L & T Respess Books

Specializing in Rare Americana, Southern & Other Regional Americana, English & American Literature, Hunting & Fishing, Manuscripts, Ephemera, General Antiquarian

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About

Since 1980 we have bought and sold used and rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, maps, photographs, and prints. Our subject concentrations are in regional Americana, particularly the South, African-Americana, and the Civil War, as well as English and American literature, fishing, hunting, other sports, and books about books. Ensuring variety, we have a mix of antiquarian material in other fields, such as the arts, science, medicine, economics, and law. At irregular intervals, we issue catalogues. Visitors making appointments are welcome in our office as are enquiries from those selling material such as we stock.

Terms of Sale

Items are offered subject to prior sale. With prior notice, returns may be made for any reason but only in the condition in which received, full refund, return postage at the customer's expense usually, and sent as shipped out, securely packaged, within 10 days of receipt. Sales to members of the trade may include a reciprocal discount.

Members

  • Linwood M. Respess, Jr.

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P.O. Box 776, Northampton, MA 01061-0776
(413) 727-3435

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August 6, 2024


130 ITEMS: Novels, story collections, poetry, memoirs, children’s books — books, pamphlets, broadsides, periodicals — widely known, such as Eudora Welty and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and little known — signed, inscribed, and without association

June 19, 2023

132 Items: Books, pamphlets, broadsides, printed ephemera, maps, and manuscripts — cities and counties, Appalachia, agriculture, education, medicine, religion, freemasonry, politics, business, transportation, fossil fuels, Civil War, women, and other topics.

February 20, 2023

130 items: Books, pamphlets, broadsides, printed ephemera, and manuscripts — cities and counties, Outer Banks to Appalachians, agriculture, tobacco, education, medicine, religion, politics, railroads, Lost Colony, American Revolution, Civil War, women, and other topics.

January 10, 2023

All of these items were originally published in wrappers. A few of them have since been bound in leather or cloth, and of these, some have the wrappers bound in while others lack the wrappers. Copies removed from bindings usually lack one or both of the wrappers. The description for each item indicates the particulars of its binding. Offered are 96 items that include unit histories, battle accounts, Confederate imprints, biographies and autobiographies, illustrated works, published letters, and addresses.

August 2, 2022

115 items, topics include African-Americana, biographies of Virginians, Thomas Jefferson among them, the colonial era, the Revolution, towns and cities, law, literature, religion, medicine, education, and the universities

May 1, 2020

57 items, an assortment of formats, prints among them, on the Southern States — topical examples are abolition, agriculture, banking, horses, law, music, presidents, racism

May 1, 2020

227 items, among them art, architecture, binding and other book arts, children's books, Limited Editions Club, music, photography, and a few sports and sciences, by authors from Austen to Yeats, primarily books but also a few signed photographs and letters

May 9, 2018

72 books, pamphlets, broadsides, printed ephemera, manuscripts, and photographs concerning the Southern Appalachians, from Maryland and West Virginia south through Georgia — topics include African Americans, Natives, natural resources and mining, tourism, the Civil War, politics, railroads, and development

September 12, 2017

151 broadsides, ephemera, manuscripts, posters, maps, books, and pamphlets, concerning African Americans, slavery, abolition, and racism, listed variously by state or topic (Civil War, politics, cinema, theater, and music, for example).

January 3, 2017

122 books, broadsides, ephemera, manuscripts, maps, and pamphlets, concerning the South and its states, cities, locales; people, of indigenous, African, and European heritage; history; law, medicine, business, agriculture; organizations, religious, military, masonic, racist; and wars, the Revolution, the War of 1816, the Civil War and Confederacy.

August 31, 2016