Yard War $16.99

by • Events • First Edition • Middle Grade • OZ Young Readers • Signed

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New York, NY: Wendy Lamb Books (2015) As new in dust jacket. It’s 1964 in Jackson, Mississippi, deep in the civil rights movement, and the one black person twelve-year-old Trip Westbrook knows well is Willie Jane, the family maid, who has been a second mother to him. When Trip invites her son, Dee, to play … Continue reading Yard War →

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Selected Letters $75.00

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New York, NY Scribner (1981) Very good in dust jacket with some fading to dust jacket spine.  

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With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba $50.00

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New York, NY: Random House (1984) Fine in dust jacket. “This recently discovered narrative recounts the author”s year, 1934-1935, with Ernest Hemingway in Key West and of the life he, the Hemingways, and their visitors led during that year.” Illustrated with photographs.

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Plain Song $1,000.00

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New York: Norton (1965) The book itself is in fine condition. The dust jacket shows age with spotting. There are tears and a small piece missing on the top back of the dust jacket. A very uncommon book.  

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The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure $24.00

by • 2005 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Signed

Sorry. This title is currently out of stock. San Francisco, CA: Macadam Cage Publishing (2005) A debut collection of short stories explores the absurd, offbeat world of quirky visionaries and misguided dreamers in such works as “Our Spring Catalog,” “The Pipe,” and the title story.

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Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner $29.95

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New York, NY: Oxford Press (2010) Fine in dust jacket. William Faulkner was the greatest American novelist of the 20th century, yet he lived a life marked by a pervasive sense of failure. In this imaginative biography, Philip M. Weinstein targets this disjunction as one among a number of paradoxes that defined Faulkner’s experience of … Continue reading Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner →

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Love and Obits $30.00

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New York, NY: Henry Holt (1992) A chestnut-haired widow helps Joseph Burke recover from a series of blows after his wife leaves him, his boss at the newspaper demotes him to writing obituaries, his mother is killed in a car accident, and he moves in with his depressed father

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On the Pulse of Morning $50.00

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New York, NY: Random House (1993) Fine in dark red wrappers. The Inaugural Poem.

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The Holy Bible: King James Version Containing All the Books of the Old and New Testaments $250.00

by • 1999 • First Edition • First Editions Club

Sorry. This title is currently out of stock. New York, NY: Viking Press (1999) The acclaimed illustrator brings the King James Bible to life with luminous, often haunting images that capture the ordinary human qualities of the book’s well-known characters

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Into the Savage Country $24.95

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New York, NY: Pantheon Books (2015) As new in dust jacket. While on a perilous expedition into Crow territory in the 1820s, William Wyeth discovers the depth of loyalty among men and the lengths people will go in order to survive when he becomes trapped in the center of a deadly boundary dispute between Native … Continue reading Into the Savage Country →

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A Spool of Blue Thread $25.95

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New York, NY: Knopf (2015) “It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are … Continue reading A Spool of Blue Thread →

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A Cook’s Tour of Mississippi $100.00

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Jackson, MS: Clarion-Ledger (1980) Introduction by Willie Morris. Light wear in decorated boards with comb spine. Very hard to find in collector’s condition. Very good.

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A Time to Kill $2,500.00

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Wynwood: New York, 1989 True First Edition. With two previous owner names and two previous owner stamp/seals on front end paper. Edge wear to dust jacket. A very well read copy. Inscribed by the author on 9/28/89 – the year of publication.

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Geronimo Rex $200.00

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Jackson, Mississippi: Parrish House (1997) One of the 350 numbered copies signed by Hannah, issued in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of Geronimo Rex. The book is in fine condition, housed in a white slipcase in very good condition.

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The Sumac Reader $50.00

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East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press (1997) Introduction written by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber, edited by Joseph Bednarik. Signed by Jim Harrison. Very good in wrapper decorated by Russell Chatham. Sumac was a Michigan-based literary journal founded in 1968 by poets Dan Gerber and Jim Harrison; novelist Thomas McGuane joined the editorial staff … Continue reading The Sumac Reader →

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Paddington $17.99

by • OZ Young Readers • Picture Books

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New York, NY: HarperCollins (2007) Nearly fifty years ago, a small bear from Darkest Peru set out on an adventure of a lifetime. With nothing but a suitcase, several jars of marmalade, and a label around his neck that read, “Please Look After This Bear,” he stowed away on a ship headed for faraway England. … Continue reading Paddington →

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Fanning the Spark: A Memoir $24.95

by • 2009 • First Edition • First Editions Club • Signed

Sorry. This title is out of stock. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press (2009) Fanning the Spark is the story of Mary Ward Brown’s life as a writer—her upbringing in rural Alabama; the joys of college, marriage, and motherhood; the sorrows of becoming a widow; and a lifelong devotion to writing, writers, and literature, and … Continue reading Fanning the Spark: A Memoir →

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Beloved $50.00

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Read our article Toni Morrison: “Writing without the gaze”. New York, NY: Knopf (1987) Near fine in dust jacket. Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, … Continue reading Beloved →

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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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Ida M’Toy $400.00

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Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press (1979) One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Illustrated with two photographs of Ida M’Toy by the author. Copies were published in red and green cloth with no priority. This copy is red. Near fine.

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