Search Results: Appalachia from Karen Wickliff - Books

University of North Carolina, 1968. 333pp. Black cloth hardback, dust jacket has slight rubbing and wear around edges, price-clipped, twenty-two page appendix listing titles by student authors of One-Act Folk-Plays of The Carolina Playmakers, 1918 - 1968, scripts of four complete plays included: "Singing Valley" by Josefina Niggli; "Spring for Sure" , music score included, by Catherine McDonald and Wilton Mason; "A Little to the Left" by Brock Brower; "The Battle of the Carnival and Lent" by Russell Graves . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Savage Press , 1998. 191pp. trade paperback, VG, second edition, 1998, Collection of poems plus a section of eleven narrative poems by Paul Bennett, an Ohio poet,. Soft Cover. Very Good.

University of Tennessee Press, 1995. 424pp. Trade paperback, VG, still in shrink wrap, Drawing in part on interviews with elderly African-American banjo players from the Piedmont, Conway reaches beyond the written records to reveal the similarity of pre-blues black banjo lyric patterns, improvisational playing styles, and the accompanying singing and dance movements to traditional West African music performance, . Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Viking Press, 1966. 287pp. Yellow cloth hardback, brown foxing spots on spine, DJ VG with minor rubbing along edges, spine slightly faded, Third Printing, Ketty Petrie leaves the Moravian settlement at Salem and joins her brother on a flatboat ttraveling on the Tennessee to French Lick and the hard life in the wilderness,. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Brinton Turkle.

Grayson County Historical Society / VA , 1985. 378pp. Trade paperback, lower corner tips creased, no names or markings, index, b&w photos, Grayson County Virginia : A History in Words and Pictures, . Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Self Published, 2007. 105pp. Trade paperback, VG, Second printing, b&w photos, Author's memoir og growing up in rural Kentucky, . Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Regional Publishing Co., 1979. 532pp. Red cloth hardback, no DJ, VG, minor rubbing at corner tips and spine ends, slight stain on on front end page, 1979 reprint of1911edition with new index, c.85 pages have between one and three names (occationally a few more) marked with yellow highlighter , tiny stain on a few lower page corner tips, maps and illustrations, Pioneer and Sub-Pioneer Genealogy, appendix, index of names, History of Highland County Virginia, . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Center for Appalachian Studies and Services / Tennessee , 1988. 95pp. Thin trade paperback, VG, light rubbing on covers, Collection of Appalachian writings by a writing group that meets in Johnson, Tennessee, . Soft Cover. Very Good.

University Press Kentucky, 1981. 192pp. Red cloth hardback, collection of ten essays, VG, chapter notes and references, index, figures and tables, Includes: Appalachians as an urban ethnic group, Migration of Appalachians to urban areas, Attainment of Appalachians in urban areas, . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Harper & Row, 1971. 218pp. Tan cloth hardback, DJ has tiny chips missing at upper spine edge and a very tiny chip back upper cover edge, First Edition First Printing, after finding Analees Williamsburg, a fifteen-year-old runaway slave in 1810, August King faces a moral dilemma in which he must decide between turning the girl in for a reward or risking his life to help her, . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+.

E.P. Dutton, 1973. 144pp. Trade paperback, VG, very light rubbing along edges, light brown foxing spots on front and rear end pages, owner nameplate on inside front cover, footnotes, b&w photos, Documents the devastation of his native Appalachian hills, describes the fate of country people left homeless by strip miners and corporate feudalism, . Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Atlantic Monthly Press, 1924. 219pp. Blue cloth hardback with illustration of trees on a hill above a cabin with smoke coming out of chimney embossed on cover, corner tips slightly rubbed, third printing, owner name on front end page, The Quare Women : A Story of the Kentucky Mountains, . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Houghton Mifflin, 1968. 260pp. Green cloth hardback, DJ has tiny chips missing at upper spine edge, Fourth Printing, "Broke Neck, Kentucky, lies deep in Appalachia. Its people are descendents of the men and women who settled the country during the Revolutionary War, and their ways have not changed much in the past two hundred years. Shady Grove chronicles the riotous adventures and misadventures of Broke Neck's Fowler clan, among them Frony, the feisty and articulate widow who narrates the tale, and Sudley, the thrice-married farmer and quintessential "ridge man.", . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+.

New American Library, 1989. 263pp. Hardback, yellow cloth spine and red board covers, DJ, VG, stated First Printing, $17.95 price on DJ flap, pages have turned slightly tan arournd edges, two brothers reunite and their family ties are tested in the sweltering heat of an Appalachian town,. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Bantam, 1974. 155pp. White mass market pb, illustration on front cover with the family grouped in front of a pickup truck, VG, 6th printing,, pages have turned light brown around edges, novel, 1.25 price on spine and front cover, Based on the television series created by Earl Hamner jr., The Waltons, . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts , 2007. 251pp. Trade paperback, VG, "In a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches a woman move the cover off a well and toss in a baby, the Moore family, willing to help those in need during the Depression, face the attitudes and struggles of their community,. Trade Paperback. Very Good.