Pictures of Memory
Wichita, KS: Goldsmith-Woolard Publishing Co., 1908. A book of inspirational poetry and musings on childhood possibly used at funeral services. 30th thousand printing. Green suede softcover.
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The Mackerel Plaza
Boston: Little Brown, 1958. First edition, first printing. VG+ in bright blue cloth w/dark blue fountain to front cover & titling to spine. DJ vg, showing foxing around flaps and back panel slight soiling but altogether looks nice. Some darkening around endpapers & EKS name written beneath front flap on.....
William Faulkner: Three Decades of Criticism
Michigan State University, 1960. VG. Bright orange cover, interior VG+.
Iron Flame
Shrewsbury, PA: Red Tower Books, 2023. Signed first printing. Signed on the title page in red marker. Book two in the Empyrean series. Mint.
Navigating Your Stars
New York: Scribner, 2020. Ward's stirring speech from a commencement address at Tulane University stressing themes of grit, adversity and the importance of family bonds. Signed by the National Book Award-winning author on the title page.
The Graveyard Book
Broadside for the graphic novel adaptation of the book. Signed.
Hemingway and Faulkner: inventors/masters
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1975. An academic work comparing and contrasting Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner in life and literature.
William Faulkner: Early Prose and Poetry
New York: Little, Brown, 1962. Second paperback edition.
William Faulkner: Early Prose and Poetry
New York: Little, Brown, 1962. In beige cloth with brown ink titling to spine. Very good in like dust jacket.
The Time Traveler's Wife
MacAdam/Cage, 2003. Advance review copy in gray wraps. Signed by Niffenegger on title page.
Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New South
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1958. First printing. Part of the LSU Press Southern Biography Series.
The Little Dutch Tulip Girl
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Photos by author.
Homecomings
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989. First Edition. Original review copy.
Faulkner at West Point
New York: Random House, 1964. First Printing. Condition VG. Small tear in DJ at top of front cover. Signed by previous owner in pencil. Interior VG+.
William Faulkner and Southern History
Oxford University Press, 1993. Signed.
Selected Letters of William Faulkner
Zurich: Diogenes Verlag, 1980. Swiss First Edition of William Faulkner's Selected Letters. NF in VG+ DJ.
The Faulkner-Cowley Files
New York: Viking Press, 1966. VG+. Some wear to DJ, small tear at front cover. Interior VG.
Cabin Road
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press. Still in shrink wrap.
Vaught
Birmingham, AL: Epic Sports, 2000. First printing. Inscribed first printing. Inscribed by Coach John Vaught and author Rick Cleveland to Oxford legend Ron "Ronzo" Shapiro. Vaught's inscription reads, "To Ronzo, I remember the Hoka, Best Wishes, John Vaught." Author Rick Cleveland follows with, "Me too!" A one of a kind.....
Blow My Blues Away
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1971. First printing. Inscribed first printing. Inscribed on title page, "Best wishes to ___ and ___, George Mitchell, Oxford Mississippi 2014." Illustrated by 100 of Mitchell's photographs and containing lyrics to regional songs collected by the author. Book is very good, with a......
Disappearing Places
Dusseldorf, Germany: Richter Verlag, 2002. Bilingual German/English. Inscribed first printing of Christenberry's collection of color photographs. Inscribed, "To _____ with pleasure, Nov 1, 2002.
Blues From the Delta
Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1979. First printing. An illustrated documentary on the music and musicians of the Mississippi Delta. Flat signed to title page.
Criminal Sociology
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1898. Italian criminologist Ferri summarized his theory by defining criminal psychology as a "defective resistance to criminal tendencies and temptations, due to that ill-balanced impulsiveness which characterizes children and savages"
The Stones of Venice (Three-volume set)
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1851-53. First printing. Wonderful three-volume set of Ruskin's exemplary treatise on Venetian architecture. All volumes first editions, with Vol 1 printed in 1851 and the subsequent two printed in 1853. Some scuffs to leather boards, but overall a very good exterior. Gilded top stains in.....
The Book of Pearls: A Choice Garland of Prose, Poetry, and Art
D. Appleton and Company, 1829. VG in gilt decorative cloth w/gilt edges. Twenty steel engravings.