Literature from the American South including contemporary
Louisiana State University Press, 1980. Fifth printing. Minor waterstaining to top and bottom edge, DJ has minor chips at top edge spine. Otherwise in Good condition, pages intact and binding is tight. Mylared. This classic, picaresque tale of Ignatius J. Reilly -- modern, New Orleanian Don Quixote that he.....
Grove Press, 2010. Second printing. Book in Very Good condition in like DJ. Published posthumously the year of Hannah's death, this collection ranges from his earliest stories to at-time-of-publishing new stories. Gritty, sharp, darkly clever, it is no fluke that Hannah earned the highest praise of contemporary prose writers.
Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Inscribed by author, "Tom, All best and sabers up! Barry Hannah, Oxford 1982." Nominated for the American Book Award, Ray is the bizarre, hilarious, and adventurous story of a life on edge.
U of Georgia P, 2005. First edition, HC First printing. Book in Very Fine condition in like DJ. Still bears a faded price of $24.95 on a rear sticker. Limited edition. Mylared. This collection of 9 stories by the Alabama author Brad Vice stirred intense responses upon its 2005.....
Houghton Mifflin, 1940. A true first edition (year of publication "1940" on the title page). Book is in Good condition; pages are clean and unmarked, binding is good. Missing original DJ. Her debut novel and a classic of Southern literature, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter concerns a deaf.....
Knopf, 1994. First edition. Book in Very Good condition in like DJ. Mylared. The second book of The Border Trilogy follows Billy Parham as he grows up and thrice transits between the Mexico-New Mexico border where encounters with human and beast alike transform him.
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1991. First printing. Dust jacket over blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Part of the author and artist series, this collection includes five selected short stories from Mississippi native Elizabeth Spencer. Featured alongside is artwork by Walter Anderson, who resided in.....
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1991. First printing. Signed and dated by the author on the half-title page. Dust jacket over blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Mylared. Part of the author and artist series, this collection includes five selected short stories from Mississippi native Elizabeth.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1992. First printing, as stated, signed by Gilchrist on the title page. Dust jacket over green and brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. The coming of age story of Rhoda Manning, a young, impulsive woman in Alabama who feels trapped by her.....
The Franklin Library, 1977. Full-leather book in Very Fine Condition. Gilt-edged pages. Harper Lee's classic, 1960 tale of racial injustice in the Deep South is presented here in a shimmering edition by the Franklin Library, complete with illustrations by David Milliman.
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2013. First Printing, signed by Hailman on the title page. Publisher-issued dust jacket over black cloth boards with silver titling to spine. Stories from John Hailman's thirty years as a federal prosecutor in Oxford, Mississippi. Some small chips to dust jacket and.....
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2015. First Printing, signed by Hailman on the title page. Publisher-issued dust jacket over black cloth boards with silver titling to spine. A second installment of riveting stories from John Hailman's thirty years as a federal prosecutor in Oxford, Mississippi. Some.....
The Franklin Library, 1978. Full-leather book in Very Fine condition. Gilt-edged pages. Features illustrations by Charles Hamrick. Julia Peterkin's prize-winning 1929 novel involves readers in the Gullah community of South Carolina, and the tense drama between the titular character's choices between societal approval and personal satisfaction. An advocate for.....
Algonquin Books, 1991. First Edition, first printing. Book in Very Fine condition, DJ in Fine Condition (shelf wear). Mylared. Storied Oxford author Larry Brown immerses readers in the rough life of the hard-drinking ex-con Joe Ransome as he takes a chance on a hopeless young man when his own.....
Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1993. At 368 pages this large format (13.25 x 10) volume title is truly a treasure. With full color illustrations and excerpts covering the period from 1539 to modern times. Some of the varied authors included are: Frederick Douglass, Alexis de Tocqueville, Margaret Walker Alexander.....
J.S. Sanders & Co., 1997. First edition, Second printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Book in Very Good condition in like DJ. Mylared. In the midst of occupation and defeat at the hands of Union soldiers, 12-year old Steven Moore escapes Nashville to seek out his.....
Little, Brown, 2006. First edition, First printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Book in Near Fine condition in like DJ. One Mississippi is, at its heart, a novel in which two boys who move to Mississippi with their families become friends, confidants, and companions as they.....
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977. First LSU Press Edition, in wraps. Bright pages with a tight, clean interior. Some sunning to spine, but otherwise a nice copy.
Algonquin Books, 1997. First edition, First printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Book in Very Good condition in like DJ. Mylared. Intimacy, attraction, love, and courtship are the prime themes of this short story collection by Nanci Kincaid.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First printing, signed by Conroy on the title page. Dust jacket over gray paper boards with a navy cloth spine and gilt spine titling. The story of a failing high school football coach in South Carolina who flies to New York in the hope.....
Atlanta: Old New York Book Shop Press, 2005. Reprint, later edition. Signed by Conroy on the title page. Dust jacket over red cloth boards with blue and white titling to spine. A memoir from Conroy about his time teaching on Yamacraw Island, just off the coast of South Carolina.....
Atlanta: Old New York Book Shop Press, 2001. Reprint, later edition. Signed by Conroy on the title page. Dust jacket over red cloth boards with blue and white titling to spine. A memoir from Conroy about his time teaching on Yamacraw Island, just off the coast of South Carolina.....
Norton, 1989. First edition, First printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Book in Very Good condition in like DJ. Mylared. Rick Bass emerged on the literary scene with gusto in his fiction debut, The Watch, for the wise manner with which he discusses age, ambition, and loyalty.
Minotaur Books, 2011. First edition, First printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Book in Fine condition in like DJ. Rick Gavin's first novel is a rough and tumble crime thriller about repo man Nick Reid who gets sneak attacked and ultimately carjacked by his target, Percy.....
New York: Avon Books, 1978. First Avon printing, as stated. In wraps with maroon sprayed edges. A man from the Mississippi Delta feels detached from his roots while living in New York, until one day he falls in love at first sight. Some light water damage to.....