THE COUNTY OF WARREN NORTH CAROLINA 1586-1917
1959 · Chapel Hill
by Wellman, Manly Wade
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1959. Large octavo. Gray cloth. Portrait and photographs. Some small smudges on fore-edge, otherwise near fine in dust jacket. First edition of this substantial work of local history by the accomplished pulp fantasist and miscellaneous writer. An excellent association copy, inscribed on the half-title: "To My Dad my local history indeed Manly." Wellman's father, Frederick Creighton Wellman (1873-1960), was an expert in tropical medicine, who also wrote fiction under the better known pseudonym Cyril Kay- Scott and the lesser known pseudonym, Richard Irving Carson. (Inventory #: WRCLIT83004)