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Anniston, Ala. Norwood Print, 1917. 8vo, stapled folding booklet, numerous photographic views, two maps. Illustrated promotional booklet for the town of Anniston, Alabama. Damp stained, soiled, chipping to first leaf.
Anniston, Ala. Norwood Print, 1917. 8vo, stapled folding booklet, numerous photographic views, two maps. Illustrated promotional booklet for the town of Anniston, Alabama. Damp stained, soiled, chipping to first leaf.
Knoxville, Tennessee: Whig and Chronicle Printing Co's Steam Job Office, 1878. 8vo, 66pp, original green printed wrappers. Small broadside invitation laid in for an 1879 receptions for new students at the Knoxville YMCA. A very good copy with creasing to text block, minor toning to pages and soiling to covers.....
Houston, Texas: Passenger Department Southern Pacific Sunset Route, Circa 1910. 8 x 5.25", green wrappers with illustrations of sugar bowl and sugar cane plants, [36] pp, illustrations from photographs and from drawings. In excellent condition with mild fading to wrappers. An unusual promotional booklet for the "Sunset Route" of the.....
Raleigh, N.C. John Spelman, Printer to the State, 1861. Octavo, 240, iv, 268, iv pp, original quarter light brown calf with dark brown cloth over boards, gilt and morocco spine label. Confederate imprint. Covers the "Second Extra Session" of the North Carolina assembly, held in August and September, 1861, during.....
Boston: T.G. Bradford, 1838. Original hand colored map measuring 14.25 x 11.5", originally published in Thomas Gamaliel Bradford's "An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical, And Historical, Of The United States And The Adjacent Countries." In nice condition with a bit of toning, foxing, and creasing.
Atlanta, Ga. Constitution Job Office, 1891. Octavo, tan printed wrappers, 11 pp. In very good condition with toning creasing, tiny chip to lower corner of text, tiny chips to three corners of front wrapper.
Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Company, 1927. 8vo, 365pp, original maroon cloth with gilt. First edition. This copy with gift inscription to front pastedown from Robert Heriot, a prominent justice with the North Carolina Supreme Court. Good plus with damage to endpapers, scuffing to text block edges, soiling to covers.
Tougaloo, Mississippi: Tougaloo College, 1936 to 1947. Three issues of this quarterly newspaper issued by the Historically Black College in Mississippi. Small folios, each 4 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs. Includes issues for May, 1936; May, 1938, and May, 1947. With articles on staff, students, alumni, school events, and.....
No Place of Publication: Circa 1920s to 1940s. 9.75 x 6.5", black leather wrappers, unpaginated. Typescript history of the Morrison family that originated off the coast of Scotland on the Isle of Lewis. Focuses primarily on Morrison family members in America, particularly Virginia, Tennessee, Texas and the American South. Includes.....
Charleston, S.C. Walker, Evans & Cogswell, Co, 1913. 9.75 x 6.75", beige cloth covers with red cloth spine, gilt spine lettering, variously paginated, several sections printed in variously colored paper. Front hinge cracked, pages toned, covers worn with front cover lettering rubbed. A rare Jim-Crow era directory for the city.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1908. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt, 387 pp. Illustrated with many photographic plates. Fading and discoloration to covers, spine lettering faded, spine toned, light toning to pages.
Columbia: The State Company, 1923. First Edition. 8vo, green cloth with gilt spine lettering, 611 pp, illustration plates and folding maps. Ownership inscriptions and notes of Nellie R. Farwell of New Orleans. Two Williamsburg, SC postcards laid in bearing additional notes by Farwell. Soiling and discoloration to covers, bit of.....
Boston and New York: Houghton MIfflin Company/The Riverside Press, 1891. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, 211 pp. This copy inscribed by the author, Charles Colcock Jones Jr, who was a prominent Georgia politician, attorney, and author, as well as the the mayor of Savannah immediately prior to Sherman's March.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1905. First Edition. 8vo, tan cloth with gilt lettering, 424 pp. First edition, first printing. Bookplate of W. Wilkinson to front pastedown. Front pastedown inscribed by Robert W. Pomeroy, a member of Camden's winter colony, together with "See P. 128." A good copy with.....
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. 8vo, blue cloth, with dust jacket, 886 pp. First edition, first printing, with complete number line down to one and original $29.95 price intact. Van Woodward won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for History for this work. This copy inscribed by Van Woodward.....
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. 8vo, blue cloth, with dust jacket, 886 pp. First edition, first printing, with complete number line down to one and original $29.95 price intact. Van Woodward won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for History for this work. This copy signed by Van Woodward.....
[Edgefield, South Carolina]: Sarah Rainsford Collett, 1951. 8vo, original blue cloth, 51pp. Collection of poems by an Edgefield, South Carolina resident. A bright copy with wear and discoloration to covers.
Washington DC: Thomas McGill, Printer, 1860. 8vo, original brown cloth, 294pp. A collection of posthumously published essays, stories, and poems about the South, including content on Maris Gras, Native Americans, Louisiana Creoles, customs, New Orleans, Mississippi, and more. Covers faded, minor toning and foxing to pages, small stain to text.....
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1906. 8vo, 169pp, original green cloth with gilt cover title. A collection of stories of plantation life in the old South, written by a Raleigh woman whose family owned eight estates in the area. The author was 65 when she wrote these reminiscenes, not intended for.....
Singer's Glen, VA: Joseph Funk's Sons, Printers, 1869. 8vo, blue printed wrappers, 48 pp. First edition. Mild chipping and sunning to wrappers, damp staining along spine.
Charleston, South Carolina: Walker, Evans and Co, 1860. First edition. 8vo, original black decorative cloth with gilt lettering to center of front cover, 190pp plus a section of blank leaves with printed headers at the end. The text faithfully records each gravestone inscription in the cemetery. This copy inscribed by.....
Nashville: McQuiddy Press, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 108pp, blue cloth with gilt lettering. Book of courtroom anecdotes by the radio country music star and founder of the grand ole opry. About very good with staining and discoloration to covers, toning to pages.
Privately Printed, 1916. First edition. 8vo, 198pp, green boards with cloth spine, paper spine label. North Carolina author. Inscribed by author to front endpaper, dated 1917. A very good copy, bit toned, bit of staining to front cover.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1930. 8vo, black cloth with gilt spine lettering, [12], 245 pp, photographic illustration plates. First Edition. Includes much on slavery, cotton culture, the Civil War and the African American population of the Southern Sea Islands. By a pioneering woman historian at the.....
New York: Latham, Alexander & Co, 1893. 8vo, original teal cloth with gilt and silver lettering, 164pp. A guide to the cotton market, covering both production in the American South and export to Europe. An atttractive copy with a bit of soiling and toning.