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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1994]. 685 pages. Original blue cloth stamped in blue. [24 cm.] A fine copy in near fine slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED. No. 151 of 200 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

Columbia, S.C.: The State Company, 1908. [8], 160 pages, plus frontispiece and three full-page plates by Brantley Smith. Original dark green cloth stamped in gold and black. [19.6 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference library with no external markings, but a barely perceptible impression of removed call number at base of spine. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on a few leaves, including title and frontispiece, and small ink stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other leaf. Else very good. Some tiny spots to cloth; faint line of bubbling to cloth on front cover; light foxing to margins of plates and facing pages. FIRST EDITION. The title story is set during the Appomattox campaign and another ("Sons of the Soil") is also a Civil War tale. Elliott Crayton McCants (1865-1953), a native of Ninety-Six, South Carolina and a graduate of the Citadel, was a school teacher in various places before settling in Anderson, S.C., where he served as superintendent of schools. This… Read More

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: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. 246 pages. Original black cloth. Top edge stained maroon. [23.3 cm.] Very nearly fine in near fine dust jacket. Gutters of beige endpapers a little faded, two tiny spots to fore-edge. Jacket shows the slightest hint of sun to spine panel and some minor rubbing. FIRST EDITION. A historical novel depicting the prominent New England family from colonial times to the 20th century.