Thomas B Turner Editors (3 results)

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided). viii, 144 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket toned with several small stains; shallow wear to spine head; front flap retains publisher's printed price at top right. Reddish-brown cloth; spine ends bumped; spine's black and gilt stamping remains bright. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. With Acknowledgements, Foreword by editors Joan Warren McRaney and Carolyn Vance Smith, b/w illustrations, Biographical Notes of Contributors, and Index. Features eight essays which were delivered to members of Natchez Historical Society in 1973: HUGH COYLE by Amanda White Geisenberger, WILLIAM DUNBAR, EARLY SCIENTIST by Lucianne Wood, BISHOP WILLIAM MERCER GREEN by Louis O'Vander Thomas, SEARGENT SMITH PRENTISS by Florence Campbell Klotz, GENERAL JOHN ANTHONY QUITMAN AND THE NATCHEZ OF HIS ERA by Troy B. Watkins, ANDREW ELLICOTT 1754-1820 by Jane Sanders McLaurin, MR. AND MRS. PETER LITTLE by Sarah Gordon Turner Hicks, and MANUEL GAYOSO DE LEMOS by R. Bruce Davis. {MS-Shelf #4}.…

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE CO-EDITOR. viii, 144 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket stained with some associated rippling; light soiling; small chip at front panel's top left with some other edge-nicks; front flap is not price-clipped; dj is now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Reddish-brown cloth with black and gilt stamping to spine. Light soiling to top edge. Four-line ink inscription "To Hortense and Hunter | with love, | Carolyn Vance Smith | Christmas, 1974" on front free endpaper followed by an additional three-line note on page viii. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A near fine copy in a good+ dust jacket. With Acknowledgements, Foreword by editors Joan Warren McRaney and Carolyn Vance Smith, b/w illustrations, Biographical Notes of Contributors, and Index. Features eight essays which were delivered to members of Natchez Historical Society in 1973: HUGH COYLE by Amanda White Geisenberger, WILLIAM DUNBAR, EARLY SCIENTIST by Lucianne Wood, BISHOP WILLIAM MERCER GREEN by Louis O'Vander Thomas, SEARGENT SMITH PRENTISS by Florence Campbell Klotz, GENERAL JOHN ANTHONY QUITMAN AND THE NATCHEZ OF HIS ERA by Troy B. Watkins, ANDREW ELLICOTT 1754-1820 by Jane Sanders McLaurin, MR. AND MRS. PETER LITTLE by Sarah Gordon Turner Hicks, and MANUEL GAYOSO DE LEMOS by R. Bruce Davis. {MS-Shelf #3}.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1/2 black cloth & brown cloth over boads, gold titles, illustrated mustard endpapers / pastedown, coloured frontis, & numerous charts / tables in the text; A near fine copy; 537 pages.