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Peter Smith, Gloucester, MA, 1962. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Remainder mark. Previous owner's name blacked over. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Americana, South; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10840. .

Peter Smith, 1962. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. In gray cloth. No jacket. .

tuscaloosa Alabama: University of Alabama, 1946. 1st Edition First Edition. Hardback. Ex-Library.

Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very good clean tight copy. Previous owners name inside. Small faint red streak on cover. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

1987 gray & blue hardcover & DJ in very good condition; some wear to covers, no marks inside. US media mail for shipping.

NY, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1926. xiv, 432 pp., 1/2 green leather w/ green cloth boards & gilt lettering & decoration, top edges gilt; / The Modern Readers' Series, Half Leather Edition. / Dust jacket in clear archival grade cover; Book shows significant wear to ends of spine w/ leather chipped away, esp. at head; remainder of spine, however, is bright w/ the gilt lettering still crisp & unrubbed; some light bumping to corners of boards w/ cloth on bottom corner of front board just worn through; a little rubbing at extremeties of boards, esp. bottom front, w/ a dent to top edge of rear board; some small bumps. scrapes & nicks to top edge of page block, in one case causing a small crease & short tears to 1 leave, & causing small bends to several others; browning & some foxing tp remaining edges of page block; some areas of browning to endpapers, towards edges coinciding w/ leather portion of boards, and more lightly, corresponding w/ glassine jacket; pages lightly… Read More

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NY: New York Southern Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Original cloth-backed boards. Limited edition. Trace soil to boards. Tight and square. In worn/split slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

1946. GAINES, Frances Pendleton. SOUTHERN ORATORY: A STUDY IN IDEALISM. [Tuscaloosa, Alabama]: University of Alabama Press, [1946]. Small 8vo., cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. A study of Southern orators from Patrick Henry through the ante-bellum period, including appraisals of Negro and Indian oratory. Signed by Gaines on the title page. Very Good; few small chips & short tears (few small repairs with clear tape) d/j. $125.00.

1946. GAINES, Frances Pendleton. SOUTHERN ORATORY: A STUDY IN IDEALISM. [Tuscaloosa, Alabama]: University of Alabama Press, [1946]. Small 8vo., cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. A study of Southern orators from Patrick Henry through the ante-bellum period, including appraisals of Negro and Indian oratory. Signed presentation from Gaines on the title page: "This copy for Mr. T. M. Smith, my dear friend Scottie, with deep admiration and regard- Frances Pendleton Gaines." Very Good (little bumping head of spine); few small nicks & short tears d/j. $125.00.

University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1946. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Signed first edition of Southern Oratory by Francis Pendleton Gaines.. Octavo, [6], 72pp. Burnt orange cloth, title in gilt on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, dust remnants to top edge, a near fine example. In publisher's dust jacket, price-clipped, archival tape to verso, a few small chips at corners, soiling to cover, a very good example. Signed by the author on title page, "This copy for / Mr. and Mrs. Percy H. Johnston / with admiration and warm regard / Francis Pendleton Gaines." Dr. Francis Pendleton Gaines (1892-1963) was a historian, president of Wake Forest University, and later the president of Washington and Lee University (1930 to 1959). The recipient of this book, Percy Hampton Johnston (1881-1957), was president of Chemical Bank from 1920-1946. Johnston's portrait hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.