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Here Come a Wind Labor on the Move

By: N/A

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Chapel Hill, Southern Exposure: 1976

Seller ID: 6328

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

This copy has some edge and corner wear and a few light scuffs. There is a small area of damage at the bottom of the spine. ; 1-2; B & W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 224 pages; This double issue of Southern Exposure, a Southern liberal magazine, explored the history of labor and unions in the South along with related current issues, ca. 1970's. One special sections is on Harlan County, Kentucky.
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The Southern States An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted to the South

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Manufacturers' Record Publishing Co.: 1893

Seller ID: 10099

Binding: Periodical

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Some rounding to corners, 2 chips at lower edge, front cover loose but present, lightly toned . ; Vol. 1#4; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 262, ads pages; Lead article is about Georgia by GA Governor W. J. Northen. Other articles are on The Women's College of Baltimore, Through the South with a Camera, Picturesque Virginia and Jefferson Davis and His Cause.
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Southern Cultures The Photography Issue

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press: 2007

Seller ID: 10229

Binding: Journal

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

This issue has only light wear with a crease on the front, bottom right corner; spine is not creased or cracked. ; Summer 2007; Photos; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 134, ads pages; Walker Evans, O. N. Pruitt, Sam N. Vance, Jr. , Thomas Neffe, Bruce Jackson, more.
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Southern Cultures Roots Music

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press: 2010

Seller ID: 10231

Binding: Journal

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

This issue has only light wear ; spine is not creased or cracked. ; Fall 2010; Photos; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 152, ads pages; Articles on early Southern music. CD not present .
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Southern Cultures Memory

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press: 2011

Seller ID: 10239

Binding: Journal

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

This issue has only light wear ; spine is not creased or cracked. ; Fall 2011; Photos; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 119, ads pages; Articles on Southern memory.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

By: Agee, James and Walker Evans

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1969

Seller ID: 14304

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Book has only light wear and minor foxing on front foredge. Jacket has some small tears and chips along edges with an old tape repair on the inside at the top of the rear spine fold. Overall, a solid copy. This is the 1969 printing of Agee and Evan's great work on the Depression-era, rural South. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 471 pages
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Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida

By: Bartram, William

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Charlottesville VA, University of Virginia Press: 1980

Seller ID: 8914

Binding: Hardcover

Rust boards with gilt lettering on spine. Book has only light wear and is NF. Jacket has some mild edge and corner wear ans spine is lightly sunned. VG ; Sepia Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 535 pages; Quality facsimile of the 1792 London edition with the 9 original plates, and 17 other illustrations. Introduction by Gordon DeWolf. This facsimile was published under arrangement with the Beehive press of Savannah Georgia. Georgiana 11. DeRenne I 250. Howes B223.
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Southern Cultures

By: Bishir, Catherine W., et. al.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Durham, Duke University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 8530

Binding: Softcover

This copy has only very light, general wear with slight, pen point sized indents in places on the front cover. Square and securely bound. VG+ to NF. ; Vol. 1; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 141 pages; Inaugural Issue (stated) of this highly influential magazine devoted to issues concerning the American South,. . The main articles in this issue are: Landmarks of Power: Building a Southern Past, 1855-1915 by Katherine W. Bishir, The Southern Accent -- Alive and Well by Michael Montgomery, The Anxiety of History: The Southern Confrontation with Modernity by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and The Narrative o...
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Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor

By: Blount, Roy, Jr. (Ed. )

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 1994

Seller ID: 8729

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Book has light shelf wear. Jacket has a couple of dings on corners but is still close to NF. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 668 pages; Great collection of Southern humor, edited by one of the great Southern humorists.
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Oratory in the New South

By: Braden, Waldo W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1979

Seller ID: 6383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

The book exhibits only light wear. The dustjacket has edge and corner wear including some small chips and tears. Though, except for these edge problems the dustjacket is VG or better. This is an attractive copy . ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages; This is a book of essays on rhetorical styles and speechmaking in the South following the Civil War. The book tries to show how speeches by men like Henry Grady, various Confederate veterans, Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Dubois used speeches and oratory to bring about change in the South. Interesting essays.
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Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe III

By: Brewer, Sonny (ed.)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: San Francisco, MacAdam/Cage: 2004

Seller ID: 10321

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Book and jacket are new and unread. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 386 pages; Signed by twenty-seven, including Rick Bragg, of the thirty-one authors in this collection.
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Carryin' On And Other Strange Things Southerners Do

By: Brunner, R. Scott

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Villard Books: 2001

Seller ID: 8860

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are new. S ticker from Square Books in Oxford MS on front pastedown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages; Funny book about distinctly Southern activities. ; Signed by Author
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Storytellers : Folktales & Legends from the South

By: Burrison, John A. (ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Athens, University of Georgia Press: 1989

Seller ID: 14820

ISBN: 0820310999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are as new, unread. Great collection of tall tales and stories from throughout the South, includes Native Americans and African-Americans. ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 261 pages
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1943-1944 Buyers' Guide to Southern Hosiery and Knitwear Manufacturers

By: Clark Publishing Co.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Charlotte, Clark Publishing Company: 1944

Seller ID: 13248

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Orange cloth with black titles. Some wear, soiling and aging including an ink stain on the front , upper right. Slight cock to spine. Binding is secure with no tears or parting, ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 208 pages; 1043-1944 edition of this annual guide to what was once a major industry in the Southeast. Great ads and a compendium of businesses that once existed but are now almost completely gone.
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Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference for Education in the South and the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Southern Educational Association

By: Claxton, P. P. (et. al.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Louisville, Executive Committee of the Conference and the Southern Education Association: 1914

Seller ID: 13542

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Green cloth with gilt titles on spine. Some light wear and expected aging. Still square and securely bound.; B&W Frontispiece; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 381 + Index pages; Nice copy of this thorough report on the state of education in the South in 1914. A supplement and receipt card are laid in.
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Representative Women of the South, 1861-1927, Vol. 4

By: Collier, Mrs. Bryan Wells

Price: $75.00

Publisher: College Park (?), Mrs. Bryan Wells Collier: 1927

Seller ID: 14531

Binding: Hardcover

The book is from a library. There are call numbers on the spine and a few stamps on the font endpapers but no other marks or pockets. The book is black leather with gilt titles. The leather is scuffed all along the edges and corners, there is cracking of the leather on the spine and there are stray marks on the cover surfaces. But, the book is square and there are notears or parting in the binding. This is a solid copy that grades G+ and might even be VG-. This is Volume 4 only of Colliers 5-volume set of women with connections to the Confederacy and the South. ; Ex-Library; B&W Photographs; ...
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The Other South Southern Dissenters in the Nineteenth Century

By: Degler, Carl

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row, Publishers: 1974

Seller ID: 7502

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Book has only light wear and aging. Former owner's name in ink on ffep. Book is square and binding is tight. Jacket has a few small chips along top; otherwise quite attractive and bright. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 392 pages
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A History of Appalachia

By: Drake, Richard B.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky: 2001

Seller ID: 13070

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book appears to be about new. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 292 pages; Likely done as a textbook, this volume offers a concise history of the Southern Appalachians with a concentration on the coal mining areas of Kentucky, west Virginia and Tennessee, but covering the entire region. No dust wrapper was issued.
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Fifty Southern Writers after 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook

By: Flora, Joseph M. and Robert Bain (eds.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Greenwood Press: 1987

Seller ID: 16232

ISBN: 0313245193

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Gray cloth over boards with gilt titles in black rectangle. Very light general wear with light overall aging including toning spots or foxing on edges, mainly on top. "Property of Greenwood Press" stamp on ffep. This is an excellent bibliographical reference on 20th century Southern writers including biographical-critical essays on each. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 628 pages
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A New Reader of the Old South Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Essays, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920

By: Forkner, Ben and Patrick Samway, S. J. (Eds. )

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Atlanta, Peachtree Publishers Ltd: 1991

Seller ID: 8867

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

Book and jacket appear to be New and unread. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 644 pages; Great collection of various writing from the South prior to 1920. Some emphasis on slave narratives and music.
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A Southern Album

By: Glusker, Irwin, editor and Willie Morris, Narrative

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Birmingham, Oxmoor House: 1975

Seller ID: 9918

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Book has some minor foxing on the half title page, the last 2 acknowledgement pages and foredges, else NF. Dust jacket has two tears on bottom edge and light wear to all edges. ; B & W and Color Photos; 4to 11" - 13" tall; not paginated pages; "Recollections of some people and places and times gone by." This is copy # 9763 of 50,000 copies of the first edition signed by editor Glusker on a bookplate on front pastedown.
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Down through Dixie with Southeastern Greyhound Lines

By: Greyhound Lines

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Atlanta, Southeastern Greyhound Lines: 1947

Seller ID: 7043

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

This brochure has only very light wear and aging. Remarkable condition ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 20 pages; This is a Greyhound brochure for the southeastern US. It features Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Based on the photos this copy comes from the 1940's. This copy is in EX-NF condition. Great view of travel in the Southeast just after WWII.
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Stories of the South Old and New

By: Hibbard, Addison

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press: 1931

Seller ID: 8505

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Book is square and securely bound. Some age toning on the foredges and interior endpapers. Jacket has edge and corner wear including small chips and tears and a small area of loss at top of spine. Jacket is not price-clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 520 pages; Collection of short stories by Southern writers includin African-Americans, Paul Dunbar, Benjamin Brawley and Charles Chesnutt. Other writers in this anthology include, Joel Chandler Harris, George Washington Cable, William Gilmore Simms, Lyle Saxon, Richard Malcolm Johnston and many others.
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The South and its Newspapers, 1903-1953

By: Johnson, Walter C. and Arthur T. Robb

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chattanooga, Southern Newspaper Publishers Association: 1954

Seller ID: 5584

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Bluish-green boards with some edge and corner wear. Book is square and binding has no tears or parting. Dust jacket blurb on Walter Johnson is attached to front pastedown. No jacket. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 386 pages; Signed with an inscription by Johnson on ffep, including a quote from Charles Lamb. Johnson was a longtime Chattanooga newsman and editor. ; Signed by Author
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The South and its Newspapers, 1903-1953

By: Johnson, Walter C. and Arthur T. Robb

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Chattanooga, Southern Newspaper Publishers Association: 1954

Seller ID: 9966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Bluish-green boards with some edge and corner wear. Dustjacket blurb on Walter Johnson is attached to front pastedown. No jacket. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 386 pages; Signed with an inscription by Johnson on ffep, including a longish quote from Charles Lamb. The inscription is to longtime Chattanooga businessman, journalist and collector, Bob Sudderth. Johnson was a longtime Chattanooga newsman and editor. ; Signed by Author
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Category: South