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  • SCOTTSBORO: A Tragedy of the American South. by Carter, Dan T..
    Carter, Dan T..
    SCOTTSBORO: A Tragedy of the American South.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York & London: Oxford University Press, (1975, c 1969). An account of this 1930s case and the issues it raised - radicalism, racism, and operation of the Southern court system- as well as what it meant to nine black young men whose lives were changed forever by one morning's ride on an Alabama freight train. Photographs, index. vii, 431 pp. ISBN: 0-195014855.

    Condition: Very good (reading crease on front cover)

    Book ID: 79181
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  • Carter, Dan T..
    SCOTTSBORO: A Tragedy of the American South.

    Edition: Trade paperback. Revised and updated edition,

    Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1979.). An account of this 1930s case and the issues it raised - radicalism, racism, and operation of the Southern court system- as well as what it meant to nine black young men whose lives were changed forever by one morning's ride on an Alabama freight train. Photographs, index. xii, 479 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-04981.

    Condition: Good overall - a sturdy copy, but underlining on several pages.

    Book ID: 57930
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  • BLACK IN SELMA: The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr. by Chestnut, J. L., Jr., and Julia Cass.
    Chestnut, J. L., Jr., and Julia Cass.
    BLACK IN SELMA: The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990.). First edition - Autobiography of the founder of the largest black law firm in Alabama. Born in 1930, he was involved in the struggle for civil rights from the time of the marches in 1965 and afterwards. A picture of an important era, of one man's history, and of the politics of a small southern town. . xiii, 397 pp. plus 3 pp list of photographs for the final version, but which are not included in this ARC.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 57946
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  • BLACK IN SELMA: The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr. by Chestnut, J. L., Jr., and Julia Cass.
    Chestnut, J. L., Jr., and Julia Cass.
    BLACK IN SELMA: The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the founder of the largest black law firm in Alabama. Born in 1930, he was involved in the struggle for civil rights from the time of the marches in 1965 and afterwards. A picture of an important era, of one man's history, and of the politics of a small southern town. Photographs, map, index. xiii, 432 pp. ISBN: 0-374-114048.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 46803
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  • A WORLD MADE OF FIRE. by Childress, Mark.
    Childress, Mark.
    A WORLD MADE OF FIRE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's very highly praised first novel, set in Alabama in the early 1900s. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket blurbs from Pat Conroy, James Dickey and Erskine Caldwell, among others. ISBN: 0-394-536347.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 55598
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  • Cobb, William.
    A SPRING OF SOULS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Birmingham, AL: Crane Hill Publishers, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Novel set in the small Alabama town of Piper - a south of racial turmoil and supernatural events, of teenage girls experimenting with Satanism and of love sought and found. Praise from Lee Smith - who calls it 'visionary, comic and sometimes all too real' and from Pat Conroy.

    Condition: Fine (as new.) SIGNED on the title page.

    Book ID: 22077
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  • Cowett, Mark.
    BIRMINGHAM'S RABBI: Morris Newfield and Alabama, 1895-1940.

    Edition: First printing.

    University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Judaic Studies series. 220 pgs, including notes, bibliography and index. Illustrated with photographs

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket

    Book ID: 13436
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  • A SEASON FOR JUSTICE: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees. by Dees, Morris with Steve Fiffer.
    Dees, Morris with Steve Fiffer.
    A SEASON FOR JUSTICE: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this man, born in Alabama, who became what Coretta Scott King called "one of the most dedicated and effective civil rights lawyers in US history." Includes accounts of his battles with the Klan, death threats and more.INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To.... Many thanks for your generous support of our work." Photographs. Index. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-671-778757.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 50314
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  • POACHERS. by Franklin, Tom.
    Franklin, Tom.
    POACHERS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a very highly praised collection of short fiction about the Deep South - mostly south Alabama. The title novella won an Edgar Award. SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-688-167403.

    Condition: Very good in fine dust jacket (remainder line, lower edge of textblock bumped.).

    Book ID: 43949
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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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  • Franklin, Tom.
    HELL AT THE BREECH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel (following a collection of short stories) by this highly praised Southern writer, loosely based on an actual incident which occurred in rural Alabama in 1897. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Dustjacket praise from Lee Smith, Philip Roth, Richard Ford and others. ISBN: 0-688-167411.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 25927
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  • POACHERS. by Franklin, Tom.
    Franklin, Tom.
    POACHERS.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Harper Collins / Perennial, (2000.). The author's first book, a very highly praised collection of short fiction about the Deep South - mostly south Alabama. The title novella won an Edgar Award. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-688-177719.

    Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 59052
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  • HIGH LONESOME. by Hannah, Barry (1942-2010)
    Hannah, Barry (1942-2010)
    HIGH LONESOME.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of thirteen short stories - "darkly comic, fiercely tragic and always strikingly original." SIGNED on the title page. Hannah received the Pen/Faulkner award for short fiction, and this collection, the last to be published during his lifetime, was nominated for the Pulitzer. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-871136686.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (some toning to the edges of the textblock)

    Book ID: 68372
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  • A SURVEY OF THE ATLANTIC BEACHES. by Hendrie, Don, Jr.
    Hendrie, Don, Jr.
    A SURVEY OF THE ATLANTIC BEACHES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - a wild and funny road-trip as a divorced father escorts his 16 year old son back from prep school in New England to Alabama - by way of many Atlantic beaches - from Wellfleet on Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras to St Augustine in Florida. Dust jacket praise from Andre Dubus, John Irving, Wright Morris and more. ISBN: 0-517566915.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 36408
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  • THE KLANSMAN. by Huie, William Bradford.
    Huie, William Bradford.
    THE KLANSMAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Delacorte Press, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a "chillingly realistic novel about the role being played by the Ku Klux Klan in the present-day South." Set in a small county in Alabama, just after the Selma march and the murder of Viola Liuzzi, and the Klan has risen again in "self-defense against outside agitators." Basis for the film of the same name, starring Richard Burton, Lee Marvin, and O.J. Simpson. 303 pp

    Condition: Near fine in a very good- dust jacket (small stamped prev owner's name on ffep, dj somewhat rubbed)

    Book ID: 46489
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  • THE QUEEN OF BROKEN HEARTS. by King, Cassandra.
    King, Cassandra.
    THE QUEEN OF BROKEN HEARTS.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Hyperion, (2006). First edition - The fourth novel by this Southern writer, set in Alabama where, a divorce coach, is preparing to open a permanent home for the retreats she leads. King is the wife of author Pat Conroy. 401 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 85184
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  • FIELDS AND PASTURES: My First Year has a Country Vet. by McCormack, Dr.John.
    McCormack, Dr.John.
    FIELDS AND PASTURES: My First Year has a Country Vet.

    Edition: Later printing.

    New York: Crown Publishers, (1995) dj. Hardcover - A memoir which describe McCormack's experiences as the first trained veterinarian in Choctaw County, Alabama, in 1963 when mule drawn wagons still shared the roads with pick up trucks and moonshine whiskey was one of the major cash crops. First novel from the author. 265 pp. ISBN: 0-517-596865.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, price-clipped)

    Book ID: 60163
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  • Patterson, Haywood; Conrad, Earl.
    SCOTTSBORO BOY.

    Edition: First printing.

    Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - Patterson, one of the nine Scottsboro Boys, told his story to Earl Conrad, scholar and journalist of black America, after his escape from prison and while he was still being hunted for a crime he did not commit. The book begins with the fight in the train and the trial, but focuses on PattersonÕs experience in numerous Alabama prisons. 309pp.

    Condition: Near fine in a very good- dust jacket with several closed tears.

    Book ID: 23837
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  • SOUTH TO AMERICA: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. by Perry, Imani.
    Perry, Imani.
    SOUTH TO AMERICA: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Ecco Press, (2022). First edition - An elegantly written and absorbing account of Perry's visit to over a dozen cities in the region she called "home" - Alabama and the South - which argues that you must understand the South in order to understand America. Tayari Jones writing in the NY Times comments that "Any attempt to classify this ambitious work, which straddles genre, kicks down the fourth wall, dances with poetry, engages with literary criticism and flits from journalism to memoir to academic writing - well, that's a fools errand and only undermines this insightful, ambitious and moving project. The conviction of this book is that race and racism are fundamental values of the South, that…

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    New York: Ecco Press, (2022). First edition - An elegantly written and absorbing account of Perry's visit to over a dozen cities in the region she called "home" - Alabama and the South - which argues that you must understand the South in order to understand America. Tayari Jones writing in the NY Times comments that "Any attempt to classify this ambitious work, which straddles genre, kicks down the fourth wall, dances with poetry, engages with literary criticism and flits from journalism to memoir to academic writing - well, that's a fools errand and only undermines this insightful, ambitious and moving project. The conviction of this book is that race and racism are fundamental values of the South, that 'the creation of racial slavery in the colonies was a gateway to habits and dispositions that ultimately became the commonplace ways of doing things in this country'." Winner of the National Book Award. A very uncommon advance issue. 386 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 90000
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  • SINCE I LAID MY BURDEN DOWN. by Purnell, Brontez.
    Purnell, Brontez.
    SINCE I LAID MY BURDEN DOWN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Feminist Press / Amethyst Editions, (2017). First edition - The author's first novel - a "raw, funny, and uninhibited stumble down memory lane" as DeShawn returns from San Francisco to his Alabama hometown for his uncle's funeral. A book with a "fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Purnell interrogates what it means to be black, male, queer; a son, an uncle, a lover; Southern, punk, and human. An emotional tightrope walk of a book and an important American story rarely, if ever, told. (author Michelle Tea) 148 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 90241
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  • NO GREATER LOVE: The James Reeb Story. by [Reeb, James, 1927-1965] Duncan Howlett.
    [Reeb, James, 1927-1965] Duncan Howlett.
    NO GREATER LOVE: The James Reeb Story.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Spiritual Odyssey that Ended in an Act of Violence in the Streets of Selma, Alabama and Galvanized the Conscience of a Nation." James Reeb was a white minister, working for social justice in the Roxbury ghetto of Boston, when he went to Selma, Alabama in response to Martin Luther King's call for clergy of all denominations to make a stand for civil rights. Two days later, leaving a restaurant with two fellow Unitarian ministers, he was brutally murdered. The author of this biography based it on his extensive research and interviews with those who knew Reeb, and also his own personal experience of working with Reeb in…

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    New York: Harper & Row, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Spiritual Odyssey that Ended in an Act of Violence in the Streets of Selma, Alabama and Galvanized the Conscience of a Nation." James Reeb was a white minister, working for social justice in the Roxbury ghetto of Boston, when he went to Selma, Alabama in response to Martin Luther King's call for clergy of all denominations to make a stand for civil rights. Two days later, leaving a restaurant with two fellow Unitarian ministers, he was brutally murdered. The author of this biography based it on his extensive research and interviews with those who knew Reeb, and also his own personal experience of working with Reeb in the 5 years before his death. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 242 pp.

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    Condition: Very good minus in turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good minus dust jacket (some dampstaining affecting the margins of the endpapers and a few pages, some bleeding from the cloth to the interior of the dj) Despite the flaws this is a decent copy of an uncommon book.

    Book ID: 84958
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  • HE INCLUDED ME: The Autobiography of Sarah Rice. by Rice, Sarah, transcribed and edited by Louise Westling.
    Rice, Sarah, transcribed and edited by Louise Westling.
    HE INCLUDED ME: The Autobiography of Sarah Rice.

    Edition: First printing.

    Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South, one which spans much of the 20th century - this book "weaves together the story of a black familyeight children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher, their father a minister - and the emerging self-portrait of a woman determined, like her parents, to look ahead." Illustrated with photographs. Chronology. Edited and with a preface by Louise Westling. xvi, 181 pp. ISBN: 0-820311413.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)

    Book ID: 74528
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