Native Soil $150.00
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press (1999)
Introduction by Ellen Douglas.
Near fine in dust jacket. Â Signed by Jack Spencer.
Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, Jack Spencer has spent much of his life in the South, and in this book he reveals his unparalleled gift for capturing the beauty and fecundity of his native land. His black-and-white images not only display a stunning artistry but also intimate the experience, the life, the history, under each photograph’s surface.
In his travels taking these photographs, Spencer met many people of various backgrounds—white and black, wealthy and poor, joyful and mournful. What he discovered, he says, and what emerges in his photographs, is that every single life is fascinating. Spencer’s talent lies in his ability to recognize and evoke the wondrous tales written across the faces of his subjects. Their stories are alternately (or simultaneously) heroic, heartbreaking, humorous, inspiring, or spare, but they are all, without exception, engrossing.
Native Soil $60.00
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press (1999)
Introduction by Ellen Douglas.
Very good condition. Book lacks the dust jacket but is still beautiful in cloth with stamped lettering and photo overlay on cloth boards.
Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, Jack Spencer has spent much of his life in the South, and in this book he reveals his unparalleled gift for capturing the beauty and fecundity of his native land. His black-and-white images not only display a stunning artistry but also intimate the experience, the life, the history, under each photograph’s surface.
In his travels taking these photographs, Spencer met many people of various backgrounds—white and black, wealthy and poor, joyful and mournful. What he discovered, he says, and what emerges in his photographs, is that every single life is fascinating. Spencer’s talent lies in his ability to recognize and evoke the wondrous tales written across the faces of his subjects. Their stories are alternately (or simultaneously) heroic, heartbreaking, humorous, inspiring, or spare, but they are all, without exception, engrossing.
Can’t Quit You, Baby $100.00
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New York, NY: Atheneum (1988)
Rich, white Cornelia and poor, black Tweet share a Mississippi kitchen for 15 years, rolling out pie crusts, peeling figs, making conversation. As the years go by, each reveals her own crises, and in her moment of deepest need, each is rescued by the other.
A Lifetime Burning $40.00
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New York, NY: Random House (1982)
At age 62, Corinne must grapple with the most painful truth that her lifelong passion–which is anyone’s passion, to love and be loved, body and soul–could burn unquenched forever. Gripping, smart, suspenseful, and at times, wonderfully witty, Douglas’s widely acclaimed novel forms a searching and searing record of love, anger, confession and discovery.
Black Cloud, White Cloud $50.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press (1989)
Illustrated by Elizabeth Wolfe.
Fine in dust jacket. Signed by Ellen Douglas.
Black Cloud, White Cloud $250.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press (1989)
Illustrated by Elizabeth Wolfe.
Fine in black cloth boards and housed in publisher’s black slipcase.
A Long Night $150.00
Jackson, MS: Nouveau Press for the Mississippi Civil Liberties Union (1986)
Near fine in blue buckram cloth boards.
Apostles of Light $250.00
Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1973)
Very good in orange wrappers. Inscribed and signed by the author.
The Rock Cried Out $125.00
New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1979)
Very good with mild edge wear to dust jacket and some mild fading to boards. Previous owner’s name on front end paper. Signed by the author on “previous books” page.
Truth $75.00
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin (1998)
Now that she has outlived those who might have objected to her telling four family secrets, Ellen Douglas does just that. A novelist revered for her storytelling, here she crosses over into the mirror world of historical fact to tell four stories in which she seeks the truth — about herself, about her white Mississippi forebears, about their relationships to black Mississippians, and ultimately, about their guilt as murderers of helpless slaves.
Witnessing $75.00
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2004)
Sixteen essays that lyrically affirm writer Ellen Douglas’s lifelong role as a witness to humanity and history.