Search Results: Southern Literature from Pages Past Used and Rare Books

Georgia: Georgia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. (17) pages. Hardcover bound in burgundy cloth. Light wear to the binding. A reprint of the 1930 edition. Three parts in one book.

Raleigh, NC: Mutual Publishing Company, 1909. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 205 pages. First edition hardcover bound in red cloth. Binding is lightly rubbed, with a few spots. Spine is sunned. Prior owner's name written on front flyleaf. Some pencilled notations and underlining throughout text, which is otherwise sound.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 288 pages. Hardcover with an tan dust jacket, now in mylar. The jacket is not price-clipped and shows minimal wear. The book is fresh and clean. There is a partial remainder ink stamp on the bottom edge of the text block.

Dayton, Virginia: Ruebush-Elkins Co, Publishers, 1909. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo. 72 pages. Bound in brown limp suede the title embossed on the front cover. Yapped edges. Moderate wear and rubbing to the binding. A sound copy; lower corner of the rear cover is bent backwards. Text is clean. Gammans was Professor of Languages at Shenandoah Collegiat Institute in Dayton, Virginia.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 256 pages. Hardcover with a black, white, green and tan dust jacket, now in mylar. The jacket is not price-clipped and shows light wear, although the front inner flap is creased. The last page of text has some tanning in the gutter near the top, as if someone had used an acidic bookmark. There is a remainder ink stamp on the bottom edge of the text block.

Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2011. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 600 pages. Soft cover bound in blue and grey wrappers. Light wear to the binding, which is just a little bowed. There is a little bumping to the bottom corner at the front. A sound copy and clean within.

Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. 46 pages. Soft cover bound in blue wrappers. Light wear to the binding. A sound copy with clean text.

New York, London and Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co., 1958. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. 79 pages. Hardcover with a white, orange and green dust jacket. The jacket is rubbed and foxed but sound. Jacket is price-clipped. The book itself shows light wear. There is some foxing to the endpapers. The text is a little toned but generally clean. A fictional story of General Robert E. Lee's first Christmas at home after the surrender at Appomattox at the end of the Civil War. Helen Topping Miller (1884-1960) was born in Michigan and moved to Morristown, Tennessee in 1908. She married a journalist there in 1910 and spent time teaching and writing there, in Georgia, and North Carolina (she lived near Asheville from 1924 to 1942). She wrote a number of novels and short stories and poems and began to write more historical fiction in the 1940s. She wrote several Christmas stories with historical figures, beginning with "Christmas at the… Read More

Jacksonville, Florida: South Moon Books, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Edward Shenton. 8vo. 368 pages. Hardcover bound in green cloth and with a green, blue and yellow dust jacket, now in mylar. A bright, clean copy. SIGNED by publisher Philip S. May, Jr. on the special publication page noting that this 50th Anniversary Edition is limited to 1000 unnumbered copies.

New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1951. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 336 pages. Hardcover bound in burgundy cloth. Light weawr to the binding. SIGNED by Burke Davis on the front flyleaf. Lacks the dust jacket, but it is complete with the frontis map. This is the true First Edition with the Rinehart logo on the copyright page. An attractive copy.

New York: Arcadia House, Inc, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 12mo. 256 pages. Hardcover bound in faded darkgray cloth with red lettering. The binding is considerably worn and bumped at the corners and edges. The spine is toned. Outer edges of the text block are darkened or heavily toned. Heavy foxing to the end papers. The front pastedown has a slip of paper pasted in which has typed names and dates, apparently as part of a reading club. The pages show occasional spotting and foxing throughout. Several beginning pages have small holes close to the spine. The text is otherwise clean and sound. INSCRIBED by the author on the front end paper, "For Martha & Ray Butler / In the fellowship of a common interest, the textile industry-- / Thelma Thompson / May, 1941." Thelma Thompson Slaydon (1907-1977) was born in Ashland, Alabama and lived in Atlanta Georgia where she taught creative writing at Emory University and at University… Read More

Columbia, S.C.: The R. L. Bryan Company, 1967. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Eugene B. Sloan. Octavo. 308 pages. Hardcover bound in navy blue cloth. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Text is clean. Contains several illustrations in black and white and in color, including a color foldout plate of Indigo.

Lexington, Virginia: The Virginian Publishing Company, 1931. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo. 44 pages. Hardcover bound in quarter red cloth with grey paper-covered boards. Moderate wear to the binding. The lower corners are a little bumped. A sound copy and clean within. Unopened. Many of the pages have never been separated. A series of essays written by students at Washington and Lee. Rare; only 50 copies printed. There are eleven essays included by the following students: J. W. A. Smith; E. N. S. Girard; D. C. Thompson; C. P. Lee, Jr.; G. M. Lapsley; W. W. Hawkins, Jr.; W. M. Burdette, Jr.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1985. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 272 pages. Hardcover with a tan grey jacket, now in mylar. The jacket is not price-clipped and shows light wear. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, "For L-- K----- / Lee Smith 5/25/95.

New York: Picador USA, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. 228 pages. Soft cover bound in white, green and black wrappers. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. A sound copy with clean text. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, "For Lee-- / For always!-- / Fred.

Lexington, Massachusetts: Museum of Our National Heritage, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to. 196 pages. Soft cover bound in black and white wrappers. Light wear to the binding. There is a vertical crease on the front cover. The interior is sound and clean.

Nashville, Tenn.: Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, 1916. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good. First Edition. 12mo. 140 pages. Hardcover bound in green cloth. Mild to moderate wear and rubbing on the binding. The inner hinges are secure, and the text is clean. An inspirational and evangelical novel set in Kentucky in the later 1860's. It begins in Lexington, Ky in 1867.

Dalton, GA: The A. J. Showalter Company, 1924. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Robert M. Goodman. 12mo. 46 pages. Hardcover bound in burgundy textured cloth. Light to moderate wear to the binding. The texture of the cloth is smoother along the fore edge. A sound copy with secure inner hinges and clean text. INSCRIBED from the author's son on the front pastedown to "Bishop Britton"(?). Beneath this is another inscription, "To Elizabeth L. Glenn from Emma." The text is a little toned but is generally clean. A collection of poetry written in southern rural "Negro Dialect" with some of the poems containing the "N" word. William McDonald Goodman was born in Marietta, Georgia in 1868 and moved to Knoxville, Tennessee in 1894. In 1897 he married Miss Florence H. Hardin of Morganton, NC. He was the publisher of a Southern regional business journal and was the director of the… Read More

New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2003. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 463 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a white dust jacket. Minimal wear to the book and jacket. INSCRIBED and signed by both authors on the title page.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 153 pages. Paperback in brown pictorial wrappers. There is light rubbing and wear to the binding. Top front corner is creased. Large print. The text is clean and sound. Signed by the author on the title page.