Bonanza Books, December 1988. Cloth. Quarto (9 & 3/3' x 10 & 1/4'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Pine green cloth covered boards with brown lettering on spine. Boards bowed. Non-authorial gift inscription front free end page. Slight mildew odor. Clean interior text without underlining, etc. 367 pages. More
Arcadia Publishing, August 2010. Trade Paperback. Join author Joe Earle as he recounts the history of Decatur, Georgia's rich and storied past using 200 vintage images. Decatur proudly proclaims itself a city of "homes, schools, and places of worship." While that motto might seem to describe any number of small..... More
David Longworth, for the author, 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter bound: black leather spine with gold lettering and black corners. Gilt border lines. Burgundy cloth covered bords fill up five sided space between front and rear. Marbled end pages. The original rough fore-edged first edition actual book has survived the..... More
S.G. Courtenay & Co., 1859. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Brown umber with gold lettering along spines. Blind stamped or more likely tooled decorative floral corner patterns and borders front board both volumes. Dust staining to boards and textblock edges. Stains most noticable bottom textblock edge at fore-edge lip. Darkening/tanning margins..... More
Charles H. Richardson, 1865. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Reprint of book originally issued in 1861. There are portraits of the authors and small samples of their writing. Brown cloth covered boards with heavy edgewear. The cloth at edges is worn through at corners and in spots along bottom edge. Textblock edges..... More
Rutgers University Press, January 1972. Hardcover. Very moderate wear to book and jacket. Warm, personal inscription on front free endpaper inscribed by John Stone. More
D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, January 1936. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. Heavily chipped, edgeworn and torn dustjacket. Tan cloth covered boards with red lettering and red stamped illustration on spine and front board. Mildly edgeworn boards. Bumped corners. Previous owner's name/address stamped in red ink on front free end page and..... More
Norton, January 1974. Hardcover. Jacket chipped and clipped. 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
McGraw-Hill College, July 1983. Paper Back. More
Communications Unlimited, January 1969. Paper Back. Octavo. Mild storage wear. Toning. 121 pages. More
University of Illinois Press, April 2019. Hardcover. Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power, which led to the growth of modern state bureaucracies that eclipsed traditions of local sovereignty. Friction..... More
University of Georgia Press, April 2000. Oversized Hardcover. First published during the school's bicentennial, A Pictorial History of the University of Georgia has now been revised and expanded to include a new, updated section and 43 new photographs that portray the university's most recent growth and development. More than 300..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 1998. Trade Paperback. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, "Rising Tide" tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known-- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes..... More
W.J. Widdleton, Publisher, 1868. Reprint. Leather. Brown leather with rather faded gold lettering and decor on spine. Spine is sun bleached with considerable wear at top and bottom, where it is visibly flaked and bruised. Front and rear board corners brumped and worn. Front end pages tanned, curled and damp..... More
LSU Press, November 2018. Hardcover. Regarded as one of the most vocal, well-traveled, and controversial statesmen of the nineteenth century, antebellum politician Henry Stuart Foote played a central role in a vast array of pivotal events. Despite Foote's unique mark on history, until now no comprehensive biography existed. Ben Wynne..... More
University Press of Florida, November 2001. Hardcover. From the foreword: "[This] well-researched, broadly conceived, and gracefully written narrative charts the economic transformation of the upper Little Tennessee River Valley [and] revises long-standing misconceptions about the people, economy, and culture of southwestern Appalachia. . . . While Taylor's book has much..... More
Palgrave Macmillan, June 2015. Hardcover. This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of..... More
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, November 2016. Paper Back. From the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century juvenile reformatories served as citizen-building institutions and a political tool of state racism in post-emancipation America. New South advocates cemented their regional affiliation by using these reformatories to showcase mercies which were racialized..... 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
Bloomsbury USA, September 2006. Hardcover. There Is No Me Without You is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. It is a story as much about the power of the bond between..... More
Doubleday, June 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto: 5 & 3/4' x 8 & 1/2'. First/first in spine-sunned dustjacket with worn folds & edges. Flap not clipped. Jacket verso darkened heavily at spine. Quarter bound: brick red cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Boards covered with khaki color paper with speckles..... More
Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd), November 1989. Hardcover. 2nd printing. More
Knopf, August 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "All Over but the Shoutin'" continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Charlie..... 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
