Roberts nancy 1924 2008 (3 risultati)

Fifth printing of the University of South Carolina Press reprint edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 116 pages. Paperback: H 21.5cm x L 13.75cm. Stiff paper covers rubbed with minor wear at edges, slight curling at front cover's fore-edge corners, light crease near rear cover's fore-edge, silver and white large oval "Autographed Copy" sticker affixed at front cover's lower left. Touch of soiling to edges. Author's boldly written blue ink signature upon the half-title page. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. Classic book of Carolina ghost stories by Nancy Roberts (later Nancy C. Brown after a divorce from her photographer husband) first published in 1962. Features eighteen accounts of apparitions and hauntings in North Carolina and South Carolina titled as follows: "The Talking Corpse;" "The Hound of Goshen;" "The Ring;" "The Phantom Rider of Bush River;" "The Witch Cat;" "The Gray Man;" "Tsali, the Cherokee Brave;" "The Ghost of Litchfield;" "City of Death;" "Treasure Hunt;" "House of the Opening Door;" "The Ghosts of Hagley;" "Return from the Dead;" "Whistle While You Haunt;" "The Brown Mountain Lights;" "Alice of the Hermitage;" "The Night the Spirits Called;" and "Swamp Girl." With a Foreword by Legette Blythe and b/w photographs by Bruce Roberts. {RegAm-Shelf#1} ISBN 0872495876.…

Second edition, ninth printing (as stated upon copyright page) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [8], 63 pages. Hardcover: H 27.75cm x L 22cm. Dust jacket rubbed, foxing to lightly soiled white rear panel and to flaps; wear at spine and flap fold ends; front flap's top corner is price-clipped. Black cloth with bright silver stamped spine lettering. Slight foxing to text block edges. Author's boldly written brown ink signature upon the title page. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Else a near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Classic book of Carolina ghost stories by Nancy Roberts (later Nancy C. Brown after a divorce from her photographer husband) first published in 1962. Features eighteen accounts of apparitions and hauntings in North Carolina and South Carolina titled as follows: "The Talking Corpse;" "The Hound of Goshen;" "The Ring;" "The Phantom Rider of Bush River;" "The Witch Cat;" "The Gray Man;" "Tsali, the Cherokee Brave;" "The Ghost of Litchfield;" "City of Death;" "Treasure Hunt;" "House of the Opening Door;" "The Ghosts of Hagley;" "Return from the Dead;" "Whistle While You Haunt;" "The Brown Mountain Lights;" "Alice of the Hermitage;" "The Night the Spirits Called;" and "Swamp Girl." With a Foreword by Legette Blythe and b/w photographs by Bruce Roberts. {RegAm-Shelf#2} ISBN 0872495876.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 2nd printing] 175 p. illus. 20 x 24 cm. LCCN 72089345 ISBN 9780385043021, 0385043023 OCLC 707066 LC F260 .R62 Dewey 917.56044 ; green and yellow cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; nick to dustjacket ; Contents: The goodliest land -- The Outer Banks beckon -- Surf fishing is their heritage -- North Carolina's living Williamsburg -- Thank you, Earl of Hertford -- A capitol from the Woods of Wake -- Chapel Hill, the first state university -- The mission of Sam Ragan -- Orton Plantation -- Eastern North carolina, an undiscovered song -- The golden weed -- North Carolina's woman doctor -- Passing of the general store -- The dreaming miller -- The hamlet station, storehouse of memories -- Where have all the Tom Sawyers gone? -- The Piedmont, growth, concrete and culture -- America's first gold rush happened here -- Molasses making in th southern highlands -- Their name is on our waters -- The other world of John West -- Folkways of the coves and hollers -- Thomas Wolfe and "Altamont" -- The mountains are a-changing -- Can we keep the goodliest land? ; FINE/VG. Book. …