Search Results: Titles starting with R from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

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.

New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1887. 281 pages, plus portrait frontispiece and four additional portrait plates. Original brown cloth stamped in gold. [21.6 cm.] Very good. Some faint soiling to cloth and several thin, light marks to rear cover; just a hint of wear to head of spine; early name on front free endpaper; and a few traces of light marginal foxing, but interior is generally clean and binding is solid. A respectable copy. FIRST EDITION. A memoir of religious life in the South during Civil War and Reconstruction, by one of the leaders of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States. Wilmer (1815-1900) was elected Bishop of Alabama in 1861, and consecrated in Richmond the following year. He was still serving as Bishop of Alabama in the reunified church at the time of publication. A second, more common edition was issued later the same year.

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.: Duke University Press, 1930. 344 pages. Original cloth. [23.3 cm.] Near fine in good plus dust jacket. Small area of light speckling to front board, neat name on front free endpaper, else a fine copy. Jacket has shallow chip to head of spine panel, not affecting lettering; sun-fading to spine panel; seven centimeter tear to front panel with some creasing, repaired on verso with mending tissue; a few short tears; and light edge-wear. FIRST EDITION.

Philadelphia: John D. Avil & Co., 1883. 320, iii pages, plus [1] page errata. Portrait frontispiece and three plates (one view and two portraits). Original embossed purple cloth stamped in gold on the spine. [20.5 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with light evidence of call number removal at base of spine, tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title and one other text leaf, and number stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other page. Else about very good. Tissue guard for frontispiece lacking. Mild to moderate foxing to plates and facing pages. FIRST EDITION. Benjamin Franklin Perry (1805-1886), a noted South Carolina Unionist, was a state legislator, newspaper editor, and governor of his state in 1865. Although he was a leading voice against secession in the years before the Civil War, he served South Carolina under the Confederacy as a state representative and district judge. This volume contains memoirs of 50 prominent American politicians, including a… Read More

Greenville, S.C.: Shannon & Co., Printers, 1889. Printed at head of title page: "With Respects of Mrs. Governor B.F. Perry." [4], iii, [1], 397, [3] pages, plus frontispiece and one plate. Original black cloth stamped in gold on spine and in blind on covers. [23.4 cm.] Ex-Sondley Reference Library with faint evidence of removed call number at base of spine, tasteful bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamp on title page and plates, and number stamp on verso of title and in margin of one other leaf. Else about very good. Light wear to spine ends and corners; small nick to edge of front board; spine a little faded; some faint speckling to cloth. Just a little foxing to first and last few leaves. FIRST EDITION. This is a posthumously published successor volume to Perry's "Reminiscences of Public Men" (1883). As in the earlier volume, there are memoirs of a number of prominent politicians (44 sketches in all), but a substantial portion of this book (pp. 199-383)… Read More

Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, Printers, 1862. 26 pages. Original printed wraps. 24 x 15 cm. Multiple chips to the wraps, not affecting printed matter; spine worn and split for 3 cm at top and 6 cm at base, but wraps holding well. Wraps also show a few creases, toning, and several small spots. Small chip to base of gutter of title page and to upper corner of the same; other corners slightly worn; a few marginal creases and minuscule edge tears. Excepting a minor spot on the final page, the text is clean. Good only. FIRST EDITION. Charles Ingersoll was a former Pennsylvania Congressman who had long been critical of abolitionism. His "Letter to a Friend in a Slave State," published in 1862, criticized the Union war effort and called for compromise and reconciliation with the South. In this pamphlet, Russell argues against Ingersoll and insists that the country will only be reunified after the military defeat of the Confederacy. Though raised in Virginia, Martin Russell Thayer… Read More

Charleston, S.C.: Walker, Evans, & Cogswell, [1918]. 20 pages. Original printed wraps. 23 x 15 cm. Faint soiling and toning to wraps, still a very good copy. FIRST EDITION. In addition to the usual concerns of the U.D.C. (funding for monuments, care of veterans, publication of the "Confederate Veteran," etc.), this report discusses the organization's efforts to aid U.S. servicemen during World War I, including the endowment of hospital beds in France. Charleston native, Mary Barnett Poppenheim (1866-1936), was president of the U.D.C. from 1917 to 1919. She and her sister, Louisa, "helped bring the burgeoning women’s club movement to Charleston, as founding members and officers of the Century Club, the Civic Club, the Intercollegiate Club, and the Charleston City Federation of Clubs . . . Mary focused on the U.D.C. She was president of the South Carolina division and then president-general of the national organization . . . Mary was most interested in preserving history and… Read More

Greensboro, N.C.: North Carolina College for Women, 1923. 125 pages. Original printed wraps. 22 x 14.5 cm. Good. Short tears to spine ends, toning and mild soiling to wraps, some corners creased, a few traces of minor foxing. Name of North Carolina College for Women student, Carrie Yoder, and her campus address on the front wrap, and her occasional marginal notes and underlining in pencil. Miss Yoder, of Lincolnton, is listed among the matriculated students in the college's "Bulletin" of 1924-25. SECOND EDITION, being a reprint of the first edition of 1916 (issued as North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College Historical Publicaion No. 2). The work includes biographies of John Harvey, Cornelius Harnett, Richard Caswell, and Samuel Johnson. R.D.W. Connor (1878-1950), a prominent North Carolina historian, served as the first secretary of the North Carolina Historical Commission, as Kenan Professor of History and Government at U.N.C., and as the first Archivist of the United States… Read More

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1929. 274 pages, plus plates. Original dark green cloth. Endpaper maps. [23.9 cm.] Very good. Spine shows a just a hint of sun, foxing to margins of plates and facing pages, else a clean, solid copy. Attractive bookplate signed (in print) by Ainslee Hewett, dated 1913, on blank verso of front free endpaper. [Hewett (1880-1963), an artist from Louisville, Kentucky was active as a bookplate designer from 1909 to 1951. This bookplate bears the names of Edwin Vivian Thompson and Ida Bette Halbreath Thompson.] FIRST EDITION.

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

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, [circa 1934; c.r. 1933]. 251 pages. Illustrated with 70 full-page reproductions of photographs (including the frontispiece, all printed with the text). Original red cloth with black spine lettering. 22 x 16 cm. Very good plus in very good or better dust jacket. Light soiling to top edge; free endpapers partially tanned; a little marginal soiling or foxing to the half-title; marginal smudge to one plate, not affecting image. Old gift inscription on the front free endpaper. The jacket has some light edgewear and a few tiny tears, with a few old tape reinforcements on the verso, and some rather faint soiling. Still an attractive example. The binding is sharp, the text and plates are clean, and the jacket is bright with none of the usual fading to the spine panel. EARLY TRADE EDITION AND THE FIRST BY THIS PUBLISHER. Uses the same sheets as the first trade edition published by Robert Ballou (first printing,1933; second, 1934) with a new title page.� Ballou's imprint is… Read More

New York: Robert O. Ballou, [1933]. 341 pages. 90 full-page, hand-pulled photogravures (including the frontispiece, all reckoned in the pagination). Lacking the extra, laid-in photogravure, being a duplicate of one of the images in the book, that is found with most copies. Early full vellum with gilt spine and cover lettering and gilt centerpiece on the front cover. 29 x 22 cm. Near fine. The photogravures are all in excellent condition. The text shows some very faint offsetting from the plates throughout, and a half dozen or so of the text pages show moderate foxing. Tissue guards, laid-in throughout, appear to be recent replacements. Housed in a plain linen slipcase, evidently of the same vintage as the binding. FIRST EDITION. #44 of 350 COPIES SIGNED BY JULIA PETERKIN AND DORIS ULMANN. One of the most celebrated American photobooks, “Roll, Jordan Roll “provides a stunning portrait of rural African American life in the low country of South Carolina. Most of the photographs were taken at… Read More