Structure, Verses, Agency Books

These Precious Days: Essays

Patchett, Ann · 2021

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, HarperCollins, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author of this fine collection of literary essays, being inscribed warmly to "Ted" and dated. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and ...

The Clemson House Cook Book

Paget, Russie H. · 1955

$112.00 (€101.62 | £84.78 | ¥17,885)

Clinton, South Carolina, Printed by the Jacobs Brothers, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in light brown cloth over boards, purple lettering and illustration to front ...

The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth, and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina

Rash, Ron · 1994

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Columbia, South Carolina, The Bench Press, 1994. Third Printing. Softcover. . Illustrated glossy card-stock wraps. Evocative short stories from the Appalachian poet and short story-writer. Previous owner's book-plate at first free endpaper, resulting in slight waffling. Faint ...

The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth, and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina

Rash, Ron · 1994

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Columbia, South Carolina, The Bench Press, 1994. Third Printing. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Illustrated glossy card-stock wraps. Evocative short stories from the Appalachian poet and short story-writer. Previous owner's book-plate at first free endpaper, resulting in sligh...

Eureka MILL

Rash, Ron · 1998

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Beaufort, South Carolina, The Bench Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. SIGNED by the author at title-page. Illustrated glossy card-stock wraps. Evocative poetry from the Appalachian poet and short story-writer. Previous owner's book-plate at first free ...

Casualties

Rash, Ron · 2000

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Beaufort, South Carolina, The Bench Press, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. SIGNED and dated by the author at the half-title, inscribed warmly by him to a fellow poet and "good soul." Illustrated glossy card-stock wraps. Evocative short stories from the Appa...

The Juice

Barks, Coleman · 1972

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.31 | ¥7,026)

New York, Harper & Row, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Currently a unique item, being SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper and whose previous owner then gifted the collection of poetry to her mother at length and in a beautiful hand. Bound simp...

Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption

Hipchen, Emily · 2005

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Teaneck, New Jersey, The Literate Chigger Press, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine memoir of adoption, also a fine autobiography, a quest for identity and self-worth. From a publisher's blurb, "This memoir tells the story of two teenagers of diffe...

Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption

Hipchen, Emily · 2005

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Teaneck, New Jersey, The Literate Chigger Press, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine memoir of adoption, also a fine autobiography, a quest for identity and self-worth. From a publisher's blurb, "This memoir tells the story of two teenagers of diffe...

Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption

Hipchen, Emily · 2005

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Teaneck, New Jersey, The Literate Chigger Press, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed at the half-title by the author of this fine memoir of adoption, also a fine autobiography, a quest for identity and self-worth. From a publisher's blurb, "This mem...

Coronology

Bateman, Claire · 2010

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Etruscan Press, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page, warmly inscribed to her fellow poet and "soul-sister," Elizabeth Boleman-Herring. Glossy card-stock wraps. Author also of Leap, Clumsy, and ...

Inheritance of Horses

Kilgo, James · 1994

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page, inscribed warmly there to the previous owner in full. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior...

Ava's Man

Bragg, Rick · 2001

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The frontispiece photo of a man holding a large catfish, I mean, a really large catfish, entices the reader into this fine biography of the author's mother in the Appalachian foothills during t...

Myths of the Cherokee

Mooney, James · 1995

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Dover Publications, 1995. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition Thus, being the first Dover edition, a fine-looking trade paperback with bright and colorful card-stock wraps. Previous owner's bookplate at first free endpaper. Fr...

Cross Creek Cookery

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan · 1942

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Charles A. Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Colorful, illustrated cloth over boards, illustrated by Robert Camp. Light wear and tear, light dust s...

The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic

Spufford, Francis and Elizabeth Kolbert, eds. · 2007

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Bloomsbury, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Nicely bound dos-a-dos, "An Anthology of the Finest Writing on The Arctic," edited by Elizabeth Kolbert," being "upside-down" of "An Anthology of the Finest Writing on The Antarctic," edited by Fran...

A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles

Dillon, Millicent · 1981

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Henry Holt & Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean though with light toning and soiling to first free endpaper and with the previous owner's bookplate there, lightly to...

Greek Fire: The Story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis

Gage, Nicholas · 2000

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition exemplar of a fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond ...

The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith

Smith, Stevie; James MacGibbon, compiler · 1976

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Oxford University Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. James MacGibbon has compiled a collection of the poetry of Stevie Smith and provided a fascinating, deeply personal Preface discussing her life. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcov...

Greek Island Life: Fieldwork on Anafi

Kenna, Margaret E. · 2001

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Harwood Academic, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy of a fascinating, engaging memoir of ethnographic fieldwork. In gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the bright and shiny pictorial co...