French Broad by Wilma Dykeman (31 results)

Condition: Very Good. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. shelfwear, bumped corners. Paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 9780961385987. Trade Paperback. Slight wear to corners and edges. Otherwise Tight, sound, unmarked in Very Good condition. Price $15. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. 1973 printing; Solid binding; Pages clean; A Good copy, w/o jacket; Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.45.

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: Used - Acceptable. First Edition. 5th printing 1966. HEAVY STAINS ON COVER AND SPINE. some wear. edgewear. Still readable copy.

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).

HB-VG; part of the Rivers of America seriesyellow cloth with blindstamping on front cover, illustrations throughout, bibliography; index; previous owner inscription on front endpapers, some small spots on cover;

paperback. Condition: New. 0.8500.

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. 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: 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.

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: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. First Edition. 371p octavo, A near fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket. Author Paul Green's copy with his ownership signature on the front fly leaf. Additionally inscribed by Dykeman to a bookseller with a warm inscription concluding with "- and I'm pleased they have Paul Green's copy- Wilma Dykeman" Plus laid in is a 2 page letter written by Dykeman to a friend back home when she was 18 and in college at North Western. She talks of her love for Lake Michigan, her roomates ad excited about acourse in Advanced Writing. This after writing about her mother's near death operation. Unique window into Dykeman's early years. Part of Rivers of America's series, author's first book.