Atlanta's living Legacy - A History of Grady Memorial Hospital and Its People
Kimbark Publishing, January 2012. Oversized Hardcover. More
Atlanta & Georgia
A Walking Tour of the University of Georgia
University of Georgia Press, May 1989. Trade Paperback. Factual and entertaining, compact and easy to follow, A Walking Tour of the University of Georgia takes the reader on a leisurely tour of the campus, its history and heritage. When the Georgia legislature chartered the nation's first state university in 1785..... More
Georgia Legends & Lore (American Legends)
The History Press, August 2022. Paper Back. Settle in for a juicy bushel of Peach State bafflement. More
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement
Oxford University Press, September 2012. Trade Paperback. In this Bancroft Prize-winning history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta from the end of World War II to 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that long before black power emerged and gave black dissent from the mainstream civil rights agenda a name, African..... More
Wildsam Field Guides: Atlanta (American City Guide Series)
Wildsam Field Guides, June 2020. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Atlanta reveals theSouth's largest city through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and rooted things, what's truly authentic and sharing the soul of a place, for travelers and locals alike. Explore this progressive Southern hub..... More
Wildsam Field Guides: Atlanta (American City Guide Series)
Wildsam Field Guides, June 2020. Paper Back. Wildsam Field Guides: Atlanta reveals theSouth's largest city through local stories, travel intel and modern lore, seeking out the real and rooted things, what's truly authentic and sharing the soul of a place, for travelers and locals alike. Explore this progressive Southern hub..... More
East Atlanta (Images of America)
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
Movers & Shakers in Georgia
Simon & Schuster, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first. Grey cloth spien with black lettering & darker grey paper covered boards with title blind stamp. Heavily chipped & torn jacket with staining. NOT price-clipped: original price of $12.95 on flap. Complete number line. More
Burial for a King: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Funeral and the Week that Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation
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
Burial for a King: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Funeral and the Week that Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation
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
Cabbagetown
University of Texas Press, August 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto in jacket with 2 tears (one a half-inch, the other two and a half inch). Olive green paper covered boards. Pale green end papers. Signed by Orain Catledge on title page. [90 pages]. More
Day by day with Celestine Sibley
Doubleday, January 1975. First Edition. Cloth. In dust jacket. Signed 'Best wishes Celestine Sibley' on f.f.e.p. Also previous owner's gift inscription inked same page. More
Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
Simon & Schuster, October 2022. Hardcover. A modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap--a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli. From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to strip clubs, Atlanta is defined by..... More
Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
Simon & Schuster, October 2022. Hardcover. A modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap--a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli. From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to strip clubs, Atlanta is defined by..... More
Brookwood Hills (Images of America)
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
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Simon & Schuster, February 2015. Trade Paperback. The award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind, is one of our most important records of the American civil rights movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a "national treasure," this is a gripping first-hand account of the. More
Memories of the Mansion: The Story of Georgia's Governor's Mansion
University of Georgia Press, September 2015. Oversized Hardcover. Designed by Atlanta architect A. Thomas Bradbury and opened in 1968, the mansion has been home to eight first families and houses a distinguished collection of American art and antiques. Often called "the people's house," the mansion is always on display, always..... More
Atlanta’s Olympic Resurgence: How the 1996 Games Revived a Struggling City
The History Press, May 2021. Paper Back. The summer of 1996. In nineteen days, six million visitors jostled about in a southern city grappling with white flight, urban decay and the stifling legacy of Jim Crow. Six years earlier, a bold, audacious partnership of a strong mayor, enlightened business leaders..... More
The Pursuit of the Atlanta Child Killer: Facts, Fibers, and Forensics
BookLogix, August 2022. Paper Back. More
An Other Atlanta the Black Heritage a Bicentennial Tour
Atlanta Bicentennial Commission, January 1975. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. {4 & 1/2' x 8'}; cover is sepia colored cardstock with darker brown lettering front side and white on verso. Cover is mildly toned with rubbing and a few stray stains. Staples (two) are rusting and bleeding into tiny surrounding paper. 48..... More
History of Gwinnett Co GA, 1818-1943
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
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
Atlanta and Environs Volumes I & II
University of Georgia, 1969. Hardcover. Two-volume set. Gilt-titled blue cloth. Inked name on front pastedown ednpapers of both volumes; pencilled notes on front free endpapers of both. Light foxing; else, very good. More
A Work of Hospitality: The Open Door Reader, 1982-2002
N/A, June 2002. Trade Paperback. More
