william bailey williford (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Revised edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. ***FIRST "BALLANTINE BOOKS" EDITION, 1973*** CLEAN COVER AND CONTENT PAGES. See photos for more information. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 176 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 214 p. illus. 19 cm. ; OCLC 1392002998 green cloth in pictorial green and beige dustjacket ; Longstreet's good-natured narrators paint a lively picture of the Georgia frontier-hilariously contrasting rural and village life and the clash of the vernacular and genteel cultures ; Augustus Baldwin Longstreet is often described as the first literary portraitist of Georgia's common man. Longstreet's Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, Etc. in the First Half Century of the Republic (1835) was a groundbreaking work which drew the contemporary praise of Edgar Allan Poe for its penetrating understanding of Southern character. A circuit-riding lawyer in Augusta and Greensboro in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, Longstreet drew from his experiences to sketch Georgia Scenes' crossroads character types with their emerging dialects, manners, and moral conflicts. Fueled by Longstreet's acute ear for his characters' speech and his narrative pose of corrective laughter, the nineteen tales made for an immensely popular work that ran through eleven editions between 1835 and 1897. Initially published as individual sketches in various newspapers (including Longstreet's own Augusta-based States Rights Sentinel), Georgia Scenes opened up a literary gold seam. As sketches of comic reality for antebellum readers, the book inspired the talents of 19th-century humorists and local color writers whose ultimate expression arrived with Mark Twain. Later, in the twentieth century, the moral conflicts of Longstreet's crossroads stakeholders, town rowdies, and backwoods louts would be resurrected in the humid and often violent landscape drawn by 20th-century Southern writers like Faulkner and O'Connor. Longstreet never returned to the rowdy, comic writing of Georgia Scenes. Instead, he sold his newspaper and dedicated himself to educational and ministerial missions. He became a Methodist minister and served as president of four universities, including a newly founded Emory College from 1839 to 1848. He wrote numerous political pamphlets but only one other work of fiction, Master William Mitten, a dour moralising tale which critics have described as Longstreet's own reaction against the comic popularity of Georgia Scenes. During the Civil War he wrote articles supporting the Southern cause and served briefly as a chaplain of the Georgia militia. After the war he retired to Mississippi to live with his granddaughter and died there in 1870. ; Contents: Georgia Theatrics -- The Dance -- The Horse Swap -- The Character of a Native Georgian -- The Fight -- The Song -- The Turn Out -- The Charming Creature as a Wife -- The Gander Pulling -- The Ball -- The Mother and her Child -- The Debating Society -- The Militia Drill -- The Turf -- An Interesting Interview -- The Fox Hunt -- The Wax Works -- A Sage Conversation -- The Shooting Match ; Reprint of the Harper & Brothers, "Second edition" of 1847 ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Zustand: New. Published in 1962, this history of Atlanta s famous thoroughfare traces its evolution from an Indian trail to a village street in the 1840s, to its rebuilding after 1864, and on to the rise of its modern skyline. Williford describes the social, civic, and .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. xvi, 336, viii p., 1 l. front., plates, ports., fold. map. 23 cm. ; "Facsimile edition of the original edition [published in 1942], together with a new foreword." "Originally published New York, 1942"--Title page verso ; OCLC 144274 ; ISBN 08779701419 ; LCCN 42013924 LC F291 .S8 Dewey 917.58 ; brown and red cloth in price-clipped red and beige dustjacket ; book label of Oxford Books, Atlanta on front endpaper ; Contents: Chapter I: Bit of Georgia history as told at a luncheon meeting in Atlanta; a memorial that never materialized -- Chapter II: A tour through the familiar red hills of unfinished Georgia and a detour into the Deep South ; the Georgia vernacular as impulsively and charmingly spoken at a soda inn -- Chapter III: REA in the old homestead ; fond recollections of Georgia cooking, its quality and quantity ; a country gentleman foresees the repopulation of a rural state -- Chapter IV: The festive air of coastal Georgia ; Europe in Georgia ; Savannah is the product of a colonial engineer, and not of real-estate speculation and industrialism -- Chapter V: Savannah duels and duelists ; a duel to lift Coventry, the last fatal duel, and a court of honor to end duels ; Joe Johnston the conciliator -- Chapter VI: Wormsloe Gardens, estate of the noble Jones dynasty, in which, in two hundred years, there have been no shirt-sleeves ; its valuable records -- Chapter VII: Driftwood, the Garnett Plantation, its marshes and rivers ; David Washington's chronicles: dat summons Preacher Strickland; treasure-seekers and the pot of gold; tell Emma -- Chapter VIII: Old slaves on exhibition ; a once thriving seaport that disappeared ; the King Plantation and its mistress -- Chapter IX: Fanny Kemble, her diary and her life on Butler's Island, her repentance ; the tragic story of her romance with Pierce Butler -- Chapter X: Modern island splendor contrasted with the luxury of the old plantations ; the Holy City as described by Frank L. Stanton, the poet -- Chapter XI: The Okefenokee Swamp, its Chaucerian and Spakespearean aborigines, and its trembling earth ; the considerate black bear ; the zoomer, a bird that flies backwards. Chapter XII: Plenty and a Georgia products dinner ; Gene Talmadge shells the woods ; Georgia's procession of governors old and new -- Chapter XIII: The old red hills of Georgia and the Georgia peach ; cotton is still king although robbed of some of its dictatorship ; a sharecropper's testament ; the textile industry -- Chapter XIV: Warm Springs, a nationally famous resort and its cheerful polios ; a couple finds romance ; mysterious hot and cold springs ; Pine Mountain resettlement project -- Chapter XV: Sherman's post-war tribute to Atlanta ; How he and Joe Johnston fought it out ; what he did to Atlanta ; Coventry without the dive bombers ; nights and days of terror -- Chapter XVI: More about Sherman's blitzkrieg, with accent on his march through Georgia ; how he raided the smokehouses and cribs ; Wheeler's cavalry and the destructive "bummers" -- Chapter XVII: Atlanta, its rapid growth and its real-estate booms, and Jack Smith, who never wore a necktie ; "Dutch" and the Florida land bubble ; Charlie Tittle's reward -- Chapter XVIII: Atlanta capitalizes on its wartime reputation as a key city ; its high ranking in industry and letters, its two noted authors and their novels and dramas -- Chapter XIX: Liquor stores and a bartender's views on the drink evil ; where Atlanta is beautiful ; Bobby Jones, his trials as a civic asset ; colonial houses ; Dawson County, Candlewick spreads -- Chapter XX: Story of Dahlonega and its gold mines ; stars fell on Georgia too ; the Dahlonega Nugget, its crusades, and its militant editor ; hillbilly on the radio -- Chapter XXI: Doctor performs a miracle in a mountain cabin ; Auraria, another vanished Georgia town ; matter-of-fact operation of a hydraulic gold mine -- Chapter XXII: The doctor describes a kitchen-table operation by lamplight ; a two-seed-in-the-sperit hardsh ;FINE/FINE. Book.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a genealogical resource for Williford family descendants, tracing their lineage and family history. With details on marriages, births, and deaths, it is a must-have for anyone conducting research on this family name.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Published in 1962, this history of Atlanta's famous thoroughfare traces its evolution from an Indian trail to a village street in the 1840s, to its rebuilding after 1864, and on to the rise of its modern skyline. William Bailey Williford portrays the many personalities that shaped Peachtree Street and describes the social, civic, and business life that flourished along the busy corridor.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bound in red cloth with gilt illustrations and lettering. Dust jacket is white with red lettering. Dust jacket is speckled with age, has minor tearing and chipping around edges. Overall very good condition, pages are crisp and clean, binding is clean and tight. Title page dated 1961. Copyright page dated 1962. 284 pages. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.