Signed Books
Dixiana Moon
Viking, February 1981. Hardcover. Blue cloth spine with bright gold lettering. One corner of the front board lightly bumped. Price clipped. Signed and dedicated by the author on the front free endpaper. Mylar wrapped. More
Varina
Ecco, April 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Sooner or later, history asks, which side were you on? In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina..... More
The Affluent Society
Franklin Library, January 1978. Leather. Blue bound leather with gold lettering and gold decorative panels front and rear covers. Gold textblock edges. Moire end pages heavily sun-faded at margins front & rear. Otherwise like new overall. Signed by Galbraith on 2nd blank page after FFEP with protective fly leaf. (384..... More
Savannah Duels and Duellists 1733-1877 (Annals of Savannah)
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
Layer Up!: The Ultimate Glow Up Guide for Cakes from How to Cake It
How To Cake It Books, May 2022. Hardcover. Signed by Gampp on title page. More
Grendel
Alfred A. Knopf, September 1976. Cloth. Signed by Gardner on blank page after FFEP. 7th printing; early reprint of this US edition, first printed in same month, September 17 and reprinted five times before this printing. Fair to guess it was selling out quickly. This has always been my favorite..... More
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
Harper & Row, February 1968. Cloth. In very good dust jacket with marginal wear. Tanning to spine verso & edges of recto. NOT price clipped. Original price of $4.95 on flap. 0268 bottom corner front flap. Orange end pages. Yellow topstain. Sound binding. Clean, unmarked interiors. Coded on copyright page..... More
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
University Of Chicago Press, April 2012. Hardcover. We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population--African Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century..... More
To Be or Not to Bop: Memoirs
Doubleday, July 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. This is not a beautiful copy: boards are rubbed, soiled, even a tad warped. Jacket is interiorly taped repaired, soiled and chipped. But it is INSCRIBED BY DIZZY GILLESPIE TWICE: 'To Brenda, Love Dizzy Gillespie' and 'To Pete, Ciao! Dizzy Gillespie' on the front..... More
Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory
Thomas Dunne Books, June 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "New York Times" bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen conclude their inventive trilogy with this remarkable answer to the great "what if" of the American Civil War: Could the South have indeed won? After his great victories at Gettysburg and..... More
White Shroud: Poems, 1980-1985
Harper & Row, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine new collection of poems by Ginsberg that feature an important new work, the title poem White Shroud. First printing. Inscribed and dated (March 1987) on the title page to the New York actress Linda Dorff by Allen Ginsberg. On the..... More
How the SEC Became Goliath: The Making of College Football's Most Dominant Conference
Howard Books, September 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Size matters. That's why the SEC is Goliath...because the Southeastern Conference, top to bottom, has better players, better coaches, better stadiums, better bank accounts, better weather, and what else, bigger players. How the SEC Became Goliath covers the Southeastern Conference and how the..... More
Round-The-World Flights
Van Nostrand Reinhold, June 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Some shelf wear and a small 3mm closed tear on the jacket. Signed by the author, ' To John Wiley, Super pilot, writer and friend' on the front free endpaper. Mylar wrapped to protect. More
A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions
Hachette Books, September 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Stephen "Steve-O" Glover--social media icon, comedy-touring stalwart, and star of Jackass--delivers a hilarious and practical guide to recovery, relationships, career, and how to keep thriving long after you should be dead. Steve-O is best known for his wildly dangerous, foolish, painful, embarrassing, and..... More
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Little, Brown and Company, February 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who..... More
Best Boy: A Novel
Liveright, August 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Sent to a "therapeutic community" for autism at the age of eleven, Todd Aaron, now in his fifties, is the "Old Fox" of Payton LivingCenter. A joyous man who rereads the encyclopedia compulsively, he is unnerved by the sudden arrivals of a menacing new..... More
BULLY FOR BRONTOSAURUS
Easton Press, 1991. First Edition. Leather. Navy blue leather with gold lettering and gold decorative cover design. Moire end pages. Two different pieces of Easton empherma laid in. One is unused Easton Press Ex-libris. The other a 4' x 6' double side cardstock 'note about Bully for Brontosaurus and the..... More
Historic Tales of Talladega
Paragon Press, 1959. Cloth. Shelf wear/edgewear to boards & top of spine. Signed by Jamison in blue ink front free end page. Exposure to moisture has caused the signature to run and smear onto the front pastedown. Damp stain expecially to textblock top edge.. Bowed spine. More
Lanark: A Life in Four Books (4 Volume set in slipcase)
Canongate Books, 2001. Numbered. Cloth. Numbered: 974/2000 limited edition. 4 volumes in very good dust jackets. Maroon paper covered boards with gold design on front panel & gold lettering on spine. Black end pages. Clean, solid, & very good+ overall. Each of the 4 octavo hardbound volumes are numbered in..... More
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Dutton Books, May 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Goodreads Choice winner for Nonfiction 2021 and instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down. "The perfect book for right now." -People "The Anthropocene..... More
How I Shed My Skin
Algonquin Books, April 2015. First Edition. Cloth. "White people declared that the South would rise again. Black people raised one fist and chanted for black power. Somehow we negotiated a space between those poles and learned to sit in classrooms together . . . Lawyers, judges, adults declared that the..... More
Matrix
Riverhead Books, September 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times..... More
Plays Well with Others
Vintage, February 1999. Trade Paperback. 2 cassettes / 3 hours Read by the Author In his widely read, prize -- winning "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All," Allan Gurganus gave fresh meaning to an overexplored American moment: 1860-65. He now turns that comic intensity and historical vision to another war..... More