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Paperback. Condizione: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Includes a hand-written dedication from 2010 on one of the front leaflets.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Near Fine with no dust jacket. Square, tight book with sound binding. Pages clean, bright. Wraps are edge rubbed but very well preserved. Signed by author on title page with message to recipient. Study of the life and work of T. S. Stribling (1881-1965), iconoclastic social realist whose work portrayed life in the southeastern United States in such works as Birthright, Teeftallow, Bright Metal, The Forge, The Store, and Unfinished Cathedral. 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall; 174 pages; Signed by Author. Signed.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo. 174 pages, indexed. Softcover in red wrappers. Binding has light wear. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To my good friend, fellow Flaubert Society member, and softball teammate (sometimes). / Ed Piacentino". Text is clean. Piacento is a professor of English at High Point University in High Point, North Carolina. He was also associated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Signed by Author(s).…

Condizione: Good. 1St Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Condizione: very_good. Fast Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 48 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.12 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). x, 321 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed, "2001" handwritten in faded ink at front panel's top right. Beige cloth with metallic purple stamped spine lettering. Some soiling to top edge and fore-edge. Obtrusive ink marginalia on Table of Contents leaf; frequent pencil underlining and margin marks within Introduction; ink underlining and margin marks within Chapter 2. No other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Preface, Introduction by James H. Justus, "Humor of the Old South: A Comprehensive Bibliography" compiled by Ed Piacentino (pages 263-309), Contributors (short biographical essays of contributing authors), and Index. Features seventeen chapters within three sections all titled as follows: ORIGIN AND INFLUENCES, {Chapter #1} "The Origins of the Humor of the Old South" by J.A. Leo Lemay, {2} "'Sleepy Hollow' Comes South: Washington Irving's Influence on Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {#3} The Function of Women in Old Southwestern Humor: Rereading Porter's 'Big Bear' and 'Quarter Race' Collections" by William E. Lenz, {4} "Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {5} "Darkness Visible: Race and Pollution in Southwestern Humor" by Scott Romine, PERSPECTIVES ON EARLIER AUTHORS-1830-1860, {6} "The Prison House of Gender: Masculine Confinement and Escape in Southwest Humor" by Gretchen Martin, {7} "Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by Kurt Albert Mayer, {8} "A Biographical Reading of A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by David Rachels, {9} "A Sadder Simon Suggs: Freedom and Slavery in the Humor of Johnson Hooper" by Johanna Nicol Shields, {10} "Revising Southern Humor: William Tappan Thompson and Major Jones Letters" by David C. Estes, {11} "Backwoods Civility, or How the Ring-Tailed Roarer Became a Gentle Man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson" by James E. Caron, {12} "Bench and Bar: Baldwin's Lawyerly Humor" by Mary Ann Wimsat, {13} "The Good Doctor: O.B. Mayer and 'Human Natur,'" by Edwin T. Arnold, THE LITERARY LEGACY, {14} "An Old Southwesterner Abroad: Cultural Frontiers and the Landmark American Humor of J. Ross Browne's 'Yusef'" by Joseph Csicsila, {15} "Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor" by Leland Krauth, {16} "Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood: Southwestern Humor as Stream of Consciousness," by Stephen M. Ross, and {17} "Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration" by R.J. Gray. ISBN 0813121949.…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 1st printing. Crisp and unmarked in full cloth binding. 326pp. Very nice dust jacket now in a new mylar cover. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Book is clean and tight. dust Jacket covered with mylar. 321 pages with index. Signed and dated by Edward J. Piacentino on Title Page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Very fine first edition in a very fine dust jacket. No names, bookplates, etc.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. T. S. Stribling: Pioneer Realist in Modern Southern Literature by Edward J. Piacentino (1st) A tight copy with light wear along edges. First Edition. BOOK.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

hardcover. Condizione: 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.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition; the jacket (in good condition) has a small tear on the rear leading edge. Penned ticks on a few of the page margins towards the end; all text remains clear. The binding is sound. CM. Used.

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Teeftallow by T. S. Stribling First KKK A slightly cocked spine, torn FFL, pasted picture of author on the FEP, rubbing to front pictorial square, fading to spine. First Edition. Novel of the south in the 1920s with KKK Lynchings. Became the Basis for the 1928 Broadway Play "Rope". BOOK.…

Softcover, 64 pages; in English, German, French and Italian; very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Condizione: New. In English.