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[Raleigh, N.C.]: North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, [1961]. 32 pages. Original printed wraps. [21.6 cm.] Near fine. FIRST EDITION. A play about the end of the Civil War in North Carolina. Betty Smith is best known as the author of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."

Raleigh, N.C.: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1920. 95 pages, plus frontispiece and seven plates. Original stiff paper wraps with printed paper spine label and emblem in gold on front cover. [24.4 cm.] Very good. Light stain to spine, a few small light spots on covers, some creasing and tiny chips to yapp edges. Light foxing scattered on first and last few leaves, and traces to margins and edges elsewhere. FIRST EDITION, the issue in wraps. Also issued in cloth and a bit more common thus. The author was professor of dramatic literature and playwriting at the University of North Carolina, and the founder and first director of the Carolina Playmakers. Thornton 7401.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., [printed by the Riverside Press, Cambridge], 1923. [2], 128 pages. Original quarter dark blue cloth and light blue paper covered boards with paper spine label. [19.1 cm.] Very good plus in good dust jacket. A little cocked, minor tanning to endpapers. Jacket has chip to head of front panel with some loss to the title and a long tear with internal repair. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free endpaper, reading as follows: "To Leonard Mackall, with friendly remembrances from John Drinkwater. September, 1923." Leonard Leopold Mackall (1879-1937), a native of Baltimore, made numerous contributions to scholarly journals in the fields of bibliography, philology, and history. He was a noted Goethe scholar who resided in Jena for a number of years and helped edit his correspondence. Americanists will recognize him for his "Catalogue of the Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library" (3… Read More