SOUTHERN LITERATURE from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

Richmond: West Johnston & Co., 1919. . 12mo pale publisher's cloth, sunstruck on the front outer edge; non-authorial gift presentation on front free endpaper. Wright III, 3756. A collection of pieces, both prose and poetry by Southern writers including Sidney Lanier, John Tabb, Amelie Rives, Thomas Page Nelson, and Father Ryan

Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 1947. . 8vo, beige cloth sides; black cloth spine (showing residue of mildew damage). Kentucky poet Kentucky poet laureat. The second Tip Sams volume.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. . Large 8vo, black cloth, stamped in gold; t.e.red. Illustrated Edition. Brussel 8b

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980. . 8vo, orange cloth, dust jacket

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948. . 8vo, teal-green cloth, top edge red; dust jacket with two small scotch tape repairs. Louisiana novel. First Edition

Garden City, N.Y.: The Dial Press, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. . 8vo, white paper-covered boards, black cloth spine; dust jacket. First Edition. Tennessee writer.

New York: George H. Doran, 1917. . 8vo, green ribbed cloth, stamped in gold on spine and front cover. Small spot on spine, some minor wear to extremities of spine; very minor foxing to edges. First Edition

Richmond, Virginia: The Magazine, 1921. . including self-wrappers. 8vo, center stapled, top outer corner lacking; bottom corners creased Volume I, No. 1.Articles by Mary Johnston, Frank F. Beirne, and Mary Wingfield Scott. Reviews by Emily Clark, Hunter Stag and Margaret Street."Magazines...that are concerned with widening the boundaries of an age dedicated to photographic realism and naturalism. Among scores of… Read more about this item

Norfolk, Virginia: The Pentelic Press, 1958. . 8vo, navy blue cloth, original glassine wrappers. Foreword by Margaret Haley Carpenter. Inscribed to James Southall Wilson from Carpenter on front free endpaper and dated June 1959. Morton was a Kentucky writer

Louisville: John P. Morton & Company, 1900. . Squarish 8vo, two-toned cloth,. gray and white, soiled; lettering on spine silver; frontispiece foxed due to acidity which has slightly affected the title; inner lower corner bumped Institutionally common.This is the Deposit Copy A from the Library of Congress with the library's "Surplus/Duplicate" stamp on the copyright page. Also the receipt… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1955. . 8vo, natural linen, some staining, top edge yellow; dust jacket with minor wear at extremities of spine and over corners; newspaper reviews pasted onto half-title causing offset. Kentucky writer. First Edition

Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1981. . 8vo, bright green cloth, dust jacket. In notations by previous owner throughout; back free endpaper creased and with ink notations

: The Cummington Press, 1944. . 8vo, black cloth, slightly soiled; one of 300 numbered copies

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956. . 8vo, navy-blue cloth, dust jacket (with very minor wear at head and tail of spine) by Leo Manso, showing woman's head--remarkable likeness of Princess Grace. First Edition of this Louisiana author's novel--Review copy with publishers' slip laid in

New Market: Henkle & Co., 1880. . 8vo, gray cloth, somewhat rubbed, front gilt

Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. . 8vo, gray cloth; dust jacket

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. . 8vo, blue/gray paper-covered boards, red cloth spine FIRST EDITION, a beautiful copy.

New York: Random House, 1961. . 8vo, deep orange cloth; dust jacket (price-clipped) and with minor wear to extremities of spine and over corners. First Edition

Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard, 1853. . 8vo, dark navy-blue cloth, blind-stampped with only the minutest wear over corners, one corner bumped; some internal foxing Wright II, 12. Based on fact, Pereira, a British seaman was seized in Charleston harbor when he went ashore, His ship had made landfall there when threatened by a storm at sea. At… Read more about this item

Durham: North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, 1923. . 8vo, ocher ribbed cloth; ex-library with bookplate removed from front free endpaper; shelf-mark on copyright