French Broad by Wilma Dykeman (54 results)

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

Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Condition: GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Fifth printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Stamps and name to front inside cover and front end page. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Condition: Very Good. first edition, first printing, signed by the author; 371 pp., Hardcover, very good in a worn dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. Douglas Gorsline (illustrator). INSCRIBED by the author: "For Perrin and Peggy/ Quarles/ with the hope that/ my account of the/ river will aid their/ work for its preservation/ Wilma Dykeman." The Quarles worked for the EPA and later as environmental consultants. Near Very Good, internally clean, solid hard cover Fifth Printing. No dust jacket. Light cover soiling and some quite light foxing to the edges. Inscribed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Jacket is falling apart. See photos. 1966 Edition. Cover shows considerable wear. See photo. The previous owner's name is written to the top of the inside cover. The binding is in good shape. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. A good solid copy. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING!.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. This is the 1966 edition published by University of Tennessee Press. The dust jacket is missing. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. A good solid copy. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING!.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Douglas Gorsline (illustrator). 1st Edition. This is a near fine condition, fifth printing of the Univ. of Tennessee edition, yellow cloth binding, in a mylar protected DJ that is price clipped, blue spine. With previous owner's bookplate and a full page inscription by Wilma Dykeman dated October 1, 1992. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Reprint, 1992. Signed by Author. Pictorial green paper covers. Illustrated title pages (2-page title). Illustrated throughout. vii, 371pp. Light shelf wear to covers, as well as some minor staining to back cover. Spine is creased. Inside is clean and free from any writing. Full refund if not satisfied. Signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Douglas Gorsline (illustrator). First Edition. This is a VG or better, first edition, first printing copy with the Rinehart logo, in a mylar protected DJ that is age darkened at the spine and has a tape repair at the rear panel, with the $5.00 flap price. Photos on request.

Condition: Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! TN: Univ of Tennessee Press 1966. 5th printing. Hardcover 8vo 371 pgs. B/w map and illustrations. Signed and inscribed by Dykeman on front endpaper. Good in a good dust jacket. Yellow cloth. Spine heel bumped. Hinge starting at pg 86. Contents clean and binding still good. Jacket edgeworn, chipped and torn. Waterstains to jacket spine, do not affect book. Price clipped. (US history, rivers, appalachia, north carolina, tennessee) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This 1955 assumed first edition has been personally inscribed by the author on the fep. The book is tight with no names or markings. There is bumping at the spine ends and light edgewear at the bottom of the spine. There is a very tiny spot on the back cover, but otherwise the orange/brown cloth cover is clean and presentable. Language: eng. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Douglas Girsline (illustrator). First Edition. Name of former owner on first free endpaper dustcover has some very light edgewear top edge and a bit bottom spine and small tear bottom front - under archival mylar; Yellow linen hardboards with very little wear, gilt over black embossing on spine (bright) , name of former owner and inscription /signature of author on first free endpaper " My good wishes, Wilma Dykeman", no other markings, clean, dustcover has some very light edgewear top edge and a bit bottom spine and small tear bottom front - under archival mylar; Rivers of America; Black and white pen and ink; 369 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This is a copy distributed "with the compliments of Rinehart & Company. April 25, 1955. Jonathan Daniels book plate as well. Book: Near Fine. Jacket: Good. Has some writing on the back in pencil and some loss, but it is protected in mylar. Nice copy! (CK).

hardcover, Condition: Good, Rinehart, NY, c.1955, 8vo, cloth, 371pp., nice signed inscription by author to Robert Spiro, foxed covers, G in tattered & chipped dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clipped DJ in archival cover, large chips, wear. Sixth Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clipped DJ in archival cover, large chips, wear. Third Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, 1955, no reprints indicated, publisher's device (stylized R) on copyright page. Well preserved ex- high school library with usual library markings on interior. Due date card pocket on rear free endpaper. Minor rub wear to head & foot of spine and corners of boards; faint discolorations where Scotch tape previously held on dust jacket. Light edge wear to jacket; minor soiling to rear panel; spine panel a little sunfaded; jacket in brodart protector; $5.00 price intact. Rare to have jacket in this nice of shape.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1966 University of Tennessee Press 5th printing inscribed to former owner and signed by author. Tight binding text unmarked, jacket is price intact. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Douglas Gorsline (illustrator). Part of The Rivers of America series. First edition. INSCRIBED by the author to a previous owner on the front free endpaper. Nonauthorial brief gift inscription also on front free endpaper, else Very good in a very good (minor edge wear and age toning) dust jacket. ; 371 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Douglas Gorsline (illustrator). 1st Printing. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. 371 pages. Signed by Dykeman, with an inscription, on ffep (see photo). 1st printing with Rinehart 'R' in circle on copyright page. Condition of the book is Very Good; very faint ring-stain on front cover, text and illustrations are very clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is Very Good; lightly faded and toned, mild edge-wear with some losses to top edge of front cover, not price-clipped ($5.00). STK.

Condition: Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.

First Edition of Wilma Dykeman's first book ! Octavo. X, 371 pages. With a double-page map of the area in which "The French Broad River" flows. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Very rare in this signed version. [Rivers of America]. Wilma Dykeman Stokely (May 20, 1920 December 22, 2006) was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction whose works chronicled the people and land of Appalachia. Dykeman grew up in the Beaverdam community of Buncombe County, North Carolina, now part of Asheville. She was the only child of Bonnie Cole Dykeman and Willard Dykeman. Her father had relocated to the Asheville area from New York as a widower with two grown children, and had met and married her mother in Asheville. He was 60 years old when Wilma was born and died when Wilma was 14 years old. In later life, she credited both of her parents for giving her a love of reading and her father for giving her a love of nature and a curiosity about the world around her. She attended Biltmore Junior College (now the University of North Carolina at Asheville), graduating in 1938, and Northwestern University, where she was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa and graduated in 1940 with a major in speech. In August 1940, shortly after her graduation from Northwestern, she was introduced to her future husband, James R. Stokely, Jr., by Mabel Wolfe, the sister of Asheville writer Thomas Wolfe. Stokely, of Newport, Tennessee, was a son of the president of Stokely Brothers Canning Company (which in 1933 bought Van Camp to become Stokely-Van Camp Inc. The Stokely brand of canned food is now a brand of Seneca Foods and Van Camps a brand of Conagra Inc.) The couple married just two months after they met. They had two sons, Dykeman Stokely and James R. "Rory" Stokely III. The couple maintained homes in Asheville and Newport, and Dykeman continued to divide her time in both homes after Stokely died in 1977. Dykeman and Stokely wrote several books together. After Dykeman died in 2006, Appalachian writer Jeff Daniel Marion called the couple's marriage a "partnership in every sense of the word," describing Dykeman and Stokely as "partners in writing, partners in marriage and partners in having similar points of view." In addition to this, in honor of Wilma Dykeman who strongly advocated for linkage between economic development and environmental protection along the French Broad River, both the City of Asheville and Buncombe County in Western North Carolina have adopted the Wilma Dykeman RiverWay Plan - a 17-mile greenway and park system that intends to revitalize sustainable economic growth along the French Broad and Swannanoa River. Dykeman died on December 22, 2006 after suffering complications from a fractured hip and subsequent hip replacement surgery. She is buried at Beaverdam Baptist Church cemetery next to her mother near her childhood home. Dykeman wrote a total of eighteen books, including both nonfiction and fiction. Her first book, The French Broad, was published in 1955 as part of the Holt Rinehart Rivers of America Series. Dykeman wrote three novels: The Tall Woman (1962), The Far Family (1966), and Return the Innocent Earth (1973). The main character in The Tall Woman is a mountain woman who works to bring a community together after the Civil War. The Far Family continues the story of that same woman's family, generations later. Return the Innocent Earth recalls the Stokely family's legacy, examining modern industry through a fictionalized Tennessee canning company. The book portrayed the Clayburns, a poor but enterprising family who went into the canning business in a small mountain town called Churchill around 1900. Dykeman's 1975 book Too Many People, Too Little Love is a biography of Edna Rankin McKinnon, a pioneer in family planning. Dykeman was also chosen for the prestigious honor of authoring "Tennessee, A History", published in 1975, as part of The States and the Nation series in celebration of our nation's bicentennial. The series, which includes 51 books, one for each state and the District of Columbia, was administered by the American Association for State and Local History via a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. 371p octavo, illustrated , A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A few spots on the bottom edge. Inscribed by the author, "For Ida Padelford whose interest in, and knowledge of, books and the French Broad country were of much help to this chronicler - with my good wishes. Wilma Dykeman" Laid in is a 19 line type letter from Dykeman to Padelford who was a librarian at the library in Asheville. In the letter she asks for assistance as she is wary of how to confront Jesse James Bailey in connection with the writing of this book. Ida responds by writing all over the blank side of the letter with information, Dykeman acknowledges Ida Padelford in the rear of the text. Also laid in is the printed invitation to the signing. Author's first book.