Janice, I enjoyed reading about your great grandfather, Louis Emory Hall. :-)

Yes, I too absolutely love these books! I could hardly put them down when I "discovered" them via Google Book Search. About a week or two after I came back down from Cloud 9, I called my local Barnes & Noble to see if I could order a South Carolina edition (my primary research state) but was informed that only Georgia is in print for about $65 at their store.

They are gems indeed, and having an original would be quite the coup. I'd be happy, however, just having a copy. I'll poke around Ebay (thanks for the tip), maybe there is a way to secure an original for the price of a copy... A woman's allowed to dream, no? ;-)

Blessings,

J