Americana & U S States::North Carolina

New York: Bonanza Books CR MCMLXX (1970), dust jacket (price clipped) and book very good condition. 54 pages with index and glossary. Previous owner's name stamp front pastedowns, black and white photos with a roster of all existing structures in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky; and of bridges that are no longer there in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas. Tells of John Montgomery's single span, 436 foot wooden suspension bridge, the longest ever built in the world. Horace King, the freed slave who built many bridges in Alabama and Georgia, and much more. . Hard Cover. more information

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North Wilkesboro, NC: North Wilkesboro Centennial Committee CR 1990 Delmar Company, Charlotte, NC, 279 pages with index. Maps on pastedowns, black and white photos. Contains biographies, mayors and commissioners of town, newspapers, cemetaries,, and bibliographies. A wonderful century of history. Blue cloth with gold medallion on front cover. All very good condition.. First Edition. Harad Co. more information

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Belmont, NC CR 1965, title date 1965, signed by Stowe, Jr. Ink inscription reads "Mr. Henry Rhyme - Best Wishes For The Yew Year - Robert L. Stowe, Jr. Jan 14, 1966". 288 pages with index and black and white photos. Blue covers. All good+ condition. He saw what the "company store" plan was doing to the people - turning in their cotton crop just to balance their account and were left with nothing. He knew they needed jobs that paid cash so he raised $75,000 and the mill was built and people realized that working and living in mill houses was much better and receiving real money for their work. The Stowes helped to build the industrial Belmont community. . First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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Manteo, NC: Times Printing Dust jacket with mylar, CR 1973, 188 pages, Sand colored covers with a tree in the bottom right corner, all very good condition. Illustrated by John F Wilson, IV. Capt. Bragg loved his island home and has put his memories in this book for everyone to enjoy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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North Carolina: Executive Mansion Fine Arts Committee With a tour of the house and gardens by Betty M. Baker, Marie Sharpe Ham and Nancy O'Dowd. Dust jacket has slight soil, otherwise all very good. CR 1991. Published with financial support of the Broyhill family and Broyhill Foundation, with a card inside stating "that this book will be placed in every school and county library in North Carolina". "To Betti and Will. Merry Christmas! Faye and Paul. " 190 pages with color and black and white photos.. Believe to be a First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Folk Tales fro the Southern Appalachian. Illustrated by Berkeley Williams, Jr. Dust jacket and book are very good condition. CR 1943, 23rd printing. 202 pages with glossary, notes and appendix. Black and white sketches, dust jacket is prce clipped.. Told by R.M.Ward and his kin in the Beech Mountain section of Western North Carolina and by other descendents of Council Harmon 1803-1896; and elsewhere in the southern mountains with three tales from Wise County, Virginia.. Hard Cover. more information

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Asheville, NC: Miller Printing Co. Photos and original material and text Emma Weaver, CR 1967, 123 pages with index, some pencil underlining, tan covers with potter on front cover. Dark on front cover top and spine, looks like it got singed, but does not affect inside, dust jacket is inside the book, in pieces. Purpose is to preserve in word and picture the individual lore of some of the more interesting, important, the best craftsmen, traditional or native.. Believe to be a First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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North Carolina: National Park Service National Park Service history series, 1978, 189 pages and bibliography. profusely illustrated with black and white photos of the mountain people. Covers pioneers, Cherokee indians, mountaineers, sawmills, etc. Green covers, very good+. Signed by author "To Mae Matasavage with my best wishes. Wilma Dykeman Feb. 1980".. Hard Cover. more information

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Education in Wilkes 1778-1978. CR 1978. Wilkes County Retired School Personnel. Written also to commemorate the 200th birthday of "The Great State of Wilkes". Biographical records of living and deceased are provided, along with family history and genealogy, local history; with humor andd attacks of philosophy. Tan decorated front cover, 474 pages, black and white photos of some teacherr, classes, and students. Very good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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Chapel Hill, NC: university of North Carolina And other North Carolina Mystery Stories. Red covers, all good+. 178 pages, drawings by Mary Lindsay McAlister, CR 1949. An outgrowth of weekly rradio programs on WPTF Raleigh in 1946-47, called "Tales of Tar Heelers".. Third Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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Dated 1960, revised edition, 212 pages, black and white photos and sketches. Illustrated endpapers of "First in NC", and "NC History". Red covers with gilt lettering and blind stamp of the Seal of NC. All good+ condition.. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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Columbia, South Carolina: Summerhouse Press. A Tale of Villainy and Murder in Colonial America. CR 1998, 299 pages. Chapter head text cuts. Based on a true story, a tale of political intrigue, villainy, and romance as Blackbeard emerges as a man of consideraable charm and gallantry who becomes the confidant of the Governor of North Carolina and becomes involved with a beautiful young heiress. Dust jacket and book very good + condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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North Carolina: Self published As understood by the author. Wilmington, NC. CR 1973, 256 pages with index of names and places and index of persons. Maps, land plats, copies of documents, etc. Plantations are named as they pass from owner to owner, the Moores of Moores Creek - early families on the creeks and rivers, settlers on the sea coast, Brunswick City, Environs of Wilmington, extensive genealogy information. Dust jacket slight tear at top of spine, blue covers with gilt lettering. Very good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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Southern Illinois University Dust jacket with mylar cover, all very good condition. CR 1936, 2nd in July 1980. Lost American Fiction series, CR Feb 1980, edited by Matthew J. Bauccoli. The mountain natives are indeed the forces and wealth of this book. Based in the Brushy Mountains, the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Moravian Falls/Wilkesboro, North Carolina. This is a novel, but the first story is based on fact. There is humor and a quaintly archaic flavor of the locals and their speech.. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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Illinois: Southern Illinois University A novel of the North Carolina Brushy Mountains and the unique speech and folklore of the people who lived there. She moved from Boston to the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains and realized she had traveled many miles, but also decades - and found a very different people, strong and eager but also aloof. The opening incident is based on fact - the rest of the book is supposedly fiction. Although the people that lived in the Brushy Mountain area were very upset when the book was published. Part of the "Lost American Fiction" series edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. CR 1936, this is second printing, July 1980. This is signed on the title page. An inscription on the front endpapers as follows: "For Doctor Roger Barker from Bob and Kathleen Morehouse - as a small measure of great appreciation for his skills, understanding and human (human) kindkess" signed and dated July 8, 1986. The front flap of the dust jacket has a pencil underlining of the word "incestuous" with "not really" written in the margin. Dust jacket has slight tears, grey covers, all good+ condition.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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Fredericksburg, TX: Shearer Publishers Collection of treasured recipes, chef's tips, and inn highlights. Shiny covers, illustrated and in color. CR 1989, 158 pages, black and white photos throughout. Photo and Art Director Kelly Harris and Jerry Price. All very good condition.. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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Asheville, NC: Citizen-Times Publishing Dust jacket and book good+ condition. CR 1972. 372 pages. Native flower sketches by Dorothy Laxton Parris. He is a true craftsman with a poetic style and also his stories reflect his sincere love of his mountains and his people and a kind of eternal springtime. He has written 3 previous best sellers - "Roaming the Mountainss (1955)", "My Mountains, My People (1957)" - and "Mountain Bred (1967)". . First Printing. Hard Cover. more information

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Salisbury, NC: Rowan Printers Catawba County Historical Society, CR 1954, 523 pages with pastedowns of a map of Catawba County. X-library with stickers, numbers, stamps, etc. Black and white sketches with photos of deceased members of the historical society and the present members also. A complete history with Civil War rosters, Spanish-American War, World War I and II. Blue covers, much wear, inside front hinge almost separated, back hinge inside separated. Content tight and clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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Raleigh, NC: Edwards & Broughton Co. Wingate is a USA Retired Colonel. Two Centuries of Beaufort County, North Carolina history. CR 1962, 244 pages with index and appendices, map of North Carolina Beaufort County on pastedowns, double page of plan of the town with names of people who lived there, also a 1717 map of Algonkian Tribes and Towns and other illustrations. The first two Centuries of Beaufort County, the lives of the people, where they settled and how they lived. It was one of the 7 oldest counties in North Carolina, straddling the Pamlico River from its source at the mount of the TAR, to the Pungo River, about 35 miles. Green covers, X-library with numbers, stamps, etc. Overall good+ condition.. Believe to be a First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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Charlotte, NC: Community Publishers CR 1972, oblong paper covers. A collection of historical information compiled from many sources. The graphic approach based on an early American style lends a note of nostalgia and adds to its distinction. Local landmarks are noted with a map, historic buildings, Civil War in Charlotte, finding of gold, education, medical, transportation, biography of prominent people, sports, business and finance, etc. Unpaginated, approx. 70 pages.. First Edition. Soft Cover. more information

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NC Dept of Cultural Resources Drawings by Bill Ballard, title date 1980, CR 1980, 76 pages with notes and sources. Sepia illustrations, some pen and pencil marks through - doesn't affect condition.. Paper Covers. more information

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Volume XXI, #3, Sept. 1973, 154 pages, black and white illustrations, some of the folklore covers "The Merry Cemetery of Transylvania, Ray Lum, Mule Trader", etc. All good+ condition.. Paper Covers. more information

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Chapel Hill, NC: university of North Carolina Classic Crimes of North Carolina. CR 1954, 190 pages. Back inside hinge and 2 pages show holes, not affecting text. Ten murders which were of tremendous and widespread interest are presented. Included is a Confederate general, a lovely orphan girl, a pathetic little boy, an offensive poential boss. Orange covers, good + condition.. Hard Cover. more information

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Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair Dust jacket and book good+ condition. Map on endpapers, illustrated by Anne Kesler Shields. CR 1966, 165 pages. Many of the inhabitants of these areas are living legends in themselves. Others have died leaving us the poorer for their passing. We try to preserve some of the folklore and legend which they knew so well and told so vividly.. Third Printing. Hard Cover. more information

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Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair Dust jacket has slight tears, CR 1971, 153 pages, illustrated pastedowns, some pencil underlining which could be erased. Illustrated by Virginia ingram. A collection of coastal folklore "White Stallion, Freshponds Will, porpoise Sal, Duel at Hammock House" and others.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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