New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1912. First edition. Octavo (20 cm). Grey pictorial cloth; 224 pp.; photographic frontispiece of a Mountain Schoolhouse. A scarce piece of Kentucky regional fiction. A Very Good+ copy with some light speckling to top edge and two marks of soiling to fore-edge. More
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Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1935. Second printing. Octavo (22 cm). Green cloth printed in burgundy; dark top-stain; xiii, 186 pp.; black & white photographs; dust jacket. "A psychograph of the South - a paradox of unrest in a land of contentment." Cason, a Southerner, provides a.... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (21.5 cm). Light blue cloth pictorially stamped in blue; 224 pp.; five full page illustrations by Helen Blair; dust jacket. In this novel for young adults, a group of children flee from their Tennessee home for a cottage on the South... More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1931. First edition. Octavo. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine; xvii, 520 pp.; dust jacket. A significant anthology of Southern fiction. Twenty-seven famous tales of plantation life and of the new Negro; of the slowly changing hill-billy and the poor white of the... More
Jackson, Miss.: The Kudzu, 1969. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint; 8 pp.; illus. A single issue of this counterculture paper founded by members of the Southern Student Organizing Committee. It was issued sporadically from 1968-1972 and issues remain scarce in commerce. Standard 60s reportage on Black university struggles... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. 12mo. (19.5 cm). Brown cloth with gilt spine; xvii, 352 pp., [4] pp., adverts. An about Near Fine copy of this Southern cook book compiled by "two Virginian ladies [who] would herein lay before their sisters a collection of recipes, such as have been... More
Richmond: Virginia Civil War Commission, 1964. 4to; paperback, 347 pp, illus. Ex-library copy of Technical Library, Naval Weapons Laboratory with stamps to title page and inside front cover; LoC duplicate stamp to front wrapper with date of deletion; otherwise text clean and unmarked. Front wrapper with 2" split tail and... More
New York: New Christian Books. 8vo., perfectbound, illustrated wrappers, 80 pp., illustrations by Ida Scheib. A selection of poems in three parts from the social activist Christian who co-founded the Highlander Folk School. Some light rubbing and wear to wrappers, cheap paper browned. More
Atlanta: Atlanta Historical Society, 1979. Paperback. 4to.; perfect-bound, illustrated wrappers, 149 pp., illus. A special issue of “The Atlanta Historical Bulletin” on the personal perspective of Atlanta in the Civil War, which was also a major 1979 exhibition of the Atlanta Historical Society. Includes, “Life at the Crossroads of the... More