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PERFECT TIMING.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, (1991). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's fifth novel, one which features his blend of humor and pathos. "When a music professor tormented by a crumbling marriage and the onset of middle age recognizes his first love in a TV special on the homeless, he sets out with his hilarious born-again ex-con cousin to rescue her. The result is rollicking, riotous entertainment." SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED to the noted collector Larry Owens "with gratitude for your support" and dated in 1995. 304 pp. ISBN: 1-561450243.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76416More details Price: $28.50 -
A PASSAGE OF HAWKS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1963.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's 4th novel, a chilling drama of a failed marriage, kept alive only to meet society's expectations, and of adultery, blackmail and murder, set in the author's native Mississippi Delta. Dustjacket praise for the writing of Williams by Ernest Hemingway, Allen Tate and others.
Condition: INSCRIBED on the title page 'To Jan with all best' anddated in 1964. Very good in very good dust jacket ( a tight clean copy, but with rather severe toning to the paper. )
Book ID: 31448More details Price: $25.00 -
IN THE MOUNTAINS OF AMERICA.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Mercury House, 1994. First edition - Collection of 12 short stories set in the Appalachian mountains, by this award winning writer who was born in West Virginia. 179 pp. ISBN: 1-56279-0668.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 23437More details Price: $15.00 -
IN THE MOUNTAINS OF AMERICA.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Mercury House, 1994. First edition - Collection of 12 short stories set in the Appalachian mountains, by this award winning writer who was born in West Virginia. 179 pp. ISBN: 1-56279-0668.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (edges of covers curling slightly).
Book ID: 86446More details Price: $13.50 -
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD
Edition: First printing.
New York: Arbor House, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel set in the rural South of the 1940s and 1950s which "explores one family's convoluted history. Physical and emotional violence, religious fanaticism, and pot-boiling love and hate combine to define one of those bizarre families, seemingly exaggerated but all too familiar to most Southerners. The Treadwells, headed by the certifiably insane Robert and long-suffering Mattie, repeatedly sacrifice themselves and each other for no apparent good reasons but always with some father-against-son motivation that makes sense to the individual at the time. Descriptions of places and events are perfectly on target (Publishers Weekly) INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 405 pp. ISBN: 0-877958017.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88862More details Price: $30.00 -
THE KING OF COLORED TOWN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New Milford, CT: Toby Press Ltd, (2007.). First edition - Intertwined stories of two black teenagers which "put courage, cowardice, loyalty and betrayal side by side in an eloquent, evocative narrative where the demons and angels of a time and place are portrayed in black and white. There are good people and bad on both sides of the tracks that divide Laureate from 'Coloured Town'. .... Cilla will emerge from her ordeal carrying scars and grace to become a widely travelled classical musician. Joe Billy will be found hanging from the bars of his cell in a Florida penitentiary." Winner of the Willie Morris Award for Fiction. 351 pp. ISBN: 1592641814.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58785More details Price: $24.50 -
HILL COUNTRY.
Edition: Large print edition.
Atlanta: Doubleday Direct / Longstreet Press, (1998) dj. Hardcover - An historical novel of Texas, based on the life of the author's remarkable grandmother. This covers almost a century of Texas political history as she follows the families of Laura Woods and Rebekah Baines Johnson and their impact on their state, the country and their own sons. Double page map, photographs and a long preface in which the author describes her search for this story among her family records. Includes a list of characters. xlvii, 649 pp plus author's brief note. ISBN: 0-739403524.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 78194More details Price: $16.50 -
FROM DEATH TO MORNING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1935. dj. Hardcover first edition - FIrst issue with the error on page 59. Wolfe's third book and only collection of short stories.
Condition: Near fine in a quite worn dustjacket - brown cloth is bright with minimal rubbing to the gilt lettering, sharp straight corners, orange topstain. Book has previous owner's name on front endpaper, and the price clipped dustjacket is rubbed and worn along the front fold for the flap and the edges of the spine, has a short tear and creasing at the bottom edge of the front cover, and the loss of about 1/2 cm of paper at top of the spine, about 1/4 cm at the bottom.
Book ID: 15953More details Price: $150.00 -
THE WEB AND THE ROCK.
Edition: First printing (stated first edition with E-O code)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first of two posthumous novels by Wolfe, delivered to his publisher shortly before his death - the story of a writer in New York City. In his prefatory note, Wolfe calls it a novel "about one man's discovery of life and the world. . . being young, and in love, and in the city are only part of the whole adventure of apprenticeship and discovery." 695 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in dark blue cloth (toning to the pages, name and annotation "from the library of Edgar (Jim) Wolfe" on front endpapers, shelfwear to bottom edges of boards) in a fair dust jacket (dampstaining at rear fold with bleeding from blue cloth, price-clipped, rubbing and wear to all edges and folds, tape at top of dj spine).
Book ID: 84351More details Price: $60.00 -
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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 -
AMERICAN POP.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019). SIGNED first edition - Southern author's second novel. "Moving from Mississippi to Paris to New York and back again, a saga of family, ambition, passion, and tragedy that brings to life one unforgettable Southern dynasty - the Forsters, founders of the worlds first major soft-drink company - against the backdrop of more than a century of American cultural history." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2018, that is, before publication. 384 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77788More details Price: $35.00 -
THE OXYGEN MAN.
Edition: First printing.
Denver: MacMurray & Beck, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third book, his first novel, following 2 collections of short stories. Cover praise from James Lee Burke: 'Yarbrough is one of the best writers to come out of the South in many years .. a stunning novelistic debut... a major talent from whom we'll hear much more.' 280 pp,. ISBN: 1-878448-854.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 30629More details Price: $20.00 -
VISIBLE SPIRITS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning author's second novel (5th book), set in the Mississippi Delta in 1902 where 'Reconstruction is being encroached upon by Jim Crow.' Well-deserved cover praise from such diverse writers as Ha Jin, Kent Haruf, David Guterson and others. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-375-411593.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dust jacket (remainder dot, creasing to back cover of dj, short tear)
Book ID: 31500More details Price: $16.50 -
THE OXYGEN MAN.
Edition: First printing.
Denver: MacMurray & Beck, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's third book, his first novel, following 2 collections of short stories. Cover praise from James Lee Burke: 'Yarbrough is one of the best writers to come out of the South in many years .. a stunning novelistic debut... a major talent from whom we'll hear much more.' SIGNED by Yarbrough on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 1-878448-854.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 32928More details Price: $35.00 -
MISSISSIPPI HISTORY: Stories.
Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback original.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, (1994). SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-8262-0967x.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59032More details Price: $20.00 -
VISIBLE SPIRITS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award winning author's second novel (5th book), set in the Mississippi Delta in 1902 where 'Reconstruction is being encroached upon by Jim Crow.' SIGNED on the title page. Well-deserved cover praise from such diverse writers as Ha Jin, Kent Haruf, David Guterson and others. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-375-411593.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60503More details Price: $30.00 -
MISSISSIPPI HISTORY: Stories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, (1994). SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-8262-0967x.
Condition: Very near fine in black illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60582More details Price: $40.00 -
VISIBLE SPIRITS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning author's second novel (5th book), set in the Mississippi Delta in 1902 where 'Reconstruction is being encroached upon by Jim Crow.' Well-deserved cover praise from such diverse writers as Ha Jin, Kent Haruf, David Guterson and others. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-375-411593.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (a bit of sunning to upper edge of front cover.)
Book ID: 61586More details Price: $19.50 -
THE OXYGEN MAN.
Edition: 3rd printing.
Denver: MacMurray & Beck, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's third book, his first novel, following 2 collections of short stories. Cover praise from James Lee Burke: 'Yarbrough is one of the best writers to come out of the South in many years .. a stunning novelistic debut... a major talent from whom we'll hear much more.' INSCRIBED by Yarbrough on the title page - "For - in hopes these pages please." 280 pp. ISBN: 1-878448-854.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79884More details Price: $25.00
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