Search Results: Vintage Books from Tannery Books

Chapel Hill: James A. Mils, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 1951 Yackety Yack - University of North Carolina yearbook, Chapel Hill, James A. Mils, 1951. Includes Roy Parker Jr., longtime journalist and newspaper editor. Dark red cover with embossed design, 4to (30 cm), 456 pp. Good: corners and spine rubbed, po name on ffep.

Charlotte: Lassiter Corporation, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 1952 Yackety Yack - University of North Carolina yearbook, Charlotte, Lassiter Corporation, 1952. Black cloth and leatherette hardcover with embossed year and title, 4to (30 cm), 382 pp. Good: corners rubbed and spine creased, title page lightly foxed, no markings.

Charlotte: Lassiter Corporation, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 1954 Yackety Yack - University of North Carolina yearbook, vol. 64, Charlotte, Lassiter Corporation, 1954. Includes new football coach George Barclay. Brown textured covers with embossed lettering and blind-stamped gazebo on front, 4to (30 cm), 448 pp. Good: corners rubbed, small spots on cover, endpapers foxed, p. 240 top edge bumped, no markings.

Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1967. Later printing. Paperback. Good +. Victor Morse, 36 Miles of Trouble - The Story of the West River R. R. (Railroad), Brattleboro, VT, The Stephen Greene Press, 1967, 5th printing of 1959 edition. Yellow paper covers with steam engine train illustration on front, 8vo (22 cm), [iv] 40 pp, black-and-white photographs throughout including wrecks and "lucky collapse" of trestle in 1886. Good+: covers lightly scuffed and tanned with bottom corner crease, dent in page edges, no markings.

New York: British Information Services, 1945. First printing. Paperback. Good. African Challenge: The Story of the British in Tropical Africa, New York, British Information Services, 1945, First printing. Green paper covers with bw illustrations, 64 pp, bw illustrations and maps. Exploration, slavery, British involvement and colonization, and future improvements. Good: corners bumped, lightly tanned, no markings. printed in USA

New York: British Information Services. Paperback. Fair. African Victory with the British Forces from el Alamein to Cape Bon, New York, British Information Services [1943-1944]. Stapled red paper covers with bw photos, 64 pp counting covers, bw photos and history of expulsion of Axis forces from northern Africa, 1942-1943 in World War II. Fair: staples rusting, worn and dog-eared, large rip in rear cover with partial loss, no po markings. printed in Great Britain

Chicago: Gravure Illustration Company, 1924. First printing. Original Wraps. Good +. Art Work of Piedmont Section of North Carolina: Published in Nine Parts, Chicago, Gravure Illustration Company, 1924, first printing. Nine books (parts) in stiff paper wraps, each with title page and 7 to 10 unnumbered plates, many with multiple photos; folio (35 cm), dark brown portfolio with marbled endpaper-pastedowns and ribbon ties. Contains photogravures of buildings and scenes in Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point. Good+/Good: Part 1 front cover coming loose (other volumes tight but might easily pull if opened fully) and 2 tissue papers torn, Part 3 small tears on bottom edge and spine, Part 4 white stain on rear cover, Part 9 small stain on front; top corners bumped/creased, some tissue papers creased, no markings. Portfolio worn with boards showing, light drink circles on front and dampstained bottom edges. p1 - 10 plates; pt2 - 9; pt3 - 9; pt4 - 8; pt5 - 8; pt6 - 7; pt7 - 7; pt8 - 8; pt9 - 8

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1956. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Albert Manucy, Artillery Through the Ages: A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America; National Park Service Interpretive Series, History No. 3; Washington DC, United States Government Printing Office, 1956 reprint of 1949 book. Stapled gray paper covers, blue text and blue cannon on the front, iv, 92 pp with glossary, parts of a cannon and select bibliography, bw drawings. Good: spine and top edge faded, corners bumped and bottom corner creased, clean, no markings.

Denver: Sage Books, 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Ex-Library/very good. Major-General Grenville M. Dodge, The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Denver, Sage Books, 1965 reprint of 1911 edition. Brown cloth hc, 8vo, [xviii] 9-182, bw illustrations; chamois-colored DJ with blue portrait and lettering. Ex-library (Very Good)/Very Good: ex-library with stamps and stickers, pages crisp, no internal markings; DJ taped to book, spine sticker, light scuffing, unclipped.

McGraw-Hill, 1950. Book of the Month Club. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. James Boswell, ed. by Frederick A. Pottle; Boswell's London Journal: 1762-1763, or The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell; McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; copyright 1950 by Yale University, BCE. Blue boards with dark blue crest on front, dark blue cloth spine with gold lettering, large 8vo (6 3/8 by 9 1/2 inches), 400 pp with index and appendices, uneven cut, two-color 1761 map of London on endpapers; illustrated paper DJ. VG/G+: edges and spine bumped, spine starting to loosen but no cracks, price sticker on ffep, otherwise no marking; DJ lightly bumped and creased, tiny tears at top edge, light foxing on back.

American Book Company, 1930. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. Edward H. Eldridge, Business Speller and Vocabulary, American Book Company, 1930 and 1913 copyright dates. Brown cloth with black lettering and design, sextodecimo (6 3/4 inches), plain endpapers, xiv, 206 pp including index/vocabulary. Interesting vocabulary includes machine parts and other occupations including medical and electricity, cities and other common terms (siesta, bologna), with a review at the end. Fair/no DJ: spine torn with one side loose, frayed at head and tail, corners bumped, covers spotted and worn, po name in ink on ffep, minor markings including ink on contents page, some corner creasing, light foxing.

Washington DC, 1950. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Mary Elinor Lazenby, Catawba Frontier 1775-1781 Memories of Pensioners, Washington, D.C., 1950, First printing. Brown paper covers rebound in green cloth hc, 8vo (21 cm), x, 110 pp with index. Short biographies, mostly of service in the American Revolution. Very Good: light corner wear, po bookplate on front pastedown, light scuff marks on pastedown and first pages, crisp, no other markings.

North Carolina Friends Historical Society. Pamphlet. Good. Henry J. Cadbury, The Church in the Wilderness: North Carolina Quakerism As Seen By Visitors, The Historical Lecture delivered at the Two Hundred and Fifty-first Session of North Carolina Yearly Meeting, Eighth Month, the Fourth, 1948, "Second Publication of the North Carolina Friends Historical Society" [founded in 1940], undated [ca 1948]. Gray stapled paper covers, 8vo, 14 pp. History with extracts from travelers, including an English visitor who described a large meeting and what the N.C. Friends wore in 1845. Good: covers worn with a scuff on the front, pages crisp, no markings.

Washington, D.C.: U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, 1963. Paperback. Good. James I. Robertson, Jr., The Civil War, Washington, D.C., U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, 1963. Signed by author on title page. Stapled paper covers with bw photograph, 8vo, 64 pp, bw illustrations. Good: corners bumped, front edge lightly soiled, no markings.

New York: The Heritage Press, ca 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. Cyrano de Bergerac, a heroic comedy in 5 acts by Edmond Rostand, in a new English version by Louis Untermeyer, with illustrations drawn by Pierre Brissaud, New York, The Heritage Press, copyright 1954. Super 8vo (7.25 by 10.5 inches), cloth with red, brown and tan pattern, 230 pp, color illustrations; plain paper slipcase. Very Good/Fair Slipcase: light wear on corners and spine, spine slightly darkened, pages crisp, no markings; slipcase yellowing, cracked on edges, dark spots on back.

Denmark: Nordisk Forlag, 1928-1930. Hardcover. Good. Alexandre Dumas, De Tre Musketerer (The Three Musketeers), Part I, Denmark, Gyldendalske Bookstore, Nordisk Forlag (Nordic Publishing), 1928-1930, Major Works of World Literature, Volume 38. Half-leather over marbled boards with embossed spine blocks, 8vo (20 cm), marbled endpapers, DANISH text, 388 pp with TOC (in back) and list of publications, black and red illustrated title and opposing pages, 1 bw illustrated plate. Good: Covers scuffed and edges worn, spine peeling at top, front pastedown sticker damage, 2 barcodes on rear pastedown, light tanning, unmarked. Printed in Denmark

New York: Bramhall House, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Harold A. Larrabee, Decision at the Chesapeake, New York, Bramhall House, copyright 1964 (full number line but probably a reprint). Blue cloth hc, xviii, 318 pp with notes and index; illustrated dustjacket with ships in battle on front. Very Good/Good: corners wearing, spine starting, po bookplate on front pastedown, scuff marks on half-title, pages crisp, no internal markings; DJ bumped and corner-creased, small tear on front flap, foxing on edges.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. Hardcover. Ex-Library/good. LT. Col. Joseph B. Mitchell, Discipline and Bayonets: The Armies and Leaders in the War of the American Revolution, New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. Black cloth hc, 8vo, 224 pp, line-drawing maps; illustrated paper dustjacket. Ex-library (Good)/Good: ex-library with spine sticker and minor markings, DJ cover taped to book, scuffed, pages crisp.

New York: B. Westermann Co., Inc.. Hardcover. Good. Ludwig Borchardt, Herbert Ricke, Egypt: Architecture, Landscape, Life of the People, New York, B. Westermann Co., Inc., ca. 1929 [probable second edition]. Red cloth hc with gold-stamped lettering and symbol on front, olive endpapers, xxviii with photo credits and place index [ii map], 272 pp bw photos. Early 20th-century photos of Egypt, from ancient monuments and details to contemporary village life (e.g. women churning butter). Index in English, captions in four languages. Good/no DJ: front cover starting to bow, edges bumped and lightly faded, cracking at rear fep, half-inch tear p.22 with no loss, minor spotting/smudging, no po markings. printed in Germany

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1943. Paperback. Good. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr., Egypt and the Suez Canal, Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies, Number Eleven, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, March 31, 1943. Stapled mottled gray paper covers, 8vo (23 cm), iv, 66 pp with bibliography, 25 plates including frontispiece with bw photos. People and life in "modern" Egypt, history, historical sites and excavations. Good: covers tanned and lightly bumped, apparent heat stain through entire book with no loss, no markings.