John Charles Smith Compiler (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The Pattern Of Poetry. The Poetry Society Verse Speaking Anthology. Compiled By William Kean Seymour And John Smith. With Illustrations. Please note some stock images show a jacket, this copy does NOT include a jacket. Previous owner's ink inscription. Ink ticks in the contents list Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.…

Presumed first edition (no direct statement but with matching dates upon title and copyright pages). 312 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket (as issued?). Pebbled black cloth; light rubbing to boards; residue from removed sticker at lower spine with some shallow overlap onto adjoining lower boards; slight dulling/flaking to front board and spine's stamping but all still easily legible. Some foxing to text block edges; past owner's name/address label affixed to front pastedown; interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. Laid-in at front endpapers is the author's promotional brochure/order form announcing the first printing of Volume III and reprintings of preceding Volumes I and II. With Preface, a few b/w plates, and Index. Features fourteen essays regarding various facets of regional history of which the more interesting titles are: "Some Economic and Social Aspects of the History of Cullman, Alabama" by John Clinton Bright; "An Early Fayette County Home" by Marguerite T. Callahan; "Recollections of Olden Days" by Bertha Massey King; Early History of Winston County, Alabama Schools" by Sallie P. West; "The Pursuit and Capture of Streight's Raiders" by John A. Wyeth; "Some Recollections of My Family" by Andrew Lee Massey; "From Oxcarts to Diesels: A History of Hanceville, Alabama" by Emmie Alldredge Smith; "The Civil War as Seen by Captain Isaac Jasper Rogers" by Charles E. Wilson; and "History of Marion County" by a Committee of School Teachers. Series compiler Carl Atwood Elliott (1913-1999) served eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's northwestern 7th Congressional District from January 1949 to January 1965. {AL-Shelf#1}.…