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The Martin & Hoyt Company, 1909. Hardcover. Poor. Vol. I. The series presents the writers in alphabetical order. This vol. covers twenty writers from Thomas Albert Smith Adams to Sherwood Bonner. John James Audubon and Thomas Hart Benton are included. A biographical essay precedes the selections from the works of each writer. The hinges and all signatures are tight. The interior is clean , no marks except for a water stain for about one inch on the bottom corner of the pages. Insect damage and water marks to the cloth on the boards.
Library Of Southern Literature: 17-volume Set by Alderman, Edwin Anderson, and Joel Chandler Harris, editors In Chief - 1907-1923
by Alderman, Edwin Anderson, and Joel Chandler Harris, editors In Chief
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Atlanta, GA: The Martin & Hoyt Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1907-1923. Hardcover. Volumes 1 through 13 cover writings from authors Adams through Young; volume 14 is miscellanea, volume 15 is a biographical dictionary, volume 16 contains indexes, reading courses and historical sidelights, and volume 17 is Supplement 1. Gray cloth boards, brown and gilt title block, top edges gilt, decorated endpapers, tissued illustrations, each volume being about 400 pages. Volume one contains a page stating: "This set of the library of southern literature which garners and preserves the literature and traditions of the South is dedicated to the patron whose autograph is inscribed in this initial volume of the work" and signed Patron Edwin A. Aldermann, editor-in-chief . Varying degrees of rubbing and light wear to each volume, but basically a uniform, attractive set with the owner's name, date purchased (1926) and price paid for each volume on flyleaf. ; Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall; 19982 .
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The Martin & Hoyt Company, 1909. Hardcover. Fair. Vol. XIII. The series presents the authors in alphabetical order. This vol. covers twenty three writers from George Washington to Stark Young. Thomas E. Watson , Mason Locke Weems , Woodrow Wilson , and William Wirt are among those covered. A biographical essay precedes the selections from each writer. Alderman contributes the essay on Washington.The hinges and all signatures are tight.The interior is clean , no marks. Insect and water stain damage to the clothon the boards.
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The Martin & Hoyt Company, 1913. Hardcover. Poor. Vol. XVI. Compiled by Lucian Lamar Knight. This vol. presents the Index , Historical Sidelights , 50 Reading Courses , and Bibliography for the series. Hinges and all signatures are tight. The interior is clean , no marks. Insect and water stain marks to cloth on boards.
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The Martin & Hoyt Company, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. VII. The series presents the authors in alphabetical order This vol. covers twenty one writers from William Preston Johnston to Daniel Bedinger Lucas. It includes Helen Keller , Lucious Q. C. Lamar , Sidney Lanier , Robert E. Lee , and Henry Laurens. The hinges and all signatures are tight. The interior is clean , no marks. Light wear to cloth on boards.
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The Martin & Hoyt Company, 1909. Hardcover. Good. Vol. II. The series presents the authors in alphabetical order This vol. covers ninteen writers from Virginia Frazer Boyle to Mary Bayard Clarke. John C. Calhoun , William A. Carruthers , William Byrd , James Branch Cabell , John Breckinridge are included. A biographical essay precedes the selections from the works of each author. The hinges and all signatures are tight. The interior is clean , no marks. Insect damage to the cloth on the boards.
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The Martin & Hoyt Company, 1909. Hardcover. Good. Vol. IV. The series presents the authors in alpabetical order. This vol. covers nineteen writers from Thomas Dixon , Jr. to Ellen Glasgow. It also includes special treatment of the "French Literature Of Louisiana". A biographical essay precedes the selections from the works of each author. The hinges and all signatures are tight. The interior is clean , no marks. Insect damage to cloth on boards.
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The Martin & Hoyt Company, 1909. Hardcover. Good. Vol. VI. The series presents the authors in alphabetical order. This vol. covers twenty authors from Lafcadio Hearn to Richard Malcolm Johnston. A biographical essay precedes the selections from each author. It includes Patrick Henry , Sam Houston , Andrew Jackson , Thomas Jefferson , and Andrew Johnson. The hinges and all signatures are tight. The interior is clean , no marks. Insect damage to cloth on boards.
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The Martin & Hoyt Company, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. VIII. The series presents the writers in alphabetical order. This vol. covers thirteen writers from James Madison to Mary Noailles Murfree. It includes James Monroe and John Marshall. A biographical essay precedes the selections from the works of each writer. The hinges and all signatures are tight. The interior is clean , no marks. Insect damage to the cloth on the boards.
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The Martin & Hoyt Company, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. XIV. Compiled by C. Alphonso Smith. This vol. covers fugitive and anonymous poems , other poetry , anecdotes , letters , epitaphs and inscriptions , and notable quotations. The hinges and all signatures are tight. The interior is clean , no marks. Light wear to cloth.
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Gypsies
by Greenfeld, Howard
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New York: Crown Publishers. An account of the Gypsy way of life, including its origins, history, traditions, customs, occupations, and the changes that modern living has occasioned. EX LIBRARY/USUAL MARKINGS. Profusely & WONDERFULLY illustrated w/photos, Introduction, Bibliography, Index, 111 clean, crisp & solid pp. Excellent Personal cpy/Reference! . Good. Hardcover. 1977.
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Kane & Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
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New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.
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Red Pottage
by Cholmondeley, Mary
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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Cold Mountain
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NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
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228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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We Loved Them Once
by Rivers, Ronda
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NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
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v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.
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