Appalachia from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1988. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; 175pp; illus. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy. Uncommon genealogy of the Berkley and Berkeley families of West Virginia.

Nappanee, IN: Press of E.V. Publishing House, (1939). First printing of the revised edition. Octavo (22cm). Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xii,236pp; illus. Tight, clean, and textually unmarked copy, Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, crisp and clean but with a small (1/8" diameter) marginal loss at base of rear panel, not touching text. Neat ink ownership signature to… Saber más sobre este artículo

Rochester: Pointer Press, 1972. First Edition. Signed by the author on half-title. Octavo. Printed card wrappers (softcover, as issued); 46pp text plus c.50 leaves of unnumbered photographic plates (halftones). Trivial soil to text block edges, still a tight, Near Fine copy. Scarce municipal history of this small town in Roane County, West Virginia.

Pulaski, VA: B.D. Smith Brothers, (1976). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xiv,318pp. Fine copy, textually unmarked, tight and straight. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped else crisp and clean, Very Good or better. Ink gift inscription to front pastedown.

Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1995. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Cloth hardcover; 564,(7)pp; illus. Neath ownership signature inside front cover; a few faint spots to cloth; text clean, tight and unmarked. A complete, Very Good or better copy.

New York: Hastings House, 1962. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 309pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), clean and bright, Near Fine. Ownership signature and private stamp to front endpapers.

Bluefield, WV: Country Life, [1930]. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19.5cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt, in cream dust jacket; viii,97,[1]pp; Light rubbing to corners and spine ends, mild discoloration to endleaves, else a firm, clean, Near Fine copy. Jacket with mild dustsoil, toning to spine, rubbing to edges, short tear at head neatly mended with paper tape to… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1990. First Edition. First printing. Signed by Gilchrist on title page. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 391pp. Tight, straight copy; small spot of fading at base of spine, else fine. In original dustwrapper, price clipped, lightly edge-rubbed, Very Good or better.

Hagerstown MD: The Mail Publishing Company, 1888. First Edition. 8vo. 23cm x 16cm. Publisher's original black embossed cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board, the machine gilding has dulled over time, particularly to the spine, but the cloth is bright and clean, slight bumping and scuffing to extremities, but a very good, strong, tidy copy. 438pp. Internally… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Green paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 272pp. Fine, apparently unread copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $14.94 on front flap), crisp, unworn and unfaded. A new-appearing copy.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. First Edition. First printing. Ocatvo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 256pp. Remainder stamp to upper edge of text block, else a fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $12.95 on front flap), crisp, unfaded and unworn. A new-appearing copy. Smith's fifth regularly-published book, a collection of short-stories.

New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 329pp. Tight, clean copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.95 on front flap), slightly faded on spine panel. An attractive, Near Fine copy of the author's third novel.

Lebanon, TN: The Lebanon Democrat, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; 242,xix pp. Internally clean and unmarked; boards rather soiled and worn, with spine gilt dulled; Good only. A sound working copy of the uncommon first edition.

Winchester, VA: Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, (1990). First Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover, decoratively titled in gilt; xii,239pp. A previous owner has neatly created a pocket for a private library card inside rear cover, else Fine. Autographed by Wilbur Johnston on title page, also by two other unidentified (and illegible) signers.

Charleston, WV: Kanawha Valley Publishing Co, 1931. Second edition. Octavo. Brown cloth over beveled boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; [xlvi],340pp; illus. Tight, straight copy with a touch of rubbing to extremities; neat ownership signature inside front cover; Near Fine. Second Edition, with a new Preface by Charles H. Enicks. The first edition was published in… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Newman F. McGirr, 1931. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo (21cm). Orange cloth stamped in gilt; [iv],319,[1]pp. Sound but rubbed, with minor soil to cloth, small spots to edges of textblock, internally clean: Very Good.

Nashville: Publishing House of the M.E. Church, 1918. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To my friends Rev & Mrs. L.S. Rudisill / with compliments of the author," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. First printing. 12mo. Red cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on front cover; 91pp; frontispiece portrait and one inserted photographic plate (halftone). Clean, tight and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Gray cloth, titles stamped in maroon on spine and front cover; 460pp. Spine mildly sunned, else a tight, straight, Very Good or better copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown of F. Cudworth Flint, Dartmouth College. Warren's first novel, set in the Kentucky Black Patch… Saber más sobre este artículo

Wheeling, WV: West Virginia Printing Co, 1888. Fifth edition. 16mo. Original printed paper wrappers; iv,[5]-108pp. Deaccessioned library copy, with old perforated stamp (Free Public Library, New Haven) to title page; ink accession number to first page of text; professional cloth-tape reinforcements to hinges (internal). Still a very nicely preserved copy in the original wrappers, with no other institutional or… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1938. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); coarse green cloth boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; light green topstain; dustjacket; [12],13-399,[1]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, subtle offsetting to endpapers along the gutters; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), gently sunned and dust-soiled, modestly edgeworn,… Saber más sobre este artículo