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Child of God $700.00
New York: Random House (1973) Good copy with sticker removed on front end board–perhaps a remainder sticker. Good dust jacket is price clipped and worn with 1/2″ traingle piece missing on front. Closed tears and edge wear.
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary $20.00
New York, NY: Graywolf Press (2015) In her third book, which continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. “I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,” she explains. But this simple statement belies … Continue reading Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
Pickett’s Charge $18.95
Livingston, AL: Livingston Press (2013) A comedy, a tragedy. Threadgill Pickett, veteran of the Civil War, breaks out from an Alabama old folks home and starts a quest northward to kill the last living Union Soldier. This is to avenge his brother, who was needlessly killed by Union soldiers, outside of any conflict. On his … Continue reading Pickett’s Charge
The Burglar in the Rye $40.00
New York, NY: Dutton (1997) Literary agent Anthea Landau, legendary resident of the Paddington Hotel, is auctioning off her personal correspondence from enigmatic writer Gulliver Fairborn. Her famous ex-client, who guards his private life so jealously that he has never been photographed or interviewed, is reportedly outraged by Landau’s betrayal – yet can’t afford to … Continue reading The Burglar in the Rye
Novel Writing in an Apocalytic Time $700.00
New Orleans: Faust (1986) One of 300 numbered copies signed by Walker Percy. Also, signed by Eudora Welty who wrote the Afterword. Fine with decorated endpapers and cloth boards.
The Broker $350.00
New York: Doubleday (2005) Books are leather-bound, signed and numbered, with printed endpapers, gold stamping, a slipcase, and a ribbon marker. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in slipcase.
The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History $24.95
New York, NY: Chronicle Books (2014) In the bestselling tradition of The Where, the Why, and the How, this offbeat illustrated history reveals 65 people you’ve probably never heard of, but who helped shape the word as we know it. Muses and neighbors, friends and relatives, accomplices and benefactors—such as Michael and Joy Brown, who … Continue reading The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History
Leavin’ Trunk Blues: A Nick Travers Mystery $75.00
New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books (2000) Christmas Eve on the South Side. A gray coldness envelops the crumbling housing projects and tattered neighborhoods. In the music clubs, the blues – once as strong as the backs of the neighborhood’s working class – has lost its hope and its voice. Seventy miles away – locked … Continue reading Leavin’ Trunk Blues: A Nick Travers Mystery
Plainsong $100.00
Read our article about Kent Haruf – Collecting From the Heart New York, NY: Knopf (1999) Near fine in dust jacket. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising two young boys alone after their mother retreats first to her bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl, her father … Continue reading Plainsong
The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure $24.00
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.
The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion $27.00
New York, NY: Random House (2013) The one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, “and” I Still Dream About You, ” is at her hilarious and superb best in this new comic mystery novel about two women who are forced … Continue reading The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion
The Roy Stories $30.00
New York: Seven Stories Press (2013) Fine in decorated wrappers. For forty years—a Biblical time span—The Roy Stories has been the one continuous unbroken line in the otherwise kaleidoscopic career of one of America’s greatest living writers. Collected here for the first time, the Roy stories of Barry Gifford chronicle his personal history of a … Continue reading The Roy Stories
Beale Street Dynasty $26.95
New York, NY: Norton (2015) As new in dust jacket. The vivid history of Beale Street—a lost world of swaggering musicians, glamorous madams, and ruthless politicians—and the battle for the soul of Memphis. Following the Civil War, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, violence and passion. But out … Continue reading Beale Street Dynasty
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story $75.00
New York, NY: Harper (2014) As new in dust jacket. The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis–and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time. A monumental figure on the American … Continue reading Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
The Eye of the Story $750.00
New York: Random House (1978) Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket.
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
The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son $28.95
New York, NY: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (2013) In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, find some common ground at long last. Pat Conroy’s father, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering figure in his son’s life. The Marine Corps … Continue reading The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
Three Rivers $25.99
New York , NY: Thomas Dunne Books (2015) As new in dust jacket. Melody Mahaffey, trapped into touring for years with a third-rate Christian pop band she can hardly stand, is almost relieved to receive her mother’s distress call. But when she returns home to care for her dying father and brain-damaged brother at the … Continue reading Three Rivers