Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Uncommon Vernacular: The Early Houses of Jefferson County, West Virginia 1735-1835

By: Allen, John C., Jr.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Morgantown, West Virginia University Press : 2011

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 14408

ISBN-13: 9781933202877

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are as new. Oversized book with beautiful photography and serious discussion of earlt houses in West Virginia. Oversized volume will require extra postage. First Edition. First Printing. ; Photography and Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 367 pages
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Worldly Hopes Poems

By: Ammons, A. R.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company : 1982

Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 10528

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book appears to be unread. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 51 pages; Flatsigned by Ammons on title page. ; Signed by Author
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Even the Stars Look Lonesome

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1997

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 14086

ISBN-13: 9780375500312

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are as new, fresh and unread. This is one of Angelou's non-fiction works discussing her beliefs and philosophies. First Edition. First Printing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 145 pages
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1993

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 14084

ISBN-13: 9780679427438

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are as new, fresh and unread. This is one of Angelou's non-fiction works discussing her beliefs and philosophies. First Edition. First Printing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 141 pages
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Baby of the Family

By: Ansa, Tina McElroy

Price: $35.00

Publisher: San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : 1989

Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing

Seller ID: 14550

ISBN-13: 9780151104314

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are both about as new. This was Ansa's debut novel.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 265 pages
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The One-Cent Magenta: Inside the Quest to Own the Most Valuable Stamp in the World

By: Barron, James

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books : 2017

Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing

Seller ID: 16381

ISBN-13: 9781616205188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are as new, with remainder mark on bottom edge. Involving history of the one-cent magenta -- the world's most valuable stamp. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 276 pages
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A Church on Peachtree: a Sesquicentennial Story, 1848-1998

By: Bassett, Beth Dawkins

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Atlanta, First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta : 1998

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 14057

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket appear unused. This is a history of the First presbyterian Church of Atlanta. First Edition. First Printing. Oversized book may require extra postage. ; B&W and Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 128 pages
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Unfinished Blues : Memories of a New Orleans Music Man

By: Battiste, Harold, Jr.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New Orleans, The Historic New Orleans Collection : 2010

Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing

Seller ID: 13155

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book is new and unread. Jacket is also new and in mylar. ; B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 196 pages; Autobiography of famed New Orleans musician. Really good on New Orleans music and musicians.
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Memphis Tennessee Garrison :The Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman

By: Bickley, Ancella R. and Lynda Ann Ewen

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Athens, Ohio University Press : 2001

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 11951

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are as new; book is unread. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 249 pages; The story of an African-American woman and activist from the mountains of West Virginia. Historical Afterword by Joe Trotter.
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Reach for the Sun, Selected Letters 1978-1994, Volume 3

By: Bukowski, Charles

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press : 1999

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 15496

ISBN-13: 9781574230895

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and clear acetat jacket are as new and unread. This is one of 376 numbered hardcover volumes that contain an original seriagraph by Bukowski. This is #108. This volume was published posthumusly by Bukowski's wife. ; Color Serigraph (#108 of 376); tall 8vo 9 - 10 tall; 309 pages
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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang

By: Burns, Robert E.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Savannah, Beehive Press : 1994

Edition: First Edition Thus; First Printing

Seller ID: 14627

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket appear unused, with, perhaps, very minor shelf wear. True story of Burns who was imprisoned in Georgia for a minor crime. He then went through escape, reimprisonment and another escape. He was a fugitive and a cause celebre' when this book was written. Famous movie starring Paul Muni was based on this book. This is the special Beehive Press edition from 1994; the first edition was in 1932. Introduction by Alan Lichtenstein. Georgianna 116. ; Library of Georgia; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 145 pages
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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang

By: Burns, Robert E.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Savannah, Beehive Press : 1994

Edition: First Edition Thus; First Printing

Seller ID: 14628

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are still in original shrink wrap. Brand new copy. True story of Burns who was imprisoned in Georgia for a minor crime. He then went through escape, reimprisonment and another escape. He was a fugitive and a cause celebre' when this book was written. Famous movie starring Paul Muni was based on this book. This is the special Beehive Press edition from 1994; the first edition was in 1932. Introduction by Alan Lichtenstein. Georgianna 116. ; Library of Georgia; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 145 pages
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A Remarkable Mother

By: Carter, Jimmy

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : 2009

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 15966

ISBN-13: 9781416562450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are as new. Book is unread. Signed on title page by President Carter. This is Carter's memoir/biography of his mother, Lillian. ; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 222 pages; Signed by Author
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This Water

By: Carver, Raymond

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Concord, NH, William B. Ewert : 1985

Edition: 1st, limited #183; First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 7338

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 21 pages; This is one of 100 signed copies, in handsewn paper wraps. 21 pages, book and wrapper are in fne condition. ; Signed by Author
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Heidegger and a Hippo Walk through Those Pearly Gates :Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife and Everything in Between

By: Cathcart, Thomas and Daniel Klein

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking : 2009

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 11959

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book appears to be as new and unread; jacket is as new also. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 245 pages; A study of the "Big Questions" using jokes and a flippant attitude. Really funny book.
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Beat Poets

By: Ciuraru, Carmela (ed.)

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf/Everyman : 2002

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 15084

ISBN-13: 9780375413322

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are both about pristine. This fine collection of Beat Generation poetry is signed on the ffep by Harold Norse, Gary Snyder, David Meltzer, Joanna McClure, and, by his listing in the Table of Contents, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Autographs of some of the most important Beat Poets. We also have an Uncorrected Proof of this volume, signed by Ferlinghetti. (Please see our #15085.) ; Everyman's Library Pocket Poets; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 250 pages;
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My Life

By: Clinton, Bill

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 2004

Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing

Seller ID: 14462

ISBN-13: 9780375414572

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book appears as new and unread. Jacket is near pristine, in Mylar. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 957 +Index pages
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Outliers and American Vanguard Art

By: Cooke, Lynne, et. al.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington, Chicago, National Gallery of Art, University of Chicago Press : 2018

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 16112

ISBN-13: 9780226522272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are as new. Wonderful book filled with images from American and European outsider or outlier artis like Howard Finster, Bill Traylor, Henry Darger, Sam Doyle, Elijah Pierce and many others. The book is both a presentation and assessment of this astonishing art. ; Color Photography; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 396 pages
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Silver Rights

By: Curry, Constance

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books : 1995

Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 14074

ISBN-13: 9781565120952

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are as new. Signed by Curry on the half-title with no inscription. This is an inspiring true story of one black family's' attempt to integrate the all-white school in Sunflower County Mississippi. There is an Introduction by Marian Wright Edelman. First Edition. First Printing. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258 pages; Signed by Author
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Soheyl Dahi: Photographs

By: Dahi, Soheyl

Price: $500.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Sore Dove Press : 2011

Edition: 1st Edition, Limited; #11 of 30

Seller ID: 16073

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

5 loose introductory sheets (with black paper magnetic wraparound band) + 12 black and white photographs of poets and artists, most from the Bay Area: photographs are 8X10. 26x20 cm (8x10"). All housed in a black leatherette drop-back box, lettered in silver. No. 11 of 30 copies. Photographs and box are all fine. Born in Iran, Soheyl Dahi is a professor, artist and poet, and also the founder of Sore Dove Press in San Francisco. He took the photographs in this limited edition with a Kodak Instamatic Camera he purchased in Teheran in 1966 when he was 12 years old. The images are of Leonard Coh...
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The Whatchamacallit : Those Everyday Objects You Just Can't Name and Things You Think You Know about but Don't

By: Danziger, Danny and Mark McCrum

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Hyperion : 2000

Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing

Seller ID: 12169

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book is new and unread. Jacket is also new. ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 200 pages
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Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-Four Books That Can Change Lives

By: Denby, David

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company : 2016

Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing

Seller ID: 16684

ISBN-13: 9780805095852

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are as new and unused. In this book, the author goes to three quite different secondary schools and observes the way that teachers, teaching great books, affect the lives of students in powerful ways. Excellent reading from the author of Great Books.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 257 pages
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Unsolved Mysteries of the Sea: An Eye-Opening Exploration of Lost Lands, Phantom Ships, and Dangerous Denizens of the Deep

By: Fanthorpe, Lionel and Patricia

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, MJF Books : 2004

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 14681

ISBN-13: 9781567319101

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket appear to be as new, near pristine. The book is a compilation of supposedly unsolved mysteries of the sea with such diverse subjects as the Mary Celeste, Atlantis, The Philadelphia Experement and several others. The book does offer some reasonable solutions to many of these mysteries. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 237 pages
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Mercy Road Stories of South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia

By: Farley, Benjamin Wirt

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Atlanta, Cherokee Publishing Company : 1986

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 7246

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

The book and jacket appear to be New. ; B & W Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 127 pages; Stories set in three Southern states by a respected regional author. This is a beautiful copy. ; Signed by Author
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The Truth (with Jokes)

By: Franken, Al

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Dutton : 2005

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 14455

ISBN-13: 9780525949060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are as new. Franken's thoughts on politics in Washington -- with jokes. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 336 pages
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Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket