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New York: Exposition Press, [1952]. 80 pages. Original blue cloth with green lettering. [22 cm.] Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. A hint of sun to top edges of covers, endpapers slightly foxed. Jacket is slightly sunned on the spine panel and shows tiny chips at the spine ends and one corner. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free paper, with a generic inscription ("With many good wishes.") The first and only collection of the author's poems. Her only other publication was a collection of stories, "At Christmas Time the World Grows Young" (1939). A native of West Point, Nebraska, Almy was a longtime resident of Lincoln, where she was active in numerous literary and civic organizations.

Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1942]. 292 pages. Original maroon cloth stamped in black and gold on the spine. [21 cm.] Near very good, lacking the dust jacket. Spine slightly faded and with faint vertical crease, minor wear at ends, and gilt decorations partially flaked. Volume is also bit cocked and shows some rather faint spotting to covers. Leaves just a trifle toned, but clean. FIRST EDITION, so stated. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY HER, on the front free endpaper. The inscription reads: "Affectionate greetings to Marion Mason, one of my best friends and severest critics. Isabella Holt Finnie, March 2, 1942." The drawing depicts a person writing at a desk with a vase of flowers. Isabella Holt Finnie (1892-1962), a native of Chicago and later a resident of Detroit and Grosse Point, Michigan, wrote a number of novels concerned with domestic life in the upper Midwest.

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 of Meredith College, wrote a number of novels portraying life in her native area. "Bernice Kelly Harris belongs with those novelists, who, through a series of works, present a time and place and way so skillfully that the total of the books conveys a social history of the age and the geographical section." --p. 52.

Greensboro, N.C.: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, [1991]. x, 213, [1] pages. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. Original cloth. 29 x 22.5 cm. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket shows sun-fading to the spine panel, a slight crease to the base of the spine panel, and some faint rubbing. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. Established in 1891 as a women's college focused on teacher training, the school became co-educational and was given its present name in 1963. The author, Allen W. Trelease (d. 2011), was a professor of history at UNC-G and the chair of the history department (1984-1992).

New York: Arrow Editions, [1940]. 162 pages, including index. Original quarter tan cloth and gray paper covered boards with paper spine and cover labels. [25.7 cm.] A good copy. Tiny chip to spine label, not affecting lettering. Boards sunned near top edges and lightly soiled. Minor foxing to endpapers. Text block is clean, but a little age-toned. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free endpaper. It reads: "For Jack, The envelopes are in all the fruit trees. Always, Julian. 5/7/46.

Richmond, [Va.]: Garrett & Massie, [1931]. vii, [2], 74 pages. Original blue-speckled cloth. 21 x 14 cm. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Offsetting to front endpapers from laid-in news clippings; tiny, light spot to title; else a nice copy. Jacket is worn at the ends of the spine panel and corners with minor loss and has neat internal reinforcements at the spine ends. FIRST EDITION. The first of the author's two short story collections. "The Honest Wine Merchant" was recognized by the O'Henry Memorial Award in 1930 and "The Lost Governess" was included in O'Brien's "Anthology of the Best Short Stories of 1930." James Branch Cabell provides a blurb on the dust jacket. Helena Lefroy Capterton (1878-1962), a native of Richmond, wrote on local history, contributed book reviews and articles to the Ricmond Times-Dispatch and other newspapers, and edited "The Social Record of Virginia" (1937). However, she is remembered mostly for… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1914. 345, [1] pages. Original blue cloth lettered in gold with small color illustration mounted on front cover. [19.2 cm.] Very good plus in like dust jacket. Light foxing to plates and facing pages. Spine panel of jacket a little sunned and with light wear to ends, small tear to rear panel. Still an attractive copy. Oval cutout on front panel of jacket reveals mounted plate on cover of book (as issued). Early printing, issued the same year as the first. [Date code indicates September, 1914; another copy found with the code for July, 1914.] Complete with frontispiece and three plates by William van Dresser. Author's second book. Basis for the 1939 film, "Bad Little Angel," starring Virginia Weidler. Margaret Turnbull (1872-1942), a Scottish immigrant to the U.S., was a novelist and screenwriter. She wrote or provided the scenarios for over fifty films from the 1910's to the 1930's.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1884. 4to. [8], 40 pages, including half-title, plus color frontispiece portrait and six full-page engraved plates. Original olive-green cloth over beveled boards, stamped in gilt and black; top edge gilt; yellow-coated endpapers. [28.7 cm.] Very good. Light soiling to covers; very light foxing to prelims and final plate (bound after the last page of text); still a respectable copy. FIRST OF THIS ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Copies in the original cloth are a bit scarce; the work is more often found in printed paper-covered boards. The text was originally printed as an article in the "North British Review" (Nov. 1863), and several separate editions followed. The frontispiece portrait is a reproduction of a watercolor, presumed to be the work of Miss Isabella Keith, who was Marjorie's adored, teenage cousin. The other six plates reproduce pencil sketches by Warwick Brookes (1808-1882) of Manchester, who drew them for the author. Marjorie (or Marjory) Fleming… Read More

Raleigh, [N.C.]: Capital Printing Co., 1901. Subtitle on cover reads: "Great Events in North Carolina History." 7 pages. Original printed wraps. [17.4 cm.] Small stamp of Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., on front cover. Clean separation along spine below lower staple (about three centimeters deep), else a nice copy. FIRST EDITION. Betsy Dowdy was a teen who reputedly rode over fifty miles one cold night in December, 1775, to alert local patriot militia that they were needed to resist British advances near Norfolk, Virginia. The volunteers missed the fight at Great Bridge, dubbed the second battle of Bunker Hill, but Dowdy's gallantry was long celebrated.

Boston: James Munroe and Co., 1844. viii, 373 pages, plus frontispiece, extra engraved title page, and [2] pages ads. Original embossed brown cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on spine. [18.1 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with very faint reminder of removed call number at base of spine and light internal marks. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp to frontispiece and titles, ink stamp on verso of printed title and in margin of one other page. Else a good copy. Small chips to head of spine, light wear to base of spine. Moderate to heavy foxing, in no way affecting legibility; marginal browning. Signature of O[liver] S[mith] Sammis (1827-1912), a prominent merchant and real estate developer in Huntington, Long Island, on front free endpaper. SECOND EDITION, revised and enlarged. "A reprint of the 1842 edition with some changed titles and the addition of `The Rose Geranium' and `Westminster Hall'." --BAL. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR,… Read More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1930. ix, [3], 63 pages. Original gray paper covered boards backed in red cloth with gilt spine lettering. [20.8 cm.] Neat marginal notes on four pages noting the inclusion of verses in an anthology, else good plus. Faint soiling to boards, modest signs of wear. Minuscule tear to fore-edge of a few leaves; faint offsetting from laid-in news clipping to two pages. FIRST EDITION of the author's first and only book of poetry. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. It reads: "To my friend, Eva Mae Grice, with Easter Greetings and warmest good wishes. From Anne Blackwell Payne. April 1949." Grice (1921-1988) was a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She later married the author, Richard M. McKenna, who wrote "The Sand Pebbles." "Released" was the first book of poetry published by the University of North Carolina Press. "Though this North Carolina writer had often been… Read More

Durham, N.C.: Moore Publishing Co., [1968]. [6], 210 pages. Publisher's tan cloth. [20.9 cm.] Very good in good plus dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked; top edge dust soiled; offsetting to front endpapers from laid-in clippings. Moderate foxing to endpapers and a little foxing to the title page, but none elsewhere. The jacket is a bit foxed and has a crease to the spine panel, but no chips or tears and very little wear. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free endpaper. It is addressed to Eva Mae (née Grice) McKenna (1921-1988), a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the wife of the novelist, Richard McKenna, who wrote "The Sand Pebbles." "Stranger in Our Darkness" was Joyce Allen Crawford's first novel. It was written under the guidance of Manly Wade Wellman, who taught a novel-writing workshop that Crawford attended. The book is dedicated to Wellman and bears a review by him on the rear… Read More

New York: The Century Co., [1927]. xvii, 227 pages. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text. Original quarter gray cloth over patterned paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and black title piece on the front cover. 20.5 x 13 cm. Very good in good plus dust jacket. Minor wear, tanning to front endpapers and half-title from previously laid-in materials, light offsetting from the frontispiece to the title, a few small traces of marginal foxing. The jacket shows small chips to the ends of the spine panel (up to 1 cm deep), several other tiny edge chips, and a little sun to the spine panel. FIRST EDITION. Essays on the history, purposes, and pleasures of smoking. The author also discusses the moral and medical arguments against smoking. These he treats with both consideration and with a good deal of skepticism, though he includes one chapter explicitly denouncing smoking by juveniles. In "Our Ladies' Nicotine," he discusses the growing use of tobacco by women, the… Read More