More Landmarks of Tennessee History
TN Historical Commission, January 1969. Hardcover. Some wear to the dust jacket, though it is wrapped in clear plastic. Yellowing and a few stains to text block. More
TN Historical Commission, January 1969. Hardcover. Some wear to the dust jacket, though it is wrapped in clear plastic. Yellowing and a few stains to text block. More
Univ of Tennessee Pr, June 1965. Hardcover. Dust jacket has some shelf wear. but is wrapped in clear plastic. Some stains to the text block. More
Beacon Press, January 2021. Hardcover. A masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it. Horace Julian Bond was an influential social justice activist, politician, and visionary who is best known as one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). For..... More
Pantheon, 2015. First Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Rick Bragg at the Carter Library, September 28, 2015. A Cappella was the bookseller. 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
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
Knopf, October 2020. 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 stories and..... More
Rinehart, January 1953. Cloth. 2nd printing in sun-bleached, price-clipped dustjacket with marginal wear & darkening to verso. Blue dust stained cloth covered boards with somewhat faded gold lettering on spine. Top textblock edge heavily darkened. (339 pages). More
Harper Collins, June 1991. Hardcover. First/first in dust jacket. Signed by Sibley on title page. More
Doubleday, January 1975. First Edition. Cloth. In dust jacket. Signed 'Best wishes Celestine Sibley' on f.f.e.p. Also previous owner's gift inscription inked same page. More
Doubleday, June 1977. First American. Hardcover. In spine sunned dust jacket. First/first. More
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
Longstreet Press, October 1990. Hardcover. More
Harpercollins, September 1988. Hardcover. In price-clipped dust jacket. More
Harper & Row, April 1982. Hardcover. In price clipped dust jacket. Complete number line. Signed on f.f.e.p. 'Best wishes Celestine Sibley, 1984'. More
Peachtree Pub Ltd, June 1997. First Edition. 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..... More
Vintage, April 2020. Paper Back. This "superbly written true-crime story" (Michael Lewis, The New York Times Book Review) masterfully brings together the tales of a serial killer in 1970s Alabama and of Harper Lee, the beloved author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who tried to write his story. Reverend Willie..... More
Triangle Pub. Co, January 1959. Cloth. Green cloth with white lettering. Shelf wear. Foxing to end pages & textblock edges. More
St Martins Pr, October 1995. Trade Paperback. More
University of Georgia Press, April 2019. Trade Paperback. Nine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Monuments decommissioned in New Orleans and Chapel Hill. The headlines keep coming, and the debate rolls on. How should we contend with our troubled history as a nation? What is the..... More
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
Southern Company, May 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. Signed and dedicated by both authors on the half title page. Specially printed Southern Company bookmark included. More
Arcadia Publishing, August 2010. Trade Paperback. Join author Joe Earle as he recounts the history of Decatur, Georgia's rich and storied past using 200 vintage images. Decatur proudly proclaims itself a city of "homes, schools, and places of worship." While that motto might seem to describe any number of small..... More
Random House, January 1998. Hardcover. Elizabeth Spencer is the author of several justly praised short story collections and novels, among them The Light in the Piazza, which was made into a motion picture. Beginning with her youth in Mississippi and her sheltered upbringing among family and friends, she tells not..... More
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
St. Martins Griffin, September 1993. Trade Paperback. Looking for guidance in understanding the ways and means of Southern culture? Look no further. Florence King's celebrated field guide to the land below the Mason-Dixon Line is now blissfully back in print, just in time for the Clinton era. The Failed Souther..... More
Harlo Printing, January 1994. Hardcover. Creasing, chipping and corner bumps on the jacket. More
Harlo Printing Co, January 1992. Cloth. Light edge and corner wear on the jacket. A couple of small marks on the cloth cover. More
Brunswick, GA: Neeld Printing House, 1997. 1st ed. January 1997. Stapled Soft Cover. Oblong octavo. Two inch closed-tear at bottom edge of front cover is repaired with clear tape. More
Paragon Press, 1959. Cloth. Shelf wear/edgewear to boards & top of spine. Signed by Jamison in blue ink front free end page. Exposure to moisture has caused the signature to run and smear onto the front pastedown. Damp stain expecially to textblock top edge.. Bowed spine. More
Simon & Schuster, September 2020. Hardcover. Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant offers an entertaining and profound look at a city like no other. Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest..... More
Da Capo Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia--and a county where, in the 1970s, the white..... More
Free Press, September 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. From the war-torn rice fields of Vietnam to the riot-filled streets of Birmingham, Alabama, "Bombingham is the affecting story of a middle-class black family riven by its personal chaos. When Walter Burke is faced with writing a letter to the parents of a...... More
Backyards & Beyond, November 2008. Oversized Hardcover. More
Friends of the Earth, January 1974. Oversized Hardcover. More
Independently published, August 2018. Paper Back. More
Burke, January 1929. Hardcover. Very good condition. Protected in mylar. More
Peachtree Publishers, October 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket, minor creases on the front flap. Mylar wrapped. Light sunning on the edge of the boards. Name in pen on the front free endpaper. More
skirt! July 2008. First Edition. Cloth. Once upon a time, Hollis Gillespie was ashamed about having a hard-drinking, trailer-salesman dad and a missile-making mom with broken dreams of being a beautician. That was then. This is now. Trailer Trashed is a hilarious and heartbreaking collection of essays on one broad..... More
Macmillan, New York, January 1967. Hardcover. mylar wrapped; cloth with dust jacket; small tear on upper left of dust jacket and wear along edges; minor denting on cover corners; ex libris plate on front pastdown endpaper; inscription in pen on front free endpaper. More
Penguin Books, May 2020. Paper Back. The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of..... More
Penguin Books, May 2020. Paper Back. The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of..... More
Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1988. Hardcover. More
Voyageur Press, November 1994. Trade Paperback. More
Picador, March 2008. Trade Paperback. Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South. As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie..... More
Putnam Publishing Group, July 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. A sweeping saga about the world of country music by Lee Smith, a Southern storyteller in the very best tradition {who}, like the best of storytellers, knows how to get out of the way so the story can tell itself.--San Francisco Chronicle..... More
Putnam Publishing Group, July 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. A sweeping saga about the world of country music by Lee Smith, a Southern storyteller in the very best tradition {who}, like the best of storytellers, knows how to get out of the way so the story can tell itself.--San Francisco Chronicle..... More
Algonquin Books, March 2016. First Edition. Cloth. For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For forty-five years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story. Set deep in the mountains of Virginia, the..... More
Putnam Adult, February 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in jacket. Complete number line. Near fine all around. Gently read. Lee Smith's signature on title page. More
Ballantine Books, May 1996. Trade Paperback. More
Cherokee Pub. Co, January 1973. Hardcover. More
Penguin Press HC, The, October 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize winningauthor of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning withJefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. Hiscause went down in disastrous defeat and left theSouth impoverished for..... More
Bloomsbury USA, September 2006. Hardcover. "There Is No Me Without You" is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. It is a story as much about the power of the bond between..... More
Random House Inc, March 2004. Trade Paperback. The Cajun coast of Louisiana is home to a way of life as unique, complex, and beautiful as the terrain itself. As award-winning travel writer Mike Tidwell journeys through the bayou, he introduces us to the food and the language, the shrimp fisherman..... More
Cullom & Ghertner Co. ;, January 1948. Cloth. Small quarto in dust jacket. Green cloth with yellow lettering & decoration on spine & front board. Foxing to end pages & textblock top edge. Edgeworn & chipped jacket with stains & tanning. More
Free Press, May 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Except for a massacre of five hundred settlers by renegade Creek Indians in the early 1800s, not much bad had happened during two centuries in Little River, Alabama, an obscure Lost Colony in the swampy woodlands of "To Kill a Mockingbird" country. "We're..... More
Viking Adult, September 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Macmillan Pub Co, March 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Hemphill on f.f.e.p. More
Macmillan Pub Co, March 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Price clipped. Mylar wrapped. Signed and dedicated by the author on the front free endpaper. More
The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. A warm, friendly inscription from Paul Hemphill on the front free endpaper. More
The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good all round. Mylar wrapped to preserve. More
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Remainder mark. Jacket chipped and torn. 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
XLIBRIS, June 2013. Trade Paperback. More
A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book, September 2013. Paper Back. Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life preserver, she washed onto a sandbar as the craft sank from view. That..... More
Milkweed Editions, September 1999. Hardcover. 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 spent..... More
Milkweed Editions, September 2000. Trade Paperback. More
Knopf, August 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "All Over but the Shoutin'" continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Charlie..... More
Knopf, August 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "All Over but the Shoutin'" continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Charlie..... More
Knopf, August 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "All Over but the Shoutin'" continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Charlie..... More
Nautilus Publishing, 2013. First Edition. Cloth. Signed by Former Chancellor Robert Khayat on the title page. A Cappella was the bookseller at his appearance on October 3, 2013 at the Carter Center in Atlanta. More
Mercer University Press, 1983. Hardcover. In dust jacket. Signed & inscribed on f.f.e.p. by Bob Steed to the Chief Executive Officer and Commission Chairman of DeKalb County, Georgia, and owner of Manuel's Tavern. 'To my friend Manuel Maloof who is like another Dekalb county natural wonder, Stone Mountain -- durable..... More
Longstreet Press, December 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 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..... More
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
St. Martin's Press, January 2021. Hardcover. In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy--and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed. Ty..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 1994. Trade Paperback. "I began to see racism and its rituals of segregation as a symptom of a grave illness," Smith wrote. "When people think more of their skin color than of their souls, something has happened to them." Today, readers are rediscovering in..... More
Grand Central Publishing, November 2008. Hardcover. The great American maverick of our time releases his long-awaited memoir, revealing his lonely childhood, the devastating loss of his father, intimate details of his marriage to Jane Fonda, and his unparalled success as a businessman and philanthropist. More
Vanderbilt University Press, January 1972. Hardcover. More
Univ of North Carolina Pr, June 1983. Oversized Hardcover. Jacket spine sunned. More
University of Georgia Press, August 2015. Trade Paperback. Beyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey's very personal profile of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by hurricane Katrina. Trethewey spent her childhood in Gulfport, where much of her mother's extended family, including her..... More
University of Georgia Press, October 2020. Paper Back. This book examines the differing ways that Atlantans have remembered the Civil War since its end in 1865. During the Civil War, Atlanta became the second-most important city in the Confederacy after Richmond, Virginia. Since 1865, Atlanta's civic and business leaders promoted..... More
Vanderbilt University Press, June 1972. Hardcover. In the 1890s Nashville, Tennessee had already developed into a bustling center of trade and industry. NASHVILLE IN THE 1890s is a memento of that era. An outgrowth of the Vanderbilt Oral History project, established in 1950, this book tells the events large and..... More
Vanderbilt University Press, 1971. Hardcover. 2nd printing in dustjacket with darkening to margins & verso. Razor cut across middle of jacket spine.. Not price clipped. Original price of $10 on jacket flap. Quarter cloth with blue cloth spine, gold lettering on spine & black lettering front quarter of cloth &..... More
Holt Rinehart & Winston, February 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Will D. Campbell on front free endpaper. Foxing throughout. More
Golden Coast Publishing Company, November 1991. Hardcover. Golden Coast books on classic Southern cities chronicle the social and cultural histories of each locale as expressed and revealed through architecture. All are lavishly produced in full color and blend archival and contemporary illustrations with provocative scholarship and charming anecdotes. Each volume..... More
Louisiana State University Press, September 1994. Trade Paperback. Carol Hollywell is beautiful, smart, elegant, and charming. A debutante from De Soto Point, Arkansas, and a recent graduate of Ole Miss, she is heir to a good southern name and a small southern fortune. She knows what she wants and, more..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, January 2020. Hardcover. From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina's largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a...... More