Radford, VA: Commonwealth Press, 1977. First Edition. Small octavo. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 51pp; illus. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly worn dustwrapper with hand-written price on front flap. Uncommon memoir of African-American life in the small southwest Virginia... More about Glimpses of Tazewell Through the Holley Heritage
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 about Poets of Darkness
N.p. by the Author, 1975. First Edition. Photo-essay depicting the daily lives of miners and their families during the 1973 Harlan County Coal Strike. The accompanying booklet contains the transcript of an interview with Houston Elmore, head of the organizing drive for the UMWA during the Brookside and Highsplint strikes... More about Harlan County, Kentucky. A photo-documentation by Robert Gumpert
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 about But a Little Moment
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 about Coal Mining Mayhem & Murder: The Incredible New River Coal Field, 1900-1912
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 about Martha Berry: The Sunday Lady of Possum Trot
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 about The Weather Tree
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 about Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy
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 about The West Virginia Miners Union, 1931. As Reported at the time in Labor Age
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 about The Hunter Is the Hunted
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 about We Make This Country Go. The United Mine Workers Bicentennial Calendar for 1976
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm.); original green pictorial cloth embossed in darker green; [8],287pp. Light wear to cloth extremities, some dust-soil to top textblock edge, contents fine. Very Good and sound. Kentucky novel following the progress of a small mountain school and a.... More about The Glass Window: A Story of the Quare Women
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 about Welcome the Traveler Home: Jim Garland's Story of the Kentucky Mountains
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 about The Gods and One
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 about The Hills Step Lightly
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 about The Life of Rev. Michael Schlatter; with a full account of his travels and labors among the...
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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 about Appearing By Daylight [Inscribed
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 about Lonesome Valley
Green Spring, WVa. Vicki Bidinger Horton / Hampshire Review, 1994. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); original orange pictorial card wrappers; [6],205pp. Wrappers a bit worn, upper cover slightly cockled, old dampstain along bottom textblock edge. About Very Good overall. More about Hampshire County Records, 1816-1923, Virginia / West Virginia
Lynchburg: TLC Publishing Inc., 2002. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm x 22.5cm). Glossy pictorial paper boards (hardcover); 144pp; illus. Fine copy; appears new. Photographic account of how the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Norfolk & Western, and the Virginian & Clinchfield railroads crossed the Appalachian Mountains. Hundreds of illustrations in b&w and..... More about Appalachian Conquest: C&O, N&W, Virginian and Clinchfield Cross the Mountains
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 about Above Maya
Knoxville: Highlander Research & Education Center, 1967. First Edition. Significant and apparently unrecorded collection of southern and Appalachian labor songs, collected by the great folk revivalist and civil rights activist Guy Carawan (1927-2015). Carawan was the long-serving Musical Director of the Highlander Research and Education Center (also known as the... More about Ain't You Got A Right
Monteagle, TN: Highlander Folk School, [1944]. Promotional brochure for the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, TN, detailing their history and work in the South. Founded by Don West and Myles Horton in 1932 as a training facility for southern labor union organizers, Highlander ran a school to train union workers... More about Here's Why Highlander Fights for Democracy in the South
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 about Songs & Dances / Poems
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 about Felix Moses, The Beloved Jew of Stringtown on the Pike. Pages from the life experiences of a...
