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New York: Neale Publishing, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. Good orange cloth. Ex library w. book pocket, embossing. plates. Octavo, 410 pages, orange cloth; x-library, withdrawn, but with markings as expected. Chapter 13 is "Golf at the White". Chapter 10, "Their Pilgrimage" was taken from Charles Dudley Warner. Extensively illustrated.

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New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1906. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. 8vo. (9 1/8" x 6 1/8"); in the publisher's orange cloth, top edge gilt, 410 pages, including the index; with frontispiece; and 48 additional photographic illustrations (of which 6 have scribbled on in the margins in pencil; this copy is signed by the author on the front endpaper, with a personal inscription to his friend, Col. John D. Potts; there is an additional ownership name on the pastedown: "Lucy Pendleton Bell | Wytheville | Virginia | Southern Book Company | April 1941". The endpaper has a number of small indentations.~~Krick's comments illuminated the importance of "The White" in the post Civil War era: "The Springs was one of the favorite watering spots of prominent~19th Century Southerners. Governor MacCorkle's informal history of the resort provides interesting material on some of the leading men who made it their headquarters for rest and recreation ... A chapter on Dry Creek, August… Read More

New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1916. Hard Cover. Good binding. Octavo. 410 pp., frontis, maps, plates. First edition. As issued, in orange cloth; all plates are present as called for. Spine is darkened; a significant snag and resulting closed tears to the cloth has been suitably mended; covers are a trifle soiled; contents are largely clean; hinges starting, but holding. Gift inscription from a Greenbrier manager to Granville Valentine; and later an inscription by Valentine gifting this book to "Wilton"; Wilton's bookplate on the front pastedown. Valentine was a member of a prominent Virginia family. Krick calls this a "well written" book and notes that the author "deals primarily with the history of the place from the 18th Century to its resurgence after the Civil War. A chapter on the Battle of Dry Creek, August 27-28, 1864, will interest students of the war, as will a description of the successful effort to thwart David Hunter's eager torch" Neale Books 297.