Bryant H E C Red Buck (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 16mo. 39, [1] pages. Soft cover bound in tan stapled wrappers. The binding shows rubbing and wear and there is a tear at the top edge of the front cover. Illustrated with three photos. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the author inside the front cover, "Compliments of H. E. C. Bryant". Beneath this in a different hand is written "and Betty Bryant Northcutt / Xmas 1946". Booklet has been palced in protective mylar sleeve with cardboard backing. A scarce North Carolina imprint. The front cover and title page is dated July, 1944. Henry Edward Cowan Bryant (1873-1967) was a journalist and political commentator born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Bryant covered Charles B. Aycock's campaign for governor and covered most Democratic Conventions and wrote of prohibition and the KKK. In 1931 he joined the Washington staff of the Boston Herald, and after his wife's death in 1943 he moved back to North Carolina and eventually hung his hat with the Charlotte Observer. This little booklet was published a year after his wife's death. He had married "Miss Eva" of Lincolnton, N.C. in 1900, and his writes a little of her early life in Lincolnton as well as extensively on their life together while he was a journalist. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condition: Good. 1st edition. 1st edition. A Good copy. 12mo., 218 pp., illustrated with a photo-frontispieceand plates. Bound in checked cloth (gingham) with pine branches and cones design. Spine backstop missing. Covers soiled. Occasional finger soiling to text. Previous owner's name on the front end paper. Hinges strong. Text dialog written in dialect.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Gingham cloth-covered boards with decorative stamping of pinecones, and green lettering on the front cover. Small paste down affixed to spine with black lettering. Cloth is frayed at the corners and smudged. Stamping remains bright and handsome. Rear gutter is cracked, muslin remains intact and binding is strong. Pencil markings on front free endpaper. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of children titled, "Nine Little Tar Heels". Title page is dated 1910. Copyright page dated 1909. 218 pages. Ten photographic plates in total. Interiors are clean and unmarked. Overall, a fair copy. Henry Edward Cowan ("Red Buck") Bryant, journalist and political commentator. He was an active journalist for seventy-two of his ninety-four years.…