AFRICAN AMERICAN from Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC

Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, [1989]. xxviii pages; 226 photographs reproduced on [172] leaves; [2] pages, plus colophon. Original maroon cloth with silver spine lettering. 26 cm (square quarto). A fine copy in fine publisher's matching cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION. #207 of 375 numbered copies signed by Welty. An additional 26 signed, lettered copies were issued, as well as… Read more about this item

New York: Robert O. Ballou, [1933]. 341 pages. 90 full-page, hand-pulled photogravures (including the frontispiece, all reckoned in the pagination). Lacking the extra, laid-in photogravure, being a duplicate of one of the images in the book, that is found with most copies. Early full vellum with gilt spine and cover lettering and gilt centerpiece on the front cover. 29… Read more about this item

[Durham: Press of the Seeman Printery, 1920.] 229 pages, plus frontispiece and 11 full page plates from photographs. Most of the plates are portraits with the remainder depicting Durham businesses. Original maroon cloth lettered in gilt. 20.5 x 14 cm. The cloth shows light speckling along the edges of the boards and spine; spine is just a little… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1927. xvii, 116 pages. Original quarter black cloth over decorative paper-covered boards. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. A near fine copy in very good dust jacket. Minor rubbing to the spine; internally clean and partially unopened. The jacket has several tiny chips, a few traces of soiling, and a small internal repair to… Read more about this item

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, [circa 1934; c.r. 1933]. 251 pages. Illustrated with 70 full-page reproductions of photographs (including the frontispiece, all printed with the text). Original red cloth with black spine lettering. 22 x 16 cm. Very good plus in very good or better dust jacket. Light soiling to top edge; free endpapers partially tanned; a little marginal soiling or… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., [printed by Alfred Webb, Dublin], 1861. xiv, 453 pages, plus frontispiece portrait, being a mounted original albumen photograph of John Brown. Original embossed brown cloth. 17 x 12 cm. Professionally rebacked in brown cloth with the lower half of original spine laid down; original endpapers retained. Tiny marginal chip to one leaf of the… Read more about this item

Raleigh, N.C.: Alfred Williams & Co., [printed by Bynum Printing Co.], 1925. 314 pages, plus six full-page photographic plates. The front free endpaper is printed with a copyright notice on the recto and prior appearance notice on verso. Original olive-green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 20 x 15 cm. There was a variant in blue cloth, priority unknown. A… Read more about this item

New York: Prentice Hall, [1987]. xii, 308 pages, plus eight double-sided plates. Original quarter cloth and boards. 22 x 15 cm. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Slight bump to the spine panel of the dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.

Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, Printers, 1862. 26 pages. Original printed wraps. 24 x 15 cm. Multiple chips to the wraps, not affecting printed matter; spine worn and split for 3 cm at top and 6 cm at base, but wraps holding well. Wraps also show a few creases, toning, and several small spots.… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1954]. xv, [1], 228 pages. Original cloth. [20.9 cm.] A very good plus copy in good plus dust jacket. A few very faint spots to cloth; bright and clean internally. Jacket has small chip to head of spine (1.5 cm deep), short closed tear and associated… Read more about this item

New York: Philosophical Library, [1966]. 120 pages. plus frontispiece facsimile. Illustrated with full-page drawings by Claude Howell (printed with the text). Original cloth. [21.5 cm.] About fine in very good plus dust jacket. Some very faint foxing to endpapers due to contact with original dust jacket. Jacket is bright, but shows light rubbing,… Read more about this item