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Natchez: Where the Old South Still Lives - Brochure for the Natchez Pilgrimage March 4 through April 2, 1950

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 1950

Seller ID: 11219

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Foxing at some of the folds. Folded brochure to 4 X 9 inches. Folds out to 16 X 18 inches, featuring "Six Different Tours and 30 beautiful Ante-Bellum Homes."
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Come to Natchez "Where the Old South Still Lives" - The Natchez Pilgrimage March Annually [circa 1940s]

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 11220

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Minimal wear. No date, circa 1940s. 5 X 8 stapled booklet in green pictorial card covers. Thirty-four pages featuring thirty houses comprising six tours that would require three days to complete. Black and white photos with historical information for all the houses on the tours.
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Mary Emmerling's American Country South

By: Carol Sama Sheehan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.: 1990

Seller ID: 08549

ISBN: 0517577259

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

288 pages with Index. Illustrated with numerous color photos by Langdon Clay.
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The Rivers and Bayous of Louisiana

By: Davis, Edwin Adams (Editor) with Contributing Authors Hodding Carter, Robert M. Crisler, Sue Lyles Eakin, et al

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana Education Research Association: 1968

Seller ID: 11343

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Mild shelf wear and a bit of soiling to the edges of the page block. Mild edge wear to the dust jacket. 201 pages with author biographies and Index. Illustrations and maps. Front free endpaper signed inscribed by the author to his granddaughter "...from Pawpaw." Acquired from the author's heirs' estate, which included other signed books that aided in verifying the handwriting and relationship in the inscription. Not advertised as a signed copy because Mr. Davis did not sign his name. Edited by Davis with contributions from the following au...
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The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People (Revised Edition)

By: Kennedy, N. Brent; Kennedy, Robyn Vaughan

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Macon, Georgia, Mercer University Press: 1997

Seller ID: 08766

ISBN: 0865545162

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Slight discoloration on the rear cover, otherwise a fine, clean copy. From the ublisher: "The author explores the theories surrounding the people called Melungeon, perhaps from the French word, "me´lange," meaning a mixture. Includes lists of common surnames for Melungeons, Brass Ankles, Carmel Indians, Cubans, Guineas, Lumbee/Croatan Indians, Pamunkey/Powhatan Indians, and Redbones. "
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The Building of "Longwood" - Natchez, Mississippi

By: McAdams, Ina May Ogletree

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Austin, Texas, Self Published: 1972

Seller ID: 10901

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

History of the building of the antebellum mansion, "Longwood," in Natchez, Mississippi through a series of letters between the original owner (Cotton planter, Haller Nutt) and famous Philadelphia architect, Samuel Sloan. Transcribed from the original sources; edited, arranged and published by Ina May Ogletree McAdams. 131 pages with Index and black and white photos and illustrations. The mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Landmark.
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Cleveland Benjamin's Dead: A Struggle for Dignity in Louisiana's Cane Country

By: Sims, Patsy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dutton: 1981

Seller ID: 05194

ISBN: 0525082158

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed (name only) on the half-title page. Corporate sticker on front free endpaper. 170 pages, photographs by Mitchel L. Osborne. Story of a South Louisiana sugarcane farming community of poor black laborers and white landowners.
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Come Go With Me: Old-Timer Stories from the Southern Mountains

By: Thomas, Roy Edwin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux: 1994

Seller ID: 05707

ISBN: 0374370893

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

187 pages with drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi. "Included here are ninety-four tall tales, poignant reminiscences, and family stories - some going back to Civil War day - chosen from hundreds of interviews recorded by Arkansas folklorist Roy Edwin Thomas over the last quarter-century."
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Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back

By: Warren, Robert Penn

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Lexington, KY, U.S.A., University Press of Kentucky: 1980

Seller ID: 00082

ISBN: 0813114454

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Some sticker shadow on the dust jacket, otherwise a fine copy. A reflective essay on the tragic career of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. 114 pages.
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