Recent Arrivals from Old New York Book Shop

(Asheville, NC): Walpen Ink/ Jean Wall Penland, circa 2019. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. 20p octavo. A fine copy in orange printed wraps. Celebrated Asheville artist and professor.

no place (Asheville NC): Privately Printed, 1944. First Edition. Original wraps. Good. 44p octavo, Small chip at the crown, taped at the base and the inside of front panel, tiny address label on title page, front inner hinge separating. Warmly inscribed by Mary Louise Crane to Francis Ligon on the title page. A good copy in… Read more about this item

New York: Doubelday and Co, (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 402p octavo a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Conroy "To Patsy Dickey Part of my Atlanta Heart, Pat Conroy". Patsy Dickey was James Dickey's sister in law having married his brother Thomas 'Tom' and one ho tired to keep 'Jim'… Read more about this item

Asheville N C : Kenilworth Inn, 1903. First Edition. Original wraps. Fine. 12p duedecimo, illustrated. Title page reads as follows: "Kenilworth Inn will open for its seventh season on January Thirty-first 1903 and will remain open throughout the year - E B Moore Proprietor" . A fine copy in green printed wraps.… Read more about this item

(Greenville SC): (Greenville County Museum of Art), 1967. First Edition. Original wraps. Fine. 14p octavo, illustrated A fine copy in white printed wraps. Tipped into the inside cover is a post humous gift from the estate of artist Peggy Polski Dodge 1911-1985.

Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, no date. First Edition. Original wraps. Fine. 1 page 12" x 19" folded. One side gives a glimpse of the contents while the verso displays a map of the Cherokee Nation and Wstern North Carolina prior to 1783 when settlement begn west of the Blue Ridge and another… Read more about this item

(Asheville): (Asheville Chamber of Commerce), (1926). First Edition. Original wraps. Fine. Quarto illustrated a fine copy in tan printed pictorial wraps. A page devoted to the Grove Arcade Building witha rendering of it complete to the top floor and its surroundings. Scarce

San Francisco: Scrimshaw Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 143p quarto, illustrated with photographs by Margo Davis. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket signed by the author on the half title. Laid in is a short T.L.S.(typed letter sgn) from the author to a bookseller acknowledging that he has signed the books… Read more about this item

(Cullowhee NC: Western Carolina University, 1996. First Edition. Original wraps. Fine. 16p octavo illustrated with photographs documenting a slice of the genesis of I-26 in North Carolina. Signed by the photographer Rob Amberg on the title page. Scarce. A fine copy in black and white printed wraps.

(Staunton, Va): George F Thompson Publishing, (2013). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 111p oblong quarto illustrated. 1/125 deluxe copies this copy #40 initialed by Andrew Beckham and signed by George F Thompson. A fine as new copy in publisher's printed slipcase, also fine

Exeter, and London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, (1926). Later edition . Hardcover. Fine. 112p duodecimo A fine copy in green cloth. Bookplate of Francis James Stanislaus Grace New Zealand expatriot born about 1878 and settled in the United States in New Zealand here he has penned 16 lines on the front fly leaf… Read more about this item

Chimney Rock, NC: Chimney Rock Mountains Inc, (1926). First Edition. Original wraps. Fine. 20p oblong octavo, illustrated. A very fine copy in original dark green printed wraps, gilt titled. The very scarce sales tool for Lake Lure properties.

New York and Boston: Littel Brown and Co, (2005). Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 642p octavo printed by Little Brown but this limited edition of 150 numbered copies published by The Captain's Bookshelf of Asheville, NC by arrangement with Little Brown. This copy #10 and signed by Kostova. A fine copy bound in faux vellum boards with… Read more about this item

(Asheville NC): French Broad Press, 1991. First Edition. Original wraps. Fine/fine. Quarto, illutrated. 1/26 lettered copies this copy #A. and signed by Williams and Jeffrey Beam who has written the text on the jacket folds. Fine in french wraps

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1954). Third Printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 61p octavo, A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Signed on the half-title "with all good wishes Jesse Stuart"

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1955). First Edition. Fine/very good +. 124p octavo, illustrated. A fine copy in a very good plus dust jacket Signed "With all Good Wishes - Jesse Stuart"

(New York): Harper Collins, (2018). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 356p octavo, 1/71 numbered copies of a limited edition from the Captain's Bookshelf in Asheville North Carolina This copy #2. Fine in mauve cloth in a fine glassine dust jacket in publisher's slipcase. signed by Frazier.

(Rocky Mount, North Carolina): Wesleyan College Press, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 54p illustrated with photographs by Roger Manley Limited edition 1/26 lettered copies this copy #A signed by Reynolds Price and Roger Manley. Laid in a poem by Price "Consolation" 1/26 lettered copies this copy A the cover of which is a detail of… Read more about this item

(Asheville, Nc): (The Asheville Citizen-Times Co), (1948). First Edition. Original wraps. Fine. 17p octavo, A fine copy in white printed wraps. Scarce

Philadelphia: H. Cowperthwait & Company, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto illustrated with 18 hand colored maps. Some contemporary scribbling on the endpapers, not so professionally rebacked in black leather reinforcing the inner hinges with white tape. Rubbed and lightly worn along the edges. A very good copy inoriginal printed boards.