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  • Edgerton, Clyde
    KILLER DILLER

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel, set in North Carolina. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-53x.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket

    Book ID: 19162
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  • WHERE TROUBLE SLEEPS. by Edgerton, Clyde
    Edgerton, Clyde
    WHERE TROUBLE SLEEPS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His seventh novel, set in Listre, North Carolina in 1950, population 511. INSCRIBED on the title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 15651206212.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 44505
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  • THE FLOATPLANE NOTEBOOKS. by Edgerton, Clyde.
    Edgerton, Clyde.
    THE FLOATPLANE NOTEBOOKS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, the story of the Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina - in 1956, the father Alfred began building a floatplane and in the notebook where he recorded his unsuccessful attempts to fly the plane, he also kept track of the family's history. In 1971 as the novel ends, his now grown sons, Meredith and Mark, are back from Vietnam, Meredith severely wounded but still with the tough Copeland sinew in him, and Alfred is still trying to fly the floatplane. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. ISBN: 0-945575-009.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant).

    Book ID: 44240
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  • Edgerton, Clyde.
    THE FLOATPLANE NOTEBOOKS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - His third novel, the story of the Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina - in 1956, the father Alfred began building a floatplane and in the notebook where he recorded his unsucessful attempts to fly the plane, he also kept track of the family's history - and in 1971 as the novel ends, his now grown sons, Meredith and Mark, are back from Vietnam, Meredith severely wounded but still with the tough Copeland sinew in him, and Alfred is still trying to fly the floatplane. ISBN: 0-945575-009.

    Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder mark.)

    Book ID: 30535
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  • Edgerton, Clyde
    KILLER DILLER

    Edition: First paperback printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (1992.). Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel. ISBN: 0-345370724.

    Condition: Fine.

    Book ID: 42244
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  • KILLER DILLER by Edgerton, Clyde
    Edgerton, Clyde
    KILLER DILLER

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel, set in North Carolina. SIGNED on title page. 247 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-945575-53x.

    Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant.)

    Book ID: 44248
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  • KILLER DILLER by Edgerton, Clyde
    Edgerton, Clyde
    KILLER DILLER

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. dj. Hardcover - Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel. ISBN: 0-945575-53x.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot, slight fading to the dj.)

    Book ID: 27749
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  • WALKING ACROSS EGYPT. by Edgerton, Clyde
    Edgerton, Clyde
    WALKING ACROSS EGYPT.

    Edition: First printing (first state)

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel, set in North Carolina, the story of a spunky woman, a stray dog and a teenage delinquent whom she befriends. INSCRIBED on the title page - "For D. G. Thanks for introducing me to your Mom" and dated in 1988. 215 pp plus 2 pp of the music for the song 'Walking Across Egypt.' Photograph of Edgerton at signing laid in. ISBN: 0-912697-512.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (slight spine slant).

    Book ID: 44501
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  • Ellison, Emily.
    THE PICTURE MAKERS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: William H. Morrow, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set mostly in Georgia and South Carolina, which focuses on Eleanor Glass, a twice-married Southern artist - a book which "captures precisely the events of which memories are made. A cherished day with her father, the birth of a stillborn child, a divorce, a marriage, a sketch of a best friend - these are the separate images that together form a satisfying portrait of a modern Southern woman." (Library Journal) 252 pp. ISBN: 0-68809581X.

    Condition: Good in a good dust jacket (missing rear endpaper, edgewear and tears to the dj)

    Book ID: 81279
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  • FAREWELL: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood. by Foote, Horton
    Foote, Horton
    FAREWELL: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Scribner, (1999). First edition - A memoir of his family and the small much-loved Texas town he grew up in - and returned to 70 years later - by this Academy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright. A town where everyone knew everyone else and more or less accepted their eccentricities. He doesn't gloss over the harsh realities of racial prejudice and segregation, but his tone is nonetheless elegiac. 285 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 83391
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  • THE LIBERATION OF LORD BYRON JONES. by Ford, Jesse Hill.
    Ford, Jesse Hill.
    THE LIBERATION OF LORD BYRON JONES.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Little Brown, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's controversial second novel, based on events in the town where he lived and one which reveals the racial tensions buried in a small town - "Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, seeks out legal representation to divorce his wife, who is pregnant after having an affair with a white police officer. To prevent his affair from being dragged into a court of law, the police officer violently takes matters into his own hands." Basis for the film of the same name directed by William Wyler. 364 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in dark brown cloth (small address label on front pastedown) in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, some rubbing to front cover)

    Book ID: 86850
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  • THE LIBERATION OF LORD BYRON JONES. by Ford, Jesse Hill.
    Ford, Jesse Hill.
    THE LIBERATION OF LORD BYRON JONES.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Little Brown, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's controversial second novel, based on events in the town where he lived and one which reveals the racial tensions buried in a small town - "Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, seeks out legal representation to divorce his wife, who is pregnant after having an affair with a white police officer. To prevent his affair from being dragged into a court of law, the police officer violently takes matters into his own hands." Basis for the film of the same name directed by William Wyler. 364 pp.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (corners of several pages creased, some rubbing to the dj, wear at the ends of the spine)

    Book ID: 71178
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  • RIVER OF HIDDEN DREAMS. by Fowler, Connie May.
    Fowler, Connie May.
    RIVER OF HIDDEN DREAMS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by the author of 'Sugar Cage' set along the Florida coast, where Fowler herself lives. SIGNED on the title page. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-399-139125.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82183
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  • RIVER OF HIDDEN DREAMS. by Fowler, Connie May.
    Fowler, Connie May.
    RIVER OF HIDDEN DREAMS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by the author of 'Sugar Cage' set along the Florida coast, where Fowler herself lives. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-399-139125.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 30245
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  • BEFORE WOMEN HAD WINGS. by Fowler, Connie May.
    Fowler, Connie May.
    BEFORE WOMEN HAD WINGS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, the story of a young girl who moves from an abandoned citrus grove in Florida to a transient motel in the city where she meets Miss Zora, a healer. SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-399141294.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82185
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  • Fowler, Connie May.
    RIVER OF HIDDEN DREAMS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by the author of 'Sugar Cage' set along the Florida coast, where Fowler herself lives. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-399-139125.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 33177
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  • SMONK [OR WIDOW TOWN]: Being the Scabrous Adventures of E. O. Smonk & of the Whore Evavangeline in Clarke County, Alabama, Early in the Last Century. by Franklin, Tom
    Franklin, Tom
    SMONK [OR WIDOW TOWN]: Being the Scabrous Adventures of E. O. Smonk & of the Whore Evavangeline in Clarke County, Alabama, Early in the Last Century.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2006) dj. Hardcover - The author's third book, second novel, set in the early years of the last century. The story follows the life of two characters in Alabama, E. O. Smonk and the prostitute Evavangeline, and the adventures they find themselves in. 251 pp. ISBN: 978-006084681.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line).

    Book ID: 54507
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  • CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER. by Franklin, Tom.
    Franklin, Tom.
    CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - An atmospheric novel set in rural Mississippi - twenty years ago two boys - one white, one black - had an unlikely bond, and then a girl disappeared and suspicion rested on Larry, the white boy. Now Silas has returned as town constable, and another girl has disappeared, 274 pp. ISBN: 978-0060594664.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 64002
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  • CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER. by Franklin, Tom.
    Franklin, Tom.
    CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - An atmospheric novel set in rural Mississippi - twenty years ago two boys - one white, one black - had an unlikely bond, and then a girl disappeared and suspicion rested on Larry, the white boy. Now Silas has returned as town constable, and another girl has disappeared, 274 pp. ISBN: 978-0060594664.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some bleeding from the cloth spine to the interior of the dj, initials on rear endpaper.)

    Book ID: 63916
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  • Gay, William.
    PROVINCES OF NIGHT.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Doubleday, 2001. First edition - Second novel by this Tennessee-born author, one which recounts the story of the Bloodworth Clan, set in 1952. After 20 years, E. F. Bloodworth has returned to his home in a forgotten corner of Tennessee to find his sons grown and angry. Cover praise from Steven Yarbrough, Barry Hannah and others.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 18956
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  • LITTLE SISTER DEATH. by Gay, William (1939 -2012); introduction by Tom Franklin.
    Gay, William (1939 -2012); introduction by Tom Franklin.
    LITTLE SISTER DEATH.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    Ann Arbor: Dzanc Books, (2016). Novel by this Tennessee writer published posthumously. A young writer suffering from writer's block decides that the solution is to write a ghost story and - with his pregnant wife and young daughter - he sets out from Chicago to Tennessee to explore the myth of Virginia Beale. But this is much more than just a ghost story (although it is a very good one), or the history of hauntings over the years. As Binder's investigation takes him deeper into the legacy of blood and violence that casts its shadow over the old Beale farm, he finds himself obsessed with a force that's as wicked as it is seductive. Megan Abbott described this as…

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    Ann Arbor: Dzanc Books, (2016). Novel by this Tennessee writer published posthumously. A young writer suffering from writer's block decides that the solution is to write a ghost story and - with his pregnant wife and young daughter - he sets out from Chicago to Tennessee to explore the myth of Virginia Beale. But this is much more than just a ghost story (although it is a very good one), or the history of hauntings over the years. As Binder's investigation takes him deeper into the legacy of blood and violence that casts its shadow over the old Beale farm, he finds himself obsessed with a force that's as wicked as it is seductive. Megan Abbott described this as "a tale so sinister, lush and spellbinding, it haunts your dreams long after you reach its final pages." Includes a biographical introduction by Tom Franklin and an account of the "Queen of the Haunted Dell." xii, 202 pp. ISBN: 978-1941088586.

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    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 83859
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  • A VIRTUOUS WOMAN by Gibbons, Kaye
    Gibbons, Kaye
    A VIRTUOUS WOMAN

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Her second novel - a love story spanning many years and told in the alternating voices of Ruby and Jack Stokes. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication, Small format. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-092.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 58182
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  • DIVINING WOMEN. by Gibbons, Kaye.
    Gibbons, Kaye.
    DIVINING WOMEN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her seventh novel, set in the autumn of 1918 as the Spanish influenza is spreading across the country. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-399-151605.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (some light soiling to the dj.)

    Book ID: 54002
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  • A VIRTUOUS WOMAN by Gibbons, Kaye
    Gibbons, Kaye
    A VIRTUOUS WOMAN

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel - a love story spanning the years and told in the alternating voices of Ruby and Jack Stokes. Small format. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-092.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 42344
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  • Gibbons, Kaye.
    A CURE FOR DREAMS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third novel, a powerful but simply written story that traces the bonds between four generations of Southern women, in Kentucky and North Carolina. ISBN: 0-945575-335.

    Condition: Glue stain under dj flaps, on front endpaper, otherwise near fine in a near fine dj.

    Book ID: 15051
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  • CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE. by Gibbons, Kaye.
    Gibbons, Kaye.
    CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, the story of three generations of strong North Carolina women. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-399-137912.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 56708
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  • Gibbons, Kaye.
    SIGHTS UNSEEN.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Putnam, (1995.). The author's fifth novel -'a memoir of a troubled manic-depressive mother told by a confused but affectionate daughter.'. ISBN: 0-399-139869.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 30998
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  • Gibbons, Kaye.
    SIGHTS UNSEEN.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Putnam, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - The author's fifth novel -'a memoir of a troubled manic-depressive mother told by a confused but affectionate daughter.'. ISBN: 0-399-139869.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 30768
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  • CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE. by Gibbons, Kaye.
    Gibbons, Kaye.
    CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, the story of three generations of strong North Carolina women. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-399-137912.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 53679
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  • Gibbons, Kaye.
    A CURE FOR DREAMS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. First edition - Her third novel, a powerful but simply written story that traces the bonds between four generations of Southern women, in Kentucky and North Carolina. 170 pp.

    Condition: Fine in tan wrappers.

    Book ID: 38650
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