Richmond, (VA): Dietz Printing Co, 1934. First edition, 1/1000 copies (this #222) signed by the author. 8vo. (12), 145, (1) pp. Chapter head-pieces from line drawings. Stories and anecdotes from the courtroom of Judge John J. Crutchfield (1844-1920), Richmond native, life-long resident, and first juvenile court judge, who served on..... More
Richmond, (VA): Richmond Press, 1921. First edition. 8vo. 20 pp. General survey, with relatively more attention paid to William Sherwood, Attorney General in the late 17th century, William Fitzhugh, an early employer of the writ of Habeas Corpus, and Sir John Randolph, another Attorney General whose reputation was built around..... More
Staunton, VA: McClure Co., (c1935). First edition. 12mo. Two portrait plates, of Gabriel Jones (1724-1806), King's Attorney for Frederick and Augusta Counties, and Archibald Stuart (1809-1831), Virginia's first circuit judge. "Reminiscences of life in the [Shenandoah] Valley" (foreword). Very good. Original black-stamped green cloth. (10854). More
Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1915. First edition, "limited," with type distributed. 4to. xviii, 527 pp. Illustrated from photographs, frontispiece from photogravure, title-page vignette. Publisher's illustrated prospectus (defective) laid in. Howes L-51. Very good. Original three-color and gilt-stamped decorated green cloth, top edge gilt. (10811). More
Woodstock, VA: W.N. Grabill, Power Press, 1902. Third edition, revised and extended by the author. 8vo. 403 pp. Howes K-102: "One of the best collections on early border wars; as it should be, being largely pirated from Doddridge." Owner's name on front endpaper, but a very good copy. Original black..... More
Portsmouth, VA: Printcraft Press, 1958. Second printing (first printed in 1931). 8vo. 235 pp. Illustrated from photographs. Very good. Gilt-stamped black cloth. (4424). More
Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1886. First edition, Neill's Series of Virginia History. Small 4to (23 cm.). 446, (1, corrections) pp. Title page printed in red and black. Howes N-45. Larned 1146: "The book is valuable as a collection of miscellaneous sort, brought together without criticism save as to the..... More
Chapel Hill 1960. First edition. In two volumes: Univ. of North Carolina Press, for the Virginia Historical Society, 1960. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: xiv, (2), 408; viii, (2), 409-883 pp. Plates, some from photographs, views, portraits, maps. Plates, some from photographs, views, portraits, maps. Vol. I, THE TIDEWATER PERIOD..... More
Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, 1961. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 386 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits, facsimiles. Prints the 43 letters from Marshall to his wife known at publication, along with letters from their children to their mother and other material. Light foxing in text and on edges, else..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Printed and sold by Prichard & Hall, 1788. First American edition. 8vo. (4), 244 pp. Eye-draught map of Madison's cave, tables [lacks folding plate listing Indian tribes]. Howes J-78. Sabin 35897. Sowerby 4167 (for the first edition, a 30-page entry). Verner 1788. Larned: "A Comprehensive and very valuable..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Carey & Hart, 1846-1848. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: 496; 528 pp. Sabin 33370. Howes H-739. Larned 3300 (quoting others): "The most comprehensive history of Virginia ... a pleasing writer, but sacrifices fact to rhetoric." Numbers eradicated from titles pages, rather persistent moderate foxing, a good copy. Rebound..... More
Charleston, SC: Wm. R. Babcock, 1856. Reprint (first published in 1845). 8vo. 544 pp. In-text wood engravings, plates, folding map (rumpled along a fold, short tear from hinge). Sabin 33301: "Mostly scissors and paste, but very well done." Howes H-722. Persistent light foxing, marginal pencil markings and notes, a good..... More
Charlottesville, (VA): Univ. Press of Virginia, (1969). Reprint of the 1929 original. 8vo. xviii, 634 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portraits, views. Very good. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth, glassine dust jacket. (10861). More
Charlottesville, VA: Historical Publishing Co., 1936. First edition. 8vo. 221 pp. After emigrating from France to the United States in 1816, Crozet taught at West Point and moved to Virginia in the 1820s to work as an engineer on the expanding railroad system, then helped found the Virginia Military Institute..... More
Washington, (DC): GPO, 1906. First edition. Thick 4to. Two volumes: 636; 611 pp. Facsimile plates. Vol. I: 1619-1622; Vol. II: 1622-1624. Two further volumes (not present here) published in the 1930s printed other documents concerning the company's interests. Very good. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth (rubbed). (10847). More
Washington, (DC): GPO, 1906 and 1933-1935. First edition. Thick 4to. 4 volumes: 636; 611; xx, 769; xviii, 637 pp. Facsimile plates. Vol. I: 1619-1622; Vol. II: 1622-1624; Vol. III: 1607-1622; Vol. IV: 1623-1626. The first two volumes print the Court Book, the final two print other documents concerning the company's..... More
Charlottesville, VA: The compiler and Velora C. Thomson, c1958. First edition. 8vo. (32) pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, map on rear wrapper. Historical sketches and descriptions of local sites, with side trips to Monticello and other nearby places. Inscribed by the publisher Thomson at the bottom of the title page..... More
Petersburg, VA: Printed by Edmund and Julian C. Ruffin, 1841. First edition. Tall 8vo. iv, 143, (1) pp. Map, in text. Sabin 9721. Howes B-1077. Larned 1125: "It is, without question, one of the most delightful of the literary legacies which [the colonial] age has handed down to ours" (quoting..... More
Petersburg, VA: Printed for the author by Dickson & Pescud [Volume IV: Printed by M.W. Dunnavant, for the Proprietors], 1804-1816. First edition. 8vo. 4 volumes: (2), ii, iv, 348; 335, lxii [appendix]; 469; vii, 538, xv [appendix], (2, errata leaf) pp. Folding plate in volume three. The first three volumes..... More
Washington, (DC): Printed by Duff Green, 1830. 8vo. 15 pp. [printed double-column]. The bill in question was designed to provide for the construction of a road from Buffalo, New York, through Washington, D. C., to New Orleans. Barbour (1783-1841), a native of Gordonsville, Virginia, served in the House, 1814-1825 and..... More
Pulaski, VA: B.D. Smith & Brothers, (c1910). First edition, a published dissertation. 8vo. (4), 126 pp. Work, p. 372. Not in LCP/HSP Afro-Americana or Blockson catalogue. Very good. Original printed gray wrappers (spine ends a somewhat frayed, some light chipping around edges). (4439). More
Bucklin, MO: Tri-State Printers, (c1954). First edition. 8vo. (7), 89 pp. Illustrated from photographs. "Autobiography" of Watson, a native of Missouri and one of the most prominent breeders and trainers of hounds, primarily beagles, for both hunting and field trials, in the first half of the 20th century. OCLC locates..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First edition. 8vo. 255, (1, index to songs) pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, double-fold panorama frontispiece view of the school; songs include both music and lyrics. Work, p. 418. LCP/HSP 660. Blockson catalogue 515. Original gilt-stamped green cloth (flecked, rear board severely). (10818)..... More
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1929. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: (14), 327, (1); (10), 352, (1) pp. Illustrated from old paintings, plates, illustrated endpapers. "Biographical story of the Old Dominion in the light of its contribution to the greatness of America ... no book could more ably..... More
Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 1941. First edition. 8vo. xxviii, (2), 622 pp. Facsimile plates. "The most complete revelation of the daily routine of a great plantation that has yet come to light in the South." Very good. Original tan cloth, decorated pink dust jacket (spine faded, some edgewear). (10831)... More
