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[Durham: Press of the Seeman Printery, 1920.] 229 pages, plus frontispiece and 11 full page plates from photographs. Most of the plates are portraits with the remainder depicting Durham businesses. Original maroon cloth lettered in gilt. 20.5 x 14 cm. The cloth shows light speckling along the edges of the boards and spine; spine is just a little… Read more about this item

New York: Irving Publishing Co., 1888 [c.r. 1887]. xxiv, [2], 684, [1] pages, plus xx pages ("Opinions of the Press") and [1] page author's advertisement. Frontispiece and 47 full pages plates (of 48 called for), mostly portraits and a few views. This copy was bound without the portrait plate of Chauncey M. Depew. Original dark green, gilt-stamped cloth. 23.5… Read more about this item

Raleigh, N.C.: Alfred Williams & Co., [printed by Bynum Printing Co.], 1925. 314 pages, plus six full-page photographic plates. The front free endpaper is printed with a copyright notice on the recto and prior appearance notice on verso. Original olive-green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 20 x 15 cm. There was a variant in blue cloth, priority unknown. A… Read more about this item

Savannah, Ga.: Printed for the [Georgia Historical] Society, [by] Townsend, Printer and Binder, 1888. 25 pages. Original printed pale green wraps with cover title reading: "Sidney Lanier." [24 cm.] Good plus. Tiny chips to spine ends, short closed tear and minor crease at base of front wrap. Front free endpaper has three very… Read more about this item

Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Print. Co., 1909. 209 pages. Original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and rules on spine. [19.3 cm.] Near fine. Spine ends just a trifle rubbed. Light tanning to endpapers appears to have been caused by contact with dust jacket, but none is present. Neat name (J. Tolbert)… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [printed by Hazell Watson and Viney, Aylesbury, U.K., 1957]. 232 pages, plus frontispiece. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering. [22.1 cm.] Very good plus in good plus dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown, faint vertical crease to first few leaves, a little foxing to title. … Read more about this item

New York: Twayne Publishers, [1992]. xv, 151 pages. Original cloth. [22.2 cm.] Fine in fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Review copy with slip laid-in.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1990]. vi, 170 pages; illustrated with a few photographs printed with the text. Original cloth. [23.4 cm.] Fine in fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, [2000]. xxiii, 326 pages, plus four double-sided plates. Original quarter cloth and boards. [23.5 cm.] Fine in fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Library, 1955. 52, [1] pages. Original green cloth with gilt cover title. [23.4 cm.] Very good plus. Foxing to endpapers and a few minor traces internally. Bookplate on front pastedown. FIRST EDITION. Harris (1892-1973), a native of Wake County, North Carolina, and a graduate… Read more about this item

London: John C. Nimmo, [printed by Ballantyne, Hanson, and Co., Edinburgh and London], 1889. 4to [28.4 cm]. xxxvii, [1], 396 pages, including half title. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 11 plates. The other etchings are vignettes appearing as chapter headpieces and tailpieces. Contemporary half dark blue morocco by Bumpus of Oxford Street (London), with… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. 140 pages, plus frontispiece and one double-sided plate. Original maroon cloth. [21.8 cm.] Very good in good plus dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown; light foxing to plates, facing pages, and endpapers. Some wear and rubbing to jacket with minor loss at ends of… Read more about this item

Heidelberg: Carl Winter, Universitätsverlag, 1954. Issued as Anglistische Forschungen, Heft 89. 139 pages. Original printed wraps. [23.4 cm.] Very good plus. Several short creases at base of spine and several tiny nicks to fore-edge; apparently minor errors by the binder. A few minor traces of soil to wraps; trifling bump to lower corner… Read more about this item

Nashville, Tenn.: Published for the Club by the Brandon Printing Co., [1909. Presumed date of publication; foreword dated Sept. 15, 1909.] 338 pages, plus portrait frontispiece. Original black cloth with black leather spine label, stamped in gold. [25 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with light internal markings and very faint impression of removed call number… Read more about this item

Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1939. 247 pages, plus portrait frontispiece and a number of plates reproducing historic photographs. Original cloth. [23.5 cm.] A very good plus copy in about very good dust jacket. Book is slightly bumped on corners and shows some faint marginal foxing to plates and facing pages. Jacket is sunned… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1929. Two volumes. xiv, 328 and x, 353 pages, plus frontispiece in each volume, folding map, and numerous plates, mostly portraits. Original cloth (dark blue on spines, tan with red stripe on covers), stamped in gilt on spines. Top edges stained red; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. … Read more about this item

Greensboro, N.C.: Piedmont Press, 1963. 401 pages, plus frontispiece and four leaves of plates. Original black cloth. [23.3 cm.] A near fine copy in very good dust jacket. Faint foxing to title page and a few other pages (due to contact with plates), still a nice copy. Jacket shows some light rubbing and two minuscule… Read more about this item

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd.; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., [printed by Vail-Ballou Press, Binghamton and N.Y.], 1924. [14], 262 pages. Original red cloth, spine stamped in gold. Top edge stained red. [22.3 cm.] A bright, very nearly fine copy in dust jacket with small chips to head of spine panel… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. 336 pages. Illustrated with a few plates, mostly portraits. Original cloth. [21.5 cm.] Near fine in very good dust jacket. Slight bump to head of spine; book is otherwise fine. Jacket has bump at head of spine panel and a short tear where the spine panel meets the front panel,… Read more about this item