In honor of the Mississippi Book Festival and the state
Bicentennial, BOOKFRIENDS of the University Press of Mississippi is sponsoring
a book raffle!
Purchase a
$20 ticket for a chance to win a grand prize of fifty books from the University
Press of Mississippi. The prize includes The
Mississippi Encyclopedia, the complete Heritage of Mississippi Series, and
such special items as limited edition copies of Dunlap by William Dunlap; Birds
by Walter Anderson; and My Mississippi
by Willie Morris, with photographs by David Rae Morris, as well as autographed
copies of Witnessing by Ellen
Douglas; One Writer’s Garden: Eudora
Welty’s Home Place by Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown, with photographs by
Langdon Clay; and more—with a total value of over $2,000!
Tickets will
be sold through BOOKFRIENDS board members; on Thursday, August 17 from
5:30-8:00 pm at the Mississippi Bicentennial Celebration; and until 4:00 pm at
the BOOKFRIENDS tent at the Mississippi Book Festival on Saturday, August
19.
Pro tip: If
you purchase or renew a BOOKFRIENDS membership at the Mississippi Bicentennial
Celebration or at the BOOKFRIENDS tent at the Mississippi Book Festival, you
are automatically entered into the raffle for a single chance to win!
See below
for the official rules and the complete list of books included in the prize. For
more information on purchasing a ticket, see your local Bookfriend or contact
University Press of Mississippi at 601-432-6205 or press@ihl.state.ms.us.
The single
prize includes fifty books from the University Press of Mississippi, including The Mississippi Encyclopedia, the complete
Heritage of Mississippi Series, and such special items as limited edition
copies of Dunlap by William Dunlap; Birds by Walter Anderson; and My Mississippi by Willie Morris, with
photographs by David Rae Morris, as well as autographed copies of Witnessing by Ellen Douglas; One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home
Place by Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown, with photographs by Langdon Clay;
and more! A complete list of the books included in the prize is below:
1.
The Mississippi Encyclopedia
Ted
Ownby and Charles Reagan Wilson, senior editors
Ann J.
Abadie, Odie Lindsey, and James G. Thomas, Jr., associate editors
2.
Dunlap (limited
edition, numbered, signed)
William
Dunlap
Essay
by J. Richard Gruber
Foreword
by Julia Reed
3.
Birds (limited
edition, numbered)
Walter
Anderson
Introductory
Essay by Mary Anderson Pickard
4.
My Mississippi
(limited
edition, numbered)
Willie
Morris
Photographs
by David Rae Morris
5.
Witnessing (signed)
Ellen
Douglas
6.
One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place (signed)
Susan
Haltom and Jane Roy Brown
Photographs
by Langdon Clay
7.
Great Houses of Mississippi
(signed)
Text
by Mary Carol Miller
Photographs
by Mary Rose Carter
8.
Fortune’s Favorite Child: The Uneasy
Life of Walter Anderson (signed)
Christopher
Maurer
9.
The Artist’s Sketch: A Biography
of Painter Kate Freeman
Clark
(signed)
Carolyn
J. Brown
10. A
Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty
(signed)
Carolyn
J. Brown
11. Song
of My Life: A Biography of Margaret
Walker
(signed)
Carolyn
J. Brown
12. Myself
and the World: A Biography
of William Faulkner (signed)
Robert
W. Hamblin
13. The
Mississippi Cookbook
Compiled
and edited by the Home Economics Division of the Mississippi Cooperative
Extension Service
With a
new foreword by Martha Hall Foose
14. George
Ohr: Sophisticate and Rube
Ellen
J. Lippert
15. A Year
in Mississippi
Edited
by Charline R. McCord and Judy H. Tucker
Foreword
by Malcolm White
16. Christmas
Stories from Mississippi
Edited
by Judy H. Tucker and Charline R. McCord
Illustrations
by Wyatt Waters
17. Growing
Up in Mississippi
Edited
by Judy H. Tucker and Charline R. McCord
Foreword
by Richard Ford
18. Willie: The Life of Willie Morris
Teresa Nicholas
19. The
Land of Rowan Oak: An Exploration of Faulkner’s Natural World
Ed
Croom
Afterword
by Donald M. Kartiganer
20.
Last
Barriers: Photographs of Wilderness in the Gulf Islands National Seashore
Photographs by Donald Muir Bradburn
21.
Wildflowers
of Mississippi
Stephen L. Timme
22. Live
from the Mississippi Delta
Panny
Flautt Mayfield
23.
Juke
Joint: Photographs
Birney Imes
Introductory Essay by Richard Ford
24.
Mississippi
John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
Philip R. Ratcliffe
Foreword by Mary Frances Hurt Wright
25.
Mississippi
Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s
Harry Bolick and Stephen T. Austin
26. Blues
Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Third Edition
Steve
Cheseborough
27. Touring
Literary Mississippi
Patti
Carr Black and Marion Barnwell
28. David
L. Jordan: From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate, A Memoir
David
L. Jordan with Robert L. Jenkins
Foreword
by Mike Espy
29.
William
F. Winter and the New Mississippi: A Biography
Charles C. Bolton
30.
Once
in a Lifetime: Reflections of a Mississippi First Lady
Elise Varner Winter
Edited by JoAnne Prichard Morris
31. America’s
Great Storm: Leading through Hurricane Katrina
Haley
Barbour with Jere Nash
Foreword
by Ricky Mathews
32. Katrina:
Mississippi Women Remember
Photography
by Melody Golding
Edited
by Sally Pfister
33. The
Courting of Marcus Dupree
Willie
Morris
34.
Photographs
Eudora Welty
35. Delta
Land
Photographs
by Maude Schuyler Clay
36. A New
History of Mississippi
Dennis
J. Mitchell
37. Mississippi:
A Documentary History
Edited
by Bradley G. Bond
38.
A
Place Called Mississippi: Collective Narratives
Edited by Marion Barnwell
39. The
Geology of Mississippi
David
T. Dockery III and David E. Thompson
Foreword
by Governor Phil Bryant
40.
Mississippi
Archaeology Q & A
Evan Peacock
41. Mississippi
Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976–2008, Second Edition
Jere
Nash and Andy Taggart
Foreword
by John Grisham
42.
Mississippi
Entrepreneurs
Polly Dement
43.
Emmett
Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
Devery S. Anderson
Foreword by Julian Bond
With a new preface by the author
Heritage of Mississippi Series
44. A
Literary History of Mississippi
Edited
by Lorie Watkins
45. Mississippi’s
American Indians
James
F. Barnett Jr.
46. The
Civil War in Mississippi: Major Campaigns and Battles
Michael
B. Ballard
47. Mississippi
in the Civil War: The Home Front
Timothy
B. Smith
48. Rednecks,
Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877–1917
Stephen
Cresswell
49. Religion
in Mississippi
Randy
J. Sparks
50. Art in
Mississippi, 1720–1980
Patti
Carr Black
Prize value is $2,156
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