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  • ENTRIES: Poems. by Berry, Wendell.
    Berry, Wendell.
    ENTRIES: Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pantheon, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection covering 10 years work - at the heart of this book is a series of poem's written during his father's final years. 80 pp. Laid in is a flyer for an event featuring Wendell Berry "in celebration of " this collection. ISBN: 0-679426094.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name on verso of front endpaper)

    Book ID: 68290
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  • THE LONG-LEGGED HOUSE. by Berry, Wendell.
    Berry, Wendell.
    THE LONG-LEGGED HOUSE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Berry's first book of essays - written when he was still an almost unknown young writer. The chapter headings (and the topics themselves) are provocative, dealing with environmental, political and social issues - The Tyranny of Charity; The Landscaping of Hell - Strip-Mine Morality in East Kentucky; The Nature Consumers; The Loss of the Future; A Statement Against the War in Vietnam and more. 213 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (some discoloration to the endpapers, common to most copies, binding slightly cracked before list of Berry's titles)

    Book ID: 45884
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  • ONE MAN MUST DIE. by Cunningham, A. B.
    Cunningham, A. B.
    ONE MAN MUST DIE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, 1946. Hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Sheriff Jess Roden. When a soldier is reported dead during World War II, his wife remarries but when he returns to his Kentucky home, expecting to pick up his business and his ilfe as he left them, then one husband must go. 223 pp.

    Condition: Good overall in beige cloth with blue panels on the spine.

    Book ID: 80216
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  • Davis, William C.
    THE ORPHAN BRIGADE: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Doubleday, 1980. dj. Hardcover - When the Kentucky Legislature voted to remain with the Union in 1861, the newly formed First Kentucky Brigade decided to fight on the side of the Confederacy. From the dustjacket: "it marked a four-year separation from their beloved homeland. Fiercely independent to the end, these men would fight for the cause of the South. With their first march into battle, they became outcasts from their mother state - orphans in the raging strife of Civil War.... Drawing from a weallth of documents, memoirs, personal letters, and journals, David brings to life the fascinating history of the Civil War's 'Orphan Brigade. Notes, index, map endpapers. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-385148933.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (lower corner of dj flap clipped.)

    Book ID: 35160
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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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  • A CURE FOR DREAMS. by Gibbons, Kaye.
    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.. Small format. 177 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-335.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 42343
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  • A CURE FOR DREAMS. by Gibbons, Kaye.
    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.. Small format. 177 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-335.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 47071
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  • Giles, Janice Holt
    TARA'S HEALING

    Edition: Hardcover.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1991) dj. Hardcover - A reprint of her novel, the third in the Kentucky mountain trilogy, originally published in 1951.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (spine faded on dj.)

    Book ID: 9291
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  • Hall, Wade.
    REST OF THE DREAM: Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson.

    Edition: First printing.

    Lexington,KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1988 dj. Hardcover first edition - Records in his own words the story of Johnson, a Kentucky teacher, and grassroots leader in the civil rights struggle since the 1930's. Photographs, index. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-813116740.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 23182
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  • Hergesheimer, Joseph.
    THE LIMESTONE TREE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. dj. Hardcover first edition - Great historical novel about how the Civil War breaks apart Kentucky, and the Sash family, who are the main characters in the book.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.( dust jacket slightly worn on edges but now covered by mylar sheet, looks very nice, gift inscription - overall an attractive book, tight binding.)

    Book ID: 28166
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  • WEEDS. by Kelley, Edith Summers; afterword by Charlotte Goodman.
    Kelley, Edith Summers; afterword by Charlotte Goodman.
    WEEDS.

    Edition: First thus, a trade paperback. .

    Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, (1982.). Reissue of this lost masterpiece of realistic and feminist fiction, originally published in 1923 by Harcourt Brace. The story of Judith Pippinger, a young woman full of life, who is worn down by the monotonous life of drudgery of the small tenant farmer in the tobacco fields of Kentucky, a life Kelley experienced herself. As a young woman, Kelley went to New York where she became secretary to Upton Sinclair and briefly engaged to Sinclair Lewis (who was instrumental in getting this novel published originally), but after her second marriage to Fred Kelley, they left New Jersey and tried farming in Kentucky and later in the Imperial Valley in California. This edition…

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    Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, (1982.). Reissue of this lost masterpiece of realistic and feminist fiction, originally published in 1923 by Harcourt Brace. The story of Judith Pippinger, a young woman full of life, who is worn down by the monotonous life of drudgery of the small tenant farmer in the tobacco fields of Kentucky, a life Kelley experienced herself. As a young woman, Kelley went to New York where she became secretary to Upton Sinclair and briefly engaged to Sinclair Lewis (who was instrumental in getting this novel published originally), but after her second marriage to Fred Kelley, they left New Jersey and tried farming in Kentucky and later in the Imperial Valley in California. This edition includes an afterword by Charlotte Goodman and it appends a chapter - 'Billy's Birth' - deleted by Harcourt Brace in the original edition. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-935312-013.

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    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 52736
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  • WEEDS. by Kelley, Edith Summers; Matthew J. Bruccoli, introduction.
    Kelley, Edith Summers; Matthew J. Bruccoli, introduction.
    WEEDS.

    Edition: First thus.

    Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Reissue of this lost masterpiece of realistic and feminist fiction, originally published in 1923 by Harcourt Brace. The story of Judith Pippinger, a young woman full of life, who is worn down by the monotonous life of drudgery of the small tenant farmer in the tobacco fields of Kentucky, a life Kelley experienced herself. As a young woman, Kelley went to New York where she became secretary to Upton Sinclair and briefly engaged to Sinclair Lewis (who was instrumental in getting this novel published originally), but after her second marriage to Fred Kelley, they left New Jersey and tried farming in Kentucky and later in the Imperial Valley…

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    Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Reissue of this lost masterpiece of realistic and feminist fiction, originally published in 1923 by Harcourt Brace. The story of Judith Pippinger, a young woman full of life, who is worn down by the monotonous life of drudgery of the small tenant farmer in the tobacco fields of Kentucky, a life Kelley experienced herself. As a young woman, Kelley went to New York where she became secretary to Upton Sinclair and briefly engaged to Sinclair Lewis (who was instrumental in getting this novel published originally), but after her second marriage to Fred Kelley, they left New Jersey and tried farming in Kentucky and later in the Imperial Valley in California. This edition includes an introduction by Matthew J. Bruccoli, general editor of the Crosscurrents / Modern Fiction series. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-8093-05879.

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    Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket. (some crinkling and wear to the ends of the spine dj.)

    Book ID: 55944
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  • THE BEAN TREES. by Kingsolver, Barbara.
    Kingsolver, Barbara.
    THE BEAN TREES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kentucky-born author's very highly praised debut novel which tells the story of Taylor Greene, a young woman who after having grown up poor in rural Kentucky, buys an old car and heads west, where she winds up part of an extraordinary household in Tucson, Arizona. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0158638.

    Condition: Very good- in very good+ dust jacket (rust colored stain and a little crinkling to upper corner of textblock, price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 45101
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  • THE GONE AND THE GOING AWAY. by Manning, Maurice.
    Manning, Maurice.
    THE GONE AND THE GOING AWAY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. First edition - A cycle of poems which bring to life the mythical "Fog Town Holler" in the author's native Kentucky. 95 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to upper corner of front cover)

    Book ID: 85186
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  • CLEAR SPRINGS: A Memoir. by Mason, Bobbie Ann.
    Mason, Bobbie Ann.
    CLEAR SPRINGS: A Memoir.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir by this award-winning author which tells her own story, and the story of the Kentucky farm family, the Masons of Clear Springs, which she grew up in. It takes us back to recapture a way of life that has all but disappeared, but it also tells the story of how a "misfit girl who dreamed of distant places grew up in the forties, fifties, and sixties, and fulfilled her ambition to be a writer." SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. xi, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-679449256.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80988
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  • UNDERGROUND MAN. by Meltzer, Milton.
    Meltzer, Milton.
    UNDERGROUND MAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    Scarsdale, New York: Bradbury Press, (1972_ dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Young adult novel by this Newbery and Wilder award winning writer: In 1835, Nineteen-year-old Josh Bowen becomes an abolitionist conductor (a "slave stealer") on the Underground Railroad, an act that leads to his trial and imprisonment. Author's afterword. While a novel, this is based in part on the fragmentary records of a young man who was imprisoned until the middle of the Civil War. SIGNED by the author on a blank preliminary page. Maps by Eros Keith. 220 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Ann Grifalconi. ISBN: 0-878880518.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (bit of chipping to the top of the spine of the dj).

    Book ID: 64543
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  • NO HEROES: A Memoir of Coming Home. by Offutt, Chris.
    Offutt, Chris.
    NO HEROES: A Memoir of Coming Home.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Offutt's second memoir - in this he discusses his return home at age 40 to the rural hills of Kentucky - to teach at the college he graduated from, the only 4 year college in the area - and to give back to his hometown community. During that same year he also recorded the personal story of his parents-in-law, Holocaust survivors who had emigrated from Poland in 1946. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-684865513.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83856
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  • ZION'S CAUSE [1920-1950]. A Novel. by Peyton, Jim
    Peyton, Jim
    ZION'S CAUSE [1920-1950]. A Novel.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kentucky-born author's first novel, the story of a mythic place, a small town with a store and a church. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-912697-547.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 44905
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  • A STILL SMALL VOICE. by Reed, John.
    Reed, John.
    A STILL SMALL VOICE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Delacorte, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in Kentucky against the backdrop of the Civil War. It opens in 1859, when "seven-year-old Alma Flynt arrives in the small Kentucky town of Cotterpin Creek to begin a new life in her aunt's home. There, a whole new world opens up before her eyes-a world of impossible grace and comfort, of lush pastures and billowing bluegrass. And there, Alma will meet a family who will shape the course of her life. But like a swift storm cloud, the Civil War descends on Cotterpin Creek. . Swept into the chaos are the Clevelands, and John Warren himself, leaving their fading mansion and sprawling horse…

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    New York: Delacorte, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in Kentucky against the backdrop of the Civil War. It opens in 1859, when "seven-year-old Alma Flynt arrives in the small Kentucky town of Cotterpin Creek to begin a new life in her aunt's home. There, a whole new world opens up before her eyes-a world of impossible grace and comfort, of lush pastures and billowing bluegrass. And there, Alma will meet a family who will shape the course of her life. But like a swift storm cloud, the Civil War descends on Cotterpin Creek. . Swept into the chaos are the Clevelands, and John Warren himself, leaving their fading mansion and sprawling horse farm behind. And when the fighting is over, for Alma, yet another journey begins on the day a strange, battered, starved, and tormented young soldier staggers back into her life." SIGNED on the title page. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-385334052.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)

    Book ID: 83452
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  • NESTED SCROLLS: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker. by Rucker, Rudy.
    Rucker, Rudy.
    NESTED SCROLLS: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - The autobiography of this mathematician, beat writer and science fiction writer who was one of the creators of cyberpunk. SIGNED on the half title page. Bibliography. 327 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy white wrappers.

    Book ID: 54932
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  • Settle, Mary Lee
    CHOICES

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 20th century as seen and lived by a woman of the South - joining the Red Cross after making her debut at the beginning of the depression, she becomes embroiled in a miners' strike in Kentucky - later she volunteers for the war in Spain, and returning to the US in the 60's, she becomes involved in the Civil Rights movement. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-385-47699x.

    Condition: INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 33072
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  • PASSERMAN'S HOLLOW. by Stuart, Jane.
    Stuart, Jane.
    PASSERMAN'S HOLLOW.

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: McGraw-Hill, (1978.) dj. Hardcover - A southern Gothic novel about the disappearance of a young girl by the poet and writer, the daughter of the Kentucky author, Jesse Stuart. 141 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Bill Ronalds. ISBN: 0-07-0622027.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 56342
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