Routledge, February 2015. Trade Paperback. More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil War's devastation to the 1996 Olympic boom to the current housing crisis, the city's history is a cycle of rise and fall, ruin and resurgence. In Planning Atlanta, two dozen planning..... More
Mercer University Press, June 1985. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper. Jacket sunned, chipped and scarred on spine. Book, clean, crisp, square. More
Longstreet Press, September 1990. Oversize Softcover. More
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, 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
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
Island Press, August 2000. Trade Paperback. A serious but often overlooked impact of the random, unplanned growth commonly known as sprawl is its effect on economic and racial polarization. Sprawl-fueled growth pushes people further apart geographically, politically, economically, and socially. Atlanta, Georgia, one of the fastest-growing areas in the country..... More
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
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
University of Georgia Press, July 2009. Trade Paperback. During the hot summer of 1906, anger simmered in Atlanta, a city that outwardly savored its reputation as the Gate City of the New South, a place where the races lived peacefully, if apart, and everyone focused more on prosperity than prejudice..... More
The History Press, August 2021. Paper Back. A plunge into Georgia history offers no shortage of bewilderment. UFOs, haunted bridges, ghost lights and monsters are just a smattering of the unexplained. At the Jekyll Island Club, a bellhop from the Roaring Twenties does his best to stay busy. A bright..... More
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
Longstreet Press, October 1990. Hardcover. More
Harper & Row, April 1982. Hardcover. In price clipped dust jacket. Complete number line. Signed on f.f.e.p. 'Best wishes Celestine Sibley, 1984'. More
Harper & Row, January 1982. Book Club. Hardcover. Book club edition in damp stained dust jacket with two by two inch chomp out of spine at bottom. More
Reprint Co, January 1974. Hardcover. More
The History Press, August 2008. Trade Paperback. Do the ghosts of Civil War soldiers still march through the mists of Kennesaw National Battlefield on the outskirts of Atlanta? Can those who listen still hear the voices of the guests who died in the devastating Winecoff Hotel fire of 1946? Does..... More
Cherokee Pub, October 2015. Trade Paperback. Savannah Guidebook, written with affection for their hometown by two sixth generation ladies, covers it all. From historic house museums, flowering gardens and Savannah's famous squares (little parks) to practical information such as restaurants, lodging, fun for children, this book is an essential tool..... More
Arcadia Publishing, October 2021. Paper Back. The public art in Atlanta includes a broad range of media, subjects, styles, and artistic merit. Statuary and figurative sculpture, often in bronze, memorialize historic individuals, while contemporary sculpture includes large-scale abstract works in stone, stainless or weathering steel, and other materials. Street artists..... 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
The University of North Carolina Press, October 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Through a painstaking gathering and synthesis of the surviving documents of Georgia social history before the Revolution, many of them fragmentary, Davis re-creates much of the texture and quality of life in that southernmost province. In addition to black..... More
University of Alabama Press, November 1990. First Edition. Cloth. The popular image of Henry W. Grady is that of a champion of the postbellum South, a region that would forgive the North for defeating it and would mobilize its own many resources for hones business and agricultural competition. Biographies and..... More
Mercer University Press, December 1987. Oversized Hardcover. From the personal library of legendary tavern owner and county commissioner MANUEL MALOOF. This copy has a gift inscription from the provost of Mercer University. More
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
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
