Morris Brown, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first printing; Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards, mild rubbing/toning present; Mild foxing to end-papers as well as outer edge text-block; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped jacket shows significant edge-wear w/ sporadic rubbing/toning; Jacket mylar wrapped to ensure further preservation; A handsome copy, despite..... More

Vintage, July 1999. Trade Paperback. THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MUSICAL COMING SOON TO BROADWAY - An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: "Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and..... More

Oxford, 1957. Hardcover. The Galaxy New and Revised Edition. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Light toning to pages. A bit of soiling and wear to blue hardcover, but still tight and very solid. Jacket is considerably chipped and rubbed but whole and wrapped for preservation. A very nice..... More

Crown Publishing Group (NY), September 2026. Paper Back. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South tells his own story this time. Of growing up in a house wrecked by violence and a South haunted by racism. And of how his search..... More

Milkweed Editions, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood..... More

LSU Press, November 1967. Soft Cover. The history of the South in this century has been obscured in the ever-growing mass of information about the region's rapid change and turbulent development. In this book, Volume X of A History of the South, the historical image of the modern South is..... More

University of North Carolina Press, August 2017. Paper Back. In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying..... More

Pantheon, September 1997. Hardcover. A haunting memoir by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, All Over but the Shoutin' presents a gripping account of people struggling to make sense and solidity of life's capricious promises. As he tells the wrenching story of his own family's life in the dirt-poor Alabama hills--where he..... More

University of Georgia Press, June 2024. Paper Back. Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess is a literary and cultural history of a place: the Gullah Geechee Coast, a four-state area that's one of only a handful of places that can truly be said to be the..... More

Continuum International Publishing Group, October 1977. Trade Paperback. "An extraordinary document, an altogether candid record of personal suffering and fulfillment". -- Walker Percy "Brotherhood has seldom been so beautifully portrayed". -- The New York Times Book Review. More

Free Press, March 2014. Trade Paperback. In this "knowing and sensitive book" (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tracy Thompson upends stereotypes and fallacies to reveal the true heart of the American South today.Investigative journalist Tracy Thompson spent years traveling throughout the South and discovered a place both..... More

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, October 1998. Paper Back. In 1995, NPR editor and producer Marcus D. Rosenbaum met his grandmother-fifty years after her death. Rosenbaum and his family were attending to the bittersweet business of cleaning out the family home after his father died when, in an old closet, in..... More