Literature from the American South including contemporary
Nashville: The Fugitive, 1922-25. Six issues of The Fugitive, including the first four volumes. A foundational journal of Southern literature. The Fugitives were a group of poets at Vanderbilt University who published a short-lived journal from 1922-25. The poems were largely published under various pseudonyms, but the participants are well.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
New York: New American Library; Signet, 1954. First Signet Edition, as stated. In wraps with red stained edges. Some slight scuffing and a small tear to wraps, with a stain to rear corner. Otherwise, a clean and tight interior. "A superb novel of men and arms!"
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.....