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UK: Penguin Books, 2019. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. xxiii, [1], 491 pp. First U.K. edition, perhaps second printing. Signed by Lahiri on the title page. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. Light shelfwear to the binding and jacket with some gently bumped corners, but generally a fresh copy with price intact on the front flap. It appears there is another inscription beneath Lahiri's signature, but we've been unable to determine if it is of a contributor or a previous owner. A nice copy of this collection edited and signed by the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. lxvi, 437, [1] pp., illus. First edition, first printing. In publisher's boards with dust jacket. A very nice, fresh copy.

Winnabow, NC: Charles Towne Preservation Trust, 1965. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/near Very Good dust jacket. 12mo. xxii, 99 pp., illus, facsims. First edition, thus. Signed by Thomas on the title page. As issued, in red cloth with dust jacket. A fresh copy with limited wear to the binding; contents are clean but for a contemporary owner inscription on the front pastedown; binding solid; dust jacket is a bit rubbed and slightly edgeworn, but generally presentable. "The highly unique letters of the wife of Confederate commander to her mother in the North; useful in a number of way" CWB II, 195.

Ashland, VA: Herald Progress, Inc, 1957. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good+ binding. Square octavo. [4], 31, [1] pp., errata. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Signed by Lancaster. As issued, stapled into printed wrappers. Wrappers are a trifle toned; light scuffing; contents clean. This copy signed and inscribed by Lancaster to Eppa Hunton IV, the grandson of Confederate Generals Eppa Hunton and William Payne.

Gloucester, VA: Lands End Books, 1981. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Large octavo. x, 389 pp., illus. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Lanciano on the title page. In publisher's cloth. Light edgewear; minor soiling to the fore-edge; contents clean.

Deerfield, MA: Historic Deerfield, Inc, 2001. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Folio. [4], 165, [3] pp., illus. First edition. In publisher's blue cloth with dust jacket. An exceptionally bright copy, just removed from shrink wrap to be cataloged; no wear to speak of. Illustrations throughout.

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1964. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 12mo. xl, 145, [3] pp. frontis, plates. First edition. As issued, in green cloth with title in gold on the front cover and spine. Mildly ex-library with evidence of a label removed on the spine, a stamped number on the pastedown and some additional notations all in pencil; there is the ghost of tape on the front free endpaper; otherwise clean. All plates present as called for.

Gainesville, FL: University Presses of Florida, 1980. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. xii, 260 pp., illus. First edition. Signed by Larson on the title page. In publisher's faux leather with dust jacket. A very bright, clean copy.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Quarto. xxiv, 196 pp., frontis, plates, facsims. Firs edition, thus. As issued, in cloth-backed, patterned paper over boards with dust jacket. A very bright copy, clean throughout; dust jacket is only a trifle edgeworn including a short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel; spine a bit sunned; price clipped. Uncommon thus.

Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1970. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. [26] pp. Limited edition, one of 183 copies. This copy signed by Laughlin on the half title page. As issued in decorative Japanese paper over boards with printed paper title label on the front cover. A bright, fresh copy with only light soiling to the title label; bottom corner of the front boards is just a trifle bumped. Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 32.

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 12mo. [6], 310 pp. First American edition. As issued, in publisher's coarse tan cloth with title stamped in black on the front cover and spine. Spine a trifle darkened, but a presentable and solid copy; contemporary owner name and date on the front free endpaper; scattered foxing throughout; small loss to the bottom corner of the rear free endpaper; Brentano's bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. Generally a nice copy of an early publication by D. H. Lawrence, and his first volume of short stories. Roberts A6 (ref).

New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1916. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 12mo. vii, [1], 311, [1] pp. First American edition. As issued, in publisher's coarse tan cloth with title stamped in black on the front cover and spine. Spine a trifle darkened, but a presentable and solid copy; contemporary owner name and date on the front free endpaper; scattered foxing throughout; Brentano's bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. Generally a nice copy of an early collection by D. H. Lawrence and his first published work of non-fiction. Roberts A8 (ref).

Florence: G. Orioli, 1929. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. xxiv, 119, [3] pp., frontis, plates. Limited edition, numbered 380 of 1000 copies from the complete edition of 1200 copies. In printed paper vellum over flexible boards with printed dust jacket. All 3 plates including frontispiece are present as called for by Roberts and Poplawski. Bottom corners are a trifle bumped; spine very lightly sunned; occasional light foxing, mostly on and near the plates, one plate is more conspicuously affected than the others; dust jacket is quite fresh. This copy from the library of American collector Albert A. Howard with his small booklabel at the rear. Roberts and Poplawski A45a.

London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, Ltd, 1952. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Oblong Octavo. viii, 64 pp. First Edition. Clean bright copy in red paper over boards, as issued; three folding plates containing 18 tables in a pocket at the rear are present as called for; oblong octavo volume has slight warp to the boards; dust jacket is a bit soiled but is now protected in a mylar cover.

London: John Lane, 1895. Hard Cover. Good binding. Octavo. viii, 100, 16 (ads) pp. First edition. Blue cloth binding; spine stamped in gold; corners and spine ends worn, particularly the head of the spine where there is some chipping to the cloth; binding has a slight forward lean and is somewhat shaken. An interesting copy inscribed by Le Gallienne to "sister Lena" (Lady Lena Hamilton) who in turn gifted the volume to Kathleen Pickhardt (later Kathleen Pickhardt Austin after her marriage to Carl Chrysler Austin in 1933). This provenance is laid out on the first blank leaf; additional bookplate on the front pastedown.

San Francisco: James Linden Editions, 1989. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. Oblong folio. [28] pp. First separate edition, one of 77 copies from an edition of 87. Printed on Rives BFK and stitched into burgundy covers with a printed paper title label; three photographs are dry mounted and each signed below by Mundy. The covers are a trifle sunned near the spine, otherwise, a fine copy of Mundy's triptych that is here coupled with Le Guin's chapter, "Where It Is," from her work "Always Coming Home." Linden remarks in a note, that Mundy had long wanted to "produce a triptych: three photographs taken quickly, with spontaneity as the effective aesthetic binding agent." It was Le Guin's text that proved to be a catalyst that sent out Mundy and Linden out into the Valley on a foggy June morning to take these photographs which Linden brought together with Le Guin's chapter.

New Orleans: James Harmanson, printed at the Pelican Press, 1947. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. [16], xxvi, [2], 376 pp., map, illus. Limited edition, one of 600 copies. This copy signed by Harmanson on the colophon. In publisher's cloth with morocco title label. Light rubbing, but quite a fresh copy. Le Page du Pratz offers a great deal of useful information about the Natchez and other Mississippi tribes, and his work as a whole has been the basis for many later studies of the period. Howes notes that it is "[v]aluable for showing French claims to southern territory east of the Mississippi and for particulars concerning Indian nations there." Of special interest is a short account of Louis de St. Denis' expedition to New Mexico in 1715. Clark calls it a "curious mixture of history, travel narrative, tall stories, and reminiscences . . . touch[ing] upon almost every phase of Louisiana in his time." 18th century editions are remarkably rare, but here Harmanson offers a very good modern… Read More

New York: Macmillan Comany, 1914. Hard Cover. Good+ binding. Octavo. xxvii, [1], 467, [1], [6 (ads)]; xxiii, [1], 608, [8 (ads)] pp., frontis. First edition. In publisher's maroon cloth. A married set. Spines dulled; light rubbing to the bindings; hinges of Volume II are a bit loose though evidence of some tidy regluing; evidence that the protective leaf facing the frontispiece was removed; contents clean. An exhaustive collection containing more than a 1000 pages of Lee's letters from 1762-1794. A remarkable resource. Scarce.

Munich: Prestel, 1994. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Folio. 2545, [3] pp., illus. First edition. Publisher's paper-over-boards binding with dust jacket. A fresh, clean copy; small scuff at the base of the spine where a bookstore's magnetic inventory control tag was removed; otherwise light shelfwear; some erasures have left a faint rubbed mark on the front free endpaper; contents are very clean and bright. Many full page color reproductions throughout.

[Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company], 1855. Disbound. Good binding. Octavo. 8 pp. Removed from volume, lacking wrappers. Light wear to the extremities; holes in the inner margin from binding; bottom edge trimmed fairly close to the text, but not touching. Anti-slavery speech delivered in the New York Assembly on February 1, 1855. Leigh pledges to vote for the reelection of Seward to the U. S. Senate. With "Reply to Instructions Sent him by Secret Societies in the City of New-York" on pp. 5-8. Scarce. Library Company, Afro-Americana 5772.