Stars Fell on Alabama by Carmer, Carl - 1934

Literary Guild, 1934. hardcover. Good. . Cover and edges shows shelf wear and minor tanning. Pages shows light tanning.

London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson Ltd., 1935. First. . Cloth Board. Good-Fair. Black board covers, silver lettering to spine. Book edges and corners slightly worn and bumped. Textblock bright, clean and tight. Charming illustrations to end papers and title page. 294pp.

London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson, 1935. First U.K. Edition. Boards. Good. Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Black boards with silver gilt lettering spine, wear to extremities. Spotting on cover. First U.K. Edition. Illustrated by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. 294pp.

New York:: The Literary Guild,, 1934.. Hardcover -. Near fine in blue cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover (bookplate). Book club edition. A book which was both a best seller and a classic account of 1920s Alabama, part memoir, part history, and part cultural analysis. In 1921, Carmer accepted a position at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Carmer discovered that the people of Alabama offered many interesting stories, especially those from a Sumter County woman named Ruby Pickens Tartt, who related numerous tales she had heard from the rural African American tenant farmers in her home town of Livingston. His first section, Tuscaloosa Nights, describes his arrival in Tuscaloosa by train, his trip to his hotel, and a meeting with a fellow faculty member and an old friend from Harvard and several of his associates. Late that first night, another professor whom he immediately liked told him bluntly to get out of the state before it was too late. For six years, Carmer travelled to… Read More

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. Second printing. Illustrations by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Very good copy with silver stamping still bright and with a trace of edge wear without dust jacket. Stars Fell on Alabama was Carl Carmer’s most famous work, and evolved out his observations of regional social life, especially racial relations, while teaching at the University at Tuscaloosa. Toward the end of his career, Carmer worked as a folklore consultant for Walt Disney Productions and produce a folklore radio series called "Your Neck o' the Woods" and produced four albums of regional songs.

The Literary Guild. Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Good, no dust jacket. Illustrated by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Spine crack, front and back cover, with some pages detached. Some light creasing and chipping to pages. Still a good copy. Published in New York. 8vo. 294 pages.

New York: Quinn & Boden Company, 1934. First Edition, with illustrations. Hardcover in good condition. Spine worn. Small stains on edge of cover. . 1st. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover.

New York: The Literary Guild, 1934. 294 pp. Previous owner's name on half-title. B/w illustrated endpapers, with small number written on ffep. Blue cloth with silver titles. Corners bumped, faded spine with head and tail lightly worn. VG. Illus. by Baldridge, Cyrus Le Roy.

New York: Literary Guild, 1934. 294 pp. Bright blue pictorial boards with silver lettering front and spine (spine is faded). Minor wear to the extremities. Pristine endpapers illustrated in black and white by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Binding is tight and square. Top page edges are foxed; expected toning throughout. Pictorial dj is faded on the spine. No rips or stains, but shelf-worn and price clipped. Interior is unmarked and clean. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Baldridge, C. LeRoy. Octavo.

Farrar & Rinehart, Inc,, 1934. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Illustrated by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Cover a little soiled and worn.Ink inscription on front fixed endpapers.Text very good.