Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Carey and Hart, 1840. Hardcover in purple cloth w/ paper spine labels, 4.75" x 7.75”, i-300 pp, ii-337 pp, author’s name in script on front endpaper, yellow label on front pastedown “From W.A,. Leary’s Cheap Bookstore, Philadelphia” SCARCE original 1st edition / 1st printing. Not Ex-Lib.
Charleston, South Carolina: Babcock & Co., 1843. 1st edition. Hardcover in full calf leather, spine taped, title and preface pages reduced at top margin w/o loss of print, 192 pp. 4.5" x 7”. Map not present.
Charleston, South Carolina: Russell & Jones, 1860. 437 pp. + 5 pp. ads in rear. Hardcover in original cloth with leather spine label and gilt title. Light to medium toning and foxing (see pics). Some heavier toning and brittleness to the endpapers and title page. It appears a letter was.....
Charleston, South Carolina: S. Babcock & Co, 1842. 345 pp. + 2 pp. ads in rear. Hardcover, bound in full leather. Hinges starting/cracked. Light to medium toning and foxing (see pics). An early copy of this important history of South Carolina! A nice copy of this SCARCE.....
Philadelphia, PA: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. Two Volumes. Hardcover in original tan cloth bindings with paper spine labels, 4.75" X 7.5”. Volume One: 241 pp, ffep torn/missing, water stained, spine label mostly rubbed off. Volume Two: 274 pp with last page of text missing and ffep torn. SCARCE in any.....
New York: Geo F. Cooledge & Brother, 1844. Hardcover in brown stamped cloth w/ gold stamped spine. 347 pp. frontispiece engraving present. Not Ex-Lib. 1st edition.
Charleston, South Carolina: Published by O.A. Roorback. Printed by J.S. Burges, 1833. 250 pp. Hardcover in original blue paper-wrapped boards. No spine label. Toning and foxing throughout. An uncommon early work of William Gilmore Simms, famous Southern author. A nice copy of this SCARCE work. Former copy of.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. Two volumes. 222, 242 pp., plus ads in rear. Both volumes in original binding. Spine is lacking bottom third, though the original spine label is still present (see pics) of Volume One. Original cloth (no spine label) and outer hinges cracked on Volume Two.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. Two volumes. 222, 242 pp., plus ads in rear. A matched set, with volume 1 in paper-wrapped boards and volume 2 in leather binds. Both volumes rebacked in matching leather spines. The title page and copyright pages in Volume 1 are facsimiles. Stated second.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. Volume I only. 222 pp. 1st edition. Hardcover in tan cloth, with paper label on spine, 4.75" x 7.75”. A rare and desirable Simms title, a novel of an Indian uprising in 1715. This is one of the rare copies with the copyright.....