The South from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: New Directions, 1956. First Edition. Tall octavo. Cloth-backed patterned boards; dustjacket; 117pp. Gentle fading to board edges; front endpapers faintly foxed, else a tght, clean, Very Good or better copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), slightly sunned on lighter portions and rubbed on lower third of spine, Very Good.

New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles and author's facsimile signature stamped in silver, gilt, and orange on spine and front cover; brown topstain; dustjacket; xvi,428,[2]pp. Inscribed by Styron a few weeks after publication on the front endpaper to American artist and social realist painter Gregorio Prestopino (1907-1984): "To… Ler mais sobre este item

New Orleans: National Book Co., Inc, 1933. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20.5cm). Yellow cloth boards, lettered in black and red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 343pp; frontispiece and 15 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). A straight, Near Fine copy, marred only by some oxidation transfer to the spine and joints, a result of the gold foil… Ler mais sobre este item

Birmingham: Birmingham Publishing Co, 1927. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Embossed, flexible paper-covered boards; 47pp. Withdrawn from the Harris Collection of Poetry at Brown University, with printed bookplate to front pastedown, with "Withdrawn" stamp; no other institutional markings. Original ownership inscription partially covered with black ink; moderate external rubbing and wear, mostly to corners and spine ends; internally… Ler mais sobre este item

[Carmel, CA]: The Friends of Photography, 1983. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; [3],4-48pp; illus. Modest external wear, gentle sunning to spine, with a few faint creases to wrapper extremities; faintly musty; Very Good+. Volume collecting 33 photographs taken by Wolcott while working for the U.S. Farm Security Administration. With an introduction by Saly Stein, and… Ler mais sobre este item

Wilmington, N.C.: Hall's Enterprises, 1980-84. Volume I is a fourth printing (1984). Volumes II & III (bound as one) appear to be first printings from 1980. Two octavo volumes; cloth hardcover, dustjacket; 293+475pp. Ink ownership signatures; three brief lines of marginalia to v.1, else Very Good, unmarked copies in slightly worn, mildly sun-faded, Very Good dustwrappers.

New York: Random House, 1962. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; red cloth, with titling and rule stamped in gilt and orange on spine and front panel; red topstain; dustjacket; 305pp. Very Near Fine, with top-stain bright and unfaded. Dustwrapper is unclipped (priced $4.95 on front flap), clean and crisp with a tiny (1/8") closed nick at base of… Ler mais sobre este item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); red paper-covered boards and navy blue cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [viii],183,[1]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to author and Georgia Democrat Robert M. Willingham: "Best wishes to Robert M. Willingham - Lester Maddox." Light wear… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Abbey Press, 1902. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. 20cm. Bound in 20th century grey cloth by Meister and Smethie, titled in black to spine and front board. 369pp. The later cloth binding is strong and functional, clearly following the brief of holding the book together for a century without too much attention to aesthetics, some light… Ler mais sobre este item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; 369pp. Tight and umarked, Near Fine, in the original printed dustwrapper, price clipped and slightly toned on spine and flap-folds; Very Good. Still a standard source on the Gastonia, North Carolina millworkers' strike of 1929.

New York: [W. Schaus; printed by Sarony, Major & Knapp], 1861. Second Edition. 59 x 76cm open. 19.5x19cm closed. Tinted lithographic map backed in brown silk, in black slipcase, with printed paper label. Bookseller's ticket of Rev. A. O. Brickman, Baltimore. Two ownership inscriptions of "J. M. Deems, Maj., 1st MD Cav" and inscribed "Deems" on the slipcase. Trimmed;… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles and author's facsimile signature stamped in silver, gilt, and orange on spine and front cover; brown topstain; dustjacket; xvi,428,[2]pp. Mild spotting to top-stain, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $6.95), with light wear to extremities and a few tiny tears; a Near… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1907. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21.5cm). Textured olive-tan cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; 315pp; frontispiece and 16 inserted leaves of plates (halftones). Moderate rubbing and soil; rather obtrusive ink blottings to endpapers and to first page of R.E. Lee Jr's preface; early ownership signature roughly erased… Ler mais sobre este item

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. 12mo (17.5cm). Flexible black cloth-covered boards, stamped in gilt; black and white pictorial endpapers; 345,[1]pp. Author's signature on inserted leaf at front. A sound copy with mild rubbing at spine ends, visible surface abrasions and spotting to covers; just VG. Peterkin, a white woman, wrote several works about the African-American experience. This novel, set among… Ler mais sobre este item

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1990. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Cleanth Brooks / being able to sign this book for you is one of the great pleasures of my life - with warmest good wishes & much admiration," signed "Kelly," dated in year of publication. Additionally signed by Cherry on the… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth covered boards titled in yellow on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 438pp. A tight, straight, handsome copy, Fine but for a pinhole to cloth at front joint and a tiny spot of soil to text block fore-edge. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap),… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; [2],xvi,348,[2]pp, with photographic frontispiece and 12 plates of illustrations. Spine ends gently nudged, private library sticker on title page, else a fresh, Fine copy. In the original dustjacket, with a wraparound photograph of… Ler mais sobre este item

Richmond: The Dietz Printing Co, 1934. Second printing. 12mo (19cm). Textured blue cloth, decoratively titled in silver on front cover; 59,64pp. Clean and tight with partial thin crack to front hinge (internal); Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Collects a series of letters to and from St. George Tucker, of whom the editor was a descendant. Final 64pp comprise… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Random House, 1953. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 230,(2)pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, very clean excepting some dustjacket offsetting to the front and rear free endpapers. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), lightly soiled and toned on spine panel and flap folds; Very Good or better.

Staunton, VA: McClure Co, [1924]. First Edition. First printing. Oblong octavo (20.5cm). Brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt; unpaginated; black and white plates. 1954 inscription by the author on front free endpaper. Lightly rubbed at corners, both hinges cracking slightly but holding, else clean and tight: Very Good. Photo book depicting notable historical and natural sites… Ler mais sobre este item