First Family $40.00

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New York, NY: Grand Central Publishing (2009) Inscribed It began with what seemed like an ordinary children’s birthday party. Friends and family gathered to celebrate. There were balloons and cake, games and gifts. This party, however, was far from ordinary. It was held at Camp David, the presidential retreat. And it ended with a daring … Continue reading First Family →

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The Inspiring Life of Eudora Welty $16.99

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Charleston, SC: History Press (2014) Eudora Alice Welty led an exciting and surprising life. Before she won a Pulitzer Prize, as a little girl she made her own books and won national poetry prizes. As a young woman during the Great Depression, she was a photographer and took pictures all over the South. These and … Continue reading The Inspiring Life of Eudora Welty →

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The Sinaloa Story $35.00

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New York: Harcourt (1998) Near fine in dust jacket. Out of a brothel in the border town of La Paz, Arizona, Ava Varazo works her way up to Indio Desacato, a rich racketeer from Sinaloa, Texas. Enamored of Ava, Desacato has asked her to be the queen of his own house, bragging that he never … Continue reading The Sinaloa Story →

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October Journey $70.00

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Detroit: Broadside Press (1973) Chapbook of Walker’s poetry. Very good in decorated wrappers.  

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The Imagination of the Heart $22.95

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New York, NY: Seven Stories Press (2009) Near fine in dust jacket. The Imagination of the Heart is the final chapter in the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, the “Romeo and Juliet of the Deep South.” Their story began in Barry Gifford’s novel Wild at Heart, which in 1990 was made into … Continue reading The Imagination of the Heart →

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The Son $27.99

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New York, NY: Ecco Press. (2013) Philipp Meyer, the acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son an epic of the American West and a multigenerational saga of power, blood, land, and oil that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family, from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the to the oil … Continue reading The Son →

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By-Line: Ernest Hemingway $150.00

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New York: Scribner (1967) Very good in dust jacket

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Dirty Work $100.00

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Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin (1989) Near fine in dust jacket.  

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A Writer’s Eye: Collected Book Reviews $750.00

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Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi (1994) Signed by Eudora Welty. Edited by Pearl McHaney. Fine in dust jacket.

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The Last Season: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime of College Football $24.95

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New York, NY: Knopf (2015) As new in dust jacket. Fathers, sons, and sports are enduring themes of American literature. Here, in this fresh and moving account, a son returns to his native South to spend a special autumn with his ninty-five-year-old dad, sharing the unique joys, disappointments, and life lessons of Saturdays with their … Continue reading The Last Season: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime of College Football →

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The Courting of Marcus Dupree $500.00

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday (1983) Inscribed by Willie Morris and signed by Marcus Dupree. Near fine copy in like dust jacket.

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Women With Men $50.00

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New York, NY: Knopf (1997) “This is Ford’s voice at its best…. Nobody now writing looks more like an American classic”. — The New York Times Book Review In his first volume of short fiction since the acclaimed Rock Springs, Richard Ford creates a portrait gallery of male characters who are as wounded, as rueful, … Continue reading Women With Men →

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The Ghosts of Medgar Evers $150.00

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New York: Random House (1998) Fine in dust jacket. Willie Morris brings together the harsh realities of race and the magical illusions of Hollywood in an unusual book about the making of the movie Ghosts of Mississippi and its more complicated historical background: the 1963 assassination of the courageous civil rights activist Medgar Evers and … Continue reading The Ghosts of Medgar Evers →

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Go Down, Moses and Other Stories $1,100.00

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New York: Random House (1942) Red cloth boards. Previous owner rubber stamp on front end paper. Page spotting on edge. Dust jacket is worn with closed tears.

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Green Hills of Africa $2,000.00

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New York: Scribner (1935) Bookplate on front end board. Faded green boards with a light stain. Dust jacket has edge wear with closed tears; the spine has a light stain and the usual fading. Decorations by Edward Shenton Hemingway’s well-documented fascination with big-game hunting is magnificently captured amidst rich descriptions of the beauty and strangeness … Continue reading Green Hills of Africa →

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Eudora Welty: A Biography $150.00

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New York: Harcourt (2005) Signed by Suzanne Marrs, the biographer. Very good in white wrappers.  

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Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion $30.00

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New York, NY: Bloomsbury (2013) The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement. Their success soon pits the siblings against each other, and the brother abandons his sister for a visionary African-American partner. … Continue reading Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion →

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Small Wonders: Jean-Henri Fabre and His World of Insects $17.99

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USA: Two Lions (2015) A moth with a sixth sense. A wasp that hunts beetles nearly twice its size. The lives of fascinating creatures such as these were unknown until one man introduced them to the world. Meet Jean-Henri Fabre, one of the most important naturalists of all time. As a boy in the French … Continue reading Small Wonders: Jean-Henri Fabre and His World of Insects →

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The Beast God Forgot To Invent $150.00

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New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press (2000) One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in slipcase. A new collection of novellas about wild men and civilization is offered by one of the major American writers of our time. These are stories of humans and beasts, of men driven crazy by longing, and … Continue reading The Beast God Forgot To Invent →

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Farmer $250.00

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New York: Viking (1976) Very good in bright, slightly crinkled dust jacket. “Farmer is a sensitive, powerful love story about a man on the cutting edge of life. The book deals with his attempt to figure out who he is, how he got there, and the women who confuse and haunt him. The characters are … Continue reading Farmer →

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