French Broad, Signed (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. This never sold, never read copy has crisp, tight pages and very minimal shelf wear. Signed by the author, who passed away in 2006. Wilma Dykeman's novels, in any edition, seldom appear on the market in New condition. 371 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Signed by author. The cover shows some edgewear with creasing to the front cover and spine. The binding is sound. Signed by the author on the endpage. Signed by Author(s).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Wakestone Printing, 1999. This is a near fine, or better, paperback reprint copy, blue spine. Flat signed by Wilma Dykeman on the half title page. Signed by Author(s).

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: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 246 pp. Occasionally illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs. Fine in original cloth boards and fine pictorial dust jacket. Signed on the title page by Ross. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Douglas Girsline (illustrator). fifth impression. 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: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Douglas Gorsline (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed (full name, only) by author in blue ink to the otherwise blank FFE. Title page in black and green. Not price-clipped; original $5.00 price still showing. "Good" dust jacket is missing bottom 3-1/2 inches of its spine.The French Broad flows from mountainous western North Carolina into Tennessee, and eventually winds its way into the Tennessee River. In the 1890s, the Stokely brothers began canning their tomatoes on the shores of the French Broad -- pork and beans came later. 371 pp. including Bibliography and Index. As with all our items priced $90 or higher, this book will be shipped "signature required." Book now reduced from $185. Signed by Author(s).

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

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.