Literature from the American South including contemporary
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.....
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.....
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.....
New York: Scribner, 2009. Signed first printing. Signed by Iles on the titles page. Penn Cage #3. The Devil's Punchbowl reveals a world of depravity, sex, violence, and the corruption of a Southern town. Very good in a like DJ.
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.
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.....
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.....
New York: Avon Books, 1978. First Avon Printing, as stated. In wraps with red sprayed edges. "The adventures of a bad Catholic at a time near the end of the world". A satirical novel, centered around Dr. Thomas More, a conflicted Catholic psychiatrist, who finds himself in the midst.....
New York: Pocket Books, 1981. First Pocket Books printing, as stated. In wraps. Returning to the universe of Percy's The Last Gentleman, The Second Coming finds protagonist Will Barrett struggling with depression. After meeting a young woman who has escaped from a mental institution, he begins a journey of.....
San Francisco, CA: MacAdam/ Cage, 2006. First printing, signed by Gay on title page. Dust jacket over red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Gay's third novel, a Southern Gothic fairytale that follows two siblings as they attempt to bring down a nefarious undertaker in the wake of.....