Southern Lit: MARIANNE GINGHER—2 SIGNED First Editions—"Perfect!"

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A LOT of Two (2) SIGNED (LSU) First Editions: • BY MARIANNE GINGHER • BOTH SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR • TITLE 1: “A GIRL’S LIFE: Horses, Boys, Weddings & Luck” (Louisiana State University Press, 2001) (Hardcover, First Edition) • “A GIRL’S LIFE celebrates the last era in America, the 1950s and 1960s, when it was still possible to enjoy a cynicism-free girlhood—when ‘it was still safe for children to take gifts from strangers and not yet unwise for them to leave the doors of their hearts unlocked’…. MARIANNE GINGHER makes the events of a ‘normal’ girlhood not only engaging but distinctly illuminating and explores rites of passage that are as persuasive in shaping an artist’s sensibilities….” —THE PUBLISHER • “No one writes about a girl growing up with as much perception and fun as MARIANNE GINGHER. This book is a delight.” —ELIZABETH SPENCER • “MARIANNE GINGHER has taken that most difficult and hackneyed of themes, family, and imbued it with new meaning…. Through her penetrating vision, the ordinary becomes extraordinary and often reaches revelation. This book spoke to me on so many levels; it is so filled with insight and love…. MARIANNE GINGHER is simply a wonderful writer. —LEE SMITH• “No whining? No casting blame? No vengeful gossip? No bitterness? No poisonous wisecracks?—Say, what kind of memoir is A GIRL’S LIFE anyway? Well, it is one that MARIANNE GINGHER has made lucid, wise, memorable, pungent, witty, beautifully detailed, and utterly charming…. This book is perfect.” —FRED CHAPPELL • “A delight.”—ELLEN DOUGLAS • “What a delight it is to read this high-spirited and rIchly laden memoir of the South! A GIRL’S LIFE will go a long way towards explain a whole generation of women who grew up southern in the fifties and sixties. MARIANNE GINGHER is wise to the ways of language and memory and love….” —JOSEPHINE HUMPHREYS •• TITLE 2: “BOBBY REX’S GREATEST HIT” (Louisiana State University Press, 2001) (Trade Paperback, First Edition) • “Summer 1961. In Greensboro, N.C., the refusal of four black students to leave a Woolworth’s lunch counter has touched off a massive wave of protest. But in tiny Orfax, 20 miles away, the big news is that BOBBY REX (THE MAN) MOSELEY, local crooner made good, has a new hit song called ‘PALLY THOMPSON,’ all about the night he and PALLY went down to Sawyer’s Creek and she lay on the bank among the flowers and…. PALLY THOMPSON, the protagonist of this funny, richly detailed, often charming first novel, says it never happened. But did it? The question is important, because PALLY is about to marry a man who wants to know. Writing in PALLY’s warm, strong voice, MARIANNE GINGHER takes the whole book to reveal the rather subtle, complex answer. The novel is by turns hilarious, wry, maddeningly digressive, meditative and almost rhapsodically lyrical.” —NEW YORK TIMES • “GINGHER has captured, with writing that is southern poetry, the raw-nerve state of being that was endured by teen-age girls of that era.”—WASHINGTON POST • “Vibrant and joyous.” —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONILE • “A warm and unsentimentally loving first novel… It’s a story about discovering the different dimensions of love, of how holding back can sometimes cost you and sometimes save you, of how many missed connections there are in any person’s life—and how many possibilities…there are for happiness.” —PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER • • For other details about these books, please see below. • TITLE 1: “A GIRL’S LIFE: Horses, Boys, Weddings & Luck” AUTHOR: MARIANNE GINGHER COVER PHOTO: FRANK O. SHERRILL, JR. TYPE: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 224 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge), 2001 EDITION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Printing” & this Letter Row: “5 4 3 2 1.” NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition. ISBN: 0-8071-2685-3 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS.Price (24.95) is unclipped. “Autographed Copy” sticker affixed to front. Top spine tip is rubbed; bottom & corners are bumped. Faint scratching on sides, all else—bright & clean. (On the interior, purple ink runs up the gutters of both the front & back inside flaps but this issue does NOT affect the exterior nor is it visible there.) CONDITION of BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS.Book is square. Maroon boards are clean with sharp corners. Spine is tight with bumped tips & bright lettering. Top text-block edge has one faint smudge; other edges are fine. Pages are bright & clean with no writing (save for author’s signature), no underlining, no stains, no foxing, no tears, no doodling, etc. THE AUTHOR MARIANNE GINGHER’S SIGNATURE: Appears, in black ink, on the Title Page.•• TITLE 2: “BOBBY REX’S GREATEST HIT” AUTHOR: MARIANNE GINGHER COVER ART: DAVE ROSS TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK NUMBER OF PAGES: 308 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge), 1998 EDITION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING* *RE: On the Copyright Page, this Number Row: “5 4 3 2 1.” NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition. ISBN: 0-8071-2322-6 CONDITION OF WRAPS: VERY GOOD PLUS.Price (14.95) remains on back. Corners & spine tips are bumped. Light scratching & smudging on sides, all else—bright & clean. CONDITION of BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS.Book is square. Spine is tight. Text-block edges are lightly scuffed. Pages are bright & clean with no writing (save for author’s inscription & signature), no underlining, no stains, no foxing, no tears, no doodling, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. AUTHOR’S INSCRIPTION & SIGNATURE*: Appear, in black ink, on the Half Title Page as follows: “To Susie, With Many Fond Memories 🎵🎵 MARIANNE GINGHER.” SHIPPING NEWS: Both books will be wrapped with care before being shipped together in a cushioned and sturdy mailer. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. We describe every item we sell as clearly and accurately as we can. 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Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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