Tulsa, OK: Vickers Printing, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 5 1/2 X 8 Inches. 254 PP. Stated "First Edition July, 1947" on the title-page. Very scarce original hardcover issue of the title later issued by Gollancz and Anchor Press. The book was issued under the title "Sister of the..... More
Hartford, CT: Press of Williams, Wiley & Turner, 1859. First Edition. Cloth. 6 X 9 1/4 Inches. 46 PP. Important biography of the first President of the newly formed University of Nashville. Montgomery Bell Academy, The Medical School at Vanderbilt and Peabody College for Teachers at Vanderbilt can all trace..... More
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/8 X 9 1/4 Inches. 437 PP. PO inscription in ink to FFEP. Original price of $6.00 intact on front flap. More
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 Inches. 654 PP. First printing with full number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Signed by author directly on the title-page. Original price of $32.00 intact on front flap. PO phone number in ink..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Cloth. Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. Original price of $17.95 on front flap. Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Signed by Massie on the first flyleaf. Hint of rubbing to boards. Clean, tight copy in a solid NF jacket. The..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 249 PP. Stated "First Printing" on copyright page. Original price of $3.95 intact on front flap. Signed, "To my pal Oscar Fraley - My Best Always, Jack Dempsey" on first page. Additionally signed, "For the Unquestionable Best, Bill (Slocum)"..... More
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/4 X 9 1/8 Inches. 357 PP. First printing with complete number line to copyright page. Original price of $30.00 on rear cover. Signed and inscribed "With best wishes to Florence, Wolfgang Samuel 3/08/2002" and "Nov 4..... More
New York: TOR Books, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/2 X 9 1/2 Inches. 576 PP. Stated First Edition with full and complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $27.95 intact on front flap. Light scuff to fore-edge, else a fine copy..... More
Evanston: William Carpenter, 1929. Limited Edition. Cloth. 5 7/8 X 8 1/4 Inches. 58 PP. One of only 100 copies printed for private distribution by William Montelle Carpenter (based upon his collection of Kipling material). Printed by the Alderbrink Press for Carpenter. A history of First appearance of several Kipling..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 5 3/8 X 8 Inches. 330 PP. First printing in the original maroon publisher cloth. Correct publisher on spine and title-page. Washington was one of the foremost leaders of the African-American community in the late 19th and early..... More
Nashville, TN: Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, 1901. Early Edition. Cloth. 5 X 7 3/8 Inches. 448 PP. Original red publisher cloth with gilt illustration of McFerrin on front cover. Noted Methodist preacher and chaplain in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Namesake of McFerrin park in..... More