The History Press, February 2010. Trade Paperback. The Highs and Lows of Little Five Points documents the transformations of Atlanta's first Neighborhood Commercial District. Atlanta's Little Five Points, the city's first Neighborhood Commercial District, stands out as one of the most distinctive shopping districts in the Southeast. There have been..... More
Emons Publishers, April 2023. Paper Back. - The ultimate insider's guide to Atlanta - Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides- Part of the international 111 Places/Shops series with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide - Appeals to both the local market..... More
Random House, April 1995. Hardcover. Now a major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and "Eddie" from the TV show Frasier (as Skip), and produced by Mark Johnson (Rain Man). In 1943 in a sleepy town on the banks of the Yazoo..... More
Random House, December 1995. Limited. Cloth. Octavo. In paper pictorial covered case. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Savannah River street map is two page spread for front and rear end pages of this title. Signed by John Berendt on limitation page. Number line: 2 4 6..... More
Random House, December 1995. Limited. Cloth. Octavo in pictorial paper covered heavy cardstock case. With this number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3, with indicates First/first editions for RH titles of this era. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Pictorial plates affixed to front..... More
Copple House Books, January 1982. Cloth. Octavo in jacket darkened at margins and along spine, One small spot of soiling on front panel. Front flap is clipped. Grey cloth covered boards with bright red lettering (and stamped illustration of ship likewise in bright red). Early map of Georgia and surrounding..... More
Hub City Press, April 2017. Trade Paperback. In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Having uprooted herself from a promising career in publishing..... More
Rizzoli International Publications, March 2010. Hardcover. An exquisitely photographed collection of the great houses and mansions of the South. In the tradition of Rizzoli's Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley and Great Houses of New England, Great Houses of the South features a stunning array of newly photographed homes that..... More
Vintage, March 1999. Trade Paperback. Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause..... More
Temple University Press, January 2001. Trade Paperback. Atlanta has transformed from a provincial capital to a global city, but it still contains inequalities, particularly for African-Americans. Keating tells troubling stories of development plans that are under the control of private business and the lack of democratic process. Moderate shelf wear..... 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
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2021. Trade Paperback. Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca--a beacon for gays and lesbians growing up in its homophobic towns and cities. There, the Sweet Gum Head was the club for achieving drag stardom. Martin Padgett evokes the fantabulous..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, January 2023. Hardcover. How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life--a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in national and global contexts, celebrated historian Charles Reagan Wilson assesses how..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, May 2023. Hardcover. The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region's impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore, who uses the histories of five..... More
Algonquin Books, April 2015. Hardcover. "White people declared that the South would rise again. Black people raised one fist and chanted for black power. Somehow we negotiated a space between those poles and learned to sit in classrooms together . . . Lawyers, judges, adults declared that the days of..... More
Louisiana State University Press, January 1950. Cloth. Octavo without dustjacket. Sun bleached spine, that is also spotted, stained with ink writing. Front and rear boards are light blue cloth covered and likewise washed out and discolored. Edgeworn at bottom and top with frayed cloth edges. Front pastedown has previous owner's..... 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
Random House, January 1994. First Edition. 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..... More
NewSouth Books, April 2023. Hardcover. Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across the region for his right-wing..... More
Bobbs-Merrill, 1941. Cloth. Quarto. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 3/4'} In torn & tattered DJ with large chunk ripped from top of front & rear jacket plates. Also enormous damp stained mass front and rear of spine recto & verso. Tanned/dust stained end papers front & rear with previous..... More
University of North Carolina Press, February 1982. Cloth. Oblong quarto. {11 & 1/2' x 9' & 1/4'] Brown cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Brown end pages. Foxing scattered through internal pages. [117 pages]. More
Putnam, January 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing w/ no subsequent printings stated; Tight binding, gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy coth-covered boards w/ inset flag at front, gilt text at spine; Boards gently edge-worn with mild discoloration/rubbing present; Previous owner name present at front free-end page; Text free of..... More
Mountain Arbor Press, November 2017. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; Signed by the authors at title page; An excellent copy. More
University of Georgia Press, February 2014. Paper Back. Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives..... More
Butternut & Blue, January 1997. Hardcover. As new, sealed in publisher's shrink wrap. More
