1st edition. Bears a bookplate signed by the author. Octavo, cloth & boards, xii, 176 pp. Former-owner name and inscription; otherwise Near-Fine in dust jacket. View More...
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Knoxfille: The University of Tennessee Press, (2002).
Seller ID: 51722bd
Octavo, softbound (slick, black & white photo. illus. stiff wrappers), xvi + 319 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: To millions of people who visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year, Cades Cove is a major attraction, its cabins and other structures forming a living museum of Southern Appalachian culture. But for more than a century before the park's creation, Cades Cove was an isolated mountain community, first inhabited by the Cherokees, then by a few intrepid pioneers. This book traces in moving detail the founding, development, and demise of this rural settlement. Dr... View More...
Royal octavok, softbound (slick, full-color illus. wrappers), iv, 111 pp. Fine. A collection of poetry, prose, photographs, artwork and even sheet music by nearly forty Hatteras Island women. Illustrated in full color. View More...
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Newton, North Carolina: Catawba County Historical Association, 2002.
Seller ID: 9874gcs
Oblong quarto, hardcover (black cloth), gilt letters, xii, 484 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The second volume of The Catawbans continues the story of the people of Catawba County. North Carolina, into the twentieth century. As the notion of material Progress took over their lives in the early part of the century, Catawbans made names for themselves for their adaptations to the new industrial regimen. These Pioneers in Progress attracted national attention for their devotion to the preservation of a balance between the farm and the factory. Catawbans from all walks... View More...
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Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, Publish, (1973).
Seller ID: 5123fd
Octavo, white cloth (hardcover), upper cover decorated with illustration of a small boat, 223 pp. Near-Fine, in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear and light soiling. From dust jacket: Almost legendary, the Outer Banks of North Carolina have been little known to most Americans. Now, however, our easy transportation and the swift groth of leisure time have made unspoiled and out-of-the-way vacation spots more and more scarce and more and more desirable, especially those with such a long and exciting history as that of Ocracoke Island. This strip of sand running along the Nor... View More...
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Castine, Maine: Country Roads Press, (1994). First Edition.
Seller ID: 18225scs
Octavo, softbound (stiff, illus. blue wrappers), xi, 157 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: Wander with [Glenn Morris, former landscape and outdoor editor at Southern Living] along the country roads of his home state -- roads lined with pine trees and flowers and meandering through wonderful parks and country towns from the mountains to the shore....From high in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the scented pine groves of Piedmont and the endless beaches along the Atlantic coast, join Glenn Morris in nine car trips exploring the small towns and beautiful countryside of North Carolina. Beautif... View More...
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Grenville, NC: Era Press, 1976. First Edition.
Seller ID: vas720
Signed by Author Jim Perry. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 134 pp. Very Good+, with small former-owner inscription; in a Very Good+ dustjacket with light rubbing. From dust jacket: Want to get out of the rat race? Jim Perry did it, giving up a good law practice, electricity, and running water, to retire to the mountains -- on borrowed money. And that was only the beginning. With the help of his hardy family and skeptical mountain neighbors, he put down roots at Sky Valley and found a whole new way of life. It was hard for a city man to adjust to the leisurely pace of the... View More...
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Raleigh: Council of State, State of North Carolina, 1966.
Seller ID: 05198scs
Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters & state seal to upper cover, xvii, 792 pp. Very Good+, with bumped corners., in a Very Good, edgeworn dust jacket. From jacket: The Sanford papers are impressive for their quantity and also for their wide range of subject matter and variety of tone...[It] is a volume which clearly displays the Governor's broad and yet deep program: quality education, industrial development and promotion, agricultural improvement, cultural advancement, rehabilitation programs, fair race relations in the midst of civil rights strife throughout the country, and... View More...
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Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolia Press, (1952).
Seller ID: 12424scs
Octavo, grey cloth (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, ix, 276 pp. Fine, in a Good+ dust jacket with edgewear that includes several small chips. From jacket: This is a factual account, written with the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, jeroic rescues, and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters -- the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Here are tales of ships, captains, crews, and passengers caught up in the terrifying crisis of shipwreck; valuable cargoes which were lost beyond recovery; the dog t... View More...
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Charleston, SC: Haunted America, A Division of The History Press, (2008). Second Printing.
Seller ID: vas780
Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. wrappers), 121 pp. Fine. From lower cover: Nestled in the heart of North Carlina's share of the SMoky Mountains, Asheville is one of the South's momst haunted cities. The picturesque landscape of this charming mountain destination belies what is in truth a violent, ghoulish past. Asheville has seen its share of horror, ranging from the suicide of the city's financial manager during the throes of the Depression, to hosting a tuberculosis sanitarium, to a night of murderous rampage in 1902. With wit and style, authors Ken Traylor and Delas House use ... View More...
Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. wrappers), 128 pp. Near Fine. From lower cover: It was the Old Buffalo Trail that led both Native americans and Daniel Boone to the site of present-day Boone, North Carolina, at an elevation of 3,333 feet. Located among the scenic and cool mountains of the High Country, Boone was for a long time a seasonal hunting spot with only a few settled families. After the Civil War the community's population began growing, and in 1899, the tiny town of Boone included 150 residents. In the 1880s, the treacherous and steep Boone and Blowing Rock Turnpike began... View More...
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Charlotte, NC: Sally Hill McMillan and Associates, Inc., (1996). First Edition.
Seller ID: 2996qs
Quarto, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, marbled endpapers, 208 pp. With bound Supplement. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Between the Catawba and South Fork Rivers lies a place known as Belmont, a sort of Piedmont peninsula. The currents of its two rivers have kept Belmont connected to the flow of history. Yet the rivers may have protected Belmont from being overrun by that ÒprogressÓ that has parched the identity of so much of the New South. It is a city distinct from the rest of its region, from the United States and from the world. Thus, whil... View More...
