Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
West Virginia University Press, March 2019. Paper Back. More
Signed Books
Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security (National State Papers (rl)
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, March 2008. Trade Paperback. Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security looks at accomplishments and setbacks in the crucial first decade of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. The first half of the book considers the implementation of the prohibitions and humanitarian assistance provisions of the... More
Domestic Work : Poems
Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey, author of "Bellocq's Ophelia" and "Domestic Work," has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her work was also included in "The Best American Poetry 2000." Trethewey now lives in Decatur, Georgia, and is Assistant... More
Gillian Laub: Southern Rites
Damiani, June 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Southern Rites is an original and provocative 12-year visual study of one community's struggle to confront longstanding issues of race and equality. In May 2009, the New York Times Magazine published a photo-essay by Gillian Laub entitled "A Prom Divided," which documented Georgia's Montgomery... More
Militarists, Merchants, and Missionaries: United States Expansion in Middle America
University of Alabama Press, January 1970. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed by Edward H. Meseley on front free endpaper. More
My God, I'm Hit!
N/A, January 2007. Paper Back. Inscribed by the author. A little cover wear. More
Three Men in Texas: Bedichek, Webb, and Dobie
University of Texas Press, January 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is a tribute to "an incomparable triumvirate." "One was a naturalist, one a historian, and one a chronicler, but each of them was each of these. The manly love between them, a handsome thing in times and places blighted... More
Towards Gondwana alive: Promoting biodiversity & stemming the sixth extinction
Gondwana Alive Society, January 1999. Paper Back. Clean, solid. With inscription by Anderson: '24 Sept. 1999 with compliments & thanks for your participation. J. Anderson.' Otherwise no markings. Quarto. More
Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out
Custom House, October 2019. Hardcover. In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America's housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle class--among them, Donald Trump and his... More
Miss Ella of Commander?s Palace
Gibbs Smith, September 2016. Hardcover. I don't want a restaurant where a jazz band can't come marching through. Meet Ella Brennan: mother, mentor, blunt-talking fireball, and matriarch of a New Orleans restaurant empire, famous for bringing national attention to Creole cuisine. In this candid autobiography, she shares her life. From... More
An Inconvenient Sequel
Rodale Books, May 2017. First Edition. Paper Back. A New York Times bestseller! The follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling An Inconvenient Truth and companion to Vice President Al Gore's new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, this new book is a daring call to action... More
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: Relating to and Communicating with Others, from the Boardroom to the Bedroom
Random House, June 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Award-winning actor Alan Alda tells the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as... More
HELLICONIA SPRING
Scribner, January 1982. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Ex-library copy with tape on boards and markings on title page. More
Then Came Brain Damage: Life (? After Pro Football)
Longstreet Pr, October 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. Signed & inscribed to Manuel Maloof the Chief Executive Officer and Commission Chairman of DeKalb County, Georgia, and owner of Manuel's Tavern. More
Black Dance: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Garland, January 1989. Cloth. Blue cloth without dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Adamczyk on title page. More
Staff Pick
How a Book Is Made
Thomas Y. Crowell, October 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Price clipped. Mylar wrapped to preserve. Signed and dedicated by the author, with a small illustration of a cat and a bird, on the front free endpaper. More
TO EBERHART AND GINSBERG: A Letter about HOWL 1956.
Penmaen Press, January 1976. Limited. Hardcover. Number 23 of an edition of 300 hardbound copies signed by both Allen Ginsberg & Richard Eberhardt. More
Capitol Air
Red Ozier Press, 1987. Framed Broadside. This broadside was limited to copies numbered 1- 100 in addition to 26 lettered and 11 with Roman numerals. This is Number iii. Signed and hand-edited by Ginsberg. According to previous dealer correspondence, this was from the Ginsberg estate, one of two copies the... More
Howl for Carl Solomon
Grabhorn, 1971. Limited. Oversized Hardcover. One of an edition limited to 275 copies signed, on the title page, by Allen Ginsberg. Handmade paper. Gorgeous decorative linen cloth binding. A one inch start at bottom of front hinge; else, fine. 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
Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run
Stewart, Tabori & Chang, March 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. He's on the road again. This time, Alton Brown and his motorcycle-mounted crew are off on a thousand-mile, south-to-north journey that follows America's first "superhighway"--the Mississippi. Starting at the great river's delta on the Gulf of Mexico and ending up near... More
Bruised Fruit
Doubleday, January 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket has edge wear and light creasing especially near the top of the spine. Signed by the author on the title page. More
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
Yale University Press, March 2018. Hardcover. A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence... More
The Secret Token
Anchor, June 2019. Paper Back. *National Bestseller* A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths--about race, gender, and immigration--exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast... More
