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 finely-steeled engravings.
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Eudora Welty Photographs
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Second Edition, first printing. Signed by National Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, who wrote a new introduction for this edition. Uncommon.
Historical Catalogue of the University of Mississippi, 1849-1909
Nashville, Tennessee: Marshall and Bruce Company, 1910. Missing cover; binding loose. Interior good.
More Songs by the Fighting Men
London: Erksine Macdonald, Ltd. Published in US December 1917. A book of poems written by men serving in World War I.
Selected Letters of William Faulkner
Zurich: Diogenes Verlag, 1980. Swiss First Edition of William Faulkner's Selected Letters. NF in VG+ DJ.
Commentary on Tennyson's In Memoriam
Third Edition. A detailed analysis of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem written to commemorate the passing of the author's close friend Arthur Henry Hallam. Considered to be be one of the greatest poems of the 19th century.
A Shropshire Lad
Later US edition. A collection of sixty-three poems by the English poet.
William Faulkner of Oxford
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1965. First Printing. Black cloth boards with green titling to spine and white titling to front boards. With original publisher's dust jacket. A collection of sketches about Faulkner's life from various friends, family members, and others who knew him. Compiled and edited.....
More Prejudice
New York: Knopf, 1923. First edition. Very good condition in decorated orange and beige w/decorated panel pasted at spine. No DJ. First published in the UK by Heinemann. Rough-cut bottom and fore edges, painted black at top. No marks, interior very good. Walkley was a prominent English theatre critic.
Biographer's Tale
Knopf, 2001. Signed First American edition. Fine copy in fine DJ. An erotic, playful, and provocative novel about the collision of art and truth.
The Covenant of Water
New York: Grove, 2023. First edition First printing. cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket, signed by author at publisher's tipped in sheet with titling. Three generations of a family in South India seek answers to a strange secret.
The Lost Ones
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2012. Signed First Edition.VG/VG+. Quinn Colson, who debuted in The Ranger, has his hands full as the newly elected sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi.
Crossroad Blues
First Edition, second printing. Inscribed. Mississippi writer's first of the series that feature Nick Travers, ex-football star, part-time detective, and full-time expert on blues in New Orleans. A modern Southern re-invention of the Maltese Falcon.
Leavin' Trunk Blues
Signed First Edition. In the sequel to Crossroad Blues, Nick Travers becomes involved in the forty-year-old murder of a blues record producer.
The Ranger
Signed Excerpt.
White Shadow
Inscribed first edition. From football player to Pulitzer Prize nominee for journalism to successful author, Atkins pens an early thriller based on the true story of the death of a Florida retired mob boss.
Lady Florence Dixie
R. Worthington, 1881. Dixie was a fascinating woman, far ahead of her Victorian times. She was a writer, war correspondent and enthusiastic feminist. Dixie fought for equality of the sexes from soccer to the monarchy. Here she recounts her travels to Patagonia as the sole woman in the expedition.
Emporium
Signed First Edition. First Printing. Fine in fine DJ, as new. Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book. Signed on title page.
Fortune Smiles
New York: Random House, 2015. Collection of stories. Signed first printing. Signed by the Pultizer-winning author on a tipped-in sheet. Fine in like dustjacket with mylar.
The Orphan Master's Son
Random House, 2012. Signed first edition. Fine condition in like DJ. The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times-bestselling novel of propaganda, identity, and state power themes in North Korea.
Mr. Peanut
VG/VG. A New York Times Notable Book, a police procedural of the soul.
Dear IJeawele or a Feminist
Signed Broadside. From the award-winning book that makes a powerful statement about feminism.
Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1988-1991
First Edition. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, from American poet, essayist, and feminist.
Mischling
Lee Boudreaux Books, 2016. A Holocaust tale of twin sisters who try to keep each other alive while in the experimental population of "Mengele's Zoo." (Mischling was used in Nazi Germany to denote persons of mixed "Aryan" and non-Aryan, such as Jewish ancestry.).
Earth in the Balance
Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Signed, later printing. Very nice copy. Near fine in near fine DJ. Signature on end paper. Former US Vice President Gore explains the world's ecological predicament.