Bitterweed Path by Thomas Hal Phillips (40 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: very_good. Used with minimal wear, no writing or markings, corners maybe bent, few crease lines.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rpt. #T-273. Paperback. 255pp +3pp ads. VG. Spine light-mod. bowed; a few small/readers stress creases detract lightly. Bright. Tight. No marks.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Trade paperback. First edition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Chapel Hill Books. Audience: General/trade. Fine. whisper of shelfwear, first printing thus, signed by John Howard (who wrote the introduction to this book) no inscription.

Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint Edition. 314pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine condition. Tells the story of friendship and love between two boys growing up in the cotton country of Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Originally published in 1950. New Introduction by John Howard.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition/First Printing. No jacket, and there is a half inch chunk missing from the head of the binding at upper spine. 'A Rediscovered Novel'; a homosexual coming of age theme. Makes a good reading copy.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd special edition. 376 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. In English.

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HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good conditition with wear.

Hardback. Condition: New. 75th Anniversary Edition. Originally published in 1950, the long out-of-print novel The Bitterweed Path was rediscovered in 1996 with the support of John Howard's critical introduction. In the years since, new generations have witnessed its subtle yet daring contribution to Southern gay literature. This 75th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by John Howard and a new afterword by Harry Thomas Jr. that provide fresh insight into the workings of race, class, and queerness in this enduring novel. In The Bitterweed Path, Thomas Hal Phillips vividly recreates rural Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century. In elegant prose, he draws on the Old Testament story of David and Jonathan and writes of the friendship and love between two boys-one a sharecropper's son and the other the son of the landlord-and the complications that arise when the father of one of the boys falls in love with his son's friend. Defying stereotypes about both Mississippi and the 1950s, The Bitterweed Path challenges conceptions of the US South as a place devoid of queerness and reimagines it as alive with same-sex desire.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HILLIPS, THOMAS HAL. The Bitterweed Path: A Novel. New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1950. Hardcover 1st Edition. Thomas Hal Phillips' novel tells the story of two boys growing up in the cotton country of Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Originally published in 1950, the novel's unique interest lies in its subtle treatment of same-sex love across class lines. The Bitterweed Path vividly invokes life in Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century. In elegant prose drawing on the Old Testament story of David and Jonathan, the author tells of the relationship between two boys--one a white sharecropper's son, the other the son of the wealthy land owner, a man whose own attentions complicate the plot when they fall upon his son's friend. . Part of a very small body of gay literature of the period, The Bitterweed Path does not sensationalize homosexual love but instead portrays sexuality as a continuum of human behavior. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR S FIRST NOVEL some cloth wear, spine edges damaged, writing 1st blank page otherwise clean and tight BB1.…

Condition: New. 2025. 75th Anniversary. hardcover. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 2nd special edition. 376 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

First edition (not stated but per presence of Rinehart logo upon copyright page). [6], 314 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.75cm. Lacks dust jacket rubbed. Black boards lightly rubbed; gilt and blue stamping to spine remains bright; slender scuffing at spine ends and at board corner tips. Some foxing/toning to text block edges and endpapers; past owner's ink inscription on front pastedown; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A vey good+ copy. Exceptionally uncommon first novel by Corinth, Mississippi-born author and Hollywood screenwriter and actor Thomas Hal Phillips whose fiction efforts, although obscure, are highly regarded. A United States Navy World War II veteran and 1943 graduate of Mississippi State University, Phillips completed a master's degree in creative writing at the University of Alabama under the tutelage of renowned instructor Hudson Strode where his thesis evolved into this first novel which is among the earliest in the genre of American overtly themed gay literature and, in further challenging period stereotypes, being notable in both its Deep South setting and being by a southern author. Phillips followed THE BITTERWEED PATH with five other novels - THE GOLDEN LIE (1951), SEARCH FOR A HERO (1952), KANGAROO HOLLOW (1954), THE LOVED AND THE UNLOVED (1955), and RED MIDNIGHT (2002).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: New. 2025. 75th Anniversary. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardback. Condition: New. 75th Anniversary Edition. Originally published in 1950, the long out-of-print novel The Bitterweed Path was rediscovered in 1996 with the support of John Howard's critical introduction. In the years since, new generations have witnessed its subtle yet daring contribution to Southern gay literature. This 75th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by John Howard and a new afterword by Harry Thomas Jr. that provide fresh insight into the workings of race, class, and queerness in this enduring novel. In The Bitterweed Path, Thomas Hal Phillips vividly recreates rural Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century. In elegant prose, he draws on the Old Testament story of David and Jonathan and writes of the friendship and love between two boys-one a sharecropper's son and the other the son of the landlord-and the complications that arise when the father of one of the boys falls in love with his son's friend. Defying stereotypes about both Mississippi and the 1950s, The Bitterweed Path challenges conceptions of the US South as a place devoid of queerness and reimagines it as alive with same-sex desire.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition/First Printing. 7-line inscription by Phillips dated 1950, on the first endpaper. Homosexual coming of age story. From the jacket flap ."a period when even psychologists knew little of such matters." Particularly fragile jacket, chips and small tears, tape reinforcement internally.The rear panel states that Phillips is "currently teaching creative writing at Southern Methodist University", in Dallas. Rare title, rare signed. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. 268 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards. Undated but believed early 1950s. By the author of 'The Golden Lie'. A rediscovered novel. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end-papers. Fore-edge and bottom corner of text block are moderately darkened. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing and marking to surfaces. Boards are bowed. Book has a slight forward lean. Board corners are bumped, with some loss to board covering. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering has become dull.…

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Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Rinehart, NY, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. VERY GOOD+ hardcover book in VERY GOOD dust-jacket. A previous owner's signature on front pastedown. Dj has chips at extremities. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.…