Picturing the South: 1860 to the Present
Chronicle Books, June 1996. Oversize Softcover. Lightly used; Clean covers, mildly sun-faded; Spine un-creased; Soft-cover front flap price-clipped; Pages free of markings. More
Chronicle Books, June 1996. Oversize Softcover. Lightly used; Clean covers, mildly sun-faded; Spine un-creased; Soft-cover front flap price-clipped; Pages free of markings. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1996. Hardcover. In the late 1940s comic moralist Walker Percy and novelist Shelby Foote, friends since their teenage years, began a correspondence which would last until Percy's death in 1990. The letters trace their lives from their early careers, when they were struggling..... More
Arcadia Publishing, November 2000. Oversize Softcover. Few cities linger in the imagination as does Charleston. A place where legend meets history, Charleston commands a special seat in the Southern experience, from its commercial influence in colonial America, to its genteel traditions in the antebellum South, to its incendiary role in..... More
Little, Brown / Atlantic Monthly Press, August 1972. Cloth. Octavo. Grey cloth covered boards with somewhat fade rectangle framing likewise a bit faded gold lettering. Dust stains to textblock top edge. Sharpie mark across bottom textblock edge. Black cardstock end papers. Previous reader's name written in ink upon half title..... More
Ecco, January 2022. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South--and thus of America--by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration." --Isabel Wilkerson..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, [Probably later printing]. Cloth. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Grey cloth with dark brown lettering and illustration on spine. End pages front and back show map of the Coast of North Carolina along with chart of Ship, Mast, and Rigging Types'. Light foxing. [276 pages]..... More
Pantheon, March 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost..... More
Morrow, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. Brown boards bound in cream cloth. Map endpapers. Modest dust and shelfwear. Jacket is clipped, chipped and darkened. Now protected in Brodart. More
Vintage, March 1999. Trade Paperback. Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause..... More
Viking, March 2022. Hardcover. The untold story of the unlikely heroes, the cutthroat politics, and the cultural forces that turned a Deep South state purple--by a top reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Flipped is the definitive account of how the election of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff transformed Georgia..... More
Viking, March 2022. Hardcover. The untold story of the unlikely heroes, the cutthroat politics, and the cultural forces that turned a Deep South state purple--by a top reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Flipped is the definitive account of how the election of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff transformed Georgia..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1949. Reprint. Cloth. 4th printing. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Green cloth covered boards with yellow lettering on spine and front panel. Yellow illustration also on front panel. Key to South Carolina Tours front end pages. Rear end pages blank. Dark brown stains/soiling front end pages and..... More
Louisiana State University Press, 1968. Cloth. Octavo in jacket with sun-tanned spine, edges, margins & folds. Like DJ worrn along edges with small tears. Pine green cloth covered boards with gold lettering framed in black rectangle. Previous owner's name, location & date written in ink at top of ffep. [321..... More
Vintage, September 1998. Trade Paperback. When childhood is complicated by poverty and an abusive, alcoholic father, it vecomes focused on survival. Were it not for the dedication and strength of his mother, Rick Bragg may have never left northeast Alabama and become a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. His memoir captures the..... More
Robert W. Stephens, January 2002. Hardcover. Faux brrown leather with gold lettering. No dustjacket. Leaning spine. Tight binding. [324 pages]. More
G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1977. First Edition. Cloth. {6' x 9'} In edgeworn jacket with soiling to edges and folds. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards. Front panel is bowed. Gold lettering on spine. Wear to board edges. Previous reader's name is written in ink & dated..... More
Arcadia Publishing, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Oakdale Cotton Mills, in continuous operation in rural Jamestown since 1865, began as Logan Manufacturing Company immediately after the Civil War. Its primary backer, Cyrus P. Mendenhall, was a descendant of Jamestown's early Quaker settler James Mendenhall. In the late 1880s, the mill's ownership..... More
Arcadia Publishing, April 2009. Trade Paperback. Long before Glenn Miller made the world-famous Chattanooga Choo Choo an American icon, Chattanooga was already a bustling railroad community. By the beginning of the 20th century, passenger trains overwhelmed Chattanooga's two railroad depots and a larger station was needed. The solution was Terminal..... More
Peachtree Publishers, August 1982. Hardcover. A boy's account of growing up through the rituals of life on an ancestral farm in middle Georgia between the big wars. It is a rueful, humorous story of the people in one rural county, but the telling cuts so deep it breaks through to..... More
Longstreet Press, October 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. {7' x 9 & 1/2'} First/first. In edgeworn dustjacket. Front flap is clipped. Tan cloth spine with gold lettering alongs spine. Forest green textured paper covered boards. [160 pages]. More
Louisiana State University Press, January 1983. Cloth. Bound in heavy grey cloth. Minor chipping on the top edge of the jacket. More
Vintage, September 1998. Trade Paperback. When childhood is complicated by poverty and an abusive, alcoholic father, it vecomes focused on survival. Were it not for the dedication and strength of his mother, Rick Bragg may have never left northeast Alabama and become a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. His memoir captures the..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket. Front flap clipped. Grey cloth covered boards faded across top edge. White & orage-red lettering along spine. Red end pages. Complete number line. Tightly bound. {255 pages]. More
Tennessee Historical Soc, January 1997. Hardcover. Starting high in the Georgia Blue Ridge near Rabun Gap, the Little Tennessee River cuts a tortuous northwestward path 134 miles through North Carolina into Tennessee. The valley carved by the river is particularly rich in human value and physical grandeur; its engrossing history..... More
Appalachian Consortium Press, January 1980. Paper Back. More