The South from Lorne Bair Rare Books

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… Read more about this 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… Read more about this 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… Read more about this 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;… Read more about this 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… Read more about this 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… Read more about this 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… Read more about this 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… Read more about this 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),… Read more about this 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… Read more about this 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… Read more about this 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… Read more about this item

Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1972. Octavo (24cm). Light blue buckram titled in gilt; xvi,434,[6]pp; black and white illustrations. Ink ownership inscription to f.f.e.p., dated 1975. Stable with minor external smudging, internally clean: Very Good.

Richmond, VA: B. F. Johnson Publishing Co, 1900. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Brown cloth titled in gilt; 170pp; halftone frontispiece portrait. Sound but rubbed, with minor superficial abrasions and small stains to cloth, though internally clean: just Very Good. History of the settlement and colonial period of Virginia, written by a professor at the University… Read more about this item

New York: Samuel French, 1935. First Edition. First Printing, publisher's folded and gathered sheets for the cloth issue. Octavo (19.5cm); eight disbound quires (as issued); x,[2],107pp. Modest external wear, subtle toning and a touch of dust-soil to first and last leaves, with a few faint creases and tiny chips to same; contents clean; Very Good+. A symphonic drama based… Read more about this item

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1988. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (21.5cm); green paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[2],296pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Hint of sunning to crown, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $16.95). Mystery novel set in South Carolina in 1944, based on the… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1927. First Edition. First Printing, second state, with "ducks piped" on p.17, line 32-33. Octavo (19.5cm); vertically-ribbed brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; decorative endpapers; brown topstain; dustjacket; [ii],[10],11-315,[3]pp. Beginning oxidation to gilt, lower corners gently bumped (though still sharp), with some faint, scattered staining to covers; contents fresh;… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1899. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth; 229pp; frontispiece and four unnumbered leaves of plates (halftones). Moderate wear and soil to covers; spine slightly age-toned; small stain to upper margin of title page, else internally clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. Neat contemporary ownership inscription inside fron cover ("L.D.W. Gerhardt"). Subscriber list follows… Read more about this item