Bitterweed Path by Thomas Hal Phillips (49 results)
Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1996
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1996
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Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1996
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Language: English
Published by Avon., NY.
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rpt. #T-273. Paperback. 255pp +3pp ads. VG. Spine light-mod. bowed; a few small/readers stress creases detract lightly. Bright. Tight. No marks.
Language: English
Published by Avon, 1950
- Softcover
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Language: English
Published by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1996
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- First Edition
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Trade paperback. First edition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Chapel Hill Books. Audience: General/trade. Fine. whisper of shelfwear, first printing thus, signed by John Howard (who wrote the introduction to this book) no inscription.
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Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, US, 2025
- Softcover
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Paperback. Condition: New. 75th Anniversary Edition. Originally published in 1950, the long out-of-print novel The Bitterweed Path was rediscovered in 1996 with the support of John Howard's critical introduction. In the years since, new generations have witnessed its subtle yet daring contribution to Southern gay literature. Thi…s 75th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by John Howard and a new afterword by Harry Thomas Jr. that provide fresh insight into the workings of race, class, and queerness in this enduring novel. In The Bitterweed Path, Thomas Hal Phillips vividly recreates rural Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century. In elegant prose, he draws on the Old Testament story of David and Jonathan and writes of the friendship and love between two boys-one a sharecropper's son and the other the son of the landlord-and the complications that arise when the father of one of the boys falls in love with his son's friend. Defying stereotypes about both Mississippi and the 1950s, The Bitterweed Path challenges conceptions of the US South as a place devoid of queerness and reimagines it as alive with same-sex desire.
Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2025
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More imagesPublished by The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1996
- Softcover
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint Edition. 314pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine condition. Tells the story of friendship and love between two boys growing up in the cotton country of Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Originally published in 1950. New Introduction by John How…ard.
Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2025
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Condition: New. 2025. 75th Anniversary. paperback. . . . . .
Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2025
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Condition: New. 2025. 75th Anniversary. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2025
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Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1996
- Softcover
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Published by Rinehart, New York, 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition/First Printing. No jacket, and there is a half inch chunk missing from the head of the binding at upper spine. 'A Rediscovered Novel'; a homosexual coming of age theme. Makes a good reading copy.
The Bitterweed Path A Rediscovered Novel
Phillips, Thomas Hal/ Howard, John (Foreward By)/ Thomas, Harry, Jr. (Afterword)
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd special edition. 376 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.
Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1996
- Softcover
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Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 1996
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Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2025
- Hardcover
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Language: English
Published by Rinehart, 1950
- Hardcover
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Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, US, 2025
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Paperback. Condition: New. 75th Anniversary Edition. Originally published in 1950, the long out-of-print novel The Bitterweed Path was rediscovered in 1996 with the support of John Howard's critical introduction. In the years since, new generations have witnessed its subtle yet daring contribution to Southern gay literature. Thi…s 75th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by John Howard and a new afterword by Harry Thomas Jr. that provide fresh insight into the workings of race, class, and queerness in this enduring novel. In The Bitterweed Path, Thomas Hal Phillips vividly recreates rural Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century. In elegant prose, he draws on the Old Testament story of David and Jonathan and writes of the friendship and love between two boys-one a sharecropper's son and the other the son of the landlord-and the complications that arise when the father of one of the boys falls in love with his son's friend. Defying stereotypes about both Mississippi and the 1950s, The Bitterweed Path challenges conceptions of the US South as a place devoid of queerness and reimagines it as alive with same-sex desire.
Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, US, 2025
- Hardcover
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Hardback. Condition: New. 75th Anniversary Edition. Originally published in 1950, the long out-of-print novel The Bitterweed Path was rediscovered in 1996 with the support of John Howard's critical introduction. In the years since, new generations have witnessed its subtle yet daring contribution to Southern gay literature. This… 75th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by John Howard and a new afterword by Harry Thomas Jr. that provide fresh insight into the workings of race, class, and queerness in this enduring novel. In The Bitterweed Path, Thomas Hal Phillips vividly recreates rural Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century. In elegant prose, he draws on the Old Testament story of David and Jonathan and writes of the friendship and love between two boys-one a sharecropper's son and the other the son of the landlord-and the complications that arise when the father of one of the boys falls in love with his son's friend. Defying stereotypes about both Mississippi and the 1950s, The Bitterweed Path challenges conceptions of the US South as a place devoid of queerness and reimagines it as alive with same-sex desire.
Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2025
- Hardcover
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More imagesPublished by Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Sheapast Art and Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.Sheapast Art and Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HILLIPS, THOMAS HAL. The Bitterweed Path: A Novel. New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1950. Hardcover 1st Edition. Thomas Hal Phillips' novel tells the story of two boys growing up in the cotton country of Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Originally pu…blished in 1950, the novel's unique interest lies in its subtle treatment of same-sex love across class lines. The Bitterweed Path vividly invokes life in Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century. In elegant prose drawing on the Old Testament story of David and Jonathan, the author tells of the relationship between two boys--one a white sharecropper's son, the other the son of the wealthy land owner, a man whose own attentions complicate the plot when they fall upon his son's friend. . Part of a very small body of gay literature of the period, The Bitterweed Path does not sensationalize homosexual love but instead portrays sexuality as a continuum of human behavior. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR S FIRST NOVEL some cloth wear, spine edges damaged, writing 1st blank page otherwise clean and tight BB1.
Language: English
Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2025
- Hardcover
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Condition: New. 2025. 75th Anniversary. hardcover. . . . . .
Published by New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1950., 1950
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition (not stated but per presence of Rinehart logo upon copyright page). [6], 314 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.75cm. Lacks dust jacket rubbed. Black boards lightly rubbed; gilt and blue stamping to spine remains bright; slender scuffing at spine ends and at board corner tips. Some foxing/toning to text block edges… and endpapers; past owner's ink inscription on front pastedown; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A vey good+ copy. Exceptionally uncommon first novel by Corinth, Mississippi-born author and Hollywood screenwriter and actor Thomas Hal Phillips whose fiction efforts, although obscure, are highly regarded. A United States Navy World War II veteran and 1943 graduate of Mississippi State University, Phillips completed a master's degree in creative writing at the University of Alabama under the tutelage of renowned instructor Hudson Strode where his thesis evolved into this first novel which is among the earliest in the genre of American overtly themed gay literature and, in further challenging period stereotypes, being notable in both its Deep South setting and being by a southern author. Phillips followed THE BITTERWEED PATH with five other novels - THE GOLDEN LIE (1951), SEARCH FOR A HERO (1952), KANGAROO HOLLOW (1954), THE LOVED AND THE UNLOVED (1955), and RED MIDNIGHT (2002).
