C Alphonso Smith Editor (6 results)

Hard Back. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 292 pages with four pages of advertisements. Green cloth binding with black lettering. Page edges aged and some discoloration and wear of covers. Owner's name on front endpaper. No other marks, stamps or underlining. Clean tight white pages. Twelve classic short stories: Esther from the Old testament, Ali Bab and the Forty Robber, Rip Van Winkle, The Gold-Bug by Poe, Christmas Carol by Dickens, The Great Stone Face by Hawthorne, Rab and His Friends by John Brown, Outcasts of Poker Flat by Harte, Marheim, The Necklace, The Man Who Would be King and the Gift of the Magi.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Eighth Printing. 255 pages. Corners and lower edge of backstrip rubbed; backstrip discolored. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing this extensive collection of Virginia folk ballads and folk songs -- a major contribution to the folklore and folk history of Virginia. Has an interesting inscription (dated 1929) on the front endpaper from Susie McGee Heck Smith to notable Virginia physician Staige D. Blackford. Susie McGee Heck Smith's late spouse was C. Alphonso Smith, an esteemed University of Virginia English professor and founder of the Virginia Folklore Society. Alphonso Smith's efforts to collected and preserve Virginia folk ballads formed the basis of the project and editor Davis dedicated the book to his memory. Red cloth, 634 pages, fold-out map at back. Has a bit of rubbing and fading of the dye on the spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 471 pp. including index. Worn at the extremities. The spine lettering is tarnished. The endpapers are tanned. Unmarked and in a square, sound binding with hinges intact. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint; Sixth Printing. Reprint, 6th printing. Good hardcover with tight binding and clean pages. No dust jacket. Minor wear to edges and corners of covers and spine." A-to-Zed School" stamps are on the inside of the front cover and the front fly page. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 255 pages. …

First edition with Volumes I and II bound together in a single book. Paginated as [4], 1-112, [2], 1-250. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 15cm. Dark green cloth with usual mottling to boards and spine; some flaking loss to otherwise still reasonably bright gilt stamped spine lettering. Usual toning and light foxing to text block edges. Some foxing and soiling to endpapers; rear free endpaper has small chip at lower fore-edge margin. Some light foxing and scattered minor soiling to interior text leaves which overall remain clean. Binding is firm. This is the scarce leadoff volume of the Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society which reached a total of fourteen volumes published inclusive to 1914 plus a five volume Centenary Series published between 1916 and 1925. Each volume features its own index. Volume I features eleven articles and Volume II features eighteen - a sampling of the more intriguing titles are: "Mississippi's 'Backwoods Poet'" [S. Newton Berryhill] by Dabney Lipscomb; "Suffrage in Mississippi" by R.H. Thompson; "Spanish Policy in Mississippi After the Treaty of San Lorenzo" by F.L. Riley; "Pre-History Jasper Ornaments in Mississippi" by R.B. Fulton; "Some Inaccuracies in Claiborne's History in Regard to Tecumseh" by H.S. Halbert; "Did Jones County Secede?" by A.L. Bondurant; "The Historical Element in Recent Southern Literature" by C. Alphonso Smith; "Irwin Russell - First Fruits of the Southern Romantic Movement" by W.L. Weber; "William Ward, A Mississippi Poet Entitled to Distinction" by Dabney Lipscomb; "Sherwood Bonner, Her Life and Place in the Literature of the South" by Alexander L. Bondurant; "'The Daughter of the Confederacy,' Her Life, Character and Writings" by Chiles Clifton Ferrell; "Sir William Dunbar, The Pioneer Scientist of Mississippi" by Franklin L. Riley; "History of Taxation in Mississippi" by Charles Hillman Brough; "Territorial Growth of Mississippi" by J.M. White; "The Early Slave Laws of Mississippi" by Alfred H. Stone; "Running Mississippi's South Line" by Peter J. Hamilton; "The Rise and Fall of Negro Rule in Mississippi" by Dunbar Rowland; "Historic Adams County" by Gerard Brandon; and "Nanih Waiya, the Sacred Mound of the Choctaws" by H.S. Halbert.…