Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First edition. **MISSING PAGES 37-43.** The book that grew from Agee's 1936 assignment for Fortune Magazine documenting conditions faced by sharecropping families in the south during the "dust bowl." Agee and Evans (on loan from the federal government, according to the jacket flap) spent eight weeks..... Item #54584 More
New York: Farrar. Straus & Giroux, (1966). First edition. Foreword by Ralph McGill. Memoir covering the period after the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education when, in 1956, federal judge Robert Taylor ordered Clinton High School in Tennessee to desegregate with "all deliberate speed." Margaret Vance..... Item #71962 More
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1986). First edition. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. SIGNED and INSCRIBED "To Audrey, with many bluebonnets, Jean Andrews" on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #37668 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First edition. Very good with faint foxing and some wear along the edges, most noticeably at the spine ends. In a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and soiling, and small chips at the spine ends and corners. Item #50780 More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1973). First edition. INSCRIBED by author "To dear Greg / lots of love / Pearl." Near fine with light foxing along the edges. Stamped "GIFT FROM PEARL BAILEY" on front free endpaper and with a star stamped on the back pastedown. In a very good..... Item #50646 More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., (1971). First edition. The remarkable transcript of 7.5 hours of dialogue conducted over two days in August 1970 between the famed author(s) and anthropologist that still resonates today. Often heart-achingly so. Baldwin speaking on police violence: “The police in this country make no distinction between..... Item #71974 More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. First edition. Includes 22 letters by "Celebrated Intellectuals" (many of whom were Nobel Prize recipients) including Karl Capek, Albert Einstein, Selma Lagerlof, Sinclair Lewis, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Upton Sinclair, H. G. Wells, Rebecca West, Izrael Zangwill, et al...... Item #55651 More
London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1953. First edition. Descriptions of and directions for cultivating various species. Illustrated with four full color plates, 40 black-and-white photographs, and numerous drawings in the text. Bookplates of Ruby Fleischmann (signed in the plate "Sydney E. Letts, Pinx. Sculp") and Conrad B. Link on front..... Item #45948 More
[Philadelphia]: Presbyterian Board of Publications, 1840. First edition. An unattributed account of the spiritual life of John Blackader interwoven with extracts from his diaries and letters in which he speaks of "Providence" and prayer. 16mo quarter leather; pebble-cloth boards with gilt stamped "Life of Col. Blackader" and "26" just barely..... Item #51638 More
New York: Sheldon & Co., 1864. First edition thus, expanded from the 59-page book of the same name published in New York in 1863 by Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Thomas. Recounts and charts the needs of the nation during the Civil War and the ways in which various peoples and organizations..... Item #51547 More
Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood and Company, 1860. First edition. INSCRIBED BY BURROWS on front endpaper to "The Honorable Judge McCurdy/ From his old friend & Most [illegible] Servent [sic]/ Silas E. Burrows." Burrows' record of the proceedings before the court in the case of the American citizen Silas Enoch..... Item #56131 More
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1929. First edition. Notes on the symbolism in Cabell's FIGURES OF EARTH. One of 865 numbered copies. Mild smudge on spine still fine in original glassine dust jacket. Lacking slipcase. Item #30955 More
(Roanoke): Hollins College, 1966. First edition. FOURTEEN [14] COPIES. Twelve pages, stapled; sketch of Capote by Lewis O. Thompson on cover. Includes Garret's article on IN COLD BLOOD, brief biography of Capote and checklist of his books. Also includes poems by Margaret Leigh Fergusen and Louis Coxe. Altogether near fine..... Item #71710 More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1967). First edition. Very good with top front corners slightly bumped; in a very good dust jacket with some shelfwear on the edes and one small closed tear to the back. Item #50254 More
Frederick-Town, MD: no-publ. 1805. First edition. An abstract of Maryland laws of the period "Interspersed with a Variety of Practical Forms and Precedents; For the use of Justices of the Peace and Others." 352 pages plus index. Interior somewhat darkened with some staining but wholly legible. Original leather binding touched..... Item #52991 More
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (1999). First edition. Interviews with Crews, edited by Bledsoe. Fine in dust jacket. Item #51129 More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965. First edition. SIGNED by author on the half-title page. Near fine with contemporaneous gift inscription on the verso of the free endpaper. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a small amount of wear along the edges, mostly concentrated at the spine and..... Item #50559 More
New York: Rinehart & Co., Inc., (1947) [circa 1956]. Later printing, INSCRIBED on front endpaper "With best wishes/ Marjory Stoneman Douglas" (no recipient). Number 33 In the Rivers of America series. No statement of printing on copyright page (and lacking publisher's seal) but dust jacket states "Fifth Printing" and RIVER..... Item #71950 More
New York: John Lane, (1916). First edition, first state, with "The War! The War!" They were chasing" in last paragraph p.173 (later deleted). In first issue binding with green buckram spine vs blue. Illustrated with 32 full-page sketches by Franklin Booth. Near fine in very good or better dust jacket..... Item #54029 More
New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1928. First edition. Illustrated with line drawings throughout. Very good in patterned pictorial paper boards with gilt-lettered black cloth spine. Corners rubbed, small dampstain on front cover, spine sunned but still legible, penciled name on front endpaper. Lacking dust jacket. The first edition seems..... Item #52462 More
Salem / Boston: S. E. Cassino, 1879 / 1880. First edition of this major botanical work. Two volumes, complete. Illustrated with a total of 81 full-color plates by J. H. Emerton and C. E. Faxon. Eaton performed his graduate studies under Asa Gray at Harvard but otherwise spent his entire..... Item #56029 More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1883. First edition. Two volumes. Deluxe large paper issue. Number 153 of 250 copies. Small 4to (approximately 6.5 x 9.75") orange cloth boards with black paper spines and orange paper spine labels printed in black and red; in orange paper dust jackets with matching..... Item #71897 More
London: George Routledge & Sons, (1930). First UK edition. Very good or better in dust jacket with a few small chips and tears along the edges. Item #50948 More
New York: D. Appleton, 1908. Later printing INSCRIBED BY EVANS on title page, "For Captain Keyes with my best wishes, R. D. Evans." Robley Dunglison Evans (1846-1912) was a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, serving from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War. Roger John Brownlow Keyes (1872-1945), was..... Item #54171 More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1987). First edition. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of Faulkner's own art work showing "how the painstaking efforts of the young poet, calligrapher, and illustrator foreshadow the verbal art of his great poetic novels" -- from the dust jacket flap. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY HONNIGHAUSEN to the..... Item #71750 More