Pickens Suzanne Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A Very Good or better copy of this large photo-illustrated hardcover, in a Near Fine dust jacket. Small erasure smudge at the top corner of the front endpaper, else close to as new. Book.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 4to. Pp. 391. Illustrated with black & white rotogravure photo reproductions, maps and document facsimiles. Black cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the cover and spine, with illustration on the cover. Endpaper maps. With glossary and index. In the color photo illustrated laminated dust jacket. Near fine but for a pencilled price partially effaced from the front endpaper. With contributions from Allison Harris Black, David R. Black, Mary Ann Lee Blackburn, Patricia Dickinson, Suzanne S. Pickens, Joseph Schuchman, and John H. Dickerson, AIA. Dust jacket preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 391, [1] pages. Oversized book, measuring 11-1/4 inches by 8-3/4 inches. The author was a noted architectural historian. Includes endpaper maps, Introduction, Historical and Architectural Essay, Inventory, Glossary, and Index. This book has been designed to illustrate how the remaining historic and architectural resources of Union County are concrete evidence and reminders of the settlement and development of the county. This book is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all of the older buildings in the county,nor is it intended to be a definitive history of Union. Its purpose is rather to demonstrate how knowledge of intact and representative examples of the county's built environment adds immeasurably to our understanding of Union County's history. Contents address the townships of: Monroe, Jackson, Sandy Ridge, Vance, Goose Creek, New Salem, Marshville, Lanes Creek, and Buford. Union county was formed in 1842 from parts of Anson County and Mecklenburg County. Its name was a compromise between Whigs, who wanted to name the new county for Henry Clay, and Democrats, who wanted to name it for Andrew Jackson. The Helms, Starnes, McRorie, and Belk families were prominent in the town as well as Monroe and Charlotte. Most of these families came from Goose Creek Township. Monroe, the county seat of Union County, also became a focal point during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1958, local NAACP Chapter President Robert F. Williams defended a nine-year-old African-American boy who had been kissed by a white girl in an incident known as the Kissing Case. A second African-American boy, aged seven, was also convicted and sentenced to live in a juvenile reformatory until he was 21 for simply witnessing the act.