Covington, Virginia: The Chamber of Commerce of Covington, Virginia, 1907. Octavo, 9.25 x 6.25", grey stapled wrappers, photographic illustrations, folding frontispiece view of Covington. A promotional booklet touting the agricultural and industrial richness of Alleghany County, Virginia. 15 in OCLC. A very good copy with staining to covers, slight toning.....
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.
Greenville, South Carolina: Published Annually by the Students of Furman University, 1902. Oblong quarto, green cloth with gilt, 135, [14] pp. Furman University yearbook. Covers worn and discolored, foxing and smudging to pages, good.
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.....
[Columbia, South Carolina]: [South Carolina College], [1860]. Broadside measuring 9.75 x 8.5". A rare broadside printing the order of exercises for a celebration of John C. Calhoun's birthday held at South Carolina College (today the University of South Carolina) in March, 1860, on the eve of secession. The celebration began.....
Asheville, North Carolina: 1880s. A collection of eight album leaves, each measuring 11.5 x 10.25", containing 30 photographs, including 26 albumen photographs of North Carolina, with images measuring between 7 x 5" and 8.25 x 6.5". Some images accompanied by handwritten captions on the album leaves, and many images are.....
Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana: 1862-63. A collection of eight letters, totaling 24 pages, handwritten in ink and pencil. The letters were sent by Zachariah Jordan Howell, and his brother-in-law Joseph Dickson Whitworth, while serving in the Confederate Army with Company A, 25th Louisiana Infantry, also known as the “Caddo Guards.”.....
Elloree, South Carolina: Circa 1900. Broadside measuring 7.5 x 4.75" and four printed labels, each 2.5 x 1.25", each placed into corners on a single leaf measuring 8.5 x 11". The broadside and two of the labels are easily removable, while the other two labels are additionally pasted onto the.....
Salem, North Carolina: Wachovia Kennels, 1892. Single leaf printed to recto only, 14.5 x 8.75". A broadside issued by a North Carolina dog breeder, advertising a raffle in which customers could win either a St. Bernard puppy, an English Mastiff, or a Pug. Folding creases to paper, lower corners creased.....
Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1943. Quarto, string tied wrappers, 33 pp, illustrated. Collection of University of Georgia songs and cheers. Staining and wear to covers.
Houston, Texas: Passenger Department Southern Pacific Sunset Route, Circa 1910. Wraps. 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.....
Germanton, North Carolina: 1859 to 1868. Ledger binding of marbled boards with leather spine, 7.75 x 6.25", containing 31 pages of ink manuscript as well as many blank pages. A ledger kept by Adison C. Myers of Germanton, Stokes County, North Carolina, documenting the management of land inherited by his.....
Mount Prospect, Mississippi: 1840. Manuscript letter, 8.5 x 11", three pages, sent in January, 1840 by Mary Brougher of Mount Prospect, in Tippah County, Mississippi, to Jane Craig of Hudsonville, Mississippi. Toning to paper, separations along folds. Brougher was from a pioneering Mississippi family, daughter of Frederic Brougher, a native.....
Oxford, North Carolina: Press of Oxford Orphanage, 1920s. Octavo, 9.5 x 6.5", green illustrated wrappers, 122 pp. A North Carolina community cookbook published by an unnamed women's group, which newspaper records reveal was the Woman's Auxiliary of the Episcopal Church in Monroe, North Carolina. The first edition was published in.....
Philadelphia: O.W. Gray & Son, 1883. Folio, original brown cloth with titles in gilt to front cover, leather corners and spine, 224, [38] pp. Contains state and city maps, world maps, a geological map, a climatological map, and more. This edition contains nine unpaginated maps at the end of North.....
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.
No Place of Publication: Circa 1910. Small oblong booklet, 6.25 x 3.5", grey stapled wrappers, 5, [1] pp. A promotional booklet for the North Carolina resort town of Pinebluff, located "75 miles South of Raleigh N.C. on the Seaboard Air Line R.R.." Includes two pages of "Facts Which Attract the.....
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.
Savannah, Georgia: Printed for the Society, 1897. 8vo, beige wrappers, 29 pp. Proceedings of a dedication ceremony for Hodgson Hall, designed for use by the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah by prominent architect Detlef Lienau, the founder of the American Institute of Architects. Front cover detached and soiled, with corner.....
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.
[North Carolina]: [1928]. Octavo, stapled booklet, 16 pp, photographic illustrations. A racist appeal to white voters to cast their ballot for Al Smith in the 1928 presidential election. The text argues that the Republican party was the party of African Americans, for example by printing a statement W.E.B. Dubois made.....
New Orleans: Southern Pine Association, 1920s. Quarto, 12.75 x 9.75", color illustrated cover, illustrations from drawings throughout. A book of designs for "Southern Pine Garages" published by the Southern Pine Association in order to promote lumber sales. Each page of the book folds out accordion style; on one side is.....
Coral Gables, Florida: Dammers & Gillette and Harry A. Burnes, Circa 1920s. Folio, single folded leaf, [4] pp, illustrations from drawings and photographs. Large folding advertisements for Coral Gables by Dammers & Gillette and Harry A. Burnes, "Selling Agents for George. E. Merrick Properties." Merrick was the original developer of.....
Sumter, South Carolina: Hasty's Wonder Remedy Co., Circa 1910. Broadside measuring 12 x 9", promoting Hasty's Health Restorer, a "Blood Purifier and Body Builder" offered by a patent medicine company based in Sumter, South Carolina. The text advertises the extraordinary nature of the medicine: "Hasty's Health Restorer will positively cleanse.....
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.....