University of Illinois Press, April 2019. Hardcover. Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power, which led to the growth of modern state bureaucracies that eclipsed traditions of local sovereignty. Friction..... 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
Hub City Press, October 2020. Paper Back. A New York Times Books New & Noteworthy book - A Most-Anticipated Book from BookPage, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Paperback Paris - Glowing reviews and features in Garden & Gun, CNN Philippines, Chapter16, Kirkus Reviews, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and more This fierce collection celebrates the..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 1998. Trade Paperback. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, "Rising Tide" tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known-- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes..... More
Rutledge Hill Pr, May 1993. Trade Paperback. A playful but proper social introduction to the South and southerners. It's a tongue-in-cheek guidebook to navigating the ways and means of today's Southland. Illustrated. More
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, November 2016. Paper Back. From the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century juvenile reformatories served as citizen-building institutions and a political tool of state racism in post-emancipation America. New South advocates cemented their regional affiliation by using these reformatories to showcase mercies which were racialized..... More
University of Georgia Press, April 2000. Oversized Hardcover. First published during the school's bicentennial, A Pictorial History of the University of Georgia has now been revised and expanded to include a new, updated section and 43 new photographs that portray the university's most recent growth and development. More than 300..... 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, 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
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, September 2021. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog. Speck is not a good boy. He..... More
Knopf, September 2021. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog. Speck is not a good boy. He..... More
Knopf, September 2021. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a poorly behaved, half-blind stray dog. Speck is not a good boy. He..... 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
Vintage, August 2021. Paper Back. In this irresistible collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg muses on everything from his love of Tupperware to the decline of country music; from the legacy of..... More
Arcadia Publishing, November 2005. Trade Paperback. Discover the history of Warm Springs and how their healing waters attracted Franklin D. Roosevelt; restoring hope and charity to the country. The Spirit of Warm Springs is what Franklin D. Roosevelt described as the peaceful atmosphere and healing qualities he found along the..... More
Doubleday Anchor. January 1959. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Original' First edition. Mild user wear. Slightly dust stained textblock edges. Internal pages without underlining, side notes or writing. 432 pages. More
Doubleday, January 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. Wilbur J. Cash (1901 - 1941) was a journalist who wrote & published one book and a few months after its publication in 1941 he died. Sun-bleached spine an cover edges. Creasing.of spine. Binding is ever so slightly askew with cover glue pulling away..... 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 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
Knopf, May 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook New York Times Best Seller "Compelling . . . at once a true-crime..... More
Vintage, April 2020. Trade Paperback. 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 South Carolina Press, January 2020. Hardcover. There is a strange beauty at the heart of every mystery, and the mystery of the Carolina Bays is an enigma that is lushly, uniquely beautiful. How did these odd geomorphological features come to be formed in the landscape in the first..... More
University of Georgia Press, May 2008. Trade Paperback. Georgia Odyssey is a lively survey of the state's history, from its beginnings as a European colony to its current standing as an international business mecca, from the self-imposed isolation of its Jim Crow era to its role as host of the..... More
D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, January 1936. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. Heavily chipped, edgeworn and torn dustjacket. Tan cloth covered boards with red lettering and red stamped illustration on spine and front board. Mildly edgeworn boards. Bumped corners. Previous owner's name/address stamped in red ink on front free end page and..... More
McGraw-Hill College, July 1983. Paper Back. 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
Blue & Gray Press, January 1972. Hardcover. Signed on half-title page by Alred L. Crabb. Book is a bit cocked; jacket is spine-sunned, clipped and chipped; still a nice, presentable copy. More
University of Virginia Press, November 1983. Trade Paperback. 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
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
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
University of Georgia Press, April 2021. Paper Back. A move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she learns how to get her bearings..... 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
Charles H. Richardson, 1865. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Reprint of book originally issued in 1861. There are portraits of the authors and small samples of their writing. Brown cloth covered boards with heavy edgewear. The cloth at edges is worn through at corners and in spots along bottom edge. Textblock edges..... 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, August 2021. Paper Back. Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant "sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected characters" (Newsweek). Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else..... 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
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
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
Da Capo Press, August 2006. Trade Paperback. THE SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF A BRUTAL ACT OF HATE "At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, Oct. 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was..... 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
Backyards & Beyond, November 2008. Oversized Hardcover. More
Independently published, August 2018. Paper Back. More
Burke, January 1929. Hardcover. Very good condition. Protected in mylar. More
Arcadia Publishing, March 2004. Trade Paperback. The enduring spirit of Wake Forest is celebrated in this memorable collection of more than 200 vintage photographs. Wake Forest College was founded in 1834 to train Baptist ministers. Now a nationally and internationally recognized university, it is renowned for both its graduate and..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 1974. Cloth. Shelf wear to dust jacket. Several small closed tears to top and bottom of the jacket. Yellowing and some stains to text block. 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
Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1988. Hardcover. More
Voyageur Press, November 1994. Trade Paperback. 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
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
Palgrave Macmillan, June 2015. Hardcover. This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of..... More
Self Published, No Date; (c. 1995). First Edition. Paper Back. Some mild wear, creases & stains. (125 pages). More
Cherokee Pub. Co, January 1973. Hardcover. 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
Countryman Press, January 2021. Paper Back. Charleston has become the most compelling destination in the coastal South for people who are serious about food and cooking. Meanwhile, Savannah has the nation's largest registered Urban Historic District, with a booming arts and film community to bring the past to life. This..... 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
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
University Alabama Press, June 2021. Hardcover. How southern universities continue to wrestle with the words and symbols that embody and perpetuate Old South traditions The US South is a rhetorical landscape that pulsates with division, a place where words and symbols rooted in a deeply problematic past litter the ground..... More
Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd), November 1989. Hardcover. 2nd printing. More
S.G. Courtenay & Co., 1859. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Brown umber with gold lettering along spines. Blind stamped or more likely tooled decorative floral corner patterns and borders front board both volumes. Dust staining to boards and textblock edges. Stains most noticable bottom textblock edge at fore-edge lip. Darkening/tanning margins..... 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
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
Norton, January 1974. Hardcover. Jacket chipped and clipped. More
Bonanza Books, December 1988. Cloth. Quarto (9 & 3/3' x 10 & 1/4'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Pine green cloth covered boards with brown lettering on spine. Boards bowed. Non-authorial gift inscription front free end page. Slight mildew odor. Clean interior text without underlining, etc. 367 pages. More
David Longworth, for the author, 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter bound: black leather spine with gold lettering and black corners. Gilt border lines. Burgundy cloth covered bords fill up five sided space between front and rear. Marbled end pages. The original rough fore-edged first edition actual book has survived the..... 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 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
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
Bloomsbury Publishing, August 2021. Hardcover. "A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil..... More
Walker, Evans & Cogswell, January 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto. {7 & 3/4' x 10 & 1/2'} in edgeworn DJ with mild stains and curling from moisture exposure. Off white cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Spine is darkened/tanned. Non-authorial inscription front free end page..... 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
Peachtree Publishers, August 1982. First Edition. 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..... More
