Category: Southern Americana

Lexington: Reflections of the Bluegrass Heartland.

By: Blodgett & Rullman Advertising Inc.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lexington, KY: Mare's Tail Publishing Co., [1989]. First Edition, As Stated.

Seller ID: 17483scs

Quarto, navy blue leatherette (hardcover), 144 pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine dust jacket with slight edgewear. Pictorial history of Lexington, Kentucky.
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A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853 - 66. Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling.

By: Clay, Mrs. Clement C. Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. First Edition.

Seller ID: vas5378

Octavo, sea foam green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, uncut, tissue protected frontis., xxii, 386 pp. Very Good, with lightly rubbed edges. From Preface: The Memoirs of ÒMrs. Clay, of Alabama,Ó by which title Mrs. Clement C. Clay, Jr. (now Mrs. Clay-Clopton), was known during the period comprised by 1850 - 87, begin in the middle of the second decade of the nineteenth century, the scenes being laid among the affluent plantations of North Carolina and Alabama, and, continuing through two brilliant administrations at the national capital, close, as she emerges ...
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Local Success and Federal Failure: A Study of Community Development and Education Change in the Rural South.

By: Clinton, Charles A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.: ABT Books, [1979]. First Edition.

Seller ID: 70222s

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), mxxvii, 177 pp. Fine in dust jacket.
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Southern Yankees and the One-Eyed Alligator.

By: Conner, Jud.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: St. Petersburg, Fla.: Southern Heritage Press, [2000].

Seller ID: 1127m

1st edition. Octavo, softbound, v, 132 pp. Illus. Fine.
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Destination Dixie: Tourism & Southern History.

By: Cox, Karen L.; Editor.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (2012). First Edition, with Publisher's letter laid-in.

Seller ID: 8632bd

Octavo, full-color illus. boards (hardcover), 315 pp. Fine. From lower cover: Once upon a time, it was impossible to drive through the South without coming across signs to ÒSee Rock CityÓ or similar tourist attractions. From battlegrounds to birthplaces, and sites in between, heritage tourism has always been part of how the South attracts visitors -- and defines itself -- yet such sites are often understudied in the scholarly literature. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the narrative of southern history told at these sites is often complicated by race, influenced by local po...
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Neon through the Pines: Southern Memories.

By: Dale, Jim.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Canton, GA: Yawn's Publishing, (2012). First Edition.

Seller ID: 2840qs

Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. wrappers), v + 346 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: Neon through the pines. It used to be moonlight through the pines. This book is primarily about my experiences as a Southerner, how the South has changed, and how some of us feel about the changes. This book is a series of edited articles from columns I wrote for my hometown newspapers published under the titles Let ME Tell You a Story and Lines from the Lake.
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ÔPon My Honor, Hit's the Truth: Tall Tales from the Mountains. Illustrated by Carolee Jackson.

By: Davis, Hubert J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Murfeesboro, NC: Johnson Publishing Company, 1973.

Seller ID: vas5285

Octavo, brown textured boards (hardcover), 112 pp. Near Fine, with small former-owner signature. From Preface: This is a book of tall stories and yarns. No claim is made that they originated in the mountains, or that they are in any way peculiar to that section. Variations of most of these stories are told everywhere. However, many of the stories are rare mountain versions whose origins can be traced back through the mountaineers' Scotch, Irish and German ancestry to much earlier periods in Europe. Two main objectives were kept in mind in planning and writing this book. One was to use a...
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The Georgia - South Carolina Boundary: A Problem in Historical Geography.

By: De Vorsey, Louis, Jr.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, (1982). First Edition.

Seller ID: 60664bd

Octavo, dark organe cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xii, 219 pp. Fine, in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping.
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Weep no more, My Lady: A Southerner Answers Mrs. Roosevelt's Report on the ÒPoor and Unhappy South.Ó

By: Debnam, W. E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Raleigh, NC: The Graphic Press, Inc., (1950).

Seller ID: vita5491

Octavo, softbound (stiff, illus. white wrappers), 60 pp. Very Good. ÒA Lady we like is Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. There's a charm about her, a graciousness, a warmth of personality that shines out like a beacon in any group she graces. We're frank to admit that we aren't overly enthusiastic about some of Mrs. Roosevelt's social and economic theories. She's a bit too far to the left for our fancy -- but the fact we disagree on a few things doesn't wet down completely our admiration for a Very Great LAdy. There are some, we know, who contend Mrs. Roosevelt would never have gotten where she is...
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Southern Light. Photography by James Valentine.

By: Dickey, James.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Birmingham, Alabama: Oxmoor House, Inc., [1991].

Seller ID: 4745s

First Edition (Stated). Oblong quarto, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, glossy pages, 192 pp. 135 Full-color photo. plates. Fine (As New), in like dust jacket. ÔIn Southern Light, naturalist/photographer James Valentine and award-winning poet James Dickey celebrate the awesome, moving splendorrr of nature's light on the South's unspoiled wilderness areas...Followiing the progress of light on nature throughout the day, Valentines photography captures the vibrant landscapes of Southern states rich in unique diversity...Dickey's matchless poetic prose hhighlights the wide range of stro...
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Jews in the South.

By: Dinnerstein, Leonard and Mary Dale Palsson.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1973).

Seller ID: els2772

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), viii + 392 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges; in a Fair, mylar protected dust jacket with a large chip to upper cover and edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: This comprehensive anthology, the first book-length treatment of the subject, examines various aspects of Jewish life in the South from colonial times to the present. It includes most of the serious studies of southern Jews, along with several other essays of special interest...
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Seeing the Sunny South. With Frontispiece in Color and 115 Doubletone Illustrations.

By: Fair, John T.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1921.

Seller ID: 2065gls

Octavo, tan illus. cloth (hardcover), uncut, top edge gilt, tissue-protected frontis., plates, 320 pp. Very Good+, with light rubbing to covers.
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The Virginia Way. Photographs by Wolfgang Roth.

By: Friddell, Guy.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Offenburg: Dr. Franz Burda, [1973].

Seller ID: 50068s

First Edition. Quarto, blue cloth, (hardcover), gilt letters, glossy pages, 231 pp. B & w, color illus., photos throughout. Former owner inscription; otherwise, Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with very light edgewear. Contents: A State of Bliss; Where it All Began; Go Make Tabacco; Let's Go to Williamsburg; The Holy City; Thomas Jefferson's Way; The Valley of Virginia; Star and Stag; Mountain Empire; Southside Mockingbird; The New Frontier; On the Shore; Ships to Build; Cities by the Sea.
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Our Southern Landsman.

By: Golden, Harry.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1974).

Seller ID: 5112fd

Signed by the Author. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 254 pp. Very Good+, in a like, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Golden tells the story of the first Jewish immigrants to the American South, and many famous names are encountered together with fascinating biographical and historical details. Here is the social, cultural, political, and military history of the American South in terms of the notable Jews who came there to escape persecution and privation. We read of their heroic deeds, their sacrifices -- their many contributions to the welfare of the land t...
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Camping Around the Appalachian Mountains, Including the Blue Ridge and Great Smokies: Outdoor Exploring in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.

By: Grain, Jim and Terry Milne.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Random House/Bookworks, 1975. First Edition, First Printing, As Stated.

Seller ID: 05330scs

Quarto, softbound (stiff grey illus. wrappers), 94 pp. Very Good+, with former owner stamp. From lower cover: Camping Maps show exactly how to reach campgrounds; YEar-Round Camping highlights off-season sites and calendars activities; CAmping Tips give sources of free maps and money-saving permits, how to beat the gas shortage; Escape Routes give keys to topo maps, wilderness areas and trails; Camping Index invites you to the diverse attractions of campgrounds.
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South of Haunted Dreams: A Ride through Slavery's Old Back Yard.

By: Harris, Eddy L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: new York: Simon and Schuster, (1993). Advance Uncorrected Reader's Proof.

Seller ID: 5121fd

Octavo, paperbound (stiff yellow, illus. wrappers), 254 pp. Very Good, with light soiling to wrappers. From foreword: The Deep South holds a special grip on the heart of every American black: as a spiritual home it is loved, but as the cradle of our haunting heritage of oppression, it is hated. It is at once a land of family memory and bitter nightmare. This essential contradition makes the South fertile soil for a writer of Eddy Harris's gifts... Now in this, his most personal journey, he seeks the heart of our nation's racial character in that patch of geography where it all began. O...
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Dixie Before Disney: 100 Years of Roadside Fun.

By: Hollis, Tim.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.

Seller ID: vas820

Oblong quarto, softbound (slick black & white photo. illus. stiff wrappers), xiv, 183 pp. Fine. From lower coveR: A nostalgic look at Southern tourism, with 235 illustrations of favorite stop-off fun spots. Before Walt Disney built his mammoth theme park, there were the Fairyland Caverns of Rock City Gardens, the glass-bottomed boats of Silver Springs, and Stuckey's Restaurants around each bend. From the Smoky Mountains to the Ozarks, from the Florida coast to the Mississippi gulf, the Southern roadside was a string of attractions -- some based on history, some on pure imagination. Dixie...
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A Handful of Stars!

By: House, Ray.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Louisville, Kentucky: Touchstone Publishing Company, (1970).

Seller ID: 2139gls

Signed by the Author. Octavo, hunter green leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, 315 pp. Near-Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: A coal miner in the damp and dark thinking of God in His heavens -- with His sun and moon and a myriad of stars -- reaches out for a share of happiness, tries to bargain with God. God if You wish for our love/Fling us a handful of stars. A Handful of Stars is the story of Appalachia -- its people, their fueds, their poverty, their pride, their family loyalty, their pitifully stripmined land, their sense of history, their fol...
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The Sunny South; Or, The Southerner at Home, Embracing Five Years' Experience of a Northern Governess in the Land of the Sugar and the Cotton. Edited by Professor J. H. Ingraham, of Mississippi.

By: Ingraham, Professor J. H., of Mississippi.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Negro Universities Press, (1968). Reprint of the 1860 edition.

Seller ID: 182fd

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 526 pp. Fine. From Preface: As most of the Letters embraced in this volume were written for the Editor of the late American Courier, and appeared therein, from time to time, the writer therof has not seen fit to alter the local allusions, the style of address in the Letters, or the appellation of Needles, by which they were originally designated. As these Letters were commenced, and many of them published before Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom was written, its pictures of South-western life have no reference to that work nor were influenced by it. The...
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The Plantation South.

By: Jones, Katherine M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., (1957). First Edition.

Seller ID: 9606gcs

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. wrappers, uncut, 412 pp. Good, with darkened spine and light foxing (age darkened spotting). From Introduction: ÒI found that the South one reads and hears of is altogether different from the one that one sees and becomes acquainted with.Ó So wrote young A. DePuy Van Buren of Battle Creek, Michigan, after a year in Yazoo County, Mississippi, where he taught the children of planters and unlearned some of the stereotypical notions of the South prevalent in his day and time. At that, the contrast between what Mr. Van Buren expected an...
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Category: Southern Americana