Scafidel James (9 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. Excellent condition. Previous ownership on half-title page. Text is clean.

xviii, 550 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16cm. Dust jacket rubbed with foxing and light soiling; bumping and a few nicks at edges; front flap[ is not price-clipped. Tan cloth with brown and silver stamping to spine. Edges foxed with minimal affect to margins and interior leaves still quite clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. With Acknowledgements, Textual Note, Preface, Bibliography, and Index. After a three-entry opening under "Pseudonymous Fiction" the anthology features contributions by William C. Hall, Alexander G. McNutt, Henry Clay Lewis, Joseph Beckham Cobb, J.F.H. Claiborne [John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne], Katherine McDowell (Sherwood Bonner), Irwin Russell, Eliza Jane Poitevant Nicholson ("Pearl Rivers"), Harris Dickson, Stark Young, William Alexander Percy, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, James Street, Richard Wright, Hodding Carter, Tennessee Williams, Cid Ricketts Sumner, Thomas Hal Phillips, John Faulkner, Hubert Creekmore, Margaret Walker Alexander, Elizabeth Spencer, Shelby Foote, Charles G. Bell, Josephine Ayres Haxton (Ellen Douglas), Walker Percy, Willie Morris, Berry Morgan, Robert Canozoneri, Charles East, J. Edgar Simmons, Barry Hannah, Turner Cassity, David Berry, James Seay, James Whitehead, and William Mills. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 3.25 pounds (1.47 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0878050825.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A first edition. A fine copy in a near fine DJ with a small spot of rubbing on the lower spine corner, protected by a removable mylar cover. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #C4.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket shows slight wear. Non-authorial inscription on flyleaf. Price clipped from dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book in brown boards has mildly bumped top corners, very minor wear elsewhere. Unclipped jacket in new mylar cover has tear at top front edge and wear down it, minor wear elsewhere. A big ol' helping of Mississippi literature.

Reprint of the 1855 first edition with additional material. xx, 601 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.5cm. Lacks dust jacket. Red boards with vibrant gilt stamping. Light moisture staining at lower fore-edge and adjacent bottom edge with associated unobtrusive light ripple to bottom corners some interior leaves. Pages are otherwise clean and binding is firm. Acknowledgements by James B. Meriwether and Stephen Meats; Introduction (pages ix-xiv); Explanatory Notes (pages 563-601) by Beverly Scafidel. A very good- copy. ISBN 0871522403.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. 550pp. Book is faintly musty, top corner lightly bumped throughout, binding slightly cocked, very good in a very good jacket with slight waviness and light edgewear. Selections from 38 of the "best and most representative" writers of nearly 150 years of Mississippi's literary heritage.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. xviii, 550pp. Top corner bumped throughout, near fine in a near fine jacket with corresponding bumping and a bit of light edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. xviii, 550pp. Corners of boards gently bumped else fine in a somewhat edgeworn, very good or better dust jacket.