The Best of Ralph McGill: Selected Columns
Cherokee Publishing Company (GA), September 1980. Cloth. Covers a bit soiled; pages lightly foxed and toned; overall, a good, solid copy of an essential collection. More
Southern History
Why New Orleans Matters
Regan Books, November 2005. Hardcover. Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a...... More
Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter
Palgrave Macmillan, November 2002. Hardcover. In 1963, Winson Hudson finally registered to vote in Leake County, Mississippi, when she interpreted part of the state constitution by saying, "It meant what it said and it said what it meant." Her first attempt had been in 1937. A lifelong native of the..... More
Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator From Georgia (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
The University of North Carolina Press, September 2002. Trade Paperback. Richard B. Russell, Jr., represented Georgia in the United States Senate from 1933 to 1971, a period of sweeping social change. Russell (1879-1971) was regarded by his fellow senators as the quintessential member of the Senate's establishment, and they dubbed..... 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
Margaret Mitchell, Reporter
Hill Street Press, January 2002. Hardcover. Nearly a decade and a half before the novelist Margaret Mitchell conceived the immortal fictive world of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell the cub reporter was pounding the real-life streets of her Atlanta hometown in search of the who, what, when, and where..... 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
Here We May Rest: Alabama Immigrants in the Age of HB 56
NewSouth Books, April 2017. Trade Paperback. Hailed as the most restrictive immigration bill in the nation, the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer & Citizen Protection Act (known as HB 56) went into effect in September 2011. Its intent was to create jobs for Alabamians by making the lives of undocumented immigrants in..... More
A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Simon & Schuster, March 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. The world's discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter's call to action. President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of..... More
Down on Ponce
Longstreet Press, July 1997. Trade Paperback. More
New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
Algonquin Books, January 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where..... More
New Orleans as It Was: Episodes of Louisiana Life
LSU Press, September 2006. Paper Back. A criminal lawyer and popular journalist, Henry C. Castellanos lived nearly three-quarters of the nineteenth century in New Orleans. In his later years, between 1892 and 1895, he wrote more than 120 articles for the Times-Democrat on the history and mores of his beloved..... More
Old Louisiana
Robert L. Crager & Co., 1950. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Black cloth with gold lettering and brown cloth covered boards with black & yellow illustration. Dust jacket is missing. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [380 pages). 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
Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras And America's Creole Soul (The City in the Twenty-First Century)
University of Pennsylvania Press, February 2006. First Edition. Cloth. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea..... More
William Faulkner and Southern History
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1996. Trade Paperback. One of America's great novelists, William Faulkner was a writer deeply rooted in the American South. In works such as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light In August, and Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner drew powerfully on Southern themes, attitudes..... More
Aunt Arie: A Foxfire Portrait
The University of North Carolina Press, July 1992. Trade Paperback. Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter. For all those who have read and cherished the Foxfire books, here is a loving portrait of a fondly..... More
Huntsville Air and Space (Images of Aviation)
Arcadia Publishing, February 2010. Trade Paperback. Join author and Huntsville native T. Gary Wicks as he uncovers the beginnings and inventions that influenced air and space engineering in Alabama and America. The air age in Huntsville began more than a century ago with Will Quick's design and construction of a...... More
Buddy Stall's New Orleans
Pelican Publishing Company, November 1990. Hardcover. Buddy Stall offers his insider's knowledge of the most interesting city in America. In dustjacket with edge wear/darkened edges. Blue textured paper covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Sticker residue back panel of DJ.Tightly bound.[250 pages]..... More
Lords of Misrule: Mardi Gras and the Politics of Race in New Orleans
University Press of Mississippi, January 1997. Trade Paperback. Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celebrated Carnival since its days as a French and Spanish colonial outpost, the rituals familiar today were largely established in the Civil War era by a...... More
Suburban Gospel
Hub City Press, March 2016. Trade Paperback. When the deacons at Mark Beaver's Bible Belt church cue up an evangelical horror flick aimed at dramatizing Hell, he figures he'd better get right with God, and soon. Convinced he could die at age seven and spend eternity roasting on a spit..... More
The Civilization Of The Old South: Writings Of Clement Eaton
University of Kentucky Press, 1968. Cloth. Dustjacket is missing. Olive green cloth with dust stains and stained rings front panel. Gold lettering in dark green band along spine. Previous owner's name inked on front free end page. Foxing/dust stains top edge. Heavy foxing fore-edge. More
Shadow of the Plantation (Midway reprint)
University of Chicago Press, January 1979. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Tanning and moderate wear to cover. Light foxing/dust staining text block edges. Foxing to gutters first and last pages. [215 pages]. More
Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel
Beehive Press, January 1973. Reprint. Cassette. 2nd edition. Octavo. In heavily edgeworn dustjacket especially across top with darkening to margins. Darkened/sunned jacket spine. Red cloth covered boards with silver lettering. Moderately cocked spine. Grey end pages. Previous owner name inked top right cover of FFEP. Tight binding. Dust stained textblock..... More
Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites
University Alabama Press, November 2001. Trade Paperback. First published in 1989 by The University of Alabama Press, Poor but Proud was met with critical acclaim and awarded the 1990 Lillian Smith prize in nonfiction, as well as being named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book. This new paperback version will make..... More
