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FREEWHEELIN FRANK. Secretary of the Angels. As Told to Michael McClure by Frank Reynolds
by Reynolds, Frank; Michael McClure
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- [1967]
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Durham, North Carolina, USA
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New York: Grove Press, [1967]. 160 pages. Original dark grey cloth. Very good in very good dust jacket. Faint foxing to the endpapers and edges, and a few tiny flecks to the prelims. The jacket shows minor signs of wear but no chips or tears. Book covers and the cover panels of the jacket are very slightly bowed. Still… Read more about this item Item Price
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AN ARTILLERY OFFICER IN THE MEXICAN WAR, 1846-1847. Letters of Robert Anderson, Captain 3rd Artillery, U.S.A. With a Prefatory Word by His Daughter, Eba Anderson Lawton
by Anderson, Robert; Eba Anderson Lawton [ed.]
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- 1911
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Durham, North Carolina, USA
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1911. xvi, [2], 339 pages, plus frontispiece and twenty full-page plates (as called for the list of illustrations). Original publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 22 x 15 cm. The cloth shows some faint soiling and minor rubbing to extremities; slight marginal foxing to text pages facing plates;… Read more about this item Item Price
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JOHN MERRICK. A Biographical Sketch
by Andrews, R[obert] McCants
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- [1920]
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[Durham: Press of the Seeman Printery, 1920.] 229 pages, plus frontispiece and 11 full page plates from photographs. Most of the plates are portraits with the remainder depicting Durham businesses. Original maroon cloth lettered in gilt. 20.5 x 14 cm. The cloth shows light speckling along the edges of the boards and spine; spine is just a little… Read more about this item Item Price
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A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF SIDNEY LANIER ... An Address Delivered before The Georgia Historical Society, at Savannah on the 5th of December, 1887
by West, Charles N[ephew]
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- 1888
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Savannah, Ga.: Printed for the [Georgia Historical] Society, [by] Townsend, Printer and Binder, 1888. 25 pages. Original printed pale green wraps with cover title reading: "Sidney Lanier." [24 cm.] Good plus. Tiny chips to spine ends, short closed tear and minor crease at base of front wrap. Front free endpaper has three very… Read more about this item Item Price
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CORNELIUS HARNETT. AN ESSAY IN NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY
by Connor, R[obert] D[igges] W[imberly]
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- 1909
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Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Print. Co., 1909. 209 pages. Original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and rules on spine. [19.3 cm.] Near fine. Spine ends just a trifle rubbed. Light tanning to endpapers appears to have been caused by contact with dust jacket, but none is present. Neat name (J. Tolbert)… Read more about this item Item Price
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BRET HARTE
by Scharnhorst, Gary
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- [1992]
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New York: Twayne Publishers, [1992]. xv, 151 pages. Original cloth. [22.2 cm.] Fine in fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Review copy with slip laid-in. Item Price
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BRET HARTE'S CALIFORNIA. LETTERS TO THE SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN AND CHRISTIAN REGISTER, 1866-67. Edited and with an Introduction by Gary Scharnhorst
by Harte, Bret; Gary Scharnhorst, ed.
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- [1990]
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Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1990]. vi, 170 pages; illustrated with a few photographs printed with the text. Original cloth. [23.4 cm.] Fine in fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Item Price
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BRET HARTE, PRINCE AND PAUPER
by Nissen, Axel
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- [2000]
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Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, [2000]. xxiii, 326 pages, plus four double-sided plates. Original quarter cloth and boards. [23.5 cm.] Fine in fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Item Price
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MEMOIRS OF COUNT GRAMMONT. Edited, and with notes, by Sir Walter Scott. With a Portrait of the Author and Thirty-Three Etchings by L. Boisson on India Paper from Original Compositions, by C. Delort
by Hamilton, Anthony; Sir Walter Scott, ed.
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- 1889
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London: John C. Nimmo, [printed by Ballantyne, Hanson, and Co., Edinburgh and London], 1889. 4to [28.4 cm]. xxxvii, [1], 396 pages, including half title. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 11 plates. The other etchings are vignettes appearing as chapter headpieces and tailpieces. Contemporary half dark blue morocco by Bumpus of Oxford Street (London), with… Read more about this item Item Price
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STEVENSON AT SILVERADO
by Issler, Anne Roller
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- 1939
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Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1939. 247 pages, plus portrait frontispiece and a number of plates reproducing historic photographs. Original cloth. [23.5 cm.] A very good plus copy in about very good dust jacket. Book is slightly bumped on corners and shows some faint marginal foxing to plates and facing pages. Jacket is sunned… Read more about this item Item Price
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WILLIAM SWAIM, FIGHTING EDITOR: THE STORY OF O'HENRY'S GRANDFATHER
by Arnett, Ethel Stephens
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- 1963
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Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Greensboro, N.C.: Piedmont Press, 1963. 401 pages, plus frontispiece and four leaves of plates. Original black cloth. [23.3 cm.] A near fine copy in very good dust jacket. Faint foxing to title page and a few other pages (due to contact with plates), still a nice copy. Jacket shows some light rubbing and two minuscule… Read more about this item Item Price
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ANATOLE FRANCE: THE MAN AND HIS WORK. AN ESSAY IN CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY
by May, James Lewis
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- 1924
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London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd.; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., [printed by Vail-Ballou Press, Binghamton and N.Y.], 1924. [14], 262 pages. Original red cloth, spine stamped in gold. Top edge stained red. [22.3 cm.] A bright, very nearly fine copy in dust jacket with small chips to head of spine panel… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00