Stokes William E Jr (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 172 pages. "A preliminary checklist of his surviving texts in Manuscript and in print." University of Virginia Bibliographic Series Number Nine. Frontis portrait of Randolph.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Presentation copy inscribed by Francis L. Berkeley Jr. to Christopher B. Garnett on the ffep; page of corrections and additions laid in; binding edge-worn and a bit frayed, with the front board a little warped; textblock clean and tight; 170 pp. including index. this is the University of Virginia Bibliographical Series Number Nine. Size: 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Initialed By Author. Hard Cover.

Hardcover. Crimson cloth, gilt decoration on front cover; 171 pp., color plate as frontispiece. Provides a bibliography of papers found in various archives and once emanating from Virginia Congressman John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833). Begins with a biographical sketch of the man. VG (Few instances of handwriting; color frontispiece has bleed onto tp; otherwise clean.).

Hardcover. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. 58pp, illustrated with 6 full-page plates on glossy paper, including portraits and a coat of arms, and a large folded genealogical table, blue cloth spine and blue paper over boards covers, gilt spine titles, very clean and bright overall, with minor toning at pastedowns and endpapers. Inscribed, signed, dated by author at front fly, "Edgemont, May, 1952 / To a dear friend of long / standing, M____ V____ V____ , with / fond recollections and many / happy reunions / W. S. Snead." Chapters include England and Virginia: The Sneads Prior to the Nineteenth Century / West to Kentucky: John Smith Snead and his Family / Two Brothers: Thomas and Charles Scott Snead / The Sons of Charles Scott Snead / The Twentieth Century, and Appendices include The Sneads of England / Genealogy of the English Sneads / Genealogy of the Sneads of Accomac, Virginia, and Kentucky, with the genealogical table / Contemporary Affiliated Families / Extracts from an Address on General Charles Scott by Colonel Thomas L. Crittenden / A Speech by General Scott / Warrant of Appointment to Charles Scott Snead III / Air Medal Citation to William Scott Snead, Jr. Illustrations include The Snead Crest, the portrait of General Charles Scott after painting by Gilbert Stuart, the Home of Charles Scott Snead at Louisville, Kentucky, portraits of William Scott and Katherine Parker Snead, a view of the family home Edgemont, at North Garden, Virginia, and portraits of William Scott Snead, Jr., and Parker Snead. Interesting pencil note at bottom of page 35 indicates Parker Snead divorced first wife Cathleen South Castles, and remarried Osa, and was later killed in a plane crash in April, 1976, in Richmond, Virginia. Very scarce. Inscribed by Author(s).