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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men $35.00
As new in dust jacket. A passionate literary innovator, eloquent in language and uncompromising in his social observation and his pursuit of emotional truth, James Agee (1909-1955) excelled as novelist, critic, journalist, and screenwriter. In his brief, often turbulent life, he left enduring evidence of his unwavering intensity, observant eye, and sometimes savage wit. This … Continue reading Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage $34.95
Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press (2012) Fine in dust jacket. It was the glittering intellectual world of 1920s Paris expatriates in which Pauline Pfeiffer, a writer for Vogue, met Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley among a circle of friends that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Dorothy Parker. Pauline … Continue reading Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage
Self-Portrait: Ceaselessly into the Past $200.00
Santa Barbara: Capra (1981) One of 250 copies. Signed by Ross Macdonald and Eudora Welty, who wrote the Foreword. Fine in black leather boards with red end papers.
Yellow Jack $35.00
New York, NY: W.W. Norton (1999) Yellow Jack is a ribald, picaresque trip through an 1840s New Orleans saturated with sex, drugs, death, and corruption. In this “luminously haunting” (Entertainment Weekly) portrait of decadence, daguer-rotypist Claude Marchand becomes hopelessly entangled with both a voodoo-adept octoroon mistress and the erotically precocious daughter of a prominent New … Continue reading Yellow Jack
Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays $35.00
Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press (1982) Signed on a book plate by the editor Jack Bales. Fine in dust jacket.
By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway $50.00
New York: Viking (1977) Very good in dust jacket
In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music $38.00
Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press (2014) Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the nineteenth century, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers established themselves among the most influential musicians of their era. In Tune tells the story of the parallel careers of these two pioneering recording artists-one white, one black-who moved beyond their humble … Continue reading In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music
The Revolution of Little Girls $35.00
New York, NY: Knopf (1991) Bedeviled by fragments of her childhood dreams, Ellen embarks on a painful odyssey that leads from her Charleston youth to lesbian experiences, spiritual quests, and a reconciliation with her mother and herself
Mississippi’s Greatest Athletes $38.00
Oxford, MS: Nautilus Publishing (2014) Written by Rick Cleveland with a foreword by Archie Manning, Mississippi’s Greatest Athletes tells the story of the Magnolia State’s incredible sports history through its heroes. Cleveland, the executive director of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, leans on nearly half a century of covering Mississippi sports to … Continue reading Mississippi’s Greatest Athletes
Dress Me! $14.99
New York, NY: Sky Pony Press (2015) As new in dust jacket. A young girl makes her way through a variety of career possibilitiesdancer, doctor, superhero, plumberin a variety of costumes. She can be graceful, creative, brave, caring, silly, and even scary. She can wear braids or glasses, a crown or a beret. No matter … Continue reading Dress Me!
Saul and Patsy $35.00
New York, NY: Pantheon (2003) In the two years since they were married, nothing matters more to Saul than his loving, and satisfying, relationship with Patsy. Even though they have ended up in the small town of Five Oaks, Michigan, Saul and Patsy’s life together is an idyll of domestic romance. At least for a … Continue reading Saul and Patsy
Poachers $35.00
New York: William Morrow (1999) The title story, “Poachers”, in chapbook form. Faulkner meets Hemingway, Jim Harrison, and Cormac McCarthy, along with Rick Bass and Larry Brown, in these stunning tales set in southern Alabama, where emotions run as raw as moonshine whiskey. Tom Franklin’s eloquent, deceptively simple prose evokes a world of hunting and … Continue reading Poachers
The Juke Joint King of the Mississippi Hills $19.99
Charleston, SC: History Press (2014) In the swamps and juke joints of Holmes County, Mississippi, Edward Tillman Branch built his empire. Tillmans clubs were legendary. Moonshine flowed as patrons enjoyed craps games and well-know blues acts. Across from his Goodman establishment, prostitutes in a trysting trailer entertained men, including the married Tillman himself. A threat … Continue reading The Juke Joint King of the Mississippi Hills
A Cast of Characters: Stories from the Blue Moon Café V $21.95
San Francisco, CA: MacAdam Cage (2006) Contributions by: Howard Bahr, Stuart Bloodworth, Rick Bragg, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Tom Franklin, William Gay, L.A. Hoffer, Frank Turner Hollon, Chip Livingston, Thomas McGuane, Jack Pendarvis, Ron Rash, James Whorton Jr., and Karen Spears Zacharias.
Violence $45.00
New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin/ Seymour Lawrence (1992) Dramatizes how a single act of violence affects a young married couple and shows how they depend on the redeeming force of love to recover from their shock and begin their lives anew
Seveneves $35.00
New York, NY: William Morrow (2015) As new in dust jacket. When a catastrophic event dooms the planet, nations around the world band together to devise an ambitious survival plan in outer space 5,000 years before their progeny organize an audacious return. By the best-selling author of Cryptonomicon.
The River Wife $35.00
New York, NY: Random House (2007) As new in dust jacket. Chronicles the adventure-filled life of Jacques Ducharme, a French fur trapper and river pirate, and the five women whose lives he touches–Annie Lark, whom he rescues in the wake of the 1811 New Madrid earthquake; his second wife Laura; Omah, a freed slave and … Continue reading The River Wife
Want Not $26.00
New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin (2013) Sorry. This book is out of stock. With his critically acclaimed first novel, “Dear American Airlines,” Jonathan Miles was widely praised as a comic genius whose fiction, as Richard Russo noted in the “New York Times Book Review,” was “not just philosophically but emotionally rewarding.” Now, in “Want Not,” … Continue reading Want Not
The Water Knife $25.95
New York, NY: Knopf (2015) As new in dust jacket. Working as an enforcer for a corrupt developer, Angel Velasquez teams up with a hardened journalist and a street-smart Texan to investigate rumors of California’s imminent monopoly on limited water supplies. By the National Book Award-finalist author of The Windup Girl.