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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1927. xvii, 116 pages. Original quarter black cloth over decorative paper-covered boards. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. A near fine copy in very good dust jacket. Minor rubbing to the spine; internally clean and partially unopened. The jacket has several tiny chips, a few traces of soiling, and a small internal repair to the head of the spine panel with archival tissue. FIRST EDITION. #151 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A collection of African American stories collected by Edward Clarkson Leverett Adams (1876-1946), a physician from Columbia, South Carolina, at his plantation on the Congaree River. Of all the white authors of his era who recorded African American stories, writes folklore historian Robert G. O'Meally: "No others rendered scenes from black life with his control of dramatic tension; none presented scenes so true to the blacks' own sense of reality and poetic idiom. . . . No whites appear in this work, except as rare background figures… Read More

Charleston, [S.C.]: Evans & Cogswell, 1860. 8vo [23.1 cm.] 33 pages. Original printed wraps. Library stamp on front wrap, but no other signs of institutional use. Otherwise good plus. Scattered foxing; some corners a little creased or bumped. FIRST EDITION. Scarce. Thomas Osborne Rice, a native of Brighton, Massachusetts, served as minister of the Circular Church for four years, remaining in South Carolina after secession and for much of the Civil War. Before coming to Charleston, he served as minister in West Killingly, Connecticut, and then in Boston (1858-1860). He resigned from the Circular Church in 1864 and crossed the lines to return to Massachusetts. Rice was the last minister of the old Circular Church, an architectural landmark of antebellum South Carolina. It was a great domed structure built in 1804 after the designs of Robert Mills, the esteemed Charleston architect best known for designing the original Washington Monument. The Circular Church was destroyed by a fire… Read More

[Charleston, S.C.: Historical Commission of Charleston, 1942?] Title page states: "Reprinted from the Historical Appendix of the Year Book of the City of Charleston for the Year 1940." Turnbull notes: "The Year Book for 1940 was not published until 1942." Publisher from slip inserted before title ("Compliments of the Historical Commission of Charleston, Daniel Ravenel, Chairman.") [1] page, pp.190-257, plus four plates, three of which are portraits. [22.7 cm.] Original printed blue wraps. Very good. Light vertical crease throughout. Some faint soiling to wraps. Slight evidence of erasure at head of title, but interior otherwise clean. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, an offprint. A biographical study of the earliest researchers to examine the impact of climate on yellow fever in the American South.

Mount Vernon: Limited Editions Club, Walpole Printing Office, 1937. Three volumes. xiii, [7], 431; 493; and 685 pages, plus nine lithograph plates by Edward A. Wilson. Chapter headpieces printed in color. Original rust-colored cloth. [24.6 cm.] A fine set in very good cardboard slipcase; lacking the fragile glassine dust jackets. Slipcase has edgewear with minor chipping and some soiling, but is sound. FIRST OF THIS LIMITED EDITION. No. 1,405 of 1,500 copies signed by the illustrator. New introduction by the author.

New Haven: Yale University Press, [printed at the Earl Trumbull Williams Memorial], 1923. [10] pages. Original blue boards with silver cover lettering. [23.9 cm.] Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Tanning to free endpapers, rear hinge started, but sound, otherwise a nice copy. Jacket has small tape-repaired tear at head of front panel and several tiny chips. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. A poem set during the First World War. Allen fought in the Aisne-Marne campaign of 1918. The poem was originally printed in the North American review in 1919 and also appeared in the author's second book, "Wampum and Old Gold" (1921). As is discussed on the rear panel of the dust jacket, "The Blindman" was commemorated by the Poetry Society of South Carolina with an annual prize of the same name.

[Middlebury, Vt.: Middlebury College Press, 1935]. 4 pages. Original printed blue wraps. [22.4 cm.] Near very good. Wraps a bit faded and with some minor soiling. Leaves slightly toned and with some faint traces of foxing or soiling. FIRST EDITION. An address delivered while Allen was serving as a member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer graduate program at Middlebury College, Vermont. Allen also participated in the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. In this address, he discusses the "Bread Loaf idea," which he describes, in part: "The idea that literature, that writing, is a constant state of becoming, that it went on in the past, that it continues now, and that it stretches into an almost but yet not entirely unpredictable future." --p. 3. Scarce.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. xiii, [1], 168 pages. Original black cloth and blue paper covered boards. [25 cm.] Very good plus in good plus dust jacket. Corners rubbed, neat tape repair to half-title, a few minor traces of foxing. Partially unopened. Jacket has a few tiny chips, internal tape repairs at spine ends, and sun-tanning, especially to spine panel. FIRST LARGE PAPER EDITION. #123 OF 175 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

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.

[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 faded. Margins of some of the plates and facing pages show minor foxing, not affecting images or text. Several leaves with a tiny marginal pinhole (signs of a prior enclosure). Still, a very good, tight copy of a work that is seldom found thus. FIRST EDITION. John Merrick (1859-1919) was one of the leading figures of Durham's "Black Wall Street" in the early 20th century. Born a slave in Sampson County, he worked as a brick mason and then a barber before founding the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1898. As president, he made it "the largest black business in the United States. With its attendant enterprises, the firm earned… Read More

Philadelphia: J. & J.L. Gihon, [circa 1848 - 1850s]. 16mo. 288 pages, plus frontispiece. Several woodcuts, some full-page, printed with the text. 12-pages publisher's ads. Original embossed brick red cloth with title and decorations in gilt on the spine. 16 x 10.5 cm. Ex-Sondley Reference Library with light internal markings: tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on frontispiece, title, and one other leaf, and ink number stamp on verso of title and in the margin of one other page. Else fair only, but uncommon in any condition. Spine ends chipped and frayed, corners worn, spine faded to tan. Sporadic but sometimes heavy foxing and staining, affecting some text and images with no loss of legibility; two short marginal tears; lacking rear free endpapers. One of two editions found, both undated Philadelphia imprints, priority unknown. The date of the earliest possible publication is based on two works on the Mexican War advertised in the publisher's catalog at the rear which… Read More

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 tears, with no loss. FIRST EDITION. WARM PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free endpaper. TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, laid-in. The inscription and both letters are addressed to Tempie Harris Prince, of High Rock Farm, Rockingham County, North Carolina, whose pictorial bookplate appears on the front pastedown. William Swaim was editor of the Greensboro "Patriot" from 1829-1835, where he promoted the manumission of slaves and various reforms. He was the maternal grandfather of William Sydney Porter, a.k.a. O'Henry.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1954]. xv, [1], 228 pages. Original cloth. [20.9 cm.] A very good plus copy in good plus dust jacket. A few very faint spots to cloth; bright and clean internally. Jacket has small chip to head of spine (1.5 cm deep), short closed tear and associated crease to front panel, and some light wear to extremities with minor loss. FIRST EDITION. Foreword by Owen J. Roberts. An influential examination of school segretation based on a lengthy study initiated by the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education. The book was released to the public on May 16, 1954, a day before the Supreme Court issued its decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. However, the Justices were given advance copies some time beforehand, and may have read the work during the course of deliberations. Chief Justice Warren later stated that the court consulted the book while writing the decision in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (a.k.a.… Read More

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.