Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1979. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/4 X 10 1/4 Inches. "Ida M'Toy, an old negro woman, for a long time a midwife in my little Mississippi town and for another long time a dealer in second-hand clothes in the same place, has been..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 1/4 X 8 3/4 Inches. 185 PP. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Original price of $2.00 intact on front flap. Very attractive copy of the author's second book. PO bookplate on front pastedown (hidden..... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4 Inches. 211 PP. First printing of this overlooked classic of the agrarian movement in America and especially the South in the early 20th Century. The famous "Agrarian" poets including John Crow Ransome and Robert..... More
Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 1/4 X 8 3/8 Inches. 174 PP. Includes the foreword by Fugitive Poet Donald Davidson. Original price of $3.50 intact on front flap. Light wear to dj edges. One small closed tear to top of front panel. More
Santa Cruz, CA: Forest History Society, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2 X 10 7/8 Inches. 184 PP. First printing of this swan song publicaton by and about famed Southern Historian Stanley Horn. This copy presented and signed by Horn to William "Bill" Boozer of the Nashville Banner newspaper. Boozer..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 218 PP. Stated "First Printing" on the copyright page. Original price of $12.50 intact on front flap. Signed and inscribed on Christmas Eve in the year of publication! Important Fugitive Poet..... More
Knoxville, TN: Celtic Cat Publishing, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. 6 1/4 x 9 184 Inches. 219 PP. First printing of this scarce volume of poetry from Marion, a noted Southern poet and writer who has helped shape the landscape of Appalachian literature. Signed by Marion directly on the half..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 X 7 3/4 Inches. 305 PP. First printing with matching year of 1912 on copyright and title-page. Collection of several famously Southern stories including Uncle Remus. Edited and signed by LaSalle Pickett, the noted wife of Gen. George Pickett ("Pickett's..... More
New York: HarperCollins, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 X 9 Inches. 264 PP. First printing with complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $27.99 intact on front flap. Basis for the Netflix film starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams. More
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 X 9 Inches. 208 PP. "Madison Jones is one of the country's great prose stylists.. There is not a writer in America whose work I admire more that the work Madison Jones has done." Harry Crews Stated "1st Printing"..... More
New York: HarperCollins, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 X 9 Inches. 343 PP. First printing with complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $26.99 intact on front flap. Signed by author directly on the title-page. Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for..... More
New York: Library of America, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 X 7 7/8 Inches. 1021 PP. Stated "First Printing" on the copyright page. Original price of $40.00 intact on the front flap. Signed by Berry directly on the title-page. Includes Nathan Coulter, A Place on Earth, A World Lost and..... More
Athens, OH: Manuscript / John Rood, 1936. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. 6 1/2 X 9 3/4 Inches. 64 PP. Original June, 1936 issue of "Manuscript" magazine. Contains "Death of a Traveling Salesman", the first published short story from Eudora Welty. Scarce issue of this magazine that only ran..... More
New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 3/4 X 8 1/2 Inches. 302 PP. Stated "First Edition" with proper number line. Original price of $8.95 intact on front flap. PO name on FFEP. A bit of wear and a few shallow closed tears to DJ edges..... More
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 7 1/4 X 9 1/4 Inches. 108 PP. First printing of this overlooked biography of Kentucky writer and paint Harlan Hubbard. Hubbard was an early inspiraton for Berry. His life "off the grid" began in the 1920's and..... More
Nashville, TN: Smith, Camp & Co., 1857. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 5 X 7 7/8 Inches. 356 PP. First printing copy in the original embossed cloth binding. The directory contains the names, business, and residence of all heads of families and businesses in Nashville, Memphis, Clarksville, Shelbyville, Knoxville, Franklin..... More
New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 3/8 X 9 1/2 Inches. 75 PP. Stated "First Edition" with proper number line on the copyright page. Original price of $8.95 intact on front flap. Signed by Robert Penn Warren on the FFEP. A sharp copy. More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1937. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 Inches. 189 PP. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Signed by Rutledge directly on the FFEP. Price-clipped. Minor primitive tape repairs to inside of jacket, hence the "Good" grade. A very scarce book to find signed..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862. First Edition. Cloth. 5 1/8 X 7 1/2 Inches. 458 PP + 8 PP Ads. First printing in original brown cloth. Frontis of Brownlow and the tissue-guard intact. Brownlow, editor of the Knoxville Whig newspaper, was a staunch opponent of Southern secession. While his views..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Cloth. 5 1/4 X 7 5/8 Inches. 318 PP. First novel from this Georgia born winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer. Original blue cloth binding. Spine rubbed and a few minor dings to boards. An excellent copy overall..... More
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1909. First Thus. Cloth. 5 1/8 X 7 3/8 Inches. 358 PP. First edition from Winston following the success of the 1897 original that was published by J.C. Bauer. Born in Alabama, Moore trained as a lawyer but found success in the literary field in the..... More
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1902. First Thus. Cloth. 4 3/4 X 7 1/8 Inches. 358 PP. First edition from Coates following the success of the 1897 original that was published by J.C. Bauer. Born in Alabama, Moore trained as a lawyer but found success in the literary field..... More
New York: Poseidon Press, 1993. Paperback Original (1st). Original wraps. 6 X 9 1/8 Inches. 444 PP. First printing with complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Signed by Crews on the dedication page. Additionally inscribed by Huntley Johnson, the dedicatee. Light foxing to gutters. Hint of..... More
Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 1/8 X 7 5/8 Inches. 117 PP. First printing of this collection of poems told in an antiquated African American dialect. Poems include: Ole Marster, De Ole Battered Banjo, Uncle Joe, Mammy's Charge and The Race Question among many others..... More
Louisville, KY: Standard Press, 1935. Hardcover. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2 Inches. 192 PP. First printing in the original embossed cloth binding. Raised image of "Maera" on front cover. Signed and inscribed by author in the year of publication directly on the FFEP. Distinctly southern tale of the importance of..... More