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GONE FOR GOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - His fifth novel - the story of a 70's folk singer (Ben 'Superman' Willis) who disappears - Dustjacket praise from Anne Lamott, Clyde Edgerton, and Pat Conroy who called it 'wildly imaginative, entirely original and as quirky as a tequila worm.' 370 pp. ISBN: 0-375-400214.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55510More details Price: $20.00 -
GEORGIA BOTTOMS.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - A sharp-edged comedy about an Alabama socialite and her surprising secret life. 278 pp. ISBN: 9780316033046.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58374More details Price: $18.00 -
GONE FOR GOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fifth novel - the story of a 70's folk singer (Ben 'Superman' Willis) who disappears - Dustjacket praise from Anne Lamott, Clyde Edgerton, and Pat Conroy who called it 'wildly imaginative, entirely original and as quirky as a tequila worm.' SIGNED on the title page. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-375-400214.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50870More details Price: $30.00 -
SAVANNAH'S GHOSTS II.
Edition: First edition, a trade paperback.
Savannah, Georgia: Whittaker St Books, 2003. SIGNED first edition - Stories of ghosts and unexplained mysterious happenings in Savannah, Georgia, each researched by the author. Illustrated with color photographs. SIGNED on the first page. 99 pp. ISBN: 0-970553730.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 50251More details Price: $12.00 -
GOODNIGHT, TEXAS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Denver: Unbridled Books, (2006). First edition - The author's second novel, third book. In the small fishing town of Goodnight, Texas, on the Gulf coast, its people, many of them immigrants, "struggle to survive job loss, severe over-fishing, and a looming hurricane. A lyrical, romantic, comic, and redemptive story about . . . survival, connection, and hope." 287 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80152More details Price: $15.00 -
VINEGAR HILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Rinehart, (1950) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the South where a hard-fought election unveils the corruption that the town - including its most distinguished citizen, a well-known diplomat - has been silently tolerating. 311 pp.
Condition: Good in a good dust jacket (rubbing and toning to the dj, especially to the sides of the spine). 311 pp.
Book ID: 70528More details Price: $12.50 -
THE LOOP
Edition: Trade paperback.
Boston: Faber & Faber, 1992. SIGNED - Coomer's eccentric 4th novel, darkly funny. Set outside Fort Worth, Texas. INSCRIBED on half title page to collector Larry Owens. 201 pp. ISBN: 0-571-198236.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80630More details Price: $25.00 -
DREAM HOUSE: On Building a House by a Pond.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Faber & Faber, (1992). Hardcover first edition - "Novelist Joe Croomer was living in a small converted garage with his wife Heather when he undertook to build their first real home - a magnificent Queen Anne Victorian. As Joe built, so he wrote. This book follows to day-to-month construction of that home, from foundations to fretwork, through the long Texas days of shovel to earth, hammer to nail, dream to reality." 195 pp. ISBN: 0-571129072.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 85559More details Price: $18.50 -
DREAM HOUSE: On Building a House by a Pond.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Faber & Faber, (1992). "Novelist Joe Croomer was living in a small converted garage with his wife Heather when he undertook to build their first real home - a magnificent Queen Anne Victorian. As Joe built, so he wrote. This book follows to day-to-month construction of that home, from foundations to fretwork, through the long Texas days of shovel to earth, hammer to nail, dream to reality." 195 pp.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 86105More details Price: $14.50 -
SHAD SENTELL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Congdon & Weed, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about a Lousiana oil man, a comic masterpiece 'ending at the wildest Mardi Gras New Orleans has ever seen.' Jonathan Yardley called Corrington's wit as 'quirky and beguilling. . He is a marvelously gifted writer...he is also one of the South's best kept secrets.'. ISBN: 0-512-927657.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 21238More details Price: $16.00 -
DRY BONES.
Edition: First printing.
Little Rock, Arkansas: August House Publishers, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize winning author's second novel, a look at the creation-evolution conflict in a small town in Arkansas. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-87483-1520.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47523More details Price: $18.00 -
THE LAST HOTEL FOR WOMEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - 4th novel by this highly praised young Southern writer, set in Birmingham, Alabama in 1961 when a busload of freedom riders is greeted by the Ku Klux Klan armed with pipes and clubs. ISBN: 0-684-811111.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark)
Book ID: 19235More details Price: $16.00 -
NIGHT RIDE HOME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this highly praised young Southern writer, set in a tiny Alabama community just before and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 15559More details Price: $20.00 -
TAKEN IN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Florida author's third novel the story of an ordinary family with two teenagers themselves, who become embroiled in the lives of a runaway girl and her violent boyfriend. A presentation copy INSCRIBED on the title page by the author -"For ---who does such good things for books in the world" and dated in July 1998. Also laid in is a card "compliments of the author" with a hand-written note and a comment that this is an early copy - publication date was July 2, 1998. Uncommon signed. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-670-86398X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65115More details Price: $35.00 -
FLORIDA FRENZY
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Gainesville: University of Florida, 1982. First edition - An uncommon Crews title: a collection of personal and very interesting essays, and some fiction. ISBN: 0-8130-07267.
Condition: Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers (just a little wear to the covers, overall a nice tight copy.)
Book ID: 21932More details Price: $60.00 -
SLEEPING WITH SOLDIERS: In Search of the Macho Man.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - An amazingly frank and gutsy book by the Southern poet and writer. Don't let the title turn you off - at the bottom of this book is an acceptance of people as they are - Cover praise from Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown and Pat Conroy (who called it 'tough, bawdy, reckless and humane.'). 259 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0624312.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 2037More details Price: $25.00 -
SLEEPING WITH SOLDIERS: In Search of the Macho Man.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1984. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An amazingly frank and gutsy book by the Southern poet and writer. Don't let the title turn you off - at the bottom of this book is an acceptance of people as they are - SIGNED on the front endpaper. Cover praise from Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown and Pat Conroy (who called it 'tough, bawdy, reckless and humane.'). 259 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0624312.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual toning to the edges of the dust jacket.)
Book ID: 46677More details Price: $35.00 -
FORT BRAGG & OTHER POINTS SOUTH: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
New York: Henry Holt, 1988. First edition - Second collection of poetry, and fourth book, by this Georgia-born author. Erotic, sometimes violent, sometimes revealing and sad. 72 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-06923.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 27725More details Price: $12.00 -
SLEEPING WITH SOLDIERS. IN SEARCH OF THE MACHO MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - An amazingly frank and gutsy book by the Southern poet and writer. Don't let the title turn you off - at the bottom of this book is an acceptance of people as they are - Cover praise from Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown and Pat Conroy (who called it 'tough, bawdy, reckless and humane.'}. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0624312.
Condition: Very good+ in a near fine dust jacket (appears unread, but a spot on top edge (coffee?) with staining on approx 1/6" of upper edges of some pages.).
Book ID: 8515More details Price: $15.00 -
THE HURRICANE SEASON
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Poet and writer's first novel, an exploration of the conflicts between being an artist and a good mother - and of the erotic conflicts of growing up/living as a woman in the South. ISBN: 0-688-088600.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 8516More details Price: $18.00 -
SLEEPING WITH SOLDIERS: In Search of the Macho Man.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - An amazingly frank and gutsy book by the Southern poet and writer. Don't let the title turn you off - at the bottom of this book is an acceptance of people as they are - Cover praise from Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown and Pat Conroy (who called it 'tough, bawdy, reckless and humane.'}. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0624312.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40533More details Price: $20.00 -
INNOCENT BIGAMY and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eleven short stories by this award-winning Southern author. Dargan was cited by Rideout for the 1930s novels she wrote under the pseudonym of Fielding Burke. 261 pp.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (spot on lower edge of back cover of dj).
Book ID: 76219More details Price: $17.50 -
NECESSARY LIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's second novel, third book, set in the backwoods of South Georgia. SIGNED on the title page. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-060171774.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81149More details Price: $30.00 -
FORMS OF SHELTER
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's highly praised second novel, with comments from Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton and more. Attractive dust jacket cover is by Wendell Minor. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-395-593123.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 8594More details Price: $15.00 -
EUDORA WELTY'S CHRONICLE: A Story of Mississippi Life.
Edition: First printing.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at Welty's fiction written over a period of five decades and how it creates a picture of Mississippi life from its early history through its contemporary racial turmoil, Notes at the end of each chapter, index. xvi, 223 pp. ISBN: 0-878051767.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76387More details Price: $35.00 -
MY LAST DAYS AS ROY ROGERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, 1999. First edition - Southern writer's first novel, a story of childhood and summer, set in a small town in the early 1950's during the time of the polio epidemics. Laid in are 2 sheets which change the ending quite significantly.
Condition: Fine (as new.) in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 24911More details Price: $20.00 -
SACRAMENT OF LIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: BlueHen Books (Penguin Putnam) (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by this highly regarded young writer (her previous books were published under Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn.) Dustjacket praise from Richard Ford and Ann Patchett (who called this a 'literary thriller that will keep us up all night. This book is riveting.') among others. Set against Louisiana politics, this is a variation on the story of Hamlet - but with the genders reversed. SIGNED by author. ISBN: 0-399-14854x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 30253More details Price: $29.50 -
SACRAMENT OF LIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: BlueHen Books (Penguin Putnam) (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by this highly regarded young writer (her previous books were published under Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn.) Dustjacket praise from Richard Ford and Ann Patchett (who called this a 'literary thriller that will keep us up all night. This book is riveting.') among others. Set against Louisiana politics, this is a variation on the story of Hamlet - but with the genders reversed. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-399-14854x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 30648More details Price: $30.00 -
SACRAMENT OF LIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: BlueHen Books (Penguin Putnam) (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this highly regarded young writer (her previous books were published under Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn.) Dustjacket praise from Richard Ford and Ann Patchett (who called this a 'literary thriller that will keep us up all night. This book is riveting.') among others. Set against Louisiana politics, this is a variation on the story of Hamlet - but with the genders reversed. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-399-14854x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (lamination flaw to dj.)
Book ID: 41261More details Price: $12.50 -
TWILIGHT OF HONOR.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1961) dj. Hardcover - A novel set in the Texas panhandle, the story of a murder trial of a young vagrant accused of killing one of the richest and most generous men in the town, and of the attorney who realizes that in order to obtain even a semblance of justice for his client he will have to ruin the lives of innocent people and destroy a man's reputation. Winner of the McGraw Hill Fiction Award. 328 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83827More details Price: $15.00