Jackson, MS: The University Press of Mississippi, 1981. First Edition. A compilation of mining poems by Appalachian scholar and writer, James B. Goode. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Laid in is a newspaper clipping of the book review written by William Paulk. Author's 12-line note, dated 7/16/81, thanks Paulk..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1950. First Edition. Thick octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in yellow and brown decorative dust jacket, brown topstain; [2],500pp. Jacket extremities rubbed with a few small chips and short closed tears; Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. The author's first book, set in the..... More
Beaver, WV: Gem Publications, 2010. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's glossy photo-illustrated card wrappers; 102pp.; photographic illus. throughout. As New. Compilation of contemporary newspaper articles regarding the horrific conditions at the New River Coal Field in West Virginia at the turn of the 20th century. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1932]. History of Martha Berry (1866-1942), founder in 1902 of the Berry School and later the Berry Junior College at Mount Berry, Georgia, where "There are estimated to be a million illiterate or semi-literate white people in the mountains of Southern Appalachia, of the purest..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1932. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); maroon cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and gilt on spine and front panel; peach topstain; dustjacket; 298pp. Gently nudged and faded at spine ends, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly worn at joints and extremities..... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1902. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in black and peach; 389pp.; frontispiece, four leaves of plates. Boards rather scuffed and lightly soiled, front board a bit bent with tear to front pastedown, small bookseller ticket to front pastedown, else Very..... More
Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1987. First Edition. A detailed account of the Banner Coal Mine, a proponent of the Pratt Consolidated Coal Company, in Jefferson County, Alabama. In 1911, an explosion killed 128 miners, of which 123 were convicts on lease from state prisons. This tragedy prompted..... More
Huntington, WV: Appalachian Movement Press, 1972. Reprint. A selection of articles reprinted from Labor Age dating from April to December 1931 depicting harsh living conditions and general union activities of the West Virginia mountaineer miner. Heavily illustrated with photographs and political drawings. Quarto (28cm). Pictorial staplebound wrappers, [20pp], illus. Mild..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1950. First Edition. Late novel by the West Virginia mystery author featuring Kentucky sheriff Jess Roden, who goes undercover to search for a moonshiner who killed a U.S. Deputy Marshall. HUBIN, p.105. First Printing. Octavo; teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine..... More
New York: Harold Vinal, 1926. First Edition. Rather uncommon novel set in the coal mines of Pocahontas County, West Virginia. "[T]his novel tells the usual tale of privation in mine camps, 'stilling and shoot-'em-up arguments" (BOGER 119); HANNA 902. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's reddish-brown cloth lettered in orange, orange topstain; [6],300pp..... More
Washington DC: United Mine Workers of America [UMWA], 1975. First Edition. Calendar. Oblong quarto. Pictorial, staple-bound wrappers; [12pp]; illus. Near Fine. Calendar pages with notable dates noted, faced with photographs by noted coal-country photojournalist Earl Dotter. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1932]. First Edition. Final report of the commission of inquiry headed by Dreiser to investigate labor and living conditions in Harlan County, Kentucky, during the protracted coal strike of 1931-32. Includes statements by members of the commission, along with sworn testimony of miners, police..... More
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1983. First edition. Posthumously-edited autobiography of the great Kentucky folksinger and activist, with much on his early life as a miner and the coal wars of the twenties and thirties. A scarce title in nice condition; most copies seem to have gone to libraries..... More
Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1926. Sesqui-Centennial Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); deep green publisher's cloth, blind-stamped borders with gilt-stamped Frederick County seal on front and titling on spine; 441pp.,frontis.,10 plates. Some chapping to extremities, especially to joints, heel, and crown of spine; gilt somewhat faded; interior pages yellowing at margins; written..... More
[Richmond, VA]: American Folklore Society, 1965. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by Greenway on first leaf: "For Sophie -- in hope of *seducing her into a new field of interest / John Greenway / 15 August 1965 / *And if I had the opportunity of singing some hillbilly songs to..... More
![West Virginia Birds: Distribution and Ecology [Inscribed]. George A. HALL](/pictures/medium/46283.jpg?v=1571782701)
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1983. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm.); blue publisher's cloth pictorial boards with gilt lettering, in white pictorial dust jacket; vi,180pp. Text block is clean, with light handling wear; bindings mostly tight, with slight separation from front pastedown to page 6. Pastedowns toned along..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First Edition. Appalachian mountain girl is courted then betrayed by a city visitor, and subsequently shunned by her community. An interesting association copy; the recipient, Mary Margaret McBride, known as "The First Lady of Radio" and for pioneering the early days of television..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1934. First Edition. The author's second novel, the story of a North Carolina woman's life, "from her lonely post-Civil War childhood with a widowed mother, through an emotionally eventful life to her old age. An interesting background of witch lore, mountain humor and the..... More
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1857. First Edition. Octavo (19cm). Publisher's cloth boards, decorated in gilt and blind; xxxi, [26]-375pp; wood-engraved frontispiece. Withdrawn from the library of the Southern Chapter of the HIstorical Society of the United Church of Christ, with their ownership stamp. Earlier ownership label of J.D. Andrew, and..... More
![Appearing By Daylight [Inscribed]. David Sten HERRSTROM, Jacob LANDAU, poems, illustrations](/pictures/medium/29839.jpg?v=1529353615)
Huntington, WV: Aegina Press, Inc., 1992. First Edition. Collection of poems based on Biblical stories, illustrated throughout by Jacob Landau. Slim octavo (21.5cm); illustrated wrappers; 82, [4]pp; illus. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn, with their bookplate to verso of front wrapper and inscribed to Bernarda on the..... More
New York: William Sloane Associates, [1949]. First Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); original two-toned cloth in green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [6],385pp. Some general shelf wear to jacket extremities, including a few short closed tears and subsequent creases, shallow loss at spine crown, else Very Good and sound. Novel of a lonely..... More
Winchester: Printed for the Publishers by J. Foster, 1819. Edition not stated. Octavo (17cm); contemporary full calf, dark brown, title on spine; 232pp. Boards warped; leather shows surface rubbing and abrasions, scratches and bumps; spots of delamination; large "F" carved into front; material loss at crown of spine. Textblock comprehensively..... More
Cleveland: Jordan Press, 1971. First Edition. Second book of poetry by the late West Virginia author, a leading voice of the Black Arts Movement and an accomplished playwright. With a 2pp introduction by Cleveland poet Russell Atkins. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); printed wrappers, stapled; x, 50pp. Moderate foxing along spine..... More
Prince, WV: Unrealist Press, 1977. First Edition. West Virginia poet's scarce second book. His first, "D.C. Images and Other Poems," was highly praised by Donald Hall and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1975. Laska a seminal figure in the Appalachian literary renaissance of the Seventies, and..... More
Cincinnati: The Caxton Press, 1930. First, Limited Edition. Lloyd here revisits the setting of his highly successful 1900 story collection, Stringtown on the Pike, to present a fictionalized portrait of a real-life Jewish immigrant peddler who flourished in Boone County, Kentucky in the years following the Civil War. Illustrated throughout..... More
