Old Days in Chapel Hill, Being the Life and Letters of Cornelia Phillips Spence by Chamberlain, Hope Summerell - 1966

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1926 First Edition. With Illustrations by the Author. Black decorative embossed boards, gilt letters. Names/dates paste-down end-paper, foxing, corners moderately scuffed with small tears head/tail of spine and small abrasion on back at top of spine, and rear hinge separated; thus, Fair+.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair.

University of North Carolina Press. Bookplate . Very Good. Hardcover. 1966.

University of North Carolina Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. This is a first edition and not a facsimile of the 1926 printing. Dark blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering on front board and on spine. Boards are faded and have stains on front. No dust jacket. Dented corner dented corner tips and at top and bottom of the spine. Deckled pages. Foxing on text block, more significantly at the bottom edge. Top of text block appears to have been gilt at one point, now darkened and foxed. Large foxing/stains on the front end papers and title page. All pages are fragile due to age, and are yellowed with browning on outer edges of the pages. Binding is in decent shape; pages remain intact and attached. Readable copy, although care is advised when reading. Pen and ink drawings by the author throughout. Black and white photograph of Cornelia Phillips Spencer on frontispiece. 325 pages.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. x, (6), 325pp. Line drawings, portrait frontispiece of Spencer. Near fine unopened copy with owner's name penned on front fly in the scarce very good dustwrapper with edges chipped, sticker removed from front panel leaving a faded mark. (3132).Spencer was a chronicler of the last days of the Civil War and was instrumental in seeing the University of North Carolina reopened after that conflict.