Southern Lit from Heaven-Haven Books

8vo, blue cloth with gilt titles, 391pp. Unclipped dust jacket (2.50). Stated First Edition. Dust jacket shows mild edge wear and tape repair to top edge, rubbing to rear panel. Slight rubbing to endpapers and toning to pages. The second published novel by Warren. A handsome copy in mylar. Scarce.

8vo, black quarter cloth over orange papered boards, gilt titles, 401pp. Unclipped dust jacket (10.00). Stated First Edition. Signed by the author to the free front endpaper. Near fine with minor shelf wear to covers and boards. A nice copy in mylar.

8vo, red orange cloth with gilt titles, 512pp. Price clipped dust jacket. Special Kentucky Edition, limited to one thousand copies, signed by the author to the colophon in front. Stated first printing. Flyleaf page appears torn out. A large damp stain to boards and front endpapers, pages lightly rippled. Substantial discoloration to reverse of dust jacket and soiling to front… Read more about this item

8vo, blue cloth with silver titles, 360pp. First Edition. Lacking dust jacket. Boards show minor fading with a few discreet soil marks to panels, toning to endpapers. Firmly bound with clean text. Short stories by Southern writers, edited by Robert Penn Warren. Includes work by Caroline Gordon, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Erskine Caldwell, Jesse Stuart, Allen Tate, Katherine Anne Porter,… Read more about this item

Tall 8vo, quarter black cloth over blue papered boards, gilt titles, 372pp. 1st trade edition (copyright page states 'A Signed First Edition has been privately printed by the Franklin Library), signed by Percy to the title page. Unclipped dust jacket (17.95), shows minor sunning to flap. Percy's final novel. A fine copy in mylar.

8vo (6 x 8.5) Quarter drab green cloth over black papered boards; silver titles, green topstain, 409pp. Dust jacket is unclipped (5.95) and in fine condition. Boards show tape residue marks to edges and some mild spots of residue and rubbing to endpapers. Else firmly bound with clean text; a presentable copy. The second novel from a giant of both contemporary… Read more about this item

8vo, grey buckram cloth boards, purple titles, delta country map endpapers, dark purple topstain, 247pp. Stated First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (2.75) shows minimal shelf wear to edges, quarter loss to rear panel at spine edge, light toning and rubbing to panels and folds. Binding firm with clean text. Welty's full fledged novelistic debut, and often considered her best. A… Read more about this item

4to, maroon cloth with silver titles, 226pp. First Edition, number line ending in 1. Unpriced dust jacket. Mild shelf wear to jacket. Firmly bound with clean text. An anthology of the Mississippi writer's photographs, with an introductory essay by Reynolds Price. A nice copy.

8vo, turquoise quarter cloth over matching paper boards, gilt titles, 355pp. Stated First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (10.00). Ownership signature to front endpaper, else unmarked. Dust jacket shows mild shelf wear, a few small closed tears. Contents clean; binding firm. A collection of essays and short prose, including the celebrated 'Place in Fiction' and 'Must the Novelist Crusade?' A presentable… Read more about this item

Small 8vo, white quarter cloth over blue marbled cloth boards, 206pp. Unclipped dust jacket ($2). Stated Third Edition, 1962. Dust jacket shows sunning to spine and rubbing to rear panel, small damp stain to cloth at spine edge, ownership signature to front endpaper. Firmly bound with clean text. A collection of interviews with William Faulkner upon his first visit to… Read more about this item

Tall 8vo, green gilt stamped cloth with gilt titles, 436pp. Stated First Edition in a first state dust jacket (7.95 price, 4/70 code to rear flap). Signed by Welty to the title page in faint blue ink. Boards show fading and discoloration to edges, corners lightly bumped, a small section of text shows rippling from a water incursion, discoloration to… Read more about this item

8vo, quarter maroon cloth over brown papered boards, gilt titles, 223pp. Stated first printing. Unclipped dust jacket (4.50) price slashed in pen, minor toning to panels, loss to lower edge of front panel at spine. Internally clean, crisp and bright. Prints the sixteen signed early sketches of Faulkner, published in 1925 during his tenure at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, along… Read more about this item

Tall 8vo, teal buckram cloth with gilt and black stamped titles, 198pp. Stated first printing. First state Dust jacket (10/55) is price clipped with toning to flaps and wear along edges, rear panel shows fading and a faint soil mark along spine edge. Ownership signature to front endpaper. Internally clean and crisp with sharp and tight binding. Collects four hunting… Read more about this item

8vo, black cloth with gilt titles and stamped red lines, red topstain, 384pp, foldout map of Yoknapatawpha County to rear. First trade edition, following the signed limited publication of 300 copies. 2.50 price to dust jacket, EH code and date of 1936 to copyright and title pages. Dust jacket is unfortunately tape repaired at spine, with a few tape marks… Read more about this item