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Raleigh: Printed at the "Daily Confederate" Office, 1865. Stitched without wrappers. Octavo. 102 pages. Very good with mild uniform toning and some light soil, and minor extremity wear. Top fore corner of first leaf has a neat tape repair from back side. Original stitched binding holding well. A few leaves unopened.. The Grand Lodge met in Raleigh the first week of December, 1864. In his address herein Grand Master Eli Faucette Watson, alluding to the Civil War and the Confederacy, notes that the ancient fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons has nobly sent forth many valiant sons "who have sacrificed their lives in defence of Liberty, and against the usurpation of a despot and tyrant, and will ever be ready to stand side by side with the bravest of North Carolina's sons in vindicating our rights and institutions."<br /> <br /> Much additional content relating to Masonic business in North Carolina, including treasurer's reports, membership reports, and more.… Read More

(New York): Privately Printed for the Angler's Club of New York, 1926. Limited Edition, #209 of 350 copies. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Octavo. [xviii], 139 pages. Near fine. Bound in green paper covered boards with tan cloth spin, printed title labels laid onto upper board and spine, green endpapers. Prior owner's angling bookplate on front free endpaper. Slight bumps to lower fore corners. Clean and sound.. Black and white maps and plates. An early attempt to outline the problems of trout stream ecology and conservation. <br /> <br /> Designed by Eugene V. Connett, founder of the Derrydale Press. A note in Connett's own copy of this title identifies it as the first book he published. Although it was published just before he adopted the Derrydale Press name, and "Derrydale" does not appear anywhere herein, Connett often referred to it as a Derrydale Press book, and therefore arguably the first. <br /> <br /> Ref. BRUNS I5; SIEGEL 1; HAND I11.

New York: Random House, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 335 pages. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding shows a few tiny extremity bumps. Jacket has a closed 1 1/4" edge tear at bottom of rear panel, with a bit of associated wrinkling. This tear was taped from backside by prior owner. Clean, sound, and attractive copy overall.. Irving's debut novel, whose plot revolves around a pair of motorcycle-riding youths and their plan to free the animals in Vienna's Heitzinger Zoo.

Washington, D. C.: Self Published, 1935. First Edition. Wrappers. Octavo. [iv], 143 pages. Good. Critical report on the U. S. Military establishment just after World War I in which it is alleged that a "war trust" simultaneously profited from war preparations while inviting war and keeping American military power weak. Isham was himself an inventor in the area of high explosives. This booklet is bound in printed paper covers over a side-stapled binding. Browning and dampstaining to front cover and portions of textblock, some red crayon markings to a few pages. Covers have rubs and light soil. Quite scarce.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 131 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Binding tight, unread copy. Head and heel of spine each have very slight bumps. White jacket has a few nearly imperceptible smudges. Bound in white paper over boards with cloth spine stamped in red foil.. When Lee Israel's celebrated writing career took a sudden downturn she embarked on an astonishing one-woman forgery racket run out of her Upper West Side studio. Using old typewriters, she fabricated hundreds of letters from the likes of Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, Edna Ferber, Lillian Hellman and others, skillfully imitating their individual voices and styles and then forging their autographs with a flourish. The 2018 film of the same name, starring Melissa McCarthy, is adapted from this memoir.