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[Durham, N.C.: Christian Printing Co.], 1941. 24 pages. Original printed wraps. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Good plus. Wear and short tears to the spine ends, creasing and a few tiny tears to the yapp edges of wraps; light toning and foxing to wraps. Bump to top edge of the text leaves creating faint crease to the upper margins throughout. FIRST EDITION. Scanlon's brief history of the College (pp. 3-8) is followed by lists of the faculty and graduates, a list of known living students and their places of residence, and several addresses by the school's founder and his wife. Shenandoah Normal College was a small, co-educational institution founded in 1883. The prospectus for the college proclaimed it a "School for the People . . . Thorough, Practical, Progressive" (Hoenshel, “Shenandoah Normal College,” circa 1883). Its primary mission was to train teachers, but it also had a few graduates each year in a scientific track. The college was originally established in Middletown, Virginia,… Read More

Woodstock, Va.: W.N. Grabill, Power Press, 1902. 403 pages. Original black cloth with gilt spine title. 23 x 16 cm. Spine is faded; very slight wear to spine ends and corners; a few minor traces of marginal foxing; several corners are creased. Good plus. Bookplate of George L. Hart, Sr. on the front pastedown and his embossed address stamp on the front flyleaf and the title page. George Luzerne Hart (1874-1968), a longtime resident of Roanoke, is remembered for his efforts to decode the ciphers contained in “The Beale Papers“ (1885) and to find the treasure supposedly buried by Thomas J. Beale in Bedford County in the early 19th century. THIRD EDITION. The rare first edition was issued in 1833 and contained a chapter on slavery and an account of Mannheim's captivity that were omitted in subsequent versions. The volume offered is a reprint of the second edition of 1850, which was "revised and extended by the author." A valuable account of pioneer days in the Valley. "The… Read More

Richmond, [Va.]: Garrett & Massie, [1931]. vii, [2], 74 pages. Original blue-speckled cloth. 21 x 14 cm. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Offsetting to front endpapers from laid-in news clippings; tiny, light spot to title; else a nice copy. Jacket is worn at the ends of the spine panel and corners with minor loss and has neat internal reinforcements at the spine ends. FIRST EDITION. The first of the author's two short story collections. "The Honest Wine Merchant" was recognized by the O'Henry Memorial Award in 1930 and "The Lost Governess" was included in O'Brien's "Anthology of the Best Short Stories of 1930." James Branch Cabell provides a blurb on the dust jacket. Helena Lefroy Capterton (1878-1962), a native of Richmond, wrote on local history, contributed book reviews and articles to the Ricmond Times-Dispatch and other newspapers, and edited "The Social Record of Virginia" (1937). However, she is remembered mostly for… Read More

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., [printed by Alfred Webb, Dublin], 1861. xiv, 453 pages, plus frontispiece portrait, being a mounted original albumen photograph of John Brown. Original embossed brown cloth. 17 x 12 cm. Professionally rebacked in brown cloth with the lower half of original spine laid down; original endpapers retained. Tiny marginal chip to one leaf of the table of contents and tiny tears to another, in neither case approaching the text, else very good. Minor marginal foxing to the frontispiece, not affecting the photograph; faint foxing to the title page and a few scattered spots elsewhere, but a clean copy overall. House in custom-made cloth slipcase with gilt-lettered green morocco spine label. Early bookseller's ticket (John Mowat, Dublin) on rear pastedown. Signature of Edward K. Dunham on front free endpaper, dated 1883. This was perhaps Edward Kellogg Dunham (1860-1922), a Harvard-trained pathologist from New York. FIRST EDITION. One of the earliest biographies of the legendary… Read More

Lexington, Virginia: Journalism Laboratory Press, Washington and Lee University, 1937. 18 pages. Original beige cloth spine and brown paper covered boards with gilt cover lettering. [17.1 cm.] Near very good in original glassine dust jacket. Slight gouge to the head of front board at the joint, else a nice, clean copy. Spine just a trifle cocked; mild tanning to endpapers due to contact with dust jacket flaps. Fragile dust jacket is browned as expected, chipped at the head of the spine, and has a few small tears. FIRST EDITION. One of 250 copies. Designed and printed by Charles Harold Lauck, Sr. (1896-1975). A keepsake prepared for distribution to members of the Sixteenth Annual Conference on Printing Education, Chicago, June 28 - July 1, 1937. The preface, being "A Tribute" to Goudy, was written by J. Henry Holloway (pp. 7-8). Scarce.�

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1929. Two volumes. xiv, 328 and x, 353 pages, plus frontispiece in each volume, folding map, and numerous plates, mostly portraits. Original cloth (dark blue on spines, tan with red stripe on covers), stamped in gilt on spines. Top edges stained red; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. [23.7 cm.] Bright and near fine in very good publisher's cardboard slipcase. Also issued with glassine dustjackets, not present. Small bookseller's ticket at base of front pastedown in each volume, with minimal impact on illustration; short marginal tears to lower corners of two leaves, in no way affecting text; still a nice, clean set. Slipcase shows a small amount of wear and a mark to the paper label, but is sound. FIRST EDITION. A history of Virginia told in a series of biographical sketches of prominent figures.

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1847. 12mo (signed in sixes) [16.5 cm]. xii, [17]-219 pages, plus [1] page errata. Complete with two folding maps: "Map of the Routes & Distances to the Virginia Springs" (approx. 28 x 39 cm) and "White Sulphur Springs, Virginia. J. Calwell Proprietor. 1847" (approx. 19 x 24 cm). Contemporary (perhaps original) half calf over marbled boards with gilt-lettered black leather spine label, raised bands, and gilt rules on spine. Good plus. Front hinge professionally repaired with Japanese tissue. Light wear and a few small scuffs to leather. Leaves just a trifle toned, but generally clean. Small adhesive remnant to margin of one leaf, in no way affecting text. First folding map has a professional tissue repair along the length of one vertical fold with loss of several letters of text (the "ewi" in Lewisburg and the "h" in Salt Sulphur.) It is also a little tanned, and shows several short, clean marginal tears… Read More