- Keyword = north carolina
-
JOURNEY FOR JOEDEL.
Edition: 2nd printing before publication.
New York: Crown, (1970) dj. Hardcover - Coming of age novel set in the tobacco growing area of North Carolina in the 1930s during the Depression - Joedel, a thirteen year old boy of mixed white and Native American heritage, is attending the annual auction for the first time - but he is also on a journey to understanding himself. 189 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86564More details Price: $16.50 -
THESE SAME LONG BONES.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's highly praised first novel, set in a North Carolina town on the eve of integration. Dust jacket praise from Wendell Berry (who calls this a 'big-hearted book' with 'courage and eloquence.') 260 pp. ISBN: 0-395-671728.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 4998More details Price: $21.50 -
THE GEOGRAPHICAL CURE : Novellas and Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second book, a collection of six short fictions, set in the coastal region of North Carolina. SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-684-196824.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44201More details Price: $25.00 -
THE GEOGRAPHICAL CURE : Novellas and Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second book, a collection of six short fictions, set in the coastal region of North Carolina. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-684-196824.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44487More details Price: $16.00 -
THE GEOGRAPHICAL CURE : Novellas and Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second book, a collection of six short fictions, set in the coastal region of North Carolina. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-684-196824.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (remainder mark)
Book ID: 46161More details Price: $15.00 -
RUIN CREEK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by this award winning writer, this opens in 1955 in Killdeer, North Carolina. 735 pp. ISBN: 0-385-264186.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56909More details Price: $17.50 -
CALL AND RESPONSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster - Linden Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by this North Carolina author. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-671-639927.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42864More details Price: $19.50 -
CALL AND RESPONSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster - Linden Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by this North Carolina author. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-671-639927.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. (x on edge of text block.)
Book ID: 42865More details Price: $16.00 -
A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE.
Edition: Later printing, issued on the 25th anniversary of this book.
New York: Atheneum, 1987. dj. Hardcover - Award winning debut novel by this North Carolinia writer, originally published in 1962 : it received the William Faulkner Award for a notable first novel. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-+8911947x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 82677More details Price: $16.50 -
CLEAR PICTURES: First Loves, First Guides.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir of his early years in the countryside and small towns of North Carolina - between 1933 and 1954 - and of the people who most influenced him. Photographs. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-689-120753.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket
Book ID: 25079More details Price: $14.00 -
ROXANNA SLADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Told in her own voice, this recounts the life of a ninety-year old North Carolina matriach, INSCRIBED on the title page. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-684-832925.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52396More details Price: $28.00 -
CLEAR PICTURES: First Loves, First Guides.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir of his early years in the countryside and small towns of North Carolina - between 1933 and 1954 - and of the people who most influenced him. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1995. Photographs. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-689-120753.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (bookplate on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 52480More details Price: $30.00 -
A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1962. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning debut novel by this North Carolinia writer: it received the William Faulkner Award for a notable first novel. 195 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a good first state dust jacket. (dj is brighter than usual, but has insect damage/holes along folds, price-clipped .)
Book ID: 58582More details Price: $35.00 -
A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1962. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning debut novel by this North Carolinia writer: it received the William Faulkner Award for a notable first novel. 195 pp.
Condition: Fine in a very good first state dust jacket. (usual toning to the dj, especially on the spine, some light soiling to cream background.)
Book ID: 58581More details Price: $75.00 -
ROXANNA SLADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Told in her own voice, this recounts the life of a ninety-year old North Carolina matriach. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-684-832925.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57131More details Price: $17.50 -
A GENEROUS MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - His third novel, a coming-of-age story set in rural North Carolina. 275 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings (signs of pocket removal, etc), and overall tight and clean in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57924More details Price: $12.50 -
A GENEROUS MAN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Atheneum, 1966. dj. First edition - His third novel, a coming-of-age story set in rural North Carolina, sequel to his first novel "A Long and Happy Life." 275 pp.
Condition: Very good in plain olive green wrappers with a proof dust jacket fastened to the spine.
Book ID: 57925More details Price: $25.00 -
SOMERSET HOMECOMING: Recovering a Lost Heritage
Edition: First edition.
New York: Doubleday, 1988 dj. Hardcover first edition - A very attractively produced book - the story of the Somerset Place slaves who built the plantations, and of their descendants - and of their discovery of their heritage and of each other. Illustrated with numerous sepia toned photographs. Sources, 266 pp. Slightly oversized, family tree on endpapers. ISBN: 0-385-24245x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 24235More details Price: $20.00 -
BREAK NO BONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Ninth mystery featuring featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, set in South Carolina where a fresh skeleton is found among the ancient bones of a Native American burying ground. The author is herself a forensic anthropologist for both the state of North Carolina and the province of Quebec - SIGNED on the title page, Recommended - an excellent series, better in my opinion, than the Patricia Cornwell books, and also better than the television series "Bones" which is very loosely based on this series. Author's note - 337 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-33492.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (light toning) .
Book ID: 77460More details Price: $30.00 -
BONES NEVER LIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan and police detective Andrew Ryan, The author is herself a forensic anthropologist for both the state of North Carolina and the province of Quebec - SIGNED on a blank preliminary page, Recommended - an excellent series, better in my opinion, than the Patricia Cornwell books. 323 pp. ISBN: 978-0345544018.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (small bump to top edge of board, slight spine slant)
Book ID: 73996More details Price: $25.00 -
DEVIL BONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, The author is herself a forensic anthropologist for both the state of North Carolina and the province of Quebec - SIGNED on the title page, Recommended - an excellent series, better in my opinion, than the Patricia Cornwell books. Includes a conversation with Reichs. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-33468.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (initials on front endpaper)
Book ID: 60041More details Price: $30.00 -
BARE BONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery featuring featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, The author is herself a forensic anthropologist for both the state of North Carolina and the province of Quebec - SIGNED on the title page, Recommended - an excellent series, better in my opinion, than the Patricia Cornwell books. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-33468.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37966More details Price: $27.50 -
BONES TO ASHES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, The author is herself a forensic anthropologist for both the state of North Carolina and the province of Quebec - SIGNED on the title page, Recommended - an excellent series, better in my opinion, than the Patricia Cornwell books. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-33468.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60042More details Price: $30.00 -
BONES NEVER LIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan and police detective Andrew Ryan, The author is herself a forensic anthropologist for both the state of North Carolina and the province of Quebec - SIGNED on a blank preliminary page, Recommended - an excellent series, better in my opinion, than the Patricia Cornwell books. 323 pp. ISBN: 978-0345544018.
Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj).
Book ID: 63723More details Price: $30.00 -
THE OLD MAN'S BOY GROWS OLDER.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1961.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Old Man is gone now, except in the Boy's memory - and the boy has left North Carolina to begin his life of travel and adventure. lllustrated with line drawings by Walter Dower. 302 pp.
Condition: Near fine in brown cloth in a good dustjacket (bookplate, edgewear to top of dj, original price of 4.95 still present) .
Book ID: 88495More details Price: $65.00 -
ON AGATE HILL.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel by this award winning Southern writer: "Molly Petree, orphaned by the Civil War, is by her own definition 'a spitfire and a burden. I do not care. My family is a dead family, and this is not my home, for I am a refugee girl.' Raised in the ruins of a once prosperous plantation on Agate Hill in North Carolina, she's a refugee who has no interest in self-pity. . . Spanning half a century, Lee Smith's portrait of a fiery Southern woman recalls the South from Reconstruction to the Roaring Twenties and, in the process, gives us Molly Petree, living and breathing, gripping the reader's arm as the story unfolds." 356 pp. ISBN: 1565124529.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease on front flap of dj.)
Book ID: 47920More details Price: $18.00 -
CHANGE BABY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2004. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel, second book, by this highly praised writer from North Carolina.. Her first book, a collection of short stories called 'Missing Women' was the winner of the Willa Cather award and the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for first fiction, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of they year. Kaye Gibbons called Spence "a reader's dream. Her stories charm the soul and engage the mind... both gentle and firm, quiet and packed with glorious candor." 227 pp. ISBN: 1-57332-2860.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39899More details Price: $16.00 -
ON THE 7TH DAY GOD CREATED THE CHEVROLET.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Algonquin Books, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in North Carolina in 1963, two brothers' lives revolve around drag racing in Chevrolets - even as things in the world around them begin to change. Racial tensions are running high, and the Vietnam war is looming. 410 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-130.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread, but with a remainder line)
Book ID: 59808More details Price: $16.50 -
THOMAS WOLFE'S CHARACTERS: Portraits From Life.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover - A book which brings together all of the published material on the Southern characters and the settings that run through this North Carolina born novelist. Photographs. Index. xii, 194 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to upper edge of dj)
Book ID: 83143More details Price: $16.50