Holy Bible. The Pictorial Home Bible. The Old and New Testaments, Strictly conformable to the Standard of the American Bible Society, including the Apocrypha, Concordance and Marginal References, Together with a Complete Cyclopedia, Instructor and Guide... With Numerous Illustrations on Steel, Copper, and in Colors by Vanderslooot, J. Sam'l; and M. Laird Simons - 1881

Greensboro, N.C.: The Guilford Battle Ground Company, 1902. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. 19 pages. Soft cover bound in brown textured wrappers. Light wear to the binding. A sound copy and clean within. The top corner of the front cover and text block is a little bumped. There is a spot of soiling and some dull creasing on the rear cover, but overall a sound, clean copy. Housed in a removable plastic sleeve with a board backing. Scarce.

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1846. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. [4], viii, [17]-258, [30] pages. Includes a 30-page publisher's catalog (erratically paginated) at the rear. Hardcover bound in full leather. The binding shows some old wear and cover stains but is quite sound. Sturdy hinges. Early owner's light pencil inscription on the front flyleaf and a later doctor's inscription on the front pastedown. The text block is sound, and the text is foxed, sometimes quite heavily. Still, a sturdy copy of a scarce work and in the original binding. From a Mocksville (Davie County), North Carolina 19th century doctor's collection.

Lexington VA: Historic Lexington Foundation, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. Oblong Quarto. 190 pages, indexed. Softcover bound in illustrated wrappers. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. Text is clean. The bulk of the book is comprised of different branches of the family trees with charts on every page. The charts look to have been done originally by hand in a very neat hand. A scarce genealogical tree of the families of Stonewall Jackson and of his two wives, Elinor Junkin and Mary Anna Morrison of North Carolina.

Staunton, Virginia: Press of Caldwell-Sites Company, 1908. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 336 pages. Hardcover bound in 3/4 brown leather with brown marbled paper-covered boards. The binding is worn but sound. The leather is starting to get dry but is still holding. There is a little splitting to the leather on the rear outer hinge near the foot of the spine. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Untrimmed fore edge has some brown stains that stay on the edges of the margins. A couple of handwritten dates are written in pencil on the last page of text. Contains several illustrations, mostly portraits.

New York: Home Publishing Company, 1903. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo. 147 pages. Hardcover in grey cloth with front cover designs embossed in dark brown and gilt. The binding is quite rubbed and worn. The front board has damping. Rear board has smudges and scuffs. Some pages are damped have smudging. Text is foxed. No copyright date, but the book was published in 1903. An early owner's inscription on front flyleaf reads, "To Thomas (?) from Katherine Kelby. / Feb. 19, 1905." We have found a listing of this book for sale in the December, 1903 advertisements of "The Theosophical Forum." The advertisement in that journal of this book states, "The dawn of a new day in the intellectual and spiritual development of the child. These stories, which embody the higher laws of being, are so simply told that the youthful mind can easily comprehend them. Between each story is an exquisite 'Moonlight Lullaby.'" (The "Moonlight Lullaby" is a poem… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, Pubslishers, 1859. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. John M'Lenan. 12mo. 269, [4] pages. TITLE PAGE IN FACSIMILE. Hardcover bound in original blue publisher's cloth with spine titles in gilt and cover designs in blind. The binding is worn and bumped and has some fraying and tearing at the spine ends. A couple of nicks on the spine are touched up with blue. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Appears to have two identical facsimile title pages tipped in (consequently lacking the original title; the frontis is NOT in facsimile). The text has some moderate foxing throughout. An early owner's blind stamped name is on the first page of the text. There is a folding newspaper article pasted onto the rear pastedown. Collates complete with all illustrations, including the frontis. A scarce volume of 19th century humor looking at the people and stories of Surry County, North Carolina. Hardin Edward Taliaferro (1811-1875) was a southern… Read More

Halifax, N.S.: Morton & Co., Provincial Book Store, 1893. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 260 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in red cloth with cover lettering and rules in gilt. The binding is rubbed and worn, and the fore edges of both covers have been damped. Inner hinges secure. Endpapers foxed, and the front flyleaf has a couple of prior owners' signatures. The text is toned and has a few stains as well as some browning on two pages where a piece of ephemera had been laid in loosely (now laid in at the front of the book). Frontis portrait of the author; no other illustrations.

Newark, NJ: McDaniel Press, 1974. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 90 pages. Hardcover in red cloth. Title in gilt on spine. Binding has light wear. Prior owner's bookplate on front pastedown. SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. Text is sound and clean. Contains several pages of illustrations.

London: J. & A. Churchill, 1875. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 276 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in dark brown cloth with cover designs embossed in gilt. There is light wear to the binding, which is a little bumped at the corners. The hinges are secure. Previous owner's inscription on the title page. Illustrated with plates, some original drawings, and others taken from standard medical texts of the time. The text is toned but clean and sound. The owner's inscription on the title page reads, "Dr. G. C. Lippincott, U.S.N. / 15 New Cavendish St. / London W. / 20 May, 1878." George Coote Lippincott (1850-1951) was from Salem, New Jersey and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1875. He joined the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy and was both an assistant surgeon at sea and was attached to various Naval Hospitals at Massachusetts, Brooklyn, Pennsylvania, and at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. He… Read More

London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, et al., 1822. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 12mo. [viii], 726 pages, indexed. Hardcover rebound in modern tan 3/4 calf with marbled paper-covered boards. Raised bands on the spine, which has dual dark brown leather labels. Light rubbing and wear to the binding. New endpapers. A sound copy with clean text. Frontis engraving; otherwise NOT an illustrated work. An attractive copy. Sturdy and with pleasant shelf appeal.