Search Results: Southern Literature from Charles Agvent

[Columbia, MO]: University of Missouri, 1931. First Edition. hardcover. Owner name of student on the front free endpaper. Very Good. Small folio (9" x 12-1/4") bound in embossed black leather. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Yearbook for the second of three years that Tennessee Williams attended the university with his small photograph on his fraternity's page along with his brothers, who dubbed him Tennessee for his Southern drawl. Some brothers later figured as characters in his plays including Harold Mitchell in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. An important period in Williams's life, one of the most normal for that matter, very shortly after he had written his first play, BEAUTY IS THE WORD, and when he was discovering his sexual orientation.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to top bulked edge of text. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Basis for the acclaimed Lawrence Kasdan film starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Oscar-winner Geena Davis.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. Wraps. A little soiled and worn. Very Good. Uncorrected Proof in cream wraps, the more uncommon first issue.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustwrapper. His fourth book, a wonderful collection of stories including "Killings," the basis for the critically acclaimed film IN THE BEDROOM. The title novella was also one of three stories that formed the basis for the film, WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Hinges fine; some rubbing to gilt on the spine and a little to the cloth, mostly to the rear cover. Contents lightly foxed. Light wear to spine tips and corners. Very Good or better. Original decorated green cloth. With 174 illustrations by E. W. Kemble. BAL 3415: With first issue points of pages 13, 57, and 143; second issue of title page, frontispiece, and page 155; and fourth issue of page 283. Also with McBride's first issue point on page 143. Recent Twain scholarship convincingly establishes three changes from the printing plates of the first printing of 30,000 copies and later printings: 1) an erroneous page reference "88" on page 13 later changed to "87" (BAL's point 2); 2) the misprint "with the was" on page 57 later corrected to "with the saw" (BAL's point 3); and 3) the misprint "Decided" on page 9 later changed to "Decides" (not noted by BAL). This copy has all three first printing points. Nineteenth century pink… Read More

Philadelphia: Centaur Press, 1932. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good copy with mild foxing to a few pages. Preface by Archibald MacLeish. With six poems by Faulkner, including "My Epitaph," as well as poems by Hart Crane, Harry Crosby, Kay Boyle, and others. One of 500 numbered copies, this lacking the glassine.

1949 - 1955. Letter. Very Good to Near Fine. Exceptional archive of 15 pieces including 4 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED from Merton to his typist, Ann Skakel (mother of Ethel Kennedy); a wonderful TYPED LETTER from Merton (signed in type) to his friend and teacher, Donald Walsh; 8 retained TYPED LETTERS from Skakel to Merton; a TYPED LETTER SIGNED from Walsh to Skakel; and a photograph of Merton's ordination annotated on the verso by Walsh. Superb content throughout with Merton's letters, SIGNED as "Father Louis" or "Father M. Louis Merton," containing much discussion of his work, including forwarding the carbon copy of his manuscript of his new book THE ASCENT TO TRUTH (not present here). There are maybe a dozen or so holograph additions by Merton in the letters. Merton's lengthy letter to Walsh discusses more spiritual matters: "The fact that I get scared of Our Lord and have to trust Him blindly about the present and the future is, however, sufficient pledge of what one must expect. So I turn to jelly on… Read More

(Port Townsend, WA): Copper Canyon Press, (1995). First Edition. wraps. Faint scratch to rear cover. About Fine. Softcover issue in pictorial wraps. SIGNED by the poet on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED by him in 5/95 on the half title page: "To Austin--/Thanks for/your kindness--/looking forward to/more of your fine/poems/Best/David."

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight cracking to hinges; spine a bit sunned with some staining. Very Good. Decorated green cloth. BAL 3244. Short story collection of Louisiana life.

(New York): New Directions, (1953). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with two small closed tears and a little soiling on the rear panel. Crandell A12.I.a. Dustwrapper designed by Alvin Lustig.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. Remainder mark on the bottom edge of the bulked text. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Acclaimed Southern author's first book.

New York: William Morrow, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Mild and typical fading of the blue boards. Near Fine in an about Fine dustwrapper with crease down spine. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page "For John/Cheers/Harry Crews."

(New York): New Directions, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a slighty soiled, Near Fine dustwrapper. Crandell A54.I.a. Introduction by Gore Vidal.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some rubbing. Nicely INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to a close friend: "For my beloved Florence, this one,/after a long wait. And this one comes/at a time of new beginning, a time/of new strength and of healing./Through the years, Florence,/God love you always/Through the years,/Bill/William Goyen/New York City/October 9, 1974."

Derry, NH & Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock & Koontz, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Gaylord Schanilec. Tall tan cloth with a printed label on the front cover. Title page wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec. First and only separate appearance of this story, originally published in ESQUIRE and later collected in ROCK SPRINGS. Copy #XXIV of 40 roman-numeral, hardbound copies SIGNED by the author and by the illustrator (of a total edition of 240).

New York: Random House, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with light wear at the spine head. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

New York: Harcourt Brace Johanovich, (1991). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. The 50th Anniversary Edition of Welty's first collection of stories. First published in 1941, this is the first printing of the book as an HBJ Modern Classic.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Signed trade editions of his last collection of stories are much less common than the advance copy that was issued signed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. The final collection of short stories from an author who has had several of his stories made into critically acclaimed films.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to bulked text edges. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book and winner of the National Book Award (then called the American Book Award) for best first work of fiction. Blurbs on the dustwrapper by Barry Hannah, James Alan McPherson, and Robert Stone.