Douglas Summers Brown (26 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Staplebound softcover, staining to covers. Light foxing to endpapers and fore edge. Contents clean. 91 pages, b&w illus.

unknown. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st. Covers lightly stained and faded, worn at spine ends and corners. Front cover and spine and first two pages mostly detached from text block, still attached to back cover. Inner hinge broken in several places, one page detached, light foxing. Dust jacket very edge worn and chipped with large piece torn out of front, damp stain on back, now in protective cover.Number 10 of limited first edition. "A history of Lynchburg's [Virginia] earliest and most Romantic period -- a story of those brave, quaint People, the Quakers.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. 2nd Edition. 118 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Book. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Book is clean, tight and unmarked in DJ with a 1 inch squarish piece missing from the top edge of the back panel. Other small tears. Photographs (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. LIMITED EDITION. A history of Lynchburg's earliest settlers - the Quakers. Illustrated. Some Foxing.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1968 2nd printing, Near Fine/VG DJ in Mylar, price-clipped dustjacket has tiny tear/light wear at head of spine, a few tiny rubs on spine, sticker shadow on cover, 2 small prices blacked out on rear cover, in new Mylar, sound binding & firm corners, clean unmarked pages, dot-size stain on fore-edge of textblock.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fine hard cover. Very Good DJ with edgewear.

Wraps. Condition: Fine. 1st edition, Limited and numbered. (ca. 1990) 1st edition. A Fine copy. 4to., 5pp., illustrated with b&w photographs and 77 facsimile pages of Charles B. Coale's The Life and Adventures of Wilburn Waters. Tan, illustrated dual-stapled paper wraps. Hand numbered copy, in the high 200s. Wilburn Waters (1812-1879) was a one-man wildlife exterminating machine, earning money from, and eating, the animals that he killed. He was praised by Appalachian farmers for single-handedly wiping out the wolf population along the North Carolina-Tennessee state line (It has never recovered). During the Daniel Boone-craze of the 1950's, a monument to Waters was erected in Tuckerdale, NC.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited Edition; 170/1000 Copies. Non-circulating library copy. Name/address stamped on top outside edges (crossed out) and on the title page. Security label on inside rear cover. Browned newspaper article about Greensville pasted to the verso of the endpaper. Edgeworn, loose and stained DJ has multiple edge tears. ; Ex-Library; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 439 pages; Extra postage required for priority and international shipping.…

Hardcover. Limied edition 944 of 1,000. 439 pgs. Appendices; bibliography; illustrations. Very good hardcover copy in fair dust jacket. Small portion of dust jacket missing at upper front corner. (849).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good hardcover in a Very Good dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Overall a bright and attractive copy. Gift inscription to the half-title page, otherwise no markings to the text. Illustrated. Minor aging to the dust jacket, though no tears or chips. 327 pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Quarto. 327 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in teal cloth and a white and red dust jacket, now in mylar. The jacket shows wear with some edge tears. Rubbing and soiling, especially on the rear panel. Outside edges of the text block are foxed. The book is sound and clean. Map endpapers. Illustrated with some photos.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. #653 of 1,000 printed; 1st printing; dj w/torn flap, lite discolorations (age-related); in mylar; maps on end papers; 439 claan, unmarked pages/index. B/w Illus (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover. Size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. 1049 pages. Indexed. Good condition. Marker writing on bottom edge. Highlight marks in introductory pages / part of index. All other pages clean.

[8] pp. (folded); 20.3 x 22.8 cm. (folded); black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Folded exhibition booklet published in conjunction with show held October 8 - November 27, 1983. Organized by Lynn Gumpert, Ned Rifkin, and Marcia Tucker. Includes text by Marcia Tucker. Artists include Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Douglas Davis, Eleanor Dube, Lauren Ewing, John Fekner, Howard Finster, Vernon Fisher, Alfred Jensen, Brad Melamed, Claire Moore, Adrian Piper, Earl Ripling, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Irvin Tepper, Anne Turyn, Lawrence Weiner, William T. Wiley, Nicholas Africano, John Ahearn, Rigoberto Torres, Terry Allen, Joan Brown, Claudia Fitch, James Hill, Joseph Hilton, Luis Jimenez, Barry LeVa, Linda Montano, Ree Morton, Howardena Pindell, Mike Roddy, David Saunders, Pat Steir, Terry Sullivan, Jamie Summers, William Wegman, Grace Williams, Mr. Apology, Dara Birnbaum, Bruce Charlesworth, Robert Cumming, Jamie Davidovich, Keith Haring, Donald Lipski, Steve Miller, Richard Prince, Erika Rothenberg, Al Souza, Mark Tansey, Nancy Arlen, Lynda Benglis, Tom Butter, Ed Flood, Ron Gorchov, Al Held, Bill Jensen, Steve Keister, Brice Marden, Elizabeth Murray, David Reed, Dorothea Rockburne, Joel Shapiro, and Gary Stephan. Good. Rubbing of covers and edgewear. Sticker and sticker residue on recto cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Limited 8545/1000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: About good. Assumed first. Book itself is Very Good, DJ has unclosed tears at top and bottom but is intact and Good. No library markings or pockets. Owner's name in longhand, in ink, at top of 1st pastedown. Endpapers as county map in front and Chase City in back. Pages are all tight. A few tiny spots of foxing on fore edge but not on interior. No underling or highlighting. Photo section. See our photos. Six copies, printed as a book, on Worldcat/OCLC. See our photos.…

Hardcover. dj. First Edition. 8vo. 118 pp. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper. Rare title. **OCLC** lists one [1] institutional holding at the Minnesota Genealogical Society Library, Mendoza Heights, MN. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket that has a couple of creases and a scrape on the front panel.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with green cloth over boards, golden lettering across cover and along spine. Yellow DJ with green text and illustration. Three open tears at top edge of DJ, neither extending even half an inch into cover, do not touch text. DJ encased in protective brodart sleeve to prevent further damage. Title page dated 1968. Copyright page dated only 1968, states "Of this book one thousand copies have been printed and the type destroyed", hand-labeled number 597. xii + 439 pages. Black and white photographs featured throughout text. Former owner's name written discreetly at top of half title page. Pages otherwise clean and bright. Binding neat and tight. Please email us with questions or to request photos.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 440 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Modest rubbing to corners; spine ends a bit bumped. Previous owner's name on verso of frontispiece. #316 of 1000 copies. DJ lightly soiled and wrinkled w/ light wear and few short tears to edges. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents nice.…

Condition: Very Good. Very Good; Hardcover; 1975 Printing; Light wear to the covers; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.2 lbs; Red cloth covers with title in gold lettering; 1973, Reprint Co Publishing; 334 pages; "A City Without Cobwebs;: a History of Rock Hill, South Carolina," by Douglas Summers Brown.…

Hardcover. Hardcover second printing in gilt-lettered blue cloth covers that remain very bright, clean. Contents clean, bright, unmarked, with some lower corner tips lightly creased. DJ worn, with one-inch jagged tear on front panel and another one-inch tear on rear panel. .

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 208. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1936 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 208.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Used Very Good Condition without Dust Jacket, Signed by Author. Minor bumps/wear at edges/corners. Pages are clean and bright. Mild Damage to Spine Integrity. Signed By Author.