Search Results: North Carolina from Books of the World

Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1944. Hardcover. First Edition, no additional printings listed. Blue cloth over boards with red lettering to spine and illustrated pastedown to front. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontis. Many color and B&W illustrations. Very Good book in pictorial cover. No jacket. Bookplate to verso of FFEP, otherwise interior is unmarked. Binding tight. Cloth lifting off upper edge of inner board. Corners and spine ends bumped and worn. See photos. Not from a library. 63 pages. The story of an orphan boy and his dog, Mr. Bones, looking for his own "stay place."

New York: Little, Brown and Company / Back Bay Books, September 2009. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Fine. Not from a library. Black remainder dot to top edge. Not clipped. 241 pages + 14 pages readers guide. In post-war North Carolina, a member of a car-theft ring picks up an innocent nineteen-year-old Bible salesman and recognizes the young man as just the associate he needs--one who will believe he is working as an F.B.I. spy, one who will drive the cars he steals.

Skyland, North Carolina: Self-published, Hickory Printing Co., 1990. Trade Paperback. Flat-signed by the author on the front free endpaper. No inscription. Fine. Text block pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 115 pages. A collection of the author's columns for the Hendersonville Times-News.

New York: Scribner, October 2000. Trade Paperback. First paperback edition / full number line. Fine. Inscribed by author on title page, otherwise As New. 326 pages.There is a most unusual woman living in Gap Creek. Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man" they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her. She is just a teenager when her brother dies in her arms. The following year, she marries Hank and moves down into the valley. Julie and Hank discover that the modern world is complex, grinding ever on without pause or concern for their hard work. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. With Julie, Robert Morgan has brought to life one of the most memorable women in modern American literature.

New York: Scribner, October 2000. Trade Paperback. Flat signed by author on title page (signature only). 18th printing. Near Fine. Light shelf and reading wear to covers. Spine straight and tight. Interior unmarked other than author's signature. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 326 pages.There is a most unusual woman living in Gap Creek. Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man" they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her. She is just a teenager when her brother dies in her arms. The following year, she marries Hank and moves down into the valley. Julie and Hank discover that the modern world is complex, grinding ever on without pause or concern for their hard work. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. With Julie, Robert Morgan has brought to life one of the most memorable women in modern American literature.

Poughkeepsie, New York: Vivisphere, May 2000. Trade Paperback. Inscribed to Merrily by author on title pages. Near Fine. Interior pristine other than autograph. Spine straight and tight with a faint crease to upper half. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 312 pages. Police chief James Hackett is Sherlock Holmes reincarnated in Mayberry.

New York: Scribner, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine creased. Edge and corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxx+512 pages. A young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better life.

Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, October 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. Inscribed by Author on the title page. Fine book in an As New jacket. As New except for the author's inscription. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 307 pages. A truck hauling materials from the Savannah River Nuclear Processing Site to Oak Ridge National Laboratories disappears along a mountainous stretch of interstate between Asheville, North Carolina, and Knoxville, Tennessee. Suddenly, certain elements in the government want to find the missing truck before they have to admit it ever existed. This sounds like a standard government conspiracy plot except for the Colebrooks, who become the prime suspects in what someone in the government is trying to frame as a terrorist incident. The family members bring attention to themselves when the oldest son's daughter discovers an unmanned low-level surveillance plane with a radiation sensor on board. The drone has crashed near the archaeological site they are trying to… Read More

New York: Penguin, April 2002. Trade Paperback. Flat signed by Author. Later Printing. Near Fine. Other than signature, interior pristine. Spine uncreased. Light wear to edges and corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 309 pages. When Miss Julia burst on the scene in her fictional debut, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind, this proper lady of a certain age found her orderly world turned upside down when Hazel Marie Puckett appeared with her nine-year-old son, Little Lloyd, who looked disturbingly similar to Miss Julia's late husband. Now, in Miss Julia Takes Over, with her sharp tongue and iron backbone intact, Miss Julia must tackle another disruption when Hazel Marie doesn't return from a dinner date with a fund-raiser who, in Miss Julia's opinion, wears his shorts too tight. Frantic and unable to persuade the local police that Hazel Marie is in danger, Miss Julia hires J. D. Pickens to investigate, despite her reservations about his taste for beer and women. She and Little Lloyd help… Read More

Charlotte, North Carolina: Main Street Rag, September 2004. Trade Paperback. First Printing (stated). Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light wear to upper corner. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 157 pages. 21 cm.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, March 2014. Trade Paperback. Signed by author on title page; also inscribed by author on half-title page. First Paperback Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine. Remainder mark. Not from a library. Not clipped. 352 pages.

Spartanburg, South Carolina: The Reprint Company, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition, Second Printing, 2005. Fine Book in a Fine jacket. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 387 pages. An historical account of Joseph and Delia Russell Youngblood, presented as an historical novel, tells of the effects--immediate and lasting--of the Civil War on their lives and those who came after.

New York: Ecco, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with slight corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 371 pages. + 14 page reader's guide. Rash's chilling gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge set against the backdrop of the 1930s wilderness and America's burgeoning environmental movement.

Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley. March 1995. Hardcover. First printing (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 238 pages. A collection of humorous stories about Southern characters, places, and goings-on, from leaky mansions to fishing camps to one-room schoolhouses.

Alexander, North Carolina: Alexander Books, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Expanded Second Edition. Signed by author on title page. Not personalized. Fine. Interior pristine other than autograph. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 445 pages.

Asheville, North Carolina: Bright Mountain Books, 2001. Trade Paperback. Fine. Inscribed by author on half-title page, otherwise As New. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 181 pages. Fine.

New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. Trade Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 160 pages. Beautifully illustrated with more than 250 full-color photographs, this authoritative and easy-to-use field guide identifies and describes more than 250 wildflowers of the eastern United States.