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New York: Philosophical Library, [1966]. 120 pages. plus frontispiece facsimile. Illustrated with full-page drawings by Claude Howell (printed with the text). Original cloth. [21.5 cm.] About fine in very good plus dust jacket. Some very faint foxing to endpapers due to contact with original dust jacket. Jacket is bright, but shows light rubbing, traces of faint foxing, and a tiny closed tear to rear panel. FIRST EDITION.

[Raleigh, N.C.]: North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, [1961]. 32 pages. Original printed wraps. [21.6 cm.] Near fine. FIRST EDITION. A play about the end of the Civil War in North Carolina. Betty Smith is best known as the author of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1975]. 184 pages. Original cloth. [23.4 cm.] A fine, fresh copy in near fine dust jacket. Jacket shows light rubbing, but no chips or tears. FIRST EDITION.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1930. ix, [3], 63 pages. Original gray paper covered boards backed in red cloth with gilt spine lettering. [20.8 cm.] Neat marginal notes on four pages noting the inclusion of verses in an anthology, else good plus. Faint soiling to boards, modest signs of wear. Minuscule tear to fore-edge of a few leaves; faint offsetting from laid-in news clipping to two pages. FIRST EDITION of the author's first and only book of poetry. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. It reads: "To my friend, Eva Mae Grice, with Easter Greetings and warmest good wishes. From Anne Blackwell Payne. April 1949." Grice (1921-1988) was a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She later married the author, Richard M. McKenna, who wrote "The Sand Pebbles." "Released" was the first book of poetry published by the University of North Carolina Press. "Though this North Carolina writer had often been… Read More

Durham, N.C.: Moore Publishing Co., [1968]. [6], 210 pages. Publisher's tan cloth. [20.9 cm.] Very good in good plus dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked; top edge dust soiled; offsetting to front endpapers from laid-in clippings. Moderate foxing to endpapers and a little foxing to the title page, but none elsewhere. The jacket is a bit foxed and has a crease to the spine panel, but no chips or tears and very little wear. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on the front free endpaper. It is addressed to Eva Mae (née Grice) McKenna (1921-1988), a librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the wife of the novelist, Richard McKenna, who wrote "The Sand Pebbles." "Stranger in Our Darkness" was Joyce Allen Crawford's first novel. It was written under the guidance of Manly Wade Wellman, who taught a novel-writing workshop that Crawford attended. The book is dedicated to Wellman and bears a review by him on the rear… Read More

Paris: Jouve & Cie, 1950. 154, [1] pp. Original printed green wraps. [25.3 cm.] A very good, unopened copy. Spine is a little sun-faded and creased; lower corners are bumped. Text is clean and bright. FIRST EDITION. A bit scarce in the trade. Includes a chronology, bibliography, and index.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. 336 pages. Illustrated with a few plates, mostly portraits. Original cloth. [21.5 cm.] Near fine in very good dust jacket. Slight bump to head of spine; book is otherwise fine. Jacket has bump at head of spine panel and a short tear where the spine panel meets the front panel, the latter repaired with archival tape on the verso. FIRST EDITION. Mabel Wolfe Wheaton was Thomas Wolfe's sister. This account was assembled by Legette Blythe from Mabel's written notes and tape recordings.

Heidelberg: Carl Winter, Universitätsverlag, 1954. Issued as Anglistische Forschungen, Heft 89. 139 pages. Original printed wraps. [23.4 cm.] Very good plus. Several short creases at base of spine and several tiny nicks to fore-edge; apparently minor errors by the binder. A few minor traces of soil to wraps; trifling bump to lower corner of front wrap and first few leaves. FIRST EDITION. There does not appear to have been an English translation.