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THE TRUTH ACCORDING TO US.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, (1915) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1938, in the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia. 486 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342940.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (short closed tear to bottom edge of front cover of dj).
Book ID: 74793More details Price: $15.00 -
THE TRUTH ACCORDING TO US.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, (1915) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1938, in the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia. 486 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342940.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75414More details Price: $18.50 -
THE WRECKING YARD and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - West Virginia author's second powerful collection of short stories. Dustjacket praise from Eudora Welty, Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks and others. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-385-420218.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34269More details Price: $25.00 -
DOGS OF GOD
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (third book, preceded by two collections of short stories) - a tale of malevolence and violence set in the author's native rural West Virginia. 354 pp. ISBN: 0-385-420226.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 41378More details Price: $20.00 -
SINS OF THE SEVENTH SISTER: A Memoir of the Gothic South.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76564More details Price: $18.00 -
THE CREEK.
Edition: First printing.
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of poetry - poems and prose-poems - by this West Virginia writer 64 pp. ISBN: 0-821401211.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short tear at top of spine, light sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 84696More details Price: $20.00 -
RIDING A BLUE HORSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first crime novel, set in a remote mountain county of West Virginia. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-11817.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61596More details Price: $30.00 -
CITIES ON A HILL: A Journey through Contemporary American Cultures.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fascinating book by this Pulitzer prize winning writer - much of it was originally published in the New Yorker. This is a look at 4 cultural enclaves which took shape in the 60's and 70's - the Castro in San Francisco, Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist Church in Lynchburg, West Virginia, a retirement town in Florida - Sun City, and the Rajneeshee community in Oregon. 414 pages. ISBN: 0-671-55209-0.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 13041More details Price: $20.00 -
COLORED PEOPLE. A Memoir.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition - The distinguished scholar's recollection of his boyhood in West Virginia in the 1950s and '60s. 216 pp
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 20233More details Price: $22.00 -
COLORED PEOPLE. A Memoir.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition - The distinguished scholar's recollection of his boyhood in West Virginia in the 1950s and '60s. 216 pp
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some spine slant).
Book ID: 35037More details Price: $15.00 -
BAREFOOT MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ninth novel by this West Virginia author, best known for 'The Night of the Hunter.' Like most of his novels, this is set in the 1930s during the Depression in the mining country of West Virginia. Farjeon, driven from his farm, wanders into the town of Glory, only to have his young pregnant wife killed in a clash between the striking miners and the strikebreakers. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-671208217.
Condition: Very near fine in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a near fine dustjacket (small chip to upper edge of back cover of dj)
Book ID: 86855More details Price: $28.50 -
FAST LANES.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Washington Square Press Books, (1988.). SIGNED - Her fourth book, a highly praised collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. 148 pp. ISBN: 0-671-640143.
Condition: Very good in stiff wrappers.
Book ID: 39550More details Price: $12.00 -
FAST LANES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - West Virginia author's fourth book, a highly praised collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. 148 pp. ISBN: 0-525-24515-4.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 43091More details Price: $35.00 -
QUIET DELL.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84148More details Price: $35.00 -
DESERT AND PLAIN, THE MOUNTAINS AND THE RIVER: A Celebration of Rural America.
New York: Dutton, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which reveals a rural America that even then fifty years ago had been lost to most of us - from the town of Stapleton in the middle of the Sand Hills country of Nebraska to the town of Welch in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, rich in coal but poor in people. Text by Roueche, and illustrated with strking black and white photographs David Plowden. Oblong format. ISBN: 0-52509010.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86460More details Price: $27.50 -
BLOOD COUNTY.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: DAW Books, (1981). First edition - The first book by Piserchia written under this pseudonym, a vampire novel set in her native West Virgina mountains. "Blood was what they called that mountain town and the forbidding land around itand the name was significant. Folks there knew a secret that would have shocked the world...but nobody was ever going to get out of Blood to tell." DAW 436, cover art by Ken W. Kelly. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-879976225.
Condition: Very near fine (appears unread, no creasing)
Book ID: 83606More details Price: $20.00 -
O BEULAH LAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1956. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her epic third novel, and the first in the Beulah quintet, set in 1754 to 1774. 'It was the eve of revolution against the Engish king, and the English, Germans and Irish, the gentry and ex-bondsmen who had claimed land beyond the Alleghanies, were already calling themselves Americans. This fusion of people, this compound of loyalties and hatreds, is the theme of this sweeping story of the Virginia wilderness, land of the Endless Mountains. Map endpapers, 368 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (minor wear to dj at ends of spines) - a lovely copy of this early novel by a National Book Award winning author.
Book ID: 28754More details Price: $75.00 -
ADDIE: A Memoir.
Edition: Later printing.
Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - A multigenerational saga set in West Virginia's Kanawha River Valley- the story of the author's growing up, of her grandmother Addie, and of all the complex influences on their lives: slave-holding, coal mines, racial tensions, wars with the Indians, the legacy of the Civil War, and love for the land. Photographs. 237 pp. ISBN: 1-57003-284x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 28771More details Price: $15.00 -
ADDIE: A Memoir.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A multigenerational saga set in West Virginia's Kanawha River Valley- the story of the author's growing up, of her grandmother Addie, and of all the complex influences on their lives: slave-holding, coal mines, racial tensions, wars with the Indians, the legacy of the Civil War, and love for the land. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page "for --- best wishes for Christmas, 1998." Photographs. 237 pp. ISBN: 1-57003-284x.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59792More details Price: $30.00