Kaye Gibbons: A Literary Companion $39.95
Jefferson, NC: McFarland: (2006)
Very good in decorated wrapper.
With novels like Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, award-winning writer Kaye Gibbons has gained both critical acclaim and a large, devoted following among readers. This literary companion equips the reader with information about characters, plots, dates, allusions, literary motifs, and themes from the bestselling authors works. After an annotated chronology of Gibbons life, the work presents 103 A-Z entries that include Snodgrasss analysis, cover the writings of reviewers and critics, and include selected bibliographies. Appendices offer an historical timeline with references to corresponding historical events from Gibbons novels, along with a list of 42 topics for group or individual research projects.
Family Life $50.00
Rocky Mount, NC: Wesleyan College Press (1990)
One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Near fine in brown wrapper.
Ellen Foster $100.00
London: Cape (1988)
First English Edition.
Near fine in dust jacket.
A Virtuous Woman $75.00
London: Cape (1989)
First English Edition.
Near fine in dust jacket.
The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster $35.00
New York: Harcourt (2006)
Fine in dust jacket.
The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster $40.00
New York: Harcourt (2006)
Fine in decorated wrapper.
Frost and Flower $350.00
Decatur, Georgia: Wisteria Press (1995)
One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and by the artist Barry Moser who designed the frontispiece engraving. Specially bound in green cloth with a black cloth spine. Very fine.
On The Occasion of My Last Afternoon $40.00
New York, NY: Penguin Putnam (1998)
In the year 1900–on the afternoon she suspects might be the last in her long, eventful life–Emma Garnet Tate Lowell sets down on paper what came before, determined to make an honest account of it. She recalls her life on the plantation, her marriage to a Boston surgeon, her survival of the Civil War, and the terrible secret which shaped her father’s life.