Norman M Plummer (8 results)

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with remnnats of a presentation sticker to ffep (dated 1950). Complete DJ with some handling marks and scuffs - some tape repairs. 275pp.

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided). 208 pages. Hardcover: H 28.75cm x L 22.25cm. Dust jacket with a few scuffs and nicks at edges; dj presented in a mylar protector. Blue boards with vibrant gilt stamping to spine and front board; light bumping to spine heel. At top of front pastedown is six-line ink gift inscription dated fro December 1985 to Charles and Frances Summersell from "Alan" [contributor Dr. Alan Thompson]; Alan Thompson's ink signature beside his printed name at top of page 53 which is start of his essay "Transportation: Riverboats and Railroads of Shreveport" concluding on page 61; also laid-in at front endpapers and further establishing provenance is a Christmas card with four paragraph letter with thanks and family notes from Alan Thompson. Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good+ dust jacket. With b/w photographs ands illustrations throughout, Preface, Introduction, Contributors, Bibliography, and Index. Features a total of thirteen essays by twelve different contributors (editor Ann McLaurin contributing two essays) divided among eight chapters titled as: "The Age of Jefferson and Jackson," "Manifest Destiny," "The Sectional Crisis," "The Era of Reconstruction," "The Gilded Age," "The Progressive Era," "The Interwar Years," and "The Post World War II Years." Inscribee Charles Grayson Summersell (1908-1987) taught at the University of Alabama from 1935-1978 where he chaired the History Department from 1954-1971. The university established The Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History in 1997 with an endowment initiated by the professor's wife Frances S. Summersell. ISBN 0917898141.

Undated & with no edition stated - possibly 1st edition, 1939. Green cloth with black; illustrated by Victor Cooley; colour frontis. Some fading to cloth; dust jacket price-clipped, & worn at edges, with creased tear at foot of spine Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard cover green cloth bds, Good, some fading, spine age-browned, pp275, colour frontis., illust. by Victor Cooley, neat inscript. to ffep dated 1953.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Dust jacket unclipped with light edgewear. Complete with illustrations by Victor Hooley. We are closed 14th-23rd July items ordered after 9:00am on the 13th July will be shipped on 25th July, shipping times have been updated. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Victor Cooley (illustrator). Owners inscription verso frontispiece.

Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: G++ Pc DW. Victor Cooley (illustrator). Owners inscription etc on halftitle. DW has small loss at base opf spine.

Condition: very good. 1st edition. 180pp. Octavo. Original blue cloth, lightly rubbed, corner lightly bumped, gilt title on spine and front cover. Inscribed by Nellie McClung inside front cover. Text block is tight. very good.