River rising! (Cadmus books) by Skidmore, Hubert - 1939

Univ Tennessee Press, 2004-06-07. First Edition, First. paperback. Used: Good.

New York: The Junior Literary Guild/Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1940. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Spruance, Benton. 307 pp. Hardcover with no dust jacket in acceptable condition. Bumped/worn corners. Shelf wear. Cocked. End paper illustrations. B & W frontis. The interior pages are in good condition.

Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Appalachian EchoesThomas E. Douglass, series fiction editor"Very real and tremendously moving. . . . Not only an obvious brief for the unfortunate but a well told and honest story." —New York Times"Hubert Skidmore, a native West Virginian, wrote as a witness from inside the belly of the beast. His gift is for pitch-perfect dialogue, a varied cast of characters, and the calling up of emotion, of anger, fear, dread, and love. To encounter this novel at last is a sort of resurrection, both for its persecuted author and the Depression poor whose lives it evokes." —Denise Giardina, author of The Unquiet Earth and Storming HeavenThe building of a tunnel at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, beginning in 1930 has been called the worst industrial disaster in American history: more died there than in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the Sunshine and Farmington mine disasters combined. And when native West Virginian Hubert Skidmore tried to tell the real story in his 1941 novel, Union Carbide and Carbon… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Univ Tennessee Press, 2004-06-07. First Edition, First. paperback. Used:Good.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1952. Hardcover . Used Good/yes Fair. Hardback with dust jacket, illustrated by Benton Spruance. Book is ex-library with usual depredations but scarce in this edition. Binding is tight, no marks or writing in text.

Book League of America, 1938. Hard Cover. Good/Good. DJ has many chios and tears in protective mylar. $2 price on back flap. Prev owner's bookplate to fep otherwise unmarked, slightly toned. Tight and square, corners slightly bent an dlight soil to top ege. Bright gilt at spine.

Paperback / softback. New. Appalachian Echoes Thomas E. Douglass, series fiction editor "Very real and tremendously moving. . . . Not only an obvious brief for the unfortunate but a well told and honest story." --New York Times "Hubert Skidmore, a native West Virginian, wrote as a witness from inside the belly of the beast. His gift is for pitch-perfect dialogue, a varied cast of characters, and the calling up of emotion, of anger, fear, dread, and love. To encounter this novel at last is a sort of resurrection, both for its persecuted author and the Depression poor whose lives it evokes." --Denise Giardina, author of The Unquiet Earth and Storming Heaven The building of a tunnel at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, beginning in 1930 has been called the worst industrial disaster in American history: more died there than in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the Sunshine and Farmington mine disasters combined. And when native West Virginian Hubert Skidmore… Read More

Univ of Tennessee Pr, 2004. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 320 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches.