Southern Literature from Back in Time Rare Books, LLC

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5 3/4 X 8 1/4 Inches. 318 PP. Original red cloth binding with gilt title-stamping to cover and spine. Signed and inscribed by Crabb. Inscribed "For Andrew C. Dorris / Bound to the Hermitage by the most endearing bonds / Alfred L. Crabb" direclty on the half title-page. A… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5 5/8 X 8 1/4 Inches. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Original price of $3.95 intact on front flap. Signed and inscribed by Sullivan in the year of publication. This copy inscribed for Fugitive Poet Donald Davidson - "For Donald Davidson, My friend… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 5 7/8 X 8 5/8 Inches. 536 PP. Signed by Pat Conroy directly on the half title page. Inscribed, "To Blue Spruell, Here's to your writing career, Pat Conroy / June 28, 1984." Blue is an Atlanta based attorney and author of the TARO (young… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1906. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 5 1/4 X 7 1/2 Inches. 644 PP. First edition copy of Moore's highest regarded literary effort. Signed and inscribed on the FFEP by Moore. Housed in a chipped and worn jacket that has served the purpose of protecting the beautiful cloth illustrated binding. Moore,… Read more about this item

Berryville, VA: Virginia Book Company, 1973. First Thus. Original wraps. Very Good. 215 PP. Scarce original 1973 facsimile edition of the 1933 original. Important early cultural study of like in the Blue Ridge Mountains and Appalachia. Includes coverage on life, work, religion, fears, music and love in the Mountains! Light wear and some creasing to covers and spine.… Read more about this item

Franklin, TN: Self Published, 1991. First Edition. Original wraps. Good. 5 1/2 X 8 3/8 Inches. 460 PP. Scarce original copy of this history of Franklin, TN and surrounding area. Told in simple stories from the memory of Yates, a beloved Franklin teacher and High School Principal. Includes personal accounts of life in Franklin from the 1930's to… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5 1/2 X 8 1/4 Inches. 443 PP. "Ratliff Sutton as a small boy ran away from home and lived with negroes in a Georgia swamp."<br /> <br /> First edition with original price of $2.50 intact on front flap. Second novel from Cheney, who is… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5 7/8 X 8 5/8 Inches. 440 PP. Stated "First Printing" on the copyright page. Original price of $5.95 intact on front flap. Book clean and tight. DJ a bit chipped at corners and spine ends. Minor loss to lower portion of spine.

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12 3/8 X 10 1/4 Inches. 144 PP. Stated First Edition on the last page of text. A profusely illustrated catalog of Dunlap's work over the years. Blurbs on rear cover from Roy Blount Jr., Barry Hannah, Sally Mann and Richard Ford... doesn't… Read more about this item

Houston, TX: Hutchins House Publishing, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 9 1/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 176 PP. Scarce surviving cookbook from the now closed Confederate House Restaurant in Houston, TX. Owners Gordon and Betty Edge hosted Presidents and famous personalities in Houston for half a century with these distinctly Southern recipes. Signed "The Confederate House in… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 Inches. 327 PP. First printing copy with the publisher "A" and seal on the copyright page. Original price of $3.50 intact on front flap. Original cloth sharp and clean. Light toning to text. DJ lightly worn at edges and… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5 1/2 X 8 1/4 Inches. 438 PP. Stated "First Printing" on on the copyright page. Early novel of life in Louisville, KY from the film screenwriter or "Rhapsody in Blue" and "New Orleans" among others. Blank "unicorn" bookplate to FFEP. Price-clipped. Light wear to… Read more about this item

New York: Bonanza Books, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5 5/8 X 8 1/4 Inches. 286 PP. First printing with the called for Bonanza publishing letter line to the "A" on the copyright page. No price on jacket AS ISSUED. Complete with cookbook section at rear. Light wear to DJ edges at folds and… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1955. Early Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 5 5/8 X 8 5/8 Inches. 375 [1] PP. Stated "Second Printing" on the copyright page. Original price of $3.95 intact on front flap of jacket. Signed by Robert Penn Warren directly on the FFEP. Book amazingly sharp and clean. Only the slightest wear to DJ edges.… Read more about this item

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1979. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 7 3/4 X 10 1/4 Inches. "Ida M'Toy, an old negro woman, for a long time a midwife in my little Mississippi town and for another long time a dealer in second-hand clothes in the same place, has been a skyrocket as far back as… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4 Inches. 211 PP. First printing of this overlooked classic of the agrarian movement in America and especially the South in the early 20th Century. The famous "Agrarian" poets including John Crow Ransome and Robert Penn Warren had written their… Read more about this item

Santa Cruz, CA: Forest History Society, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8 1/2 X 10 7/8 Inches. 184 PP. First printing of this swan song publicaton by and about famed Southern Historian Stanley Horn. This copy presented and signed by Horn to William "Bill" Boozer of the Nashville Banner newspaper. Boozer was the book columnist for the… Read more about this item

Knoxville, TN: Celtic Cat Publishing, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. 6 1/4 x 9 184 Inches. 219 PP. First printing of this scarce volume of poetry from Marion, a noted Southern poet and writer who has helped shape the landscape of Appalachian literature. Signed by Marion directly on the half title-page. Original price of $25.00 intact on rear panel.… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6 1/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 218 PP. Stated "First Printing" on the copyright page. Original price of $12.50 intact on front flap. Signed and inscribed on Christmas Eve in the year of publication! Important Fugitive Poet at Vanderbilt University in the… Read more about this item

Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6 X 9 Inches. 208 PP. "Madison Jones is one of the country's great prose stylists.. There is not a writer in America whose work I admire more that the work Madison Jones has done." Harry Crews<br /> <br /> Stated "1st Printing" on the… Read more about this item