Virginia

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, Virginia Historical Society/University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Lists hundreds of artists, both famous and largely unknown, who spent some or all of their careers in Virginia. Near fine condition; virtually no flaws except for very slight wear at one end of the spine.

Hardcover. White Hall, VA, Shoe Tree Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover. (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards. Pages clean and bright. Spine straight. Binding tight. The excitement in the barracks on the night of May 10, 1864 was electric. At last, the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute were going to war!

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w by Burton. An attractive reprint of a book first published in 1941. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. FRENCH TEXT. Illustrated in color by Kahl. Light edgewear to cover boards.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press , 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. Study of late eighteenth-century Virginia and its "often hot-tempered local politics." Name on front fly leaf, residue to inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Kahl. An adventurous boy is warned about giants when he sets out to see the world that lays beyond his home in the forest. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow pictorial cloth, illustrated in color by Kahl. A boy named Christopher sets off from his village to find real giants. Weekly Reader Edition. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, BC Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated in color by Kahl. An adventurous boy is warned about giants when he sets out to see the world that lays beyond his home in the forest. Weekly Reader Book Club Edition.

Softcover. Richmond VA, Central Publishing, reprint, 1920, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue wrappers with rubbing, 128 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1914, this is the revised 1920 printing.

Hardcover. Richmond VA, James River Garden Club, Revised Ed., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 376 pages, with b&w and 2-color plates. Green cloth covers with bright gilt design on front but lettering faded on spine. Folded map of the Kitchen Garden of Mount Vernon laid in.

Hardcover. Richmond, VA, The William Byrd Press Inc., 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages, with illustrations, number 365 of 1000 copies. Compiled by the James River Garden Club, gilt title and marbled endpapers. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 527 pages, with 316 illustrations throughout, gilt top edge and titles on green cloth board. Minor corner bumps and edge wear and fade, frontispiece page loose, and previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf. Overall, clean and tight copy, a limited edition. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, American Heritage Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 92 pages illustrated in color by Parsons. Name on page opposite the title page, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1st pbk, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 411 pages, b&w illustrations. Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Smith draws on official records, private correspondence, and letters to newspapers from otherwise anonymous Virginians to capture a wide and varied range of black and white voices. African Americans emerge as central characters in the narrative, as Smith chronicles their efforts to obtain access to public schools and libraries, protection under the law, and the equitable distribution of municipal resources. This acceleration of black resistance to white supremacy in the years before World War II precipitated a crisis of confidence among white Virginians, who, despite their overwhelming electoral dominance, felt increasingly insecure about their ability to manage the color line on their own terms. Exploring the everyday power struggles that accompanied the erosion of white authority in the political, economic, and educational arenas, Smith uncovers the seeds of white Virginians' resistance to civil rights activism in the second half of the twentieth century. Light marking to 10 pages, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with red and black design, 44 pages illustrated in color by Burton. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers -- the very symbol of industrial America. But with progress come new machines, and soon the inseparable duo are out of work. Mike believes that Mary Anne can dig as much in a day as one hundred men can dig in a week, and the two have one last chance to prove it and save Mary Anne from the scrap heap. Bright, clean reprint of this classic, lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, very good.

Hardcover. Chicago, Saalfield Publishing Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (48 pages), illustrated boards with light edgewear. 12 color and numerous b&w illustrations by Virginia Albert. Small blue stain to edge of last 10 pages, not affecting text or pictures. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Chicago, Saalfield Publishing, 1st, 1917, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with heavy bumping on spine. Gutter crack on front end paper. Illustrations by Virgina Albert.

Hardcover. New York, Viking/Penguin Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket: "(Pearson shows) what life and literature are essentially about. How he can bring that off amidst such hilarity is something of a miracle." SIGNED BY PEARSON on half title page.

Softcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper has a touch of age wear, top edge has former bookstore stamp. otherwise clean inside and out. In very good condition.

Hardcover. Berryville, VA, Rockbridge Publishing Company, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. Buff fabric covered with gilt title on spine. From the back cover: "Season of Fire is the most complete and dramatic study to date of Early's invasion of the north and battle of Monocacy--an engagement that may well have saved the Nation's Capitol from capture."

Softcover. NY, Quadrangle Books, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 270 pages. Book is sound and bright but has occasional ink marking to text.

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Originally published in 1947, this is a quality reprint of that Caldecott Honor book. Silver medal on dj, clean copy. 123 pages with fifteen original ballads of Robin Hood with exquisitely detailed b&w illustrations by Virginia Lee Burton.

Softcover. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1st pbk, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages. A collection of scholarly essays on Virginia in the 1800s. Clean copy.