New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's dark green pictorial cloth embossed in orange, red, black, and gilt; [2],vi,[2],278,[4](ads)pp. Textblock a bit shaken in binding, light edge wear, contemporary gift inscription on early leaf, else a Very Good, quite brilliant copy. HANNA 2917: "The mountaineers of..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1945. First Edition. Slim octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth in grey decorative dust jacket; 93pp. A few tiny chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, else a Very Good or better copy, nicer than usually seen. The Georgia mountain poet's first book. More
New York: Broadcast Music, Inc, 1953. First Edition. Collection of Appalachian mountain songs and ballads as sung by Jean Ritchie on her various iconic folk albums of the Fifties, here arranged for piano by Hally Wood Gordon. The illustrations are by Alberta Sordini, and the book was designed by Merle..... More
![A Buried Treasure [Signed by Author]. Elizabeth Madox ROBERTS](/pictures/medium/47758.jpg?v=1583192105)
New York: The Viking Press, 1931. First edition, limited to 200 copies. Octavo (22.5cm); medium green boards, stamped in gilt, in glassine dustwrapper (no slipcase); TEG; 3-296pp. Spine lightly sunned; gentle handling wear to boards. Glassine toned, chipped edges with short tears and some material loss. Textblock leading edge deckled;..... More
![A Buried Treasure [Signed by Author]. Elizabeth Madox ROBERTS](/pictures/medium/48146.jpg?v=1587075400)
New York: The Viking Press, 1931. First, Limited Edition. One of 200 signed, hand-numbered copies (this being no. 8). Octavo (22.5cm); medium green boards, stamped in gilt, in unprinted glassine dustwrapper and slipcase; TEG; 3-296pp. Fine copy in slightly chipped glassine and original publisher's slipcase, lightly worn at spine ends;..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1927. First Edition. Kentucky author's uncommon second novel, chronicling the frustrations of an ambitious, small-town Kentucky woman. Hardly a glowing copy, but the first printing is quite scarce in or out of jacket. HANNA 3023. First printing. Small octavo. Green cloth boards, blocked in blind on..... More
![The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore. Volume Five [5]: The Music of the Folk...](/pictures/medium/44084.jpg?v=1559340804)
Durham: Duke University Press, 1974. Second printing (first published 1957). Octavo; tan buckram (hardcover); xli+639pp; frontispiece illus. Fine copy, lacking dustwrapper. Volume Five only of a seven-volume set. More
![The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore. Volume Four [4]: The Music of the...](/pictures/medium/44083.jpg?v=1558995779)
Durham: Duke University Press, 1974. Second printing (first published 1957). Octavo; tan buckram (hardcover); xliv+420pp; frontispiece illus. Fine copy, lacking dustwrapper. Volume Four only of a seven-volume set. More
New York: W.J. Watt, 1913. First Edition. Buck's fourth published novel (of more than 20), adhering to what Boger calls "the general theme and tenor of all Buck's works": an "outlander" (in this case a sensitive artist from a northern city) arrives in an isolated mountain community in Kentucky, where..... More
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, N.d. [1967?]. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Side-stapled wrappers; 48pp. Fine. Report by six medical professionals on the chronic malnourishment of rural children in the South and Appalachia. More
![Man With A Bull-Tongue Plow [Signed]. Jesse STUART](/pictures/medium/53919.jpg?v=1623292084)
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Signed by the author on the free second endpaper in blue ink. Octavo (21cm); tan cloth covered boards titled in brown on the spine; 361pp. Dampstain to the lower corners only, mostly to the endpapers and lower half-title page..... More
![Save Every Lamb [Inscribed & Signed]. Jesse STUART, Jean George](/pictures/medium/22937.jpg?v=1529353373)
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1964]. First Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); original boards in red pictorial dust jacket; [10],278pp.; illus. A few tiny chips and short closed tears to jacket extremities, else Near Fine. Inscribed "With best wishes, Jesse Stuart," to front free endpaper. Collection of short stories set in "the..... More
![Playbill] Sun Up. Commencing Thursday May 24th, 1923, every week day evening at 8:45, matinee...](/pictures/medium/27173.jpg?v=1529353527)
New York: Provincetown Theatre, [1923]. First Edition. Octavo bifolium (21.25cm.); printed on tan stock. A bit worn from handling, horizontal fold-line, a few chips and faint creases to extremities, else Very Good. Playbill for Lula Vollmer's 3-act folk drama Sun Up, set during the Great War in the mountains of..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1924. Fourth Printing. A novel of coal miners set in New Hampshire, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. A sympathetic portrait of mining life, with little or no labor content. HANNA 3667. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, in tan..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, [1952]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; [10],246pp. Some chipping to jacket extremities, general light dust-soil, top textblock edge spotted, small contemporary ownership address label to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound overall. Novel set amongst a group of vacationers..... More
