American South History Books

THE AMERICAN FLAG BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art from a photo. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - email us the name you want on the bookplate. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. 3.75" H x 3.75" W. Content: This bookplate is a version of the American Flag - with plenty of room for a name of even an inscription. Any questions or for a sample, click here to email us.
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CIVIL WAR FLAG BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by unknown artist. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - just email us with the name. 3.0" wide x 3.5" high. Content: Two American Civil War flags - North & South - in red, white, & blue. Any questions or to request a sample, click here to email us.
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AMERICAN BEACH: How 'Progress' Robbed a Black Town - and Nation - Of History, Wealth, and Power
by Russ Rymer. Condition: UNREAD 2000 HarperPerennial Trade Paperback, first priting. Light edge wear. Content: "First we had segregation. Then integration. Then disintegration."-- resident, American Beach. Avoiding the easy clichés of victimhood and oppression, award-winning journalist Russ Rymer brings to life the stark conflict between whites and blacks in the United States today. Through three connected lives in and around northeast Florida's black resort town of American Beach--an unarmed black motorist killed by a white policeman; the great-grandfather of Florida's first black millionaire, who lives on the beach with next to nothing; and prominent Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston--Rymer presents a vision of a nation where the futures of both races are as linked as their histories, where the lost record of heroic black enterprise and prominence offers a key to the struggles of every modern American. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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CHARLESTON GHOSTS
by Margaret Rhett Martin. B&W illustrations by Alfred Simons. Condition: UNREAD 1988 University of South Carolina Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), eleventh printing. Interior is perfect but DJ does have light edgewear - shelfwear. Odd binding or manufacturing error: the book is in square, but the back cover is just a bit wider than the front. Content: 18 delightful ghost tales about Sharleston and the Low country told as only a native Charlestonian could tell them. Reviewer: "Written and first published almost forty years ago, Charleston Ghosts was the product of the late Martin's fervid interest in her hometown's history, particularly the tales of local hauntings and the circumstances that caused the unearthly unrest as recounted over and again by other native Charlestonians. These stories, tales of spurned love (a wealthy society girl rejects love for money and pays the consquences) and rejection (a house servant risks her heart and loses) are as colorful as the city itself. Pick up a copy of Charleston Ghosts if you are unable to visit the city yet have an interest in Southern history and "otherworldly" things. Martin's retellings of the city's more known legends are fascinating to read, from the frightening "Gray Man" of St. Philip's Episcopal Cemetery to the "Whistling Doctor" who can still be heard--a century after his death!" Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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DAILY LIFE ON A SOUTHERN PLANTATION 1853
by Paul Erickson. Beautiful, historically correct color illustrations by Paul Gabbey. Color photos, as well. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 2000 Lodestar over-sized hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ (in mylar jacket), second printing. Problem: While the book is perfect, the DJ has nics and 2 "repaired" tears. It has been price-clipped. Content: In this handsome book, you will meet the Hendersons, who live on a Southern plantation with their children in 1853. You'll also meet Daddy Major, Rosena, Scipio, and Cicero, slaves who work in the Big House and in the cotton fields. Full-color photographs of interiors, clothing, and objects, plus artwork and oral history, document a typical day on a plantation. You will see the stately bedrooms and dining room of the plantation house, as well as the simple slave quarters and cabins. Inside the Big House, morning chores are done and the children readied for school (or play); in the kitchen house, food is cooked and bread is baked; and in the sugar house, cane is crushed. Readers will learn about mealtimes, leisure hours, doctors and disease, and bedtimes. They'll also learn about attitudes toward slavery, slave meetings in the woods, and much more in this unique visit to a restored Southern plantation in New Iberia, Louisiana. Ages 9 - 12+. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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GHOSTS!: Personal Accounts of Modern Mississippi Hauntings
by Sylvia Booth Hubbard. B&W photos by Robert Hubbard. Condition: NEW 1995 Quail Ridge soft cover, third printing. Tiny edge wear. Content: Here is an intriguing collection of true stories about ordinary people who have the extraordinary experience of sharing their lives with ghosts! Hubbard takes a realistic approach to a supernatural subject, and her very lack of exaggeration or tabloid sensationalism makes these authentic accounts all the more chilling. From antebellum mansions to modern suburbs, here are twenty-five true stories of active Mississippi ghosts, chronicled by the people who know them best - those who actually live and work amidst these disembodied spirits on a daily basis. Evocative photographs by Robert Hubbard, taken at the site of the hauntings, illustrate the book. These starkly beautiful black and white pictures, with no artificial special effects to mar their power, capture the aura of the ghostly settings. Within these pages, in their own words, are real stories...from real people...about real Ghosts! Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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GHOSTS OF ST. AUGUSTINE
by Dave Lapham. Wonderful B&W drawings by Tom Lapham. Condition: NEW 1998 Pineapple Press Trade Paperback, 8th printing. Content: Reviewer: "Published in 1997, this is a great collection of ghost stories of our nation's oldest city. One gets the flavor of this city, the Spanish quarter, the lighthouse, Flagler College, among the unique buildings and places reported to be haunted. Anyone who has ever walked the historic district at night can attest to the strong feeling of history and it certainly can make one wonder if they are really alone. A great little book, and a nice start to the library of anyone who travels... usually regional collections of ghost stories are available in many localities, and they make a unique remembrance of a trip. After reading this, perhaps you will be willing to brave a night in room 3A at the St. Francis Inn!" Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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THE LEE GIRLS
by Mary P. Coulling. B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1988 John Blair hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Book is in excellent condition but DJ shows light edge wear & is price-clipped. Content: Raised in aristocratic luxury, Confederate leader Robert E. Lee's four daughtersMary, Anne, Eleanor and Mildredwere forced to adjust to privation caused by the Civil War. This gentle book tells the story of their struggle to maintain their gracious lifestyle. It is at once a sunny and poignant tale, for the childhood days at Arlington were idyllic, but when Lee rode off to war they ended abruptly and never were recaptured. The book stresses the passivity Southern society imposed on women of the era, particularly unmarried women. None of Lee's daughters married, and Coulling's theory is that they were unable to find suitors who could hold a candle to their noble father. As for Lee himself, the Confederate icon appears here in unexpected guise from time to time. A great teaser of his daughters, he suggested, for example, that their mischievous pet squirrel be turned into soup. The ladies covered: Mary Custis Lee, Anne Carter Lee, Eleanor Agnes Lee, and Mildred Childe Lee. Fascinating study of Civil War belles. [1 copy available]
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MISSISSIPPI RIVER TALES (From the American Storytelling Tradition)
edited by Frank McSherry, Jr.; Charles Waugh; & Martin Harry Greenberg. Cover Art by Jan Weeks. Condition: UNREAD 1988 August House (Little Rock) Trade Paperback, first edition. Tiny "ding" to bottom front cover tip. Interior perfect. Content: Twelve stories comprise this collection about the Mississippi, its fabulous floods, the islands and flats that reappear as the waters recede and the diverse people who live along its shores and run the steamboats, rafts, skiffs and dugouts. Featured are an account of a Civil War battle fought on the river, an ancient Indian tale of a wronged wife, a macabre story of the revenge of underwater creatures, an adventure involving a part-time paperhanger and sometime "deteckative" and a steamboat race (evoking the ship's "little faded staterooms, that in their time had heard the laughter of fair women, the whispers of politicians; that had seen the meetings of statesmen, the brawls of gamblers ..."). Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE MOUNTAIN, THE MINER, AND THE LORD And Other Tales from a Country Law Office
by Harry M. Caudill. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1980 University of Kentucky Trade Paperback, first printing. Problem: light tanning to white cover edges but none to interior pages. Name on top, bottom, and fore edges - but small and light. Content: The stories in this book are supposedly non-fiction, but one story has caused doubt on the others. Reviewer: "Regardless of whether these stories are biographies or bio-fictions, Mr.Caudill shows excellent writting skills in his story telling. Sitting at the knees of story-tellers in the south there was always some fiction thrown in with the truth. Each story was as enthralling and detailed of the lives of hard working mountain people as the next. With Mr.Caudill being an attorney, some stories told the legal hardships people endured. I found it to be a quite exceptional book and I have dozens and dozens of "Mountain People" books to compare it to. I did feel like I was sitting on the porch, after dinner clean-up, with a story teller. I enjoyed this book very much and I would recommend it to anyone who likes to hear stories of the Appalachian people. He zeroes in on particular counties around the southeastern part of Kentucky and he mentions places that some of us know all too well." [1 copy available]
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MYTHS AND DREAMS: Exploring the Cultural Legacies of Florida and the Caribbean
by Jay I. Kislak Foundation, Inc. B&W era photos, drawings, art Condition: NEW 2000-2002 Kislak Foundation large soft cover, no printing given. Small smudges back cover. Content: Book published in association with Florida museums exhibitions. Contents: Myths & Dreams: Exploring the Cultural Legacies of Florida 7 Caribbean; When Worlds Collided: Native Peoples Caribbean & Florida Early Colonial Period; Dreams of Empire: Legacies of Contact; Passage to New Eden: Tourism in Florida; Personal REflection, Florida: Last 500 Years. Also Intro, contributors, etc. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF DAVID CROCKETT OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE (Facsimile/Tennesseana Editions)
by David Crockett. Intro & annotations by James Shackford and Stanley Folmsbee. B&W photos. Condition: Although it appears unread, I can't swear to it - so, very good 1984 University of Tennessee (Tennessean Edition) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), third printing. Facsimile Edition. Light foxing all edges but NO tanning to page edges. Content: Reviewer: "David Crockett found himself to have become mythologized in his own lifetime. Every indication is that he arrived at this place accidentally, but that once he recognized his own pop-culture status he took advantage of it and nurtured it at every turn. His Narrative, therefore, must be read with a certain amount of skepticism nevertheless it is still valuable as an historical record. The narrative is a journey from start to finish; true Homeric stuff. He describes his journey into adulthood in pre-Mark Twain style, then his journey as an adventurer in the military, his journey across the state of Tennessee with his family, and finally his journey into politics. There may be many embellishments within his narrative, but considering the period in which it was written (while he contemplated a much larger political career) the topics he chose to describe actually seem prosaic and understated, as if he were deliberately trying to avoid bragging about himself. In this light, perhaps the Narrative is more accurate than is generally assumed. The Narrative may have been ghost-written by someone else, but there is enough Crockett in it to give it legitimacy. His jabs at Andrew Jackson are quaintly hilarious, but they are also true. In this pre-Alamo period of his life, his willingness to take a stand against Jackson (over Indian matters) might be the bravest thing he ever did. Lastly, the language itself is fascinating." [1 copy available]
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NEW ORLEANS AS IT WAS
by Mark Andresen. Wonderful, detailed color and B&W sketches of the Big Easy before Katrina. Condition: NEW 2006 Gingko Press sot cover, first edition. Content: Andresen is a Louisiana artist and graphic designer displaced by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He and his family left on the heels of the storm with a few possessions and their cats. What his wife Paula saved were his sketchbooks chronicling the people and places that make "The Crescent City" unique. The work found in "New Orleans: As It Was" include drawings and watercolors made between 1988 and 2005, each capturing the sweet vignettes, portraits and the famous architectural details representing the diverse stories and moods of his beloved city. Written and illustrated by Mark Andresen. Designed by Rudy VanderLans of Emigre. Author's introduction: This Book is not an elegy for the great city of New Orleans, even after Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed it. Instead it's a celebration of what was. Hopefully it is a faithful remembrance of a quintessentially American place that was living on borrowed time for years. An original among cities of the world. Fire, Plague and war have taken credit in the past for its demise, but each time it rose again with an attitude of joyful defiance in the sound of a lone trumpet above the rooftops. It is my hope that these fleeting sketches I drew of our city will add to the spark of rebirth that it deserves. [Wonderful book; wonderful art.] [1 copy available]
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THE RIGHTEOUS REBEL: Adam Cloud and the Natchrz Intrigues, 1790 - 1795: A Novel [INSCRIBED COPY]
by Catherine Cloud Templeton. Condition: INSCRIBED by Author on half-title page. UNREAD 1999 Eakin Press large Trade Paperback, second printing. Content: Based on the true exploits of her ancestor, in a compelling combination of historical adventure and romance, Kittie Templeton's book delineates the travels and tribulations of Adam Cloud in the 1790's. As a young Episcopal minister he set out on a dangerous voyage down the frontier wilderness of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, to settle in Spanish Natchez, a new world outpost of the Spanish-Catholic monarchy. His courtship and marriage, friendship with the Spanish governor and the Indian chiefs, and finally his continuing struggle for religious freedom make this an unforgettable tale. [1 copy available]
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THE STORY OF OLD STE. GENEVIEVE:
An Account of An Old French Town in Upper Louisiana; Its People and Their Homes
by Gregory M. Franzwa. 82 B&W photos, drawings and maps illustrate. Condition: Good +, pre-read Patrice Press (St. Louis) paprback, only date given "1967 copyright date." Edgewear and pale spine crease & glue strings. Interior clean - no tanning. Content: This is the history of a "nearly untouched" historic town of 5,000 people in Louisiana, on the Mississippi, 65 miles downstream from St. Louis. Photos of the historic buildings with history and descriptions of each. Even goes into the pre-history of the town and the geology. An interesting book. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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TALES OF THE SABINE BORDERLANDS: Early Louisiana and Texas Fiction by Theodore Pavie (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University, No 79)
by Theodore Pavie. Eidted & Intro by Betje Black Klier. Translations by Klier, Anne Marsh, Philip Stewart & Alexandra Wettlaufer. Condition: NEW 1998 Texas A&M Press Trade Paperback, no printing given. B&W era illustrations & decorations. Content: [Pavie] might be called the 'Balzac of the Borderlands' today. Pavie's settings and plots, like Balzac's, are full of historical detail and cultural truths, although many of the characters are fictional. In 1830, eighteen-year-old Theodore Pavie traveled west on the Camino Real from Natchitoches, in the new state of Louisiana, to Nacogdoches, Texas, which remained under Mexican rule. After he returned to France, he wrote these four stories that are rich in the details of life he observed in the Louisiana-Texas border region. "Le Negravegre" depicts the internal dynamics of a Louisiana slave community in an elemental tale of good versus evil. Pavie contrasts the nobility of the tragic hero, once a tribal chief in Africa, with the inhumanity of his white overseer. "Le Lazo" is one of the first pieces of Texas or Western literature. It is an enigmatic blend of reportage and imagination reflecting the effects of the Fredonian Rebellion of 1827, the Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1829, and the passage of the Law of 6 April 1830. The fear inspired by Texas' unstable political situation in the 1820s drives the action of "The Bearskin," set in Lousiana's planter society. "El Capuchin" tells of a full-blooded Spaniard and his Creole wife who flee increasing political hostilities in Mexican Texas. Once east of the Sabine, a lonely planter (probably a remnant of the pirate Laffite's band) and his concubine take the couple in and alter their fate. After Pavie's death in 1896, his works slipped into quiet oblivion until Betje Black Klier discovered his travel journal and letters.These treasures of ethnographic fiction and historical detail should interest folklorists, historians, anthropologists, and anyone else curious about early life and literature in the region. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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TOTTY
by Verna Harshfield. B&W era family photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1984 December Rose Publications hardcover (no DJ for this one), first edition. The first chapter does show some bookstore browsing - but nothing serious. Content: This is a family memoir of growing up in Evening Shade, Arkansas, in the 1920s. Introduction by the great Adela Rogers St. John. [1 copy available]
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VIRGINIA 1607 - 1776 (Voices from Colonial America series)
by Sandy Pobst with Kevin Roberts, Ph.D. Color & B&W era art works, maps, and woodcuts. Decorated end pages with the known (& supposed) North America at the time. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 2005 National Geo hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Problem: DJ shows edgewear top edge with very short "repaired" tear at spoine. Everything else perfect. Content: One of the largest and most prosperous of the original colonies, Virginia played a huge role in forming America. Here, an appealing mixture of maps, archival photographs and first-person accounts opens kids' eyes to life in colonial Virginia. They'll learn the latest theories about Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony and Pocahontas's rescue of John Smith. They'll learn about the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe, life on a Tidewater plantation, and the role George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and other native sons played in the birth of the nation and the emergence of Virginia as the 10th state in 1788. Middle-school students will encounter Colonial America through fresh eyes in this comprehensive series. Archival photographs, period maps, and lively, first-person accounts from explorers, Native Americans, missionaries, slaves and indentured servants, farmers, government officials, and more are seamlessly woven together to create a vibrant and accurate portrait of life in 18 European colonies—not just British but French and Spanish, too. The book begins "the hstory of the United States starts with Virginia." Point taken, but those of us in the Southwest would not agree. Very nice book. Young Adults and adults as well. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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VOODOO IN NEW ORLEANS
by Robert Tallant. Cover art by Francis Huffman. Condition: Very good 1998 Pelican Publishing (Gretna, La) MMPB, fourth printing. Pale shelfwear hinge crease with small edgewear. Interior clean & tight but page edges are tanning. Content: Originally published in 1944, this is not a "how-to-practice-voodoo book" but rather a history of Voodoo as practiced in New Orleans over a two hundred year period. It is also a fantastic look of the smaller details of a hidden culture. The history of the famous Marie Lavaeu is most interesting. [1 copy available]
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WITHIN THE PLANTATION HOUSEHOLD: Black and White Women of the Old South
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: PLEASE READ / UNREAD, but not perfect, 1990 Univ. of North Carolina Press large soft cover, 4th printing. Edge wear plus binder's wrinkles down spine. Content: In her rich and rewarding book, Fox-Genovese challenges many of the conventions about women's history, which has been largely extrapolated from the experiences of northeastern women. Southern womenblack and whitewere southerners, bound by a rural world built on human bondage and race and dominated by men. These women were not passive or victims, but resourceful and resistant. Still, Fox-Genovese rejects the now fashionable view that planters' wives harbored antislavery or feminist sentiments. She places slave women at the center of opposition to slavery. Fox-Genovese has given black and white Southern women voices. Eloquent and powerful. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE WOOLFOLK TRAGEDY: The murders, the trials, the hanging, and now, finally the truth.
by Carolyn Deloach. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 1997 Anneewakee River Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Content: Before sunrise on August 6, 1887, a respected gentleman farmer, Captain Richard Woolfolk, was savagely murdered along with his wife, their five children, and his wife's eighty-four-year old great aunt. At day break, local authorities, crippled by mass hysteria, made an arrest. The state of Georgia abruptly awakened itself from its simmering post Civil War stupor and amid rampant yellow journalism, unfounded rumors, prejudice, lies and blatant confessions, struggled to prove the one survivor of that tragic night, Thomas G. Woolfolk, the Captain's eldest son, to be the lone axe murderer. [1 copy available]
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