decks and office spaces..... More
Arcadia Publishing, March 2014. Trade Paperback. Located only two miles from downtown Atlanta, East Atlanta has its own distinct history and identity. Over the decades, this area has impacted the development of Atlanta and the nation. The Battle of Atlanta, fought on East Atlanta ground in 1864, changed the course..... 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
LSU Press, July 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. In this expansive study, Bryan Giemza recovers a neglected subculture and retrieves a missing chapter of Irish Catholic heritage by canvassing the literature of American Irish writers from the U.S. South. Giemza offers a defining new view of Irish American authors and their..... More
Telfair Museum of Art, January 2011. Hardcover. 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
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
Rutgers University Press, January 1972. Hardcover. Very moderate wear to book and jacket. Warm, personal inscription on front free endpaper inscribed by John Stone. More
D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, January 1936. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. Heavily chipped, edgeworn and torn dustjacket. Tan cloth covered boards with red lettering and red stamped illustration on spine and front board. Mildly edgeworn boards. Bumped corners. Previous owner's name/address stamped in red ink on front free end page and..... More
Georgia Map Office, 2004. Pamphlet. 12mo. {5' x 7 & 1/2'}; Ginger colored cardstock cover. Like new. 16 pages. More
Cherokee Pub, September 1978. First Edition. Cloth. Bound in blue cloth with bright gold lettering on the spine and the front board. Light wear on the bottom edges of the boards. Toning on the top edge. Light foxing on the edges of the print block and the endpapers. Light shelf..... More
Communications Unlimited, January 1969. Paper Back. Octavo. Mild storage wear. Toning. 121 pages. More
University of Illinois Press, April 2019. Hardcover. Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power, which led to the growth of modern state bureaucracies that eclipsed traditions of local sovereignty. Friction..... More
Drewry Lane Bookmakers, September 1994. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. First printing. Tight, clean copy. Very minor shelfwear on the cover. More
W.J. Widdleton, Publisher, 1868. Reprint. Leather. Brown leather with rather faded gold lettering and decor on spine. Spine is sun bleached with considerable wear at top and bottom, where it is visibly flaked and bruised. Front and rear board corners brumped and worn. Front end pages tanned, curled and damp..... More
LSU Press, November 2018. Hardcover. Regarded as one of the most vocal, well-traveled, and controversial statesmen of the nineteenth century, antebellum politician Henry Stuart Foote played a central role in a vast array of pivotal events. Despite Foote's unique mark on history, until now no comprehensive biography existed. Ben Wynne..... More
University Press of Florida, November 2001. Hardcover. From the foreword: "[This] well-researched, broadly conceived, and gracefully written narrative charts the economic transformation of the upper Little Tennessee River Valley [and] revises long-standing misconceptions about the people, economy, and culture of southwestern Appalachia. . . . While Taylor's book has much..... More
Palgrave Macmillan, June 2015. Hardcover. This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of..... More
