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The Foxfire Book (The Foxfire Series #1)
by Wigginton, Eliot and His Students
NY: Anchor / Doubleday, 1972. 1st Edition. Paperback. Collectible - Near Fine. 6"x8.25". 384 pp. 50th printing. Cover design by Catherine Hopkins. Cover photo courtesy of The Foxfire Fund, Inc. Spine slight slant, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Minimal edge and shelf wear. USED GIFT QUALITY. In the late 1960's, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine "Foxfire" in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern...
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A$77.70
The Last American Man
by GILBERT, Elizabeth
New York: Viking Press, 2002. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Fine in original paper-covered boards and fine pictorial dust jacket.. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 271 pp. With a hand outline and inscription by Eustace Conway, the subject of the book, on the title page.
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A$46.62
Crafts of the Southern Highlands
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
New York: Craft Horizons, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Near Fine. Quarto. 9.5 x 12.25 in. 16 pp. Fully illustrated in sepia. A near fine pictorial stapled offprint. Jaffe 35.
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A$116.56
Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smokies
by GASQUE, Jim
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good in original red cloth, with light fading to the spine and isolated foxing on and around the black-and-white photographs.. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. xiii, 210, v pp. Occasionally illustrated in black & white. Inscribed by Gasque on the front free endpaper: "Asheville, NC, Aug 7 /48 - In Memory of the late Mark Cathey, it is a pleasure to Autograph this book for G____ B. M_______. Jim Gasque." Mark Cathey is featured in a...
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Social Change in Mining Communities: Psychological and sociological Aspects of Social and Adaptive Processes. Report of the Second International Conference May 11-17, 1969
by Kornadt, Joachim Hans, ed
Saarbrücken: University of the Saar, 1970. Paperback. 255p., wraps, taped spine as issued, 0.75 inch closed tear on front wrap, else very good condition, 8.25x11.5 inches. Collection of conference papers on cross-cultural studies of mining communities; includes a section on Appalachia.
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A$38.85
The Year of My Rebirth
by Stuart, Jesse Hilton (1906-1984)
Ashland, KY: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1991. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover_cloth. Near Fine-Collectible/VeryGood. Rocky Zornes. 7.25"x9.5" 383 pgs. Dk. blue cloth boards w/silver letters to spine. Intro by Ruel Foster. Foreword by James M. Gifford. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. DJ has indentions. Secure ship in box w/tracking number. The dramatic story of a man's struggle back to life from a near-fatal heart attack. Source: Publisher.
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A$38.85
Bear Tales and Panther Tracks: Book Two
by FERRELL, Dorothy M
Atlanta, GA: Appalachian Publisher, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Very good in original pictorial stapled wrappers.. Thin octavo. 6 x 9 in. 48 pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white and color reproductions of photographs.
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A$23.31
Haints, Witches, and Boogers: Tales from Upper East Tennessee
by PRICE, Charles Edwin
Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 1995. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Near fine. Octavo. 5.75 x 9.25 in. xviii, 104 pp. Very good in original paper-boards with faint foxing to edge of textblock and near fine pictorial dust jacket.
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A$38.85
Legends of the Ohio Valley; or Thrilling Incients of Indian Warfare. Truth Stranger Than Fiction [Fifth Edition]
by McMECHEN, James H
Wheeling, WV: West Virginia Printing Co, 1888. Fifth edition. 16mo. Original printed paper wrappers; iv,[5]-108pp. Deaccessioned library copy, with old perforated stamp (Free Public Library, New Haven) to title page; ink accession number to first page of text; professional cloth-tape reinforcements to hinges (internal). Still a very nicely preserved copy in the original wrappers, with no other institutional or ownership markings. A local account of early settlement and Indian conflicts along the...
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A$388.53
Southern Exposure: Vol. 1 No. 1, Spring 1973; The Military & The South
by Hall, Bob and Joseph Hughes, editors
Chapel Hill, NC: Institute for Southern Studies, 1973. Magazine. 100p., stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, illus., wraps lightly worn and soiled, volume number penned on front wrap, else very good condition.
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A$26.42
Conspiracy in coal
by Bethel, Thomas N
Huntington, WV: Appalachian Movement Press, 1967. Pamphlet. 36p., staplebound pamphlet, wraps lightly worn, staples rusted, old price sticker on front wrap else very good condition. This article originally appeared in Washington Monthly.
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A$18.65
Conspiracy in coal
by Bethel, Thomas N
Huntington, WV: Appalachian Movement Press, 1967. Pamphlet. 36p., staplebound pamphlet, wraps lightly worn, staples rusted, small stain on front wrap else very good condition. This article originally appeared in Washington Monthly.
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A$18.65
Seldom ask, never tell. Labor and discourse in Appalachia
by Puckett, Anita
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. hardcover. xv, 309p., original cloth binding, very good condition. Studies language and work relations in a coal field, conducted in [the pseudonymous] "Ash Creek," rural eastern Kentucky. Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, no. 25.
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A$18.65
Doris Ulmann: Photographs of Appalachian Craftsmen
Cullowhee, NC: Western Carolina University, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Quarto. 8.5 x 11 in. 36 pp. Profusely illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs. Very good in original pictorial glossy wrappers. Catalogue of a retrospective exhibit of Doris Ulman's photographs at Western Carolina University from April 6th to May 1st, 1976 lent by the John C. Campbell Folk School at Brasstown, NC.
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A$31.08
Mines Miners and Minerals: Of Western North Carolina's Mountain Empire
by PRESNELL, Lowell
Alexander, NC: WorldComm, 1999. Third Printing. Paperback. Very good. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. 256 pp. Very good pictorial wrappers, light foxing to edges. Inscribed by Presnell on title page.
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A$38.85
Under Pressure: Herbs for Resilience
by KENT, Janet; Roger Peet, Printmaker
North Carolina: Medicine County Herbs, n.d.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine in original pictorial stapled wrappers, as new.. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. 65 pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white reproductions of illustrations by Roger Peet. Janet Kent is the co-founder of Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine and of Medicine County Herbs, based out of Southern Appalachia. Features twelve common herbs.
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A$18.65
The Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulmann
by ULMANN, Doris, Photographer; John Jacob Niles, Introduction; Jonathan Williams, Preface
Penland, NC: Jargon Society, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Quarto. 9 x 11.5 in. With 63 black & white plates of reproductions of photographs and illustrated endpapers depicting an Appalachian coverlet. Very good in original brown cloth with lettering in blue, scattered spotting to boards with faint foxing to edge of textblock. Very good pictorial dust jacket with slight sunning along spine. Signed by Jargon publisher Jonathan Williams. Jargon 50.
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A$194.26
Eighty English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians
by SHARP, Cecil J. and Maud Karpeles
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. A very good ex-library copy in original pictorial wrappers, minimal library markings.. Square octavo. 7.5 x 7.5 in. 109 pp. Illustrated with black & white musical notations.
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A$31.08
The History of Land Titles in Western North Carolina
by SMATHERS, George H
Asheville, NC: The Miller Printing Company, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Good. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 148 pp. Good in original black leather boards with foxing to edge of textblock, fading to titling in gilt, and a stain to rear endpapers. Includes map in back pocket.
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A$233.12
Log Cabin Pioneers Stories, Songs & Sayings
by Erbsesn, Wayne
Ashville, NC: Native Ground Music, Inc, 2001. Paperback. Used - Near Fine. 6"x9"x.5". 184 pgs. Illustrated cover of a cabin in the woods during Autumn. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, unmarked. Gift quality. "Reading Log Cabin Pioneers is like stepping inside the door of an historic log cabin. Here you'll meet authentic pioneers who will sing ancient ballads, spin yarns about Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and Thomas Jefferson, tell spell-binding tales of...
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Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appalachian Women's Literacies
by ABRAMS LOCKLEAR, Erica
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Fine. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. 256 pp. Very good in original pictorial wrappers, previous owner inscription on interior of cover page and some soiling to head of text block.
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A$31.08
A Waltz With Words
by Lehmann, Clara
Coat of Arms, 2014. Paperback. New. Ian Kim. 8"x8". Cover has violin w/two robins sitting on it. Each poem has paper of different color w/beautiful illustration. "A Waltz with Words" is a collection of poems written by Clara Lehmann and illustrated by Ian Kim (Insoo Kim). The poems and illustrations are playful, unique, and appropriate for children or for adults. Inspired by Shel Silverstein, the Appalachian mountains, and her grandmother (Eleanor Mailloux), Lehmann dedicates these poems to her twin...
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A$23.31
Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smokies
by GASQUE, Jim
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good in original red cloth, with light fading to the spine and upper boards, and isolated foxing on and around the black-and-white photographs.. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. xiii, 210, v pp. Occasionally illustrated in black & white. Inscribed by Gasque on the front free endpaper: "Asheville, NC, Aug 7 /48 - In Memory of the late Mark Cathey, it is a pleasure to Autograph this book for G____ B. M_______. Jim Gasque." Mark Cathey is...
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Valhalla in the Smokies
by MAXWELL, PHILLIP HERBERT and EDOUARD EVARTT EXLINE (Photographer)
Cleveland: George A. Exline, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in very good dust jacket and good original box. Glassine dust jacket with wrinkle to front panel and small closed tear from rear inside flap; box seperated at 2 of 4 corner-joints, with large scrape from bottom. Overall quite presentable.. 4to. 9.25 x 12.25 in. Unpaginated. Black quarter-cloth over black & white decorative folk cloth, with black cloth title label inset on upper cover, titles in gilt; in original glassine dustwrapper....
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A$652.72
Water Street
by Wilkinson, Crystal E
N. pl: The Toby Press, 2002. Hardcover. 174p., first edition, dj, very good. The author's stories of the secret lives of a neighborhood in her native Kentucky.
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A$21.76