Search Results: stars fell on alabama by carmer carl

Paperback. Good. Last few top corners slightly bent, else very good clean copy, with light reading wear only.

University Alabama Press, 2000-12-18. Paperback. Used: Good.

Literary Guild, 1934. hardcover. Good. . Cover and edges shows shelf wear and minor tanning. Pages shows light tanning.

London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson Ltd., 1935. First. . Cloth Board. Good-Fair. Black board covers, silver lettering to spine. Book edges and corners slightly worn and bumped. Textblock bright, clean and tight. Charming illustrations to end papers and title page. 294pp.

London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson, 1935. First U.K. Edition. Boards. Good. Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Black boards with silver gilt lettering spine, wear to extremities. Spotting on cover. First U.K. Edition. Illustrated by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. 294pp.

New York:: The Literary Guild,, 1934.. Hardcover -. Near fine in blue cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover (bookplate). Book club edition. A book which was both a best seller and a classic account of 1920s Alabama, part memoir, part history, and part cultural analysis. In 1921, Carmer accepted a position at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Carmer discovered that the people of Alabama offered many interesting stories, especially those from a Sumter County woman named Ruby Pickens Tartt, who related numerous tales she had heard from the rural African American tenant farmers in her home town of Livingston. His first section, Tuscaloosa Nights, describes his arrival in Tuscaloosa by train, his trip to his hotel, and a meeting with a fellow faculty member and an old friend from Harvard and several of his associates. Late that first night, another professor whom he immediately liked told him bluntly to get out of the state before it was too late. For six years, Carmer travelled to… Read More

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. Second printing. Illustrations by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Very good copy with silver stamping still bright and with a trace of edge wear without dust jacket. Stars Fell on Alabama was Carl Carmer’s most famous work, and evolved out his observations of regional social life, especially racial relations, while teaching at the University at Tuscaloosa. Toward the end of his career, Carmer worked as a folklore consultant for Walt Disney Productions and produce a folklore radio series called "Your Neck o' the Woods" and produced four albums of regional songs.

University of Alabama Press, 1985-09-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

The Literary Guild. Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Good, no dust jacket. Illustrated by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Spine crack, front and back cover, with some pages detached. Some light creasing and chipping to pages. Still a good copy. Published in New York. 8vo. 294 pages.

New York: Quinn & Boden Company, 1934. First Edition, with illustrations. Hardcover in good condition. Spine worn. Small stains on edge of cover. . 1st. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover.

Very Good. Book has minor cover and edge wear, some fading to spine and around edges of book. DJ good in mylar cover. Inside clean with no markings or writing. Nice copy, satisfaction guaranteed.

New York: Literary Guild, 1934. 294 pp. Bright blue pictorial boards with silver lettering front and spine (spine is faded). Minor wear to the extremities. Pristine endpapers illustrated in black and white by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Binding is tight and square. Top page edges are foxed; expected toning throughout. Pictorial dj is faded on the spine. No rips or stains, but shelf-worn and price clipped. Interior is unmarked and clean. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Baldridge, C. LeRoy. Octavo.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1934. First? Edition. fair. Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. 22 cm, 294, illus., map, somewhat shaken, spine frayed, boards worn, especially at edges and corners. From Brer Rabbit to the Klan, an exceptional introduction to Alabama.

New York: The Literary Guild, 1934. 294 pp. Previous owner's name on half-title. B/w illustrated endpapers, with small number written on ffep. Blue cloth with silver titles. Corners bumped, faded spine with head and tail lightly worn. VG. Illus. by Baldridge, Cyrus Le Roy.

First Edition

Farrar & Rinehart, Inc,, 1934. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Illustrated by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Cover a little soiled and worn.Ink inscription on front fixed endpapers.Text very good.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. 8vo, pp. xiv, 294, color frontispiece piece, pictorial title page and endpapers, illustrations throughout; original blue-grey cloth stamped in silver; edges and spine quite toned; previous owner James Taylor Dunn's bookplate on front pastedown; author inscription to Dunn (misspelled "Dunns") on half title page. Carmer's account of the six years he spent in Alabama, with special emphasis on the Ku Klux Klan and the state's racial relations.

Univ of Alabama Pr, 2000. Paperback. New. new edition. 294 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.00 inches.

New York: Literary Guild. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. Hardcover. DJ with light wear - minor chipping along top edge. Else a very handsome copy; Beautifully illustrated by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge; Book Club Edition; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 294 pages .

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. 1934 Full-page illustrations at the beginning of each chapter. B/W pictorial on endpapers 294 pages and the last 13 pages are on a different colour paper, titled 'From the author's notebook'. Previous owner's name on half-title page. Pale blue cloth, silver titles on front and spine. Beige DJ with illustration on front. VG/VG-. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-.