Category: Virginia

Carter Hall and Some Genealogical Notes on the Burwell Family of Virginia.

By: Brown, Stuart E., Jr. and Ann Barton Brown.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Berryville, Virgina: Virginia Book Company, (1978). First Edition.

Seller ID: 61202bd

Quarto, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 120 pp. Very Good+, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) in a Very Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. Contents: Acknowledgements - Illustrations Credits; Nathanial Burwell: The Valley, The School at Carter Hall, Interior Decorations - Furnishings - Clothing (Carter Hall), Additional Buildings (at Carter Hall), Horses (Carter Hall); George Harrison Burwell: The Civil War (Carter Hall), On the Way to Gettysburg (Carter Hall); George H. Burwell, Jr.; The Duel; Sale of Carter Hall; Thomas Hugh (ÓTomÓ) Burwell and th...
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The History of Randolph-Macon Woman's College: From the Founding in 1891 through 1949-50.

By: Cornelius, Roberta D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1951. First Edition.

Seller ID: vas5294

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, 428 pp + plates. Fine in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes chipping. From dust jacket: The history of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, has a claim upon the attention of all who are interested in the education and achievements of women. Its course through the years is set forth in the present volume, where the author has dealt not only with the institutional aspects of the College but also with the pattern of life developed by students and teachers working together ...
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Freedom's First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890.

By: Engs, Robert Francis.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979. First Edition.

Seller ID: 2010gls

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xx + 236 pp. Fine (As New) in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: In this age of affirmative action, reverse discrimination, and an increasing complexity in black-white relations, a study of Hampton, Virginia, tells the story of what race relations in postbellum American might have been. Here alone the promises of Emancipation and Reconstruction were fulfilled. A tradition of black success in business, education, politics, and social solidarity was established; blacks acquired property and political...
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A Gazetteer of Virginia and West Virginia. Two Volumes in One.

By: Gannett, Henry.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1980.

Seller ID: 00038s

Octavo, black boards, (hardcover), gilt letters, 159, 164 pp. Near-Fine, with former owner embossed stamp.
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Legends of Virginia Lawyers: Anecdotes and Whimsical Yarns of the Old Time Bench and Bar. Frontispiece by Lucy Payne Pinder.

By: Gwathmey, John H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Richmond, VA: Press of the Dietz Printing Company, Publishers, 1934. No. 20 of 1,000 Copies.

Seller ID: 14199kms

Signed by the Author. Octavo, burgundy cloth & marbled boards, paper label, 187 pp. Very Good+, with edgewear that includes bumped corners, chipping to paper label; former-owner stamp & inscription.
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A History of the Valley of Virginia.

By: Kercheval, Samuel.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., (2001).

Seller ID: 9865gcs

Octavo, softbound (slick white illus. wrappers), xxx, 415 pp. Fine. From lower cover: If you'd like to know more about the history of Indians and early American settlers, this book will fascinate and astonish you. Written not long after the Revolutionary War, the author was himself a young eyewitness to the life and times described, and the weight of this book is given to personal accounts and descriptive recollections of bloody encounters between settlers and Indians over the course of several decades. Chapters called ÒIndian Incursions and Massacres,Ó ÒDoddridge's Account,Ó ÒJacob's Ac...
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Fairfax County, Virginia, A History.

By: Netherton, Nan; Sweig, Donald; Artemel, Janice; Hickin, Patricia; Reed, Patrick.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fairfax, Virginia: Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, 1978. First Edition.

Seller ID: 50479bd

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv + 780 pp. Very Good+, with neat former-owner inscription; in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping.
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Peanut Soup and Spoonbread: An Informal History of Hotel Roanoke.

By: Piedmont, Donlan.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Roanoke, Va.: Virginia Tech Real Estate Foundation, [1994].

Seller ID: m2365

1st edition. Oblong quarto, softbound, 126 pp. Photos, illus. Very Good.
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Arlington County, Virginia: A History.

By: Rose, C. B., Jr.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Arlington, VA: Arlington Historical Society, 1976. First Edition.

Seller ID: 50633fd

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), ix, 274 pp. Maps, photographs, map illustrated endpapers. Fine in dust jacket.
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The Timber Tycoons: The Camp Families of Virginia and Florida and Their Empire, 1887-1987.

By: Rouse, Parke Jr.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Richmond: Published for The Southampton County Historical Society, Courtland, Virginia by The William Byrd Press, (1988). First Edition.

Seller ID: vita5530

Signed by the author. Octavo, green cloth, vii, [iii[, 296, [56 photographic plates] pp. Map endpapers. Fine.
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Arlington Heritage: Vignettes of a Virginia County.

By: Templeman, Eleanor Lee.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: N.l.: By the Author, 1959.

Seller ID: m2388

1st edition. Signed by the author. Quarto, pictorial cloth, viii, 200 pp. Photos. Near-Fine in a slightly chipped dust jacket.
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Memoirs of a Farm Boy. Illustrations by the Author. With an Introduction by George Reiger.

By: Turner, William H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Onley, VA: Turner Press, (1995).

Seller ID: 3330bd

Of an edition of 4500, this is No. 3109. It is signed & inscribed by the author. Octavo, gilt-stamped blue cloth (hardcover), all edges gilt, ribbon-marker, xi + 234 pp. Map, illus. Near-Fine, with former-owner signature, in dust jacket.
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The Senior Class of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute requests the honor of your presence of the Commencement Exercises, Saturday, June eighth to Tuesday, June eleventh, nineteen hundred thirty-five, Blacksburg, Virginia. [Commencement Program.]

By: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Senior Class of 1935.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Blacksburg, Va.: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1935.

Seller ID: m1578

Duodecimo, blind-stamped flexible morocco, leather ties, [19] leaves. Frontis. photo. Near-Fine.
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A History of Rockingham County, Virginia.

By: Wayland, John W., Ph.D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harrisonburg, VA: C. J. Carrier Company, 1980. Third Printing.

Seller ID: 60667bd

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, vii, 466 pp + [vi] pp. Near-Fine, with lgihtly rubbed edges. Illustrated.
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Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Volume 46.

By: Wertenbaker, Thomas J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1958. Review Copy.

Seller ID: 3173bd

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, ix + 275 pp. Near Fine.l
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The Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay.

By: Whitehead, John Hurt, III.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: John Hurt Whitehead, III, (1979). First Edition, Stated.

Seller ID: 13729scs

Quarto, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, unpaginated. Near-Fine, with former-owner inscription, in a Good+ dust jacket with edgewear and small chip to spine. From jacket: The world of the Chesapeake Bay Waterman is one of the most beautiful that this country has to offer, and he's quick to let you know this...In these pages you'll not only see that world, but you'll get a taste of his gentle wisdom and beautiful humor that make him one of the most pleasant of rural Americans.
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A History of Caroline County, Virginia: Form Its Formation in 1727 to 1924. Compiled from Original Records and Authoritative Sources and Profusely Illustrated. To Which is Appended ÒA Discourse of VirginiaÓ by Edward Maria Wingfield.

By: Wingfield, Marshall.

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Richmond, VA: Trevvet Christian & Co., Inc., 1924. One of 1,000 Copies Privately Printed from Type and Type Distributed.

Seller ID: 05025scs

Royal octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xv, 528 pp. Cracked hinges; otherwise, clean and tight, with light rubbing to edges.
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Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion. Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Virginia. American Guide Series. Illustrated.

By: Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Virginia.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, (1947). Sponsored by James H. Price, Governor of Virginia.

Seller ID: 2711qs

Octavo, green illus. cloth (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, xxix + 710 pp. Lacking rear map; Good+, with neatly inked notes to endpapers, minimal wear to covers.
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Category: Virginia