The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature
University of Georgia Press, April 2007. First Thus. Trade Paperback. First paperback edition. French folds. Octavo. [474 pages]. More
Atlanta & The South
Home By the River, The Story of Hampton Plantation
Bobbs-Merrill, 1941. Cloth. Quarto. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 3/4'} In torn & tattered DJ with large chunk ripped from top of front & rear jacket plates. Also enormous damp stained mass front and rear of spine recto & verso. Tanned/dust stained end papers front & rear with previous..... More
The Complete Lunch Box: The Life and Works of Deacon Lunch Book, a Cornucopia of Southern Culture
Drewry Lane Bookmakers, September 1994. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. First/first; Oblong octavo (10' x 8'). Bright, clean, sound, no markings. Well cared for & gently read. Faint shelfwear along wrapper edges. Hard to imagine a better collector's copy. One of a kind selection of all things Deacon. RIP you Georgia..... More
The Complete Lunch Box: The Life and Works of Deacon Lunch Book, a Cornucopia of Southern Culture
Drewry Lane Bookmakers, September 1994. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. First printing. Tight, clean copy. Very minor shelfwear on the cover. More
God'll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi
Riverhead Hardcover, November 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson, for fans of "Serial." A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black..... More
Run With the Horsemen
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
Run with the Horsemen (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)
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
Run with the Horsemen (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series)
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
When All the World Was Young (Contemporary American Fiction)
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
When All the World Was Young (Contemporary American Fiction)
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
Ah, Sweet Mystery
Harper Collins, June 1991. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. Signed by Sibley on title page. More
Christmas In Georgia
Peachtree Publishing, November 1999. Hardcover. More
A Plague of Kinfolks: A Kate Mulcay Mystery
Harpercollins, March 1995. Hardcover. The fourth charming and ingenious mystery featuring Atlanta reporter and amateur sleuth Kate Mulcay. A sticky situation gets even more complicated when, after the arrival of a quirky couple who claims to be Kate's long-lost kin, Kate finds herself implicated in the murder of a neighbor..... More
Small Blessings
Doubleday, June 1977. First American. Hardcover. In spine sunned dust jacket. First/first. More
Small Blessings
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
Tokens of Myself
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
Young'uns - A Celebration
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
Celestine Sibley Sampler : Writings & Photographs With Tributes to the Beloved Author and Journalist
Peachtree Pub Ltd, June 1997. Hardcover. A collection of the best works by the celebrated and much-beloved Southern columnist and writer, with introductions by some of Sibley's many prominent fans. From her early days as a reporter covering every possible beat to her creation of the Kate Mulcahy mysteries, this..... More
Peachtree Road
Harper Collins, May 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. A poignant love story about two star-crossed cousins whose tumultuous love-and-hate relationship is played out against the dramatically changing landscape of Atlanta over the last four decades. Purchased for a miniseries. Personalized author inscription present at title page; Solid binding w/ mild wear..... More
The Scout or The Black Riders of Congaree -- New and Revised Edition
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
The intimate story of Lurleen Wallace;: Her crusade of courage
Communications Unlimited, January 1969. Paper Back. Octavo. Mild storage wear. Toning. 121 pages. More
Killers of the Dream
W. W. Norton & Company, July 1994. Trade Paperback. Published to wide controversy, it became the source (acknowledged or unacknowledged) of much of our thinking about race relations and was for many a catalyst for the civil rights movement. It remains the most courageous, insightful, and eloquent critique of the..... More
Staff Pick
Charleston: Alone Among the Cities (SC) (Images of America)
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
Blighted: A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle
NewSouth Books, December 2022. Hardcover. Blighted is a powerful narrative about the decades-long decay and remarkable two-year reinvention of Summerdale, an aging apartment community located in one of Atlanta's grittiest corridors. From burnt-out, mold-infested buildings to traumatized classrooms, Blighted unfolds in the voices of ruthless drug dealers, phantom tenants, fearless..... More
