Search Results: History - NC from Charlie's Books

"Ballots & Fence Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear" by William McKee Evans with a Foreword by Charles Joyner. A Brown Thrasher Book published by The University of Georgia Press. Soft-Cover book (9" x 6") 1995 First Edition. An ex-library copy with the usual markings. With Maps. Appendixes and Bibliography. 314pp. A tightly bound book in Good condition with the library markings.

Volume 1 of "The Coastal Chronicles: Popular History Stories of the Coastal Carolinas as seen in Coastal Chronicles, the Magazine of Coastal Carolina History & Tourism." Editor Jack E. Fryar, Jr. Inscribed by the author/editor on the title page, thus - "For- ___ Someone who shares my love of local history - (Signed Jack E. Fryar)." First Edition 2002 published by Dram Tree Books, Wilmington, North Carolina. Illustrated. 201pp. Soft-cover book with some moisture stain mostly confined to a small section of the bottom-edge and for this reason rate the book as in Good condition.

"The Country Doctor and His Nurse" by Edna Heslep Bjerke. Soft-cover book (8.25" x 5.3") Signed by the author. Edited by Lisa Nelson. 1997 edition with pictures. 64pp. Very Good condition.

Fine copy of this soft-cover book published by The Southern Historical Press in 2008. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author on 1-29-09 - "To ___ with best wishes." "There is a lot of local history and some philosophy here, a few topical letters to the Editor and reflections on life in the Tryon, North Carolina, area during the 30s and 40s."

Soft-cover 1985 Second printing. Foreword by Memory F. Mitchell. Chronology of Virginia Voyages. Illustrations. Fold-Out Map at the back. 199pp. Some rubbing at the cover extremities, but a Good clean and unmarked used book.

Mars Hill College 1955 First Edition. 291pp. "Mars Hill College-First Hundred Years". Moderate foxing; dust jacket has sticker scrape and edge tears; thus, Good+ condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good.

Fine soft-cover copy of "Guilford County: A Brief History" by Alexander R. Stoesen. Published by The North Carolina Division of Archives and History in 1993. Illustrations. Index. 89pp.

Soft-cover 2005 edition by Galen Reuther and Lu Ann Welter; published by Arcadia Publishing (Images of America series). Illustrated. Fine copy.

Raleigh, N.C.: Edward & Broughton Printing Company Volume I: 1789-1868 published 1907. 880pp. Edges tanned and minimal rubbing at corners and name of former owner with date of Sept. 1907, else, Very Good clean, unmarked and tightly bound hardcover with maroon boards and gilt lettering. Volume II: 1868-1912 published in 1912. 875pp. Illustrated. Like Maroon boards with gilt lettering. Spine is moderately rubbed with a discolored area near the top and edges are tanned, else, this is a Good solid clean and unmarked book - making a matching set. Uncommon set in this condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+.

Revised Edition - July, 1976. Soft-cover printed by the Kernersville Bicentennial Committee. Illustrated with pictures every page. 108+ pages. Large Paperback (11" x 8.50"). Margins of front cover and spine sunned with stains upper part of rear cover and lower corner.

INSCRIBED - "Dec 15, 1988 To ________ - Best of everything. Miss You." SIGNED Robert M. Fales, M.D. Edited by Dorothy Cox Watkins. Frontispiece of the author. Privately Printed 1988 by Wilmington Printing Company. 152pp. In the Preface the author states that the source of the short stories came from conversations with his parents and from old-timers. Fine copy of this hardcover book. Without dust jacket as issued.

"North Carolina: A History" - paperback (8.25" x 5.5") with a New Preface and Concluding Chapter by the author - William S. Powell. Third Printing 1988 published by The University of North Carolina Press. Map. Suggestion for further reading. Index. 231pp. Good condition with small corner crease on the front cover and some highlighting in the text.

"Raleigh: A Guide to North Carolina's Capital" - soft-cover book published in 1975 by The Raleigh Fine Arts Society, Inc. First Edition. Foreword by Alexa Carroll Williams, Editor, Ann Vallentyne Walker, Chairman, and Ann Brower Turner, President - all of the Raleigh Fine Arts Society. Illustrated. Sources. Names (2) on the reverse side of the front cover and two green short lines on the bottom-edge, else, a Very Good+ copy

Soft-cover book 2000 first printing of "Ribbon of Sand: The Amazing Convergence of the Ocean & the Outer Banks" - published by The University of North Carolina Press. Maps and Diagrams. 238pp. Near Fine book with a slight curl at the front cover fore-edge.

University of North Carolina Press 1986 Wraps. 8" x 5". 266pp. 4th printing. VG.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

University of North Carolina Press 1983 5th printing. 8" x 5". 266pp. Wrap. VG.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

"Tales from Old Iredell County: Historical Mysteries, Legends, Murders and Stories of the Unusual and Unique" by O.C, Stonestreet. Signed by the author on the title page. Soft-Cover book (9" x 6") published in 2012 by CreateSpace of North Charleston, South Carolina. Illustrated with pictuers. 263pp. Very Good+ condition with slight corner crease on the rear cover.

Soft-cover 1970 edition by Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute. Illustrations. 28pp. Sine stapled. Fine copy.

"Topsail Island: Mayberry by the Sea" by Ray McAllister. Third Printing 2007 soft-cover book published by John F. Blair Publisher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Pictures. 228pp. Near Fine condition with a bit of wear to the front lower corner of the front cover.

Soft-cover book "Transylvania Memories" Signed by the author Peggy Hansen. 2011 edition published by Highland Books, Brevard, North Carolina. Photographs by the author. 224pp. Fine copy. "Transylvania Memories is an oral history of Transylvania County, North Carolina, as related by twenty residents who grew up there during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s."