L & T Respess Books
Specializing in Rare Americana, Southern & Other Regional Americana, English & American Literature, Hunting & Fishing, Manuscripts, Ephemera, General Antiquarian
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.
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Recently added catalogues
102 selections, among them — African Americana, Agriculture, Almanacs, Automobiles, Books & Publishing, Civil War, Harvard, Bowdoin, States, Nations, Mexican War, Moravian Domestic Art, Religion, Women, World Wars I & II, and the formats include books, manuscripts, documents, photos
LIST 362: THOMAS JEFFERSON AND HIS TIME, Supplement 2, 189 items Books, Pamphlets, and Exhibition Ca
This supplement presents Jefferson and his time in works issued in wrappers.
LIST 362: THOMAS JEFFERSON AND HIS TIME, Supplement 1, 142 items Popular Biographies, Scholarly Book
First editions priced $10 each
This list and its two supplements present works by and about Thomas Jefferson, about his times, about places where he lived and visited, buildings that he designed, people to which he was related and many with whom he worked in a total of 485 entries.
77 ITEMS: African-Americana, Civil War, Military, States from Alabama to Wisconsin, Almanacs, Automobiles, Entertainment, Literature
55 items, on guns for hunting primarily, covering topics such as handling them, marksmanship, collections, dueling, muzzle-loaders, gunsmithing, clubs, trapshooting, makers such as Purdey, Parker, Remington, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, engravers, English and Italian guns in books, pamphlets, periodicals, and manuscripts — plus archery
Books, Manuscripts, and Ephemera, 52 Items: Bahamas, Barbados, Columbus, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, St. John, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Cruise-Ship Lines, Sugar Trade, Promotionals
142 items, on such topics as African-Amercana, bibliography, cities, counties, regions, Indigenous Americans, agriculture, education, religion, the American Revolution, genealogy, and architecture, among others
118 items, books, pamphlets, manuscripts, artwork, and ephemera: primarily American, especially the American South, on dogs, decoys, duck, goose, wild turkey, grouse, pheasant, ornithology, guns, shooting, including Derrydales and other limited editions, many signed or inscribed
148 items on Tennessee history, geography, Smoky Mountains, cities and towns, education, business, crime and law, Civil War, medicine, religion, transportation, agriculture and husbandry, horses — in formats including books, pamphlets, broadsides, maps, photographs, manuscripts, and ephemera.
Books, Manuscripts, and Ephemera — 43 items including surgery, chiropractic, dentistry, mental health, optometry, pathology, urology, springs, popular medicine, mathematics, and agricultural sciences
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