North Carolina from Tannery Books

Greensboro: Centre Friends Meeting, 2008. First printing. Hardcover. New. Kay Davis Coltrane, Centre Friends: The Legacy of the Meeting on the Hill, Greensboro, N.C., Centre Friends Meeting, 2008, First Printing (500 copies). Hardcover with illustration of meeting house on the front, 4to (28 cm), 408 pp. History of colonial American Quakers and settlement at Centre Friends Meeting in… Read more

J. B. Lippincott Company, 1966. First printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good. Elizabeth Gray Vining, Flora - A Biography, Philadelphia and New York, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1966, First printing. Tan cloth over gray paper boards with red title block on spine, 8vo (21 cm), 208 pp, illustrated; orange and white dustjacket with portraits on front and back. Fair: ex-library with… Read more

Raleigh: N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1976. First edition. Paperback. Good. Alice Elaine Mathews, Society in Revolutionary North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C. Department of Cultural Resources and Division of Archives and History, 1976, First Edition with no other printings mentioned. Trade pb with bw photo of cabin on red covers, viii, 92 pp with… Read more

1983. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. George M. Bailey, The History of Thomasville Masonic Lodge #214, AL 5860 to AL 5983 (AD 1860-1983), no publication data [ca. 1983, First Printing per Worldcat]. Dark red hc with gilt lettering on front, 4to (27 cm), 126 pp, many bw photos. History of the lodge including building, Oxford orphanage, many group… Read more

Raleigh: N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, 1979. First Printing. Paperback. Good. Edited by H. McKelden Smith. Architectural Resources: An Inventory of Historic Architecture, High Point, Jamestown, Gibsonville, Guilford County. Raleigh, N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, et al, 1979, First Printing. Gray paper covers with blue and white window illustration and orange lettering, square… Read more

Raleigh: State Department of Archives and History, 1959. First Printing. Paperback. Very good. Stanley A. South, Indians in North Carolina, Raleigh, State Department of Archives and History, 1959, First Printing. Paper covers with pottery illustration on front, 8vo (23 cm), viii, 70 glossy pp, bw photos, ad inside rear cover. Very Good: light wear on corners, po name… Read more

Raleigh: State Department of Archives and History, 1972. Later printing. Paperback. Good. Stanley A. South, Indians in North Carolina, Raleigh, State Department of Archives and History, 1972, Sixth Printing. Stapled paper covers with pottery illustration on front, 8vo (23 cm), viii, 70 pp, bw photos. Good: lightly bumped, spine fading, a few foxing spots, no markings.

Houghton Mifflin & Co,, 1888. First Thus. Hardcover. Ex-library. Charles Dudley Warner, On Horseback - A Tour in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee With Notes of Travel in Mexico and California. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin & Co., First Thus [previous version in The Atlantic Monthly, 1885]. Brown cloth hc with black-stamped cover illustration and gilt spine… Read more

Chapel Hill: The Provincial Press, 1979. Revised Edition. Paperback. Good. Faris Jane Corey, North Carolina Superlatives, Chapel Hill, The Provincial Press, 1979, revision of previous book 'North Carolina Firsts.' A variety of North Carolina sites, people, and organizations that are/were Firsts, Highest/Tallest, Largest, Oldest, etc. Includes several Piedmont landmarks like the world's largest bureau, (second) largest chair and… Read more

Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Good. L. Vanloan Naisawald, In Some Foreign Field: The Story of Four British Graves on the Outer Banks, Winston-Salem, NC, John F. Blair, 1972, first edition. The story of four crewmen buried in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, their ship, the British trawler HMS Bedfordshire, the U-boat U-558, and… Read more

the Board of Managers, 1956. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Thomas L. Moose. Nazareth Orphans' Home, Founded August 13, 1903, Opened December 2, 1906, A Home for Orphaned Children, age 5 to 18, under The Southern Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Published by the Board of Managers (Rowan Printing Company), 1956, First Printing. This fifty-year history… Read more

Greensboro, 1997. Later printing. Paperback. New. J. Floyd Moore, Friends in the Carolinas, Greensboro, Tercentenary Celebration Steering Committee with North Carolina Friends Historical Society and North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends, 1997. Illustrated gray paper covers, stapled 8vo pamphlet (21 cm), 48 pp. New.

Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1961. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Courtland T. Reid, William P. Brandon, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park North Carolina, Washington, D.C., National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 30, 1961 reprint. Staples paper covers with blue and red illustrations, iv, 40 pp, illustrated with maps, portraits, uniforms, monuments, etc. Good-: covers heavily tanned with small… Read more

Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 1974. First Printing. Paperback. Good. James S. Brawley, Rowan County: A Brief History, Raleigh, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources and Division of Archives and History, 1974, First Printing. Orange paper covers, 8vo (23 cm), xvi, 178 pp (no index), bw illustrations including maps, portraits, and building photos. Good: lightly scuffed… Read more

Greensboro: Greensboro Printing Company, 1972. First Printing. Hardcover. Good/fair. A. Earl Weatherly, The First Hundred Years of Historic Guilford - 1771-1871, Greensboro, by the author (Greensboro Printing Company), 1972, First Printing. Green cloth hc with silver-stamped title and flag design on front, 4to (25 cm), 208 pp with index; silver and white dustjacket with blue lettering and matching… Read more

Greensboro: Younts Printing Co., 1995. First Printing. Paperback. Very good. Gladys Scarlette, Summerfield, North Carolina, A Pictorial History, Greensboro, by the author (Younts Printing Co.), 1995, First Printing. Textured paper covers with brown illustration, 4to (28 cm), [xiv] 170 pp with index, many bw photos and copies of documents. Very Good: front cover slightly warped, po name on… Read more

North Carolina Division of Archives and History. Paperback. Near fine. Wilson Angley, ed. Gary Fulton. A Short History of St. Thomas Episcopal Church - Bath, North Carolina, North Carolina Division of Archives and History, no date. Stapled tan paper covers, 8vo (22 cm), 20 pp. Near fine: staples starting to rust, crisp, no markings.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. William S. Powell, The First State University, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, copyright 1972, no other printings mentioned. Gray cloth hc with silver lettering on spine, 4to (28 cm), blue pictorial endpapers, x, 310 pp, many bw illustrations throughout. Very Good/no DJ: covers… Read more

High Point, NC: Hunter Publishing Co., 1957. Hardcover. Very good. Senior Class, High Point Memorial Hospital, The Lighted Lamp 1957, High Point, Hunter Publishing Co. (Winston-Salem), 1957. Blue hc with embossed covers, 4to (27 cm), bw pictorical endpapers, 96 pp, bw photos throughout. Yearbook of three-year nursing school in High Point, N.C. Very Good: corners and spine ends… Read more

Kutztown, Penn.: Kutztown Publishing Co., 1978. First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-library. Ruth E. Bonner, Quaker Ways: Pictures of Meeting Houses in Current Middle-Atlantic, Kutztown, Penn., Kutztown Publishing Co., 1978, First Printing. Light brown cloth hc, horizontal 4to (26 by 21 cm), photographic endpapers, 96 pp with index, errat sheet bound in, many two-tone photos of meeting houses in Pennsylvania,… Read more