Estate Records In the Deed Books of Nash County, North Carolina 1781-1897 by Watson, Joseph W - 1982

Graphic Services Inc., n.d. [ca. 1991]. Quarto, softbound (stiff, full-color photo. illus. wrappers), 243 pp. Very Good, with light edgewear. Contents: A hospital in Clearwater; Surviving the 1930s and 1940s; Growth and challenge in the 1950s; The hospital grows up: 1960-1977; The modern era: 1977-1991; Facilities 1967-1991; The value of volunteers; A major role for philanthropy; The philanthropists; Time line; Leadership; Afterword.

San Francisco: Desmodus Pub, 1990. Magazine. 92p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, explicit b&w and color photos and art of SM, Bondage and Rough Trade/Leathermen, stories, news, reviews, Drummer classified ads, very good erotic men's magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover stories on Kanouff, Mad Dog on your first tattoo, Robert Chesley excerpt, Chuck Renslow.

(New Bern): (Owen G Dunn), 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 341p octavo, A very good copy in black cloth,folding map in the rear. bookplate

London: A & C Black Ltd, 1915. Inscribed by Joseph H Longford in 1915 on front end paper. No other marks. No creasing to covers or to sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, dusty page edges, tanned end papers and no bumping to corners. 216pp. Six essays associated with war and culture, ideals, habits, character and history - on France, Russia, Belgium, the Serb, Japan and the British Empir plus an Appendix on France in war time. Extremely scarce first edition of 1915.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7.5 x 5.25 inches.

Philadelphia, PA: Turner Brothers & Co.. Very Good+. 1869. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some begining pulling to a couple of signatures. The author, Joseph Warren Watson apparently died very early in life, at age 23, after starting a promising career as a poet, writing and publishing poems in several regional magazines. Here's a portion of his obituary: "hough he loved to communicate brief catches of poetry to contribute to the amusement of gay and festive circles, he rarely entered them himself, but seemed to live as if profoundly conscious of his early death. He died after a lingering illness of that fell destroyer of so many bight ambitious, and beautiful youths - consumption." Walt Whitman, at some point, read and admired Watson's most famous poem, Beautiful Snow,… Read More

London: Saunders and Stanford, 1853. First Edition. 31 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. First Edition. 31 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Watson patented several galvanic batteries. He was an early advocate of more commercial use of "electrical illumination" with the by-product of fine color pigments. Not in Wheeler Gift