Search Results: SOUTHERN LITERATURE from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940. . 8vo, green cloth, spine slightly faded; dust jacket with some very minor chipping at top edge and over corners. Includes studies of James Branch Cabell, Cather Dos Passos, and Thomas Wolfe

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

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1953. . 8vo, red textured cloth; dust jacket with a few small closed tears; edges of text block slightly soiled; ownership signature on front free endpaper. Georgia author. First Edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. . 8vo, lime-green cloth; top edge green, slightly faded; dust jacket. First Edition

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce; Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952. . 8vo, bright apple-green cloth, spine faded; dust jacket with a few minor chips at head and tail; first few leaves slightly stained due to glue-migration from pastedown. First Edition

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

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

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1907. . Large 8vo, sage-green cloth, intricate stamped design on front cover in silver, cream and gold; t.e.g. an usually bright and clean copy; bookplate on verso of front free endpaper. First Edition. Brussel 4

Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1953. . 8vo, blue cloth, dust jacket (spine faded) and with a minor chip at front lower corner. First Edition. Mississippi author

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. . 8vo, black cloth; dust jacket; top edge blue

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. . 12mo, orange cloth spine and front cover printed in gold and dark orange, some wear to corners and head and tail of spine; ownership signature on front free endpaper FIRST EDITION. BAL 14807, first printing. Wright III, 3890. Born in Murfreesboro

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

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1905. . Large 8vo, green cloth, front cover with intricate tree design stamped in white, pictorial paper label (minor chipping) and gilt lettering; some wear to extremities of spine and over corners; t.e.g. First Edition of the author's second book. Brussel 2

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

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

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 root was a South Carolina statute that required the imprisonment of black seamen who came ashore or , if found to be former slaves, their return to that condition. The state's Statute was eventually found to be unconstitutional because it was in conflict with a treaty signed between the governments of the United States and Great Britain

Paris: Gallimard, 1979. . 8vo, stiff white wrappers, front pictorial; vertical crease to front cover, corners somewhat bumped First French paperback, inscribed on the leaf preceding the half-title "To Renee W---With many thanks from Erskine Caldwell"

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: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. . 8vo, pale-blue cloth; dust jacket with very minor chips at head of spine; t.e.red. First Edition

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 information.Although claimed by Kentucky, Stanton was born in Virginia, his father was also Virginia-born and served as a Representative in Congress for Virginia, his brother, the author's uncle, served as a Representative from Tennessee.Stanton was a lawyer, a journalist, and did settle in Kentucky of which he was a long-time Poet Lareate. His best known poem is the "Moneyless Man". This posthumous publication contains one poem, not previously collected