The Sweet Apple Gardening Book.
Doubleday, June 1972. First Edition. Cloth. First edition in mildly edgeworn jacket. Pale green cloth with gold lettering. Tan end papers. Not price-clipped. More
Atlanta & The South
Furious Hours
Knopf, May 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook New York Times Best Seller "Compelling . . . at once a true-crime..... More
Kentucky: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation)
W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1977. Hardcover. Jacket clipped and creased. Gift inscription facing title page. More
When Southern hospitality was in flower
Triangle Pub. Co, January 1959. Cloth. Green cloth with white lettering. Shelf wear. Foxing to end pages & textblock edges. More
Historic Charleston Guidebook
Junior League of Charleston, February 1975. Reprint. Paper Back. [5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} 9th printing. [108 pp.]. More
Frenchmen Desire Good Children And Other Streets Of New Orleans (Third Edition)
Touchstone, April 1997. First Thus. Trade Paperback. First published by now-defunct New Orleans publisher Robert L. Crager in 1949, the book remains funny and informative, generally accepted as a standard reference about the Crescent City. Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Streets of New Orleans! details the interesting stories of..... More
Child of Evil
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
Farewell to the South
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
Circuit Riders Wife
Gadjah Mada Univ Pr, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Drawn from firsthand experience, A Circuit Rider's Wife is the fictionalized account of how Corra Harris sometimes followed, sometimes guided her husband through his missionary work in the north Georgia mountains. All along the hard-scrabble Redwine circuit the story vividly brings alive..... 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
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
Gardens of Historic Charleston
University of South Carolina Press, March 1995. Hardcover. A tour through Charleston's most enchanting, secluded outdoor rooms Affectionately known as the city set in a garden, Charleston has been revered for its fine gardens since colonial times. While such magnificent plantation gardens as Middleton and Magnolia grace the outskirts of..... More
A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
Knopf, April 2023. Hardcover. The story of the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable, young United States for control over the Deep South--from the acclaimed historian and prize-winning author of The Earth is Weeping The Creek War is one of the most tragic episodes in American history..... 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
The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy
University Press of Kansas, October 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. This work investigates the facts and fictions of the South's victories and defeats during the American Civil War. It debunks long-standing legends, offers evidence explaining Confederate actions and considers the idealism, naivete and courage of military leadership and would-be founding fathers..... 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
A Tough Little Patch of History: Gone with the Wind and the Politics of Memory
University of Arkansas Press, March 2014. First Edition. Cloth. More than seventy-five years after its publication, Gone with the Wind remains thoroughly embedded in American culture. Margaret Mitchell's novel and the film produced by David O. Selznick have melded with the broader forces of southern history, southern mythology, and marketing..... More
The Pursuit of the Atlanta Child Killer: Facts, Fibers, and Forensics
BookLogix, August 2022. Paper Back. More
The Rudolph Matas History Of Medicine In Louisiana Volume I
Louisiana State University Press, 1958. Hardcover. Gift inscription from the Rudolph Matas Trust Fund on the front free endpaper; else, a clean, very good copy. Jacket is quite worn. Volume 1 only. More
S Is for Southern
Harper Wave, October 2017. Hardcover. More
The Annunciation (Voices of the South)
Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 2001. Trade Paperback. The Annunciation follows the desires of Amanda McCarney: an unwed mother on a Mississippi Delta plantation at age fourteen, a wealthy New Orleans matron into her early forties, and now a divorced poetry student living in a university community in the Ozarks..... More
Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet (A Ferris and Ferris Book)
The University of North Carolina Press, May 2023. Hardcover. The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region's impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore, who uses the histories of five..... More
