Section XVII: Other Southern Literature



Number Item Edition Condition Cost
17-1.Agee, James, "Rufus" in The New Yorker, November 2, 1957original (VG)5.00
17-2.(Agee) Larsen, James Agee (1971)paperback original, first printing (XL, VG)3.00
17-3.Allen, Lane, Flute and Violin and Other Kentucky Tales and Romances (1891)1894 printing (VG minus/none, as issued)10.00
17-4.Allenroc, M.R., The White Castle of Louisiana (1903)1986 Louisiana Library Association reprint (F/none, as issued?)10.00
17-5.Anderson, Sherwood, "Many Marriages" in The Dial, October 1922original (XL, VG)5.00
17-6.Anderson, "They Come Bearing Gifts" in The American Mercury, October 1930original (VG)5.00
17-7.Anderson, A handwritten letter, with the hand-addressed envelope bearing his return address, postmarked 1927.original (VG)100.00
17-8.(Anderson) Anderson, "My Brother, Sherwood Anderson" in Saturday Review of Literature, September 4, 1948:
Nice cover photo.
original (edge rough where removed from bound volume, otherwise VG)5.00
17-9.Bahr, Howard, The Year of Jubilo (2000)softbound Advance Reader's Edition (F)3.00
17-10.(Bell, Madison Smartt) signed book plateoriginal (F)10.00
17-11.(Bouvet, Marguerite) signed card:
Bouvet was a 19th Century writer of children's books living in New Orleans
original (F)25.00
17-12.Brady and Grismer, A Gentleman from Mississippi (1909)paperback original (VG)15.00
17-13.Bragg, Rick, All Over But the Shoutin' (1997)first printing (F/F)6.00
17-14.Bragg, Ava's Man (2001)a) first printing (VG/VG)6.00
b) softbound uncorrected proof (VG)6.00
17-15.Brown, Larry, Dirty Work (1989)a) first printing (VG/VG)6.00
b) First English edition, paperback original, signed (F)50.00
17-16.Brown, Larry, Father and Son (1996)softbound uncorrected proof, signed (F)50.00
17-17.(Brown, Rita Mae) signed 5" by 7" photooriginal (F)15.00
17-18.(Butler, Robert Olen) signed bookplateoriginal (F)10.00
17-19.Cabell, James Branch, The Cream of the Jest (1917)1927 illustrated edition, first impression thus, with beautiful stylized work by Frank Pape (VG plus/none)30.00
17-20.Cabell, "Almost Touching the Confederacy" in The Atlantic, October 1946original (XL, VG)5.00
17-21.Cabell, "Those Unwritten Books" in Encore: The Magazine, April 1942:
A reprint.
original (VG)3.00
17-22.(Cabell) Colum and Cabell, eds., Between Friends: Letters of James Branch Cabell and Others (1962)first printing (F/VG minus)15.00
17-23.(Cabell) Holt, A Bibliography of the Writings of James Branch Cabell (1972)first printing (F/none, as issued?)20.00
17-24.(Cabell) Tarrant, James Branch Cabell: The Dream and the Reality (1967)first printing (XL/D, F/none)8.00
17-25.(Cabell) A bibliography in The Booklover's Answer, January-February 1963original (VG)5.00
17-26.Cable, George W., A Southerner Looks at Negro Discrimination (1946):
A selection from Marxist International Publishers.
softbound (F)20.00
17-27.(Cable) Rubin, George W. Cable: The Life and Times of a Southern Heretic (1969)first printing (F/ dirty, else VG)10.00
17-28.(Cable) Turner, George W. Cable: A Biography (1956)first printing (XL/D, F/none)8.00
17-29.Caldwell, Erskine, Stories of Life - North and South (1983):
"Selections from the best short stories."
first printing (VG/VG)8.00
17-30.(Caldwell) signed 8 1/2" by 11" typed excerpt from Tobacco Roadoriginal (F)30.00
17-31.(Caldwell) 1937 program from a New York City theater production of Tobacco Roadoriginal (VG)5.00
17-32.(Caldwell) signed 8" by 10" photooriginal (F)45.00
17-33.Capote, Truman, In Cold Blood (1965)first printing (G/G)25.00
17-34.Capote, Truman, House of Flowers - stage productionoriginal 1955 program from Alvin Theatre in New York City (VG)10.00
17-35.Capote, "Shut a Final Door" in The Atlantic, August, 1947original (XL, VG)5.00
17-36.(Capote) A bibliographical checklist in American Book Collector, July-August, 1980original (VG)3.00
17-37.(Capote) An interview in The Paris Review, Spring-Summer, 1957original (VG)5.00
17-38.Chase, Richard, The Jack Tales (1943):
Folk tales from the mountain country of North Carolina.
1971 edition, later printing (VG/VG)8.00
17-39.Deal, Borden, The Insolent Breed (1959)first printing (VG/VG)20.00
17-40.Dickey, James Head Deep In Strange Sounds (1979)signed Advance Reading Proof (F)75.00
17-41.Dickey, James Tuckey the Hunter (1978)first printing (VG/VG)8.00
17-42.(Dickey, James) Bruccoli and Baughman, James Dickey: A Descriptive Bibliography (1990)first printing (F/none, as issued)25.00
17-43.Douglas, Ellen, "Julia and Nellie" in The Southern Review, Autumn 1996original (F)3.00
17-44.Edgerton, Clyde, Raney (1985)unrevised proof of author's first book (covers unevenly faded, something inked out on half-title, otherwise VG)200.00
17-45.Edgerton, Solo: My Adventures In the Air (2005)softbound Advance Reading Copy (F)10.00
17-46.Ford, Jesse Hill, "What Happened Next" in The New Yorker, June 26, 1995original (F)3.00
17-47.(Ford) signed book plateoriginal (F)10.00
17-48.Gaines, Ernest J., Mozart and Leadbelly (2005) softbound Uncorrected Proof (VG)8.00
17-49.Gay, William, Provinces of Night (2001) softbound Boound Galleys (spine creased, else VG)8.00
17-50.Gilchrist, Collected Stories (2000)first printing (F/F)10.00
17-51.Glasgow, Ellen, The Voice of the People (1902)first printing (VG/none, as published)10.00
17-52.Glasgow, The Wheel of Life (1906)first printing (VG minus/none, as published)10.00
17-53.Glasgow, Phases of an Inferior Planet (1898)first printing (VG, though lacking erratum slip/none, as published)50.00
17-54.Glasgow, Five Letters Concerning Censorship (1862)limited edition from the Friends of the Richmond Public Library (F)30.00
17-55.Glasgow, "Elder and Younger Brother" in The Saturday Review of Literature, January 23, 1937original (F)10.00
17-56.Glasgow, "A Point In Morals" in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1943original (F)5.00
17-57.(Glasgow) Rouse, Letters of Ellen Glasgow (1958)first printing (VG/VG minus)10.00
17-58.(Glasgow) Haardt, "Ellen Glasgow and the South" in The Bookman, April 1929original (VG)5.00
17-59.(Glasgow) The Ellen Glasgow Newsletter, #2, March 1975original (VG)5.00
17-60.Grau, Shirley Ann, The Keepers of the House (1966)German language, German publication, edition unknown(F/F)6.00
17-61.Grau, The Condor Passes (1971)softbound advance proof (VG/none, as published)10.00
17-62.Grau, "Joshua" in Perspectives, #12 (1955)original UK edition (VG)3.00
17-63.(Grisham, John) signed 6" by 4" excerpt from The Chamberoriginal (VF)25.00
17-64.(Grisham) 8" by 10" photo signed by a star of the movie of The Clientoriginal (VG)10.00
17-65.(Grisham) 27" by 41" promotionalk poster for the movie of The Pelican Brieforiginal (VG)10.00
17-66.Gurganus, Allan, "Lord? Remember Thy Beauty Parlor Operators, Lord" in The Paris Review, Summer 1989original (VG)3.00
17-67.Gurganus, advance excerpt of White People in The Borzoi Reader, June 1990original (VG)7.00
Barry Hannah
17-68.Hannah, Barry, Geronimo Rex (1972):
Author's first book.
An excerpt from the not-yet-published novel, in Works In Progress (1972), paperback original (F minus)8.00
17-69.Hannah, Nightwatchmen (1973)first printing, review copy (F/F)140.00
17-70.Hannah, Airships (1978)first printing, inscribed (F/F)45.00
17-71.Hannah, Ray (1980)first printing (F/VG)10.00
17-72.Hannah, Power and Light (1983)#48 of 75 signed copies (F/none, as issued)120.00
17-73.Hannah, The Tennis Handsome (1983)first printing (F/F)15.00
17-74.Hannah, Boomerang (1989)first printing (F/VG)10.00
17-75.Hannah, Never Die (1991)first printing (F/F)10.00
17-76.Hannah, Bats Out of Hell (1993) first printing, signed (VG/F)20.00
17-77.Hannah, High Lonesome (1996)first printing (F/F)12.00
17-78.(Hannah) interview in The Southern Review, Spring 1983original (VG)3.00
Hannah, See also item 15-44 signed by Hannah and others.
End Hannah
17-79.Harris, Bernice Kelly, Folk Plays of Eastern Carolina (1940):
Plays based on life in eastern North Carolina, with phtographs from productions.
first printing (XL, VG/none)10.00
17-80.(Harris, Joel Chandler) Harris, Joel Chandler Harris (1918):
A, illustrated biography of the author of Uncle Remus by his daughter.
first printing ( VG minus/none)30.00
17-81.(Kantor, Mackinlay) review of Arouse and Beware in The Saturday Review of Literature, November 14, 1936:
Good cover photo.
original (F)5.00
17-82.Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)first paperback printing (1962) (F)10.00
17-83.Mason, Bobbie Ann, Shiloh and Other Stories (1982)first printing (VG/VG minus)6.00
17-84.Matthiessen, Peter, Race Rock (1954)first printing (VG/none)8.00
17-85.Matthiessen, Raditzer (1961)first printing (XL, VG/none)5.00
17-86.(McCorkle, Jill) signed 7" by 5" photooriginal (F)25.00
17-87.(McCorkle, Jill) Algonquin Out Loud (2001):
A promotional-only CD from Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill with material by Jill McCorkle, Louise Steinman and Joan Silbur. I do not know if the readings are by the authors themselves.
original (sealed)5.00
17-88.(McCullers) Cook, Carson McCullers (1975)third printing (1982) (F/VG)10.00
17-89.(McCullers) brief biographiocal piece by Tennessee Williams, and a review of Clock Without Hands in Saturday Review, September 23, 1961original (edge rough whewre removed from bound volume, otherwise VG)3.00
17-90.(McCullers) bibliographical checklist in American Book Collector, January-February 1984original (VG)3.00
17-91.(McCullers) color 9" by 12" magazine ad for the movie version of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunteroriginal(VG)3.00
17-92.(McCullers) promotional pressbook for the movie version of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunteroriginal(first page may be cut, otherwise VG)15.00
17-93.Meads, Kat, Born Southern and Restless (1996)first softbound edition, review copy (VG)5.00
17-94.Mitchell, Margaret Gone With the Wind (1936) a hardbound bookclub edition, likely from the 1950s (VG minus/ G plus)6.00
17-95.Mitchell, Margaret Gone With the Wind: Motion Picture Edition (1940):
The complete text with color photos from the movie.
a) paperback original, first printing (G)15.00
b) second printing - the first hardbound edition (F minus/none)20.00
17-96.Mitchell, Margaret Lost Laysen (1996)first printing(F/F)6.00
17-97.Moore, John Trotwood, A Summer Hymnal (1901)Cokesbury Press edition (VG/VG)15.00
17-98.Morris, Willie, The Courting of Marcus Dupree (1983)first printing, inscribed by Morris in 1984 (VG/VG)70.00
17-99.Morris, The Ghosts of Medgar Evers (1998)first printing (F/F)8.00
17-100.Morris, Taps (2001)first printing (F/F)8.00
Morris, See also item 5-4, a book by Morris, and item 15-44, signed by Morris and others.
17-101.Norris, Gloria, Three Stories (1986):
Mississippi author
#177 of 300 softbound signed copies (VG)10.00
17-102.O'Connor, Flannery, The Violent Bear It Away (1960)first printing (name on half-title, else VG/ spine is gone, remainder of jacket is present with light edge chipping) 75.00
17-103.(O'Connor) Fitzgerland, Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor (1979)1980 softbound printing (VG minus) 5.00
17-104.Oemler, Marie Conway, Johnny Reb (1929)second printing (VG/VG)20.00
17-105.Page, Thomas Nelson, The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock (1901)first printing (VG/none, as published)5.00
17-106.Page, Two Little Confederates (1932)1960 edition (VG/VG minus minus)10.00
17-107.Patchett, Ann, The Magician's Assistant (1997)softbound Advance Reading Copy (F/none, as published)10.00
17-108.(Percy, Walker) Allen, Walker Percy: A Southern Wayfarer (1986):
A critical study based on Percy's life.
first printing (XL, VG/VG)8.00
17-109.(Percy, Walker) Hobson, Walker Percy: A Comprehensive Descriptive Bibliography (1988):
With an introduction by Percy.
first printing (F/none, as issued?)30.00
17-110.(Percy) Hobson, Understanding Walker Percy (1988)softbound, second printing (1990) (F)6.00
17-111.Porter, Katherine Anne, The Downward Path to Wisdom (1952):
A phonograph record with the story read by Porter
original (G/G)10.00
17-112.(Porter) Givner, Katherine Anne Porter: A Life (1982):
A biography.
softbound (VG)6.00
17-113.Price, Reynolds, A Long and Happy Life (1962)first edition(VG, though name in front and something inked out in back/none)5.00
17-114.(Price, Reynolds) Wright and West, Reynolds Price: A Bibliography 1949-1984 (1986) first printing (F/none, as issued?)25.00
17-115.Ransom, John Crowe, "Master's In the Garden Again" in Kenyon Review, Summer 1962original(VG)5.00
17-116.Ransom, "Two Gentlemen Scholars" in Kenyon Review, Issue 1, 1969original(F)5.00
17-117.(Ransom) Stewart, John Crowe Ransom (1962):
University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers #18.
paperback orioginal (F)3.00
17-118.(Ransom) Young, Gentleman In a Dustcoat: A Biography of John Crowe Ransom (1976)later softbound printing (VG)6.00
17-119.Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, abridgment of The Sojourner in Omnibook, July 1953original (VG)3.00
17-120.Sanders, Dori, O Clover (1990) later printing, signed (VG/VG)6.00
17-121.Settle, Mary Lee, O Beulah Land (1956) first printing (F/VG)20.00
17-122.Settle, All the Brave Promises (1966)UK softbound uncorrected proof (VG)25.00
17-123.Settle, Charley Bland (1989) softbound uncorrected proof (VG)6.00
17-124.Settle, Choices (1995) softbound uncorrected proof (F)6.00
17-125.Settle, "Congress Burney" in The Paris Review, Fall-Winter 1954-5original (VG)5.00
17-126.Settle, "Rite of Summer" in Contact, #3, 1959original (VG)5.00
17-127.(Settle) Rosenberg, Mary Lee Settle's Beulah Quintet: The Price of Freedom (1991)first printing, review copy (F/F)15.00
17-128.Simpson, Mona, The Lost Fatherfirst edition, signed (VG/VG)15.00
17-129.Smith, Lee, The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed (1968):
The author's first book.
first edition (XL/D, G plus plus/ VG minus, with no markings)10.00
17-130.Smith, Lee, Something In the Wind (1971):
The author's second book.
first edition (VG minus/ VG)25.00
17-131.Smith, Lee, The Christmas Letters (1996) softbound uncorrected proof (F)6.00
17-132.Smith, Lillian, Strange Fruit (1944)second paperback printing(F)5.00
17-133.Smith, Lillian, The Journey (1954)first printing(VG/VG minus)6.00
17-134.Smith, Lillian, The Winner Names the Age (1978)first printing(VG/VG)6.00
17-135.Smith, Lillian, review of Martin Luther King's Stride Toward Freedom in Saturday Review, September 20, 1958original(XL, edge rough where removed from bound volume, otherwise VG)3.00
17-136.(Smith, Lillian) Strange Fruit - stage productionoriginal program from the 1945 Jose Ferrer production(writing on front cover, back cover damaged, otherwise VG))10.00
17-137.Spencer, Elizabeth, "The Little Brown Girl" in The New Yorker, July 20, 1957original(VG)3.00
17-138.Spencer, "The Eclipse" in The New Yorker, July 12, 1958original(VG)3.00
17-139.Street, James, The Gauntlet (1945)first printing (VG/ VG minus)6.00
17-140.Street, "The American Revolution" in Holiday, July 1954original (VG)3.00
17-141.Stuart, Jesse, The Thread That Runs So True (1949)later printing of first edition(VG/ VG minus)5.00
17-142.Stuart, A typed letter on plain 8 1/2" x 11"paper dated Oct.12th 1964 in which Stuart comments on the reputations of 19th and 20th century American writers, signed clearly in black ink.original(folded in three, not affecting signature, otherwise F)50.00
17-143.Styron, William, Lie Down In Darkness (1951):
Author's first novel.
first printing (VG minus/ jacket missing 1/2" at top of spine, otherwise VG minus)75.00
17-144.Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)first printing (VG/VG)15.00
17-145.(Styron) interview in The Paris Review, Spring 1954original (VG)3.00
17-146.Tartt, Donna, The Secret History (1992)first printing signed(F/VG)20.00
17-147.Tartt, The Little Friend (2002)a) first printing(F/F)8.00
b) softbound Uncorrected Proof (F)10.00
17-148.Tate, Allen, Poems (1960)a) first printing, inscribed (VG plus/VG minus)100.00
b)1961 Swallow softbound edition, first printing thus (VG)8.00
17-149.Tate, Memoirs and Opinions 1926-1974 (1975)first printing (XL/D, VG plus/VG plus)10.00
17-150.Tate, Two-page introduction to Hazel, Poems/1951-1961 (1961)paperback printing (F)10.00
17-151.Tate, answers "Seven Questions on The Situation in American Writing" in Partisan Review, Summer 1939original(F)10.00
17-152.Tate, "To Whom Is the Poet Responsible?" in Perspectives #6, Winter 1954original(F)5.00
17-153.Tate, "A Letter" in Wake #11, 1952:
Tate's letter concerns this Conrad Aiken issue of this Seymour Lawrence edited periodical.
original (F)5.00
17-154.Tate, "The Migration" in The Yale Review, Autumn 1934original(XL, VG plus)8.00
17-155.(Tate), Arnold, The Social Ideas of Allen Tate (1955)first printing (XL, VG plus/VG plus)15.00
17-156.(Tate) Brown and Cheney, eds., The Poetry Reviews of Allen Tate 1924 - 1944 (1983)first printing (F/VG)15.00
17-157.(Tate) Squires, Allen Tate: A Literary Biography (1971)first printing (F/VG)15.00
17-158.(Tate) Sullivan, Allen Tate: A Recollection (1988)unknown hardbound edition (sealed)10.00
17-159.(Tate) Critique, Vol. X, No. 2 (1968):
"An issue for Allen Tate" of this tri-yearly modern fiction journal.
original(VG)10.00
17-160.Taylor, Peter, A Summons To Memphis (1986)first printing (F/F)10.00
17-161.Taylor, "Middle Age" in The New Yorker, November 6, 1948original (VG)5.00
17-162.Taylor, "Dudley for the Dartmouth Cup" in The New Yorker, May 28, 1949original (VG)5.00
17-163.Taylor, "Porte Cochere" in The New Yorker, July 16, 1949original (VG)5.00
17-164.Taylor, "What You Hear From 'em?" in The New Yorker, February 10, 1951original (VG)5.00
17-165.Taylor, "Two Ladies In Retirement" in The New Yorker, March 31, 1951original (VG)5.00
17-166.Taylor, "Bad Dreams" in The New Yorker, May 19, 1951original (VG)5.00
17-167.Taylor, "Reservations" in The New Yorker, February 25, 1961original (VG)5.00
17-168.Taylor, "Nerves" in The New Yorker, September 16, 1961original (VG)5.00
17-169.Taylor, Three poems in Ploughshares, Volume 2 #4 (1975)original (F)5.00
17-170.Taylor, "A Commemorative Tribute to Jean Stafford" in Shenandoah, Volume 30, #3 (1979)original (VG)3.00
17-171.(Taylor) McAlexander, ed., Conversations With Peter Taylor:
Collected interviews.
softbound edition (title page missing, otherwise F)8.00
17-172.Warren, The Legacy of the Civil War (1961) first printing (F/edges reinforced with clear tape inside, else F)25.00
17-173.Warren, Incarnations: Poems 1966-1968 (1968)signed limited edition, #198/250 (damp staining at bottom of both the pages and dust jacket; otherwise, book and jacket are F)70.00
17-174.Warren, Selected Poems 1923-1975 (1981)Franklin Library limited signed edition, bound in leather (remnants of a label on the front pastedown, otherwise F/none, as issued)60.00
17-175.Warren, Portrait of a Father (1988)first printing (F/F)10.00
17-176.Warren, abridgement of World Enough and Time in Omnibook, December 1950original (VG)3.00
17-177.Warren, "Ballad Between the Boxcars" in Partisan Review, Winter 1960original (VG)5.00
17-178.Warren, "Love and Death in Johnstown, Tennessee" in Partisan Review, Summer 1959original (VG)5.00
17-179.Warren, "Tale of Time" in Encounter, March 1966original UK publication (VG)5.00
Warren, See also item 4-121.
17-180.(Warren) review of A Band of Angels in Saturday Review, August 20, 1955:
cover portrait
original (edge rough where removed from bound volume, otherwise VG)3.00
17-181.(Warren) Warren announced as co-winner of writing contest, with cover photo, in Writer's Digest, July 1936original (VG minus)3.00
17-182.(Warren) signed 3 by 5 cardoriginal(VG)15.00
17-183.(Warren), Casper, Robert Penn Warren: The Dark and Bloody Ground (1960)first printing (F minus/VG)15.00
17-184.(Warren) Grimshaw, Robert Penn Warren: A Descriptive Bibliography 1922-79 (1981)first printing (F/F)40.00
17-185.(Warren) Watkins et als, eds, Talking With Robert Penn Warren (1990)
collected interviews
first printing (F/F)10.00
17-186.(Warren) color 9 1/2" by 13" magazine ad for the movie version of All the King's Menoriginal(VG)3.00
Joan Williams
Williams, who had been an intimate companion of Faulkner's, died in 2004.
17-187.Williams, Joan, The Morning and the Evening (1961)a) first printing (F/VG)12.00
b) book club edition (F/VG minus)6.00
17-188.Williams, Joan, Pariah and Other Stories (1983)first printing (F/F)10.00
17-189.Williams, Joan, The Wintering (1983):
A fictionalized account of her relationship with William Faulkner.
first edition (VG/VG)25.00
17-190.Williams, Joan, "The Morning and the Evening" in The Atlantic, January 1953original(VG)10.00
End Joan Williams
17-191.Williams, Tennessee, "Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin" in Flair, February 1950original(VG)10.00
17-192.Williams, Tennessee, "Three Players of a Summer Game" in Perspectives, #11, 1955original UK edition(VG)5.00
16-193.Williams, Tennessee, "A Perfect Analysis Given By a Parrot" in Esquire, October 1958original(F, with original cardboard slipcase)10.00
17-194.Williams, Tennessee, The Glass Menagerie - stage productionsoftbound official acting script (F)10.00
17-195.Williams, Tennessee, The Eccentricities of a Nightengale - stage productionsoftbound official acting script (VG)5.00
17-196.Williams, Tennessee, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore - stage productionsoftbound official acting script (F)5.00
17-197.Williams, Tennessee, The Rose Tattoo - the moviereview of the film score with cover movie photo of Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster, in original issue of Film Music, Winter 1955 (VG) 5.00
17-198.Williams, Tennessee, The Rose Tattoo - the moviefilm review with cover photo of Magnani and Lancaster,in original issue of Saturday Review, December 10, 1955. (XL/D, edge rough where removed from bound volume, else VG)3.00
17-199.Williams, Tennessee, A Streetcar Named Desire - stage productionoriginal 1949 program from Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio, starring Uta Hagen and Anthony Quinn (F)8.00
17-200.Williams, Tennessee, Summer and Smoke - stage productionoriginal 1954 program from Arena Stage in Washington, DC (VG)5.00
17-201.(Williams, Tennessee) an interview in a 1960 Showbill for the movie The Mouse That Roaredoriginal(front cover badly wrinkled, otherwise VG)3.50
17-202.(Williams) Proceedings of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Second Series, #28:
The induction of Williams into the academy.
softbound printing (cover sunned, else F)10.00
17-203.(Williams) Tennessee Williams Literary Journal, volume 2, #1 (1990-1)
softbound critical journal
original edition(F)5.00
17-204.(Williams, Tennessee) biographical study in The New Yorker, December 19, 1994original(VG)3.00
17-205.Wolfe, Thomas, America (1942)#29 of 150 softbound copies, with publisher's announcement card. (F/glassine chipped)175.00
17-206.Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again (1940)1942 Sun Dial edition (VG/VG minus)8.00
17-207.Wolfe, "The Child By Tiger" in The Saturday Evening Post, September 11, 1937original(VG)10.00
17-208.Wolfe, "The Winter of Our Discontent" in The Atlantic, June 1939original(XL, VG)5.00
17-209.Wolfe, "Old Man Rivers" in The Atlantic, December 1947original(XL, VG)5.00
17-210.Wolfe, "The Novelist Under Fire" in The Atlantic, February 1947original(VG)5.00
17-211.Wolfe, "Munich and New York" in The Atlantic, January 1947original(XL, VG)5.00
17-212.Wolfe, "Welcome To Our City" in Esquire, October 1957original(VG)5.00
17-213.(Wolfe) Johnson, Thomas Wolfe: A Checklist (1970):
278 page bibliography.
first printing (F/none, as issued?)25.00
17-214.(Wolfe) Look Homeward Angel - stage productionoriginal 1958 Playbill from Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City (VG)5.00
17-215.Wright, Richard, Black Power (1954)first printing (F/VG)30.00
17-216.(Wright) Fabre, The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright (1973)first printing (VG/VG minus)15.00
17-217.(Wright) Review of Native Son in The Saturday Review of Literature, March 2, 1940:
Nice photo of Wright on the cover.
original (F)10.00
17-218.(Southern Literature) Abbott, ed., Mississippi Writers: An Anthology (1991):
A 500 page anthology.
first printing (F/none, as issued)10.00
17-219.(Southern Literature) Beatty et als, eds., The Literature of the South (1952):
An 1100 page selection starting from 1815 and running to the then present. Most of the authors who should be here are, including Faulkner and Welty.
first printing (VG/none)10.00
17-220.(Southern Literature) Castille and Osborne, eds., Southern Literature in Transition: Heritage and Promise (1983)softbound printing (F)5.00
17-221.(Southern Literature) Cutrer, Parnassus On the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community 1935-1942 (1984)first printing (F/F)10.00
17-222.(Southern Literature) Forkner and Samway, eds., A Modern Southern Reader (1986):
A 736 page selection of "major stories, drama, poetry, essays, interviews and reminiscences from the twentieth-century South," including Faulkner and Welty.
first printing (XL/D, VG/VG)6.00
17-223.(Southern Literature) Kennedy, ed., Literary New Orleans: Essays and Meditations (1992)softbound edition (F)6.00
17-224.(Southern Literature) Lawson, Another Generation: Southern Fiction Since World War II (1984):
Essays on Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor, Richard Wright, Harriette Arnow, Mitchell F. Jayne, and William Styron.
paperback edition (VG)5.00
17-225.(Southern Literature) Morrow and Caldwell, Images of the Southern Writer (1985):
Photographs, with a foreward by Erskine Caldwell.
first printing (F/F)20.00
17-226.(Southern Literature) Polk et al, editors, An Anthology of Mississippi Writers (1979)first edition (VG/VG)10.00
17-227.(Southern Literature) Revenel, editor, New Stories From the South 1986 (1986)softbound Advance Uncorrected Proof (VG)5.00
17-228.(Southern Literature) Revenel, editor, New Stories From the South 1988 (1988)a) first edition, review copy (something inked out on front pastedown, else F/ F)6.00
b) softbound edition (F)3.00
17-229.(Southern Literature) Revenel, editor, New Stories From the South 1995 (1995)softbound edition (F)3.00
17-230.(Southern Literature) Revenel, editor, New Stories From the South 1997 (1997)softbound Advance Uncorrected Proof (F)5.00
17-231.(Southern Literature) Revenel, editor, New Stories From the South 1998 (1998)softbound edition (F)3.00
17-232.(Southern Literature) Revenel, editor, New Stories From the South 1999 (1999)softbound edition (VG)3.00
17-233.(Southern Literature) Revenel, editor, New Stories From the South 2002 (2002)a) softbound Advance Uncorrected Proof(VG minus - marks in Table of Contents)5.00
b) softbound edition (F)3.00
17-234.(Southern Literature) Revenel, editor, New Stories From the South 2004 (2004)softbound Advance Uncorrected Proof (store stamp in front, otherwise F minus)5.00
17-235.(Southern Literature) Rubin et als, eds, The History of Southern Literature (1985)first printing (F/F)10.00
17-236.(Southern Literature) Rubin, A Gallery of Southerners (1982)1984 paperback edition (F)6.00
17-237.(Southern Literature) Rubin, Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog (2005)softbound Uncorrected Proof (F)10.00
17-238.(Southern Literature) Simonini, ed., Southern Writers: Appraisals In Our Time (1969):
Eight papers, including one on Faulkner.
first printing (XL/D, VG/none)10.00
17-239.(Southern Literature) Spielman and Starr, Southern Writers (1997):
A collection of photographs.
first printing, signed by Spielman (VG/VG)25.00
17-240.(Southern Literature) Tate, ed., A Southern Vanguard (1947):
"Stories and poems by Southern writers, and essays on Southern themes."
first printing (F/F)30.00
17-241.(Southern Literature) Tate, ed., A Southern Weave of Women (1994):
A critical "multicultural view of recent writing by southern women."
softbound edition (VG)4.00
17-242.(Southern Literature) Taylor and Jones, eds., Belles Letters: Contemporary Fiction By Alabama Women (1999)softbound advance galleys (F)6.00
17-243.(Southern Literature) Thorp, ed., A Southern Reader (1955):
A 760 page anothlogy with non-fiction as well.
first edition (VG/none)5.00
17-244.(Southern Literature) article on the authors of Oxford, Mississippi in Poets and Writers, January/ February 1995original (VG)3.00
17-245.(Southern Literature) Southern Quarterly, Spring 1987:
Special Issue on Southern Women Playwrights
original (VG)3.00
17-246.(Southern Literature) Southern Quarterly, Spring 1988original (VG)3.00
17-247.(Southern Literature) Southern Quarterly, Spring 1989:
Special Issue on Erskine Caldwell
original (VG)3.00
17-248.(Southern Literature) Modern Mississippi Writers: A Map of Literary Mississippi:
A colorfully illustrated 23" by 35" map published in the 1990s.
original printing (F)5.00
(Southern Literature) See also items 4-14 through 4-20, 4-34, 4-45, 4-93, and 4-103.
(Southern Literature) See also item 16-44 with contributions by and actual signatures of many leading Southern authors.


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