Southern Cultures Volume 1, Number 1 Fall 1994
Duke University Press, January 1994. Paper Back. {'7' x 10'} Clean & sound. [140 pages]. More
Duke University Press, January 1994. Paper Back. {'7' x 10'} Clean & sound. [140 pages]. More
The History Press, July 2023. Paper Back. Author Lee Lancaster retraces the movement of a remarkable time in our nation's agricultural history. In 1976, America sent a peanut farmer from Plains to Washington, D.C. Farmers throughout the nation, especially in Georgia, had high hopes for President Jimmy Carter, but those..... More
University Press of Florida, September 1993. Trade Paperback. "Totch Brown's memoirs of vanished days in the Ten Thousand Islands and the Everglades--the last real frontier in Florida, and even today the greatest roadless wilderness in the United States--are invaluable as well as vivid and entertaining, for Totch is a natural-born..... More
Algonquin Books, July 2016. Soft Cover. 44 drawings you can combine to make 16-inch four-square artworks! Welcome to the Lowcountry! In 44 detachable pages, artist Melissa Conroy takes us through the South's lush, magical Lowcountry, capturing the stately mansions and intricate gardens, haunting statuary and monuments, and animals from both..... 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
Little, Brown and Company, October 2016. Hardcover. The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town..... More
University of Georgia Press, September 1993. Oversized Hardcover. Golden Coast books on classic Southern cities chronicle the social and cultural histories of each locale as expressed and revealed through architecture. All are lavishly produced in full color and blend archival and contemporary illustrations with provocative scholarship and charming anecdotes. Each..... 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
University Press of Florida, May 1993. Trade Paperback. "I had met only two or three of the neighboring Crackers when I realized that isolation had done something to these people. . . .They have a primal quality against their background of jungle hammock, moss-hung against the tremendous silence of the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 1985. Trade Paperback. Focusing on Petersburg, Virginia, Professor Lebsock is able to demonstrate and explain how the status of women could change for the better in an antifeminist environment. She weaves the experiences of individual women together with general social trends, to show, for..... More
Louisiana State University Press, January 1950. Cloth. Octavo without dustjacket. Sun bleached spine, that is also spotted, stained with ink writing. Front and rear boards are light blue cloth covered and likewise washed out and discolored. Edgeworn at bottom and top with frayed cloth edges. Front pastedown has previous owner's..... More
NewSouth Books, April 2023. Hardcover. Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across the region for his right-wing..... More
Putnam, January 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing w/ no subsequent printings stated; Tight binding, gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy coth-covered boards w/ inset flag at front, gilt text at spine; Boards gently edge-worn with mild discoloration/rubbing present; Previous owner name present at front free-end page; Text free of..... More
Mountain Arbor Press, November 2017. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; Signed by the authors at title page; An excellent copy. More
Butternut & Blue, January 1997. Hardcover. As new, sealed in publisher's shrink wrap. More
University Of Chicago Press, 1921. First Edition. Cloth. {6' x * & 3/4'} Navy blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Dustjacket is missing. Mild edgewear to boards. Newspaper clipping about this book is affixed to front pastedown. Tanning transfered from Newspaper clipping on ffep opposite said clipping..... More
University Press of Kentucky, August 2006. First Edition. Cloth. When Thomas D. Clark was hired to teach history at the University of Kentucky in 1931, he began a career that would span nearly three-quarters of a century and would profoundly change not only the history department and the university but..... More
University Press of Kentucky, July 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. By the flip of a coin, Thomas Dionysius Clark became intertwined in the vast history of Kentucky. In 1928, Clark received scholarships to both the University of Cincinnati and to the University of Kentucky. Kentucky won the coin toss and the..... More
University Press of Mississippi, April 2022. Hardcover. In the late 1960s, Patsy Channing, a stunningly beautiful young woman, was suspended from the venerable Mississippi State College for Women for breach of conduct. The resulting scandal reached all the way to the Columbus courthouse, and the press ate it up. But..... More
Princeton University Press, January 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily edgeworn and torn jacket with clear tape 'repairs'. Darkened at folds and margins. Flap is not clipped. Orange cloth covered front and rear board with silver and black cloth spine. Foxing/tanning to end pages. [561 pages]. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1992. Trade Paperback. The year is 1942 and Porter Osborne, Jr., is safely ensconced in medical school. He is physically safe, although taunted by the beckoning finger of Uncle Sam. Haunted by the family motto, "Remember who you are, " Porter wrestles with a flood of conflicting..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), July 1984. Trade Paperback. Porter Osborne Jr. is a precocious, sensitive, and rambunctious boy trying to make it through adolescence during the depression years. On a red-clay farm in Georgia he learns all there is to know about cotton chopping, hog killing, watermelon thumping, and mule handling. School..... More
Da Capo Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white..... More
Harper Wave, October 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. From the award-winning Southern lifestyle magazine Garden & Gun comes this rich collection of some of the South's most notable women. For too long, the Southern woman has been synonymous with the Southern belle, a "moonlight and magnolias" myth that gets nowhere close..... More
The Southern Classics Library, January 1984. First Thus. Novelty. Octavo in brown leather with ribbed spine and gold floral designs & lettering along spine and gold floral emblem centered on front board. Pink moire end pages. Gilt tinted textblock edges. Red silk ribbon marker. Tightly bound. Very good plus/fine condition..... More