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Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead

Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead

2006 First Edition, Doubleday, by National Book Award-winner Whitehead.

Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

Thurber Award winner and Booker finalist Patricia Lockwood originally exploded onto the national literary scene with Priestdaddy, published by Riverhead Books in 2017. This is a signed first printing, a shockingly funny memoir, and was chosen as a NYT Best 10 Books of the Year.

Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor

Stated first printing of Flannery O’Connor’s Occasional Prose, published posthumously as a collection by Farrar Straus & Giroux in 1969, and edited by O’Connor’s close friends Sally and Robert Fitgerald.

Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson

Joe Turner's Come and Gone by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson

1988 First Hardcover Edition with Fireside Theatre playbill insert.

Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey

Native Guard, by Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey

2006 First Edition poetry collection, Houghton Mifflin, Signed and dated in Savannah in 2008.

Dirty Work by Larry Brown

Stated first edition of the late, great southern writer Larry Brown’s novel, Dirty Work, published by Algonquin Press in 1989. Signed by Brown on the title page. Harry Crews said of Brown’s writing, a “…strong true voice that speaks with authority and compassion.”

Baghdad Sketches by Freya Stark

Stated first American edition of the incomparable travel writer Freya Stark’s portrait of Iraq and Kuwait, published in 1938 by E. P. Dutton. Illustrations and photographs throughout.

Watership Down by Richard Adams

First American printing with first state dustjacket of Richard Adam’s classic novel, published by Macmillan in 1972.

Ulysses by James Joyce

Stated 6th printing (August 1925) of Joyce’s groundbreaking work , published by Paris’s famous bookstore, Shakespeare and Company.

Analog

Analog

1963 March and April issues of Analog: Science Fact and Science Fiction. Just 2 of our large science fiction journal collection.

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkersen

Signed first edition of Pulitzer-Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s “Epic Story of America’s Great Migration”, published by Random House in 2010. Praised by Toni Morrison as “profound, necessary, and an absolute delight to read”

The First Colored Baptist Church in North America, Constituted at Savannah, Georgia

The First Colored Baptist Church in North America, Constituted at Savannah, Georgia

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Savannah: American Guide Series

1888 First Edition, J.B.Lippincott.

1937 First Edition, compiled and written by Savannah Unit Federal Writers' Project in GA, Works Progress Administration; Signed by all the contributors that worked on the book.