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Walking Across Egypt: A Novel

Mattie Rigsbee, seventy-eight and set in her ways, decides to help out Wesley Benfield, a troubled adolescent just out of reform school for car theft

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9780912697512 | Algonquin Books, January 3, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Mattie Rigsbee, seventy-eight and set in her ways, decides to help out Wesley Benfield, a troubled adolescent just out of reform school for car theft

Paperback:

9780345419071 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, July 1, 1997), cover price $15.00

The Floatplane Notebooks

Originally bought to log the flights of his home-built floatplane, Albert Copeland's notebooks are, years later, bursting with records of the floatplanes's failures and an intricate, informal history of the Copeland clan

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9780945575009 | Algonquin Books, April 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Originally bought to log the flights of his home-built floatplane, Albert Copeland's notebooks are, years later, bursting with records of the floatplanes's failures and an intricate, informal history of the Copeland clan

Paperback:

9780345419064 | Ballantine Books, July 1, 1997, cover price $13.95

9780345359841 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1993), cover price $6.99

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780394578866 | Random House, November 1, 1989, cover price $16.00 | also contains To Save Humanity: What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

Prebinding:

9780613126656, titled "Floatplane Notebooks" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $15.50

Killer Diller

Project Promise, a halfway house for educationally disadvantaged and wayward youth, rescues a car thief who ends up teaching bricklaying, writing songs for a Baptist band, and falling in love with a Nutrition House patient. Reprint.

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9780945575535 | Algonquin Books, January 1, 1991, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In the town of Listre, North Carolina, the orphan Wesley--known for his penchant for 'borrowing' cars--takes up bricklaying, music, and preaching, in this novel of the contemporary South

Paperback:

9780345370723 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1992), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In the town of Listre, North Carolina, the orphan Wesley--known for his penchant for 'borrowing' cars--takes up bricklaying, music, and preaching, in this novel of the contemporary South

Killer Diller: A Novel

Product Description: "Wonderful...Clyde Edgerton tells us another of his lovely tall tales."LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEWListre, North Carolina, is jumping. The Sears twins, Ted and Ned, who run a Baptist college, have opened Nutrition House for overweight Christians...read more

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9780816152544 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, December 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the town of Listre, North Carolina, the orphan Wesley--known for his penchant for 'borrowing' cars--takes up bricklaying, music, and preaching, in this novel of the contemporary South

Paperback:

9780345410306 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 1996), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: "Wonderful.

In Memory of Junior

The story of one family's preoccupation with passing on depicts the humorous bickering between the elders about their private arrangements to be buried in the popular town cemetery

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9781565120105 | Algonquin Books, January 10, 1992, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The story of one family's preoccupation with passing on depicts the humorous bickering between the elders about their private arrangements to be buried in the popular town cemetery

Paperback:

9780345410290 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 1996), cover price $15.00

9780345383600 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, January 1, 1994), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The story of one family's preoccupation with passing on depicts the humorous bickering between the elders about their private arrangements to be buried in the popular town cemetery

Redeye: A Western

A tale of American expansionism, opportunism, religious fanaticism, and adventure pivots around the discover of ancient Native American cliff dwellings and the 1857 slaughter of pioneers by Mormons and Native Americans near Salt Lake City. Reprint. NYT.

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9781565120600 | Algonquin Books, January 4, 1995, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Peopled with the odd characters, Indians, Quakers, and Mormons of turn-of-the-century Colorado, this story features an enterprising frontiersman who plans to turn Native American cliff dwellings into America's first roadside attraction

Paperback:

9780140254914 | Penguin USA, April 1, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A tale of American expansionism, opportunism, religious fanaticism, and adventure pivots around the discover of ancient Native American cliff dwellings and the 1857 slaughter of pioneers by Mormons and Native Americans near Salt Lake City.

Redeye

Peopled with the odd characters, Indians, Quakers, and Mormons of turn-of-the-century Colorado, this story features an enterprising frontiersman who plans to turn Native American cliff dwellings into America's first roadside attraction

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9780786205363 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 1995), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Peopled with the odd characters, Indians, Quakers, and Mormons of turn-of-the-century Colorado, this story features an enterprising frontiersman who plans to turn Native American cliff dwellings into America's first roadside attraction

Picturing the South: Photographers and Writers, 1860 to the Present

By William P. Baldwin (editor), Clyde Edgerton, Bobbie Ann Mason, Willie Morris and A. J. Verdelle

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Hardcover:

9780811813235 | Chronicle Books Llc, June 1, 1996, cover price $55.00

Raney: A Novel

By Clyde Edgerton

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Paperback:

9780345419057 | Ballantine Books, July 1, 1997, cover price $14.00

Where Trouble Sleeps: A Novel

The author's seventh novel, set in a rural North Carolina town in 1950, follows the intertwined fates of a devious drifter, a beautiful waitress, and a boy from a religiously strict home. By the author of Raney. Reprint. NYT.

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9781565120617 | Algonquin Books, January 9, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A story set in rural North Carolina town in 1950 follows the interwined fates of a devious drifter, a beautiful waitress, and a boy from a religiously strict home

Paperback:

9780345426321 | Ballantine Books, October 20, 1998, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A story set in rural North Carolina town in 1950 follows the interwined fates of a devious drifter, a beautiful waitress, and a boy from a religiously strict home

Where Trouble Sleeps

A story set in rural North Carolina town in 1950 follows the interwined fates of a devious drifter, a beautiful waitress, and a boy from a religiously strict home

By Clyde Edgerton

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Prebinding:

9780613175937 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $22.20 | About this edition: A story set in rural North Carolina town in 1950 follows the interwined fates of a devious drifter, a beautiful waitress, and a boy from a religiously strict home

Southern Dogs & Their People

Photographs of Southerners with their dogs accompany excerpts from the writings of James Dickey, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Mark Twain, Lewis Grizzard, William Faulkner, and other writers.

By P. S. Davis (editor), Clyde Edgerton (introduced by) and Roberta Gamble (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781565122680 | Algonquin Books, June 9, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Photographs of Southerners with their dogs accompany excerpts from the writings of James Dickey, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Mark Twain, Lewis Grizzard, William Faulkner, and other writers.

Lunch at the Piccadilly: A Novel

A recent arrival at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall, the elderly but irrepressible Lil Olive turns the institutions upside down when she and some of her new friends steal a car and hit the highway. By the author of Raney and Walking Across Egypt.

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9781565121959 | 1 edition (Algonquin Books, October 1, 2003), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A recent arrival at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall, the elderly but irrepressible Lil Olive turns the institution upside down when she and some of her new friends steal a car and hit the highway.

North Carolina

By Clyde Edgerton and George Humphries

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Hardcover:

9781558687448 | Graphic Arts Center Pub Co, October 1, 2003, cover price $39.95

Solo: My Adventures in the Air

Product Description: When Clyde Edgerton was four years old, his mother took him to the local airport to see the planes. For Edgerton, it was love at first sight. Eighteen years later, she would take him to the same airport to catch a flight to Texas for Air Force pilot training...read more

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9781565124264 | Algonquin Books, September 9, 2005, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Clyde Edgerton explains his love of flying and its fundamentals and how combat flying during the Vietnam war has changed him.

Paperback:

9781565125469 | Algonquin Books, November 10, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: When Clyde Edgerton was four years old, his mother took him to the local airport to see the planes.

Walking Across Egypt

Product Description: She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would walking across Egyptâwhich not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. Sheâs Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen who, at seventy-eight, might be slowing down just a bit...read more

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9780816143795 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1988), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Mattie Rigsbee, seventy-eight and set in her ways, decides to help out Wesley Benfield, a troubled adolescent just out of reform school for car theft

Paperback:

9780345346490 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Mattie Rigsbee, seventy-eight and set in her ways, decides to help out Wesley Benfield, a troubled adolescent just out of reform school for car theft

Prebinding:

9781435299993 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 12, 2008), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would walking across Egyptâwhich not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn.

9780785728986 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: Mattie Rigsbee, seventy-eight and set in her ways, decides to help out Wesley Benfield, a troubled adolescent just out of reform school for car theft

The Bible Salesman: A Novel

Product Description: Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain saws and 1,600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the army during the Second World War. Back on the road in postwar North Carolina, now a member of a car-theft ring, he picks up hitchhiking Henry Dampier, an innocent twenty-year-old Bible salesman...read more

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9780316117517 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, August 11, 2008), cover price $23.99

Paperback:

9780316117579 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, September 23, 2009), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain saws and 1,600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the army during the Second World War.

Miscellaneous:

9780316032803 | Little Brown & Co, August 11, 2008, cover price $9.99

The Night Train: A Novel

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9780316117593 | 1 edition (Little Brown & Co, July 25, 2011), cover price $23.99

Miscellaneous:

9780316175272 | Little Brown & Co, July 25, 2011, cover price $11.99

Raney

Product Description: Raney opens on the eve of the wedding of Raney Bell and Charles Shepherd, a young couple drawn together by their mutual love for bluegrass music. Raney is a small-town Baptist. Charles is a big-city Episcopalian. Though both are Southern, Raney is cut from calico and Charles from tweed -- and though their love is strong, their cultural differences sometimes seem monumental...read more

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9780912697178 | Algonquin Books, January 2, 1985, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Charles and Raney Shepherd try to reconcile their conflicting viewpoints and adjust to a new life together as husband and wife

Paperback:

9780345329820 | Ballantine Books, August 1, 1992, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Charles and Raney Shepherd try to reconcile their conflicting viewpoints and adjust to a new life together as husband and wife

Library:

9781611734195 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, May 1, 2012), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Raney opens on the eve of the wedding of Raney Bell and Charles Shepherd, a young couple drawn together by their mutual love for bluegrass music.

Prebinding:

9780785728962 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.25 | About this edition: Charles and Raney Shepherd try to reconcile their conflicting viewpoints and adjust to a new life together as husband and wife

The Night Train

By Clyde Edgerton

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Paperback:

9780316117616 | Back Bay Books, August 7, 2012, cover price $14.99

Library:

9781611731835 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, October 1, 2011), cover price $35.95

Papadaddy's Book for New Fathers: Advice to Dads of All Ages

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9780316056922 | Little Brown & Co, May 7, 2013, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9780316056939 | Little Brown & Co, May 6, 2014, cover price $15.00

Lunch at the Piccadilly

A recent arrival at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall, the elderly but irrepressible Lil Olive turns the institution upside down when she and some of her new friends steal a car and hit the highway.

By Clyde Edgerton

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Hardcover:

9781587245336 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, December 1, 2003), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: A recent arrival at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall, the elderly but irrepressible Lil Olive turns the institution upside down when she and some of her new friends steal a car and hit the highway.

Paperback:

9781616206277 | Algonquin Books, August 5, 2015, cover price $24.99

9780345476784 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, September 1, 2004), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A recent arrival at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall, the elderly but irrepressible Lil Olive turns the institution upside down when she and some of her new friends steal a car and hit the highway.

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