Ecco, January 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South--and thus of America--by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration."..... More
Arcadia Publishing, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Oakdale Cotton Mills, in continuous operation in rural Jamestown since 1865, began as Logan Manufacturing Company immediately after the Civil War. Its primary backer, Cyrus P. Mendenhall, was a descendant of Jamestown's early Quaker settler James Mendenhall. In the late 1880s, the mill's ownership..... More
Arcadia Publishing, April 2009. Trade Paperback. Long before Glenn Miller made the world-famous Chattanooga Choo Choo an American icon, Chattanooga was already a bustling railroad community. By the beginning of the 20th century, passenger trains overwhelmed Chattanooga's two railroad depots and a larger station was needed. The solution was Terminal..... More
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
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
Louisiana State University Press, January 1983. Cloth. Bound in heavy grey cloth. Minor chipping on the top edge of the jacket. More
N/A, November 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. In this sequel to Run with the Horsemen, the redoubtable Porter Osborne Jr., a little older and slightly more worldly, leaves the dusty security of his rural Georgia home for college. The year is 1938, but the story is timeless. Armed with the self-assurance..... 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
Random House, January 1994. Hardcover. Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket. Front flap clipped. Grey cloth covered boards faded across top edge. White & orage-red lettering along spine. Red end pages. Complete number line. Tightly bound. {255 pages]. More
Tennessee Historical Soc, January 1997. Hardcover. Starting high in the Georgia Blue Ridge near Rabun Gap, the Little Tennessee River cuts a tortuous northwestward path 134 miles through North Carolina into Tennessee. The valley carved by the river is particularly rich in human value and physical grandeur; its engrossing history..... More
Appalachian Consortium Press, January 1980. Paper Back. More
Clark W. Medford, January 1961. Hardcover. Light toning; previous owner's inked name and stamp on front free endpaper. Minor wear to jacket. More
Atheneum, 1963. First Thus. Magazine. Mass market paperback. 'First Atheneum edition.' Study of pre-Colonial south. Dust stain & soiling to wrapper. Textblock edges dust stained. Text is mostly clean. Reprinted from Louisiana State University Press, 1952, first edition. [209 pp. plus one page list of Atheneum titles then available.]... More
Knopf, May 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with "All Over but the Shoutin'" and continued with "Ava's Man, " Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship..... More
Crown, November 1996. Hardcover. As we move toward the end of the century, Southern values have become American values. Southern politicians lead both political parties, and the South has powered the rightward shift in American politics over the course of the past three decades. The South is far and away..... More
University of Georgia Press, July 2004. Hardcover. Light foxing. Two small tears on rear panel of jacket. More
Vintage, September 1991. Trade Paperback. Ever since its publication in 1941, The Mind of the South has been recognized as a path-breaking work of scholarship and as a literary achievement of enormous eloquence and insight in its own right. From its investigation of the Southern class system to its pioneering..... More
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
Knopf, October 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin' and The Best Cook in the World, a collection of irresistible columns from Southern Living and Garden & Gun Celebrated author and newspaper columnist Rick Bragg brings us an ode to the..... More
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s.n, January 1974. Hardcover. Quarto in dustjacket with tears, chips, dust stains and scuff marks. Medallion yellow cover with debossed black lettering & illustration on front cover and along spine. Laid in there is an 8 & 1/2 - inch by 11- inch folded, 'faux pas' page (aka errata). [160..... More
Univ Pr of Mississippi, October 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Viking, March 2022. Hardcover. The untold story of the unlikely heroes, the cutthroat politics, and the cultural forces that turned a Deep South state purple--by a top reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Flipped is the definitive account of how the election of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff transformed Georgia..... More
St. Martin's Press, August 2022. Hardcover. Dispatches from the Gilded Age is a collection of essays by Julia Reed, one of America's greatest chroniclers. In the middle of the night on March 11, 1980, the phone rang in Julia Reed's Georgetown dorm. It was her boss at Newsweek, where she..... More
University Alabama Press, January 1993. Paper Back. Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age 17 and made his way to Alabama in 1838, where he had heard educated people were in demand. He was employed by Judge Reuben Saffold at Pleasant Hill in Dallas County as..... More
