Booneville, Mississippi: Joe K. Alley, (1953). First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, [vi], 79, [1] pages. Illus. A strangely compelling and fairly comprehensive look at the state of the Church of Christ in Mississippi, with a paragraph or two on nearly all of the churches then active in...
Savannah: Chamber of Commerce, Review Printing Co., 1937. First edition. 8vo, original green cloth, publisher’s pictorial paper label on the front board, 208 pages. Illus. An nice example of a Federal Writers’ Project city guide. Issued without a dust jacket.
Richmond: William F. Ritchie, Public Printer, 1859. First edition of the Governor's annual message. 8vo, unbound pamphlet (no wrappers), stitched, 48 pages. This appears to be the House of Delegates issue of Gov. Wise's biennial message, here in two parts; the first part is largely taken up with the John...
Bethany, Va. [now West Virginia]: Printed and Published by A. Campbell, 1838. First edition, an ex-library copy. 8vo (gathered in sixes), original quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt lettering, 574, [2] pages. The annual file for 1838 of this monthly from the founder of the Disciples of Christ; the volume includes...
Charleston, S.C. Walker, Evans & Co., Steam Printers, 1859. First edition. 8vo, pamphlet inserted into modern wrappers, 30 pages. "The suggestion that these cemeteries are prolific sources of yellow fever, seems to your Memorialists--many of whom have resided for many years in this city--altogether gratuitous and utterly inconsistent with well...
Roanoake Rapids, North Carolina: Palmetto Press, 1907. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial deep purple cloth, xi, [1] pp, 93 pp. printed rectos only, 49 pp. Characteristically inscribed by the author in blue pencil on the front free endpaper, "Professor English Literature, Ohio State University, Compliments of the author, John Armstrong...
[Raleigh, N.C. General Tract Agency, between 1861-1865]. First edition. 16mo, unbound pamphlet, approx. 5-1/4 x 3-3/4 inches, 8 pages. Two small pious pieces, “Noah’s Carpenters” and “Delay in Religion,” the latter signed in type “Dr. Spencer.” The first piece is signed in type “Heber”—though per the catalogue description of the.....
[New York: n. p., ca. 1914]. First edition. Original printed blue-gray wrappers,, 6.75 x 4.88 inches, 15 pages, wire stitched. “Soon the gambling fever took hold of me, and about every phase of gambling was practiced, causing the loss of much money. Many mornings after a spree it would be...
Covington, Ky. Printed for the Author at the Office of the "Licking Valley Register," 1846. First edition. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, red leather label, gilt lettering, 480 pages. "Is it therefore unreasonable to conclude, that in former times, in that warm country where the passions are known to be strong...
Bethany, Va. [now West Virginia]: Printed and Published by A. Campbell, 1838. First edition, an ex-library copy. 8vo (gathered in sixes), original quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt lettering, 574, [2] pages. The annual file for 1838 of this monthly from the founder of the Disciples of Christ; the volume includes...
Philadelphia: George H. Buchanan Co., 1909. First edition. Small 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 66 pages. Frontis portrait. A few poems, a memoir and some autobiographical essays from James B. Durand (1829-1866), a Pennsylvania native, long-time New Orleans bookkeeper and minor author, and Old School Baptist. OCLC notes three...
York: Printed by Thomas Wilson & Sons, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme,and Brown [et al.], 1816. Stated third edition. 2 vols, 8vo, contemporary polished calf, gilt spines, brown morocco labels, 544 & 527 pages. With the engraved bookplate on each front paste-down, “William F. Wickham, Virginia,” with W. F. Wickham’s.....
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1860. First edition. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, 168 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front blank, “To J. Parrish Stelle, Esq. With the compliments of H. L. Flash. N. Orleans, July 11th, 1868.” The southern poet’s first book, critically.....
[Tallahassee, Florida Territory? n. p., 1835]. First edition. Broadside, 19.25 x 11.75 inches, printed in three columns, three marginal corrections in contemporary autograph ink. Signed in type at the foot of the text, N. W. Walker, Chair’n. “In pursuance of public notice, a very large meeting of the citizens of...
[Rome, Georgia? n. p., ca. 1900-1920?]. Sepia print measuring approx. 2-1/4 x 3-1/4 inches on a 4 x 5 inch embossed mount stamped "Kodak." A fine image of mule-drawn wagons, some filled with cotton bales, crowding what is likely Broad Street (the main drag in Rome). A sign for W....
Greensboro, Ga., Apl. 7, 1848. 3.5 pages on an unlined bifolium, 9.75 x 7.88 inches, approx. 830 words, integral address. Fairly clear cancel for Greensboro, Ga., Apr. 7 and ten cents postage. A touching, evocative letter: Medway, Mass. native and dentist Eliab Allen writes to his sister with a certain...
Winston-Salem, N. C. Clay Printing Company, 1949. First edition. 8vo, original cloth, gilt lettering, 87 pages. Frontis portrait. "My most humorous, as well as my most embarrassing experience, have long since been forgotten, and believe it or not, the blind land in some very crazy situations." Memoir of a blind...
Americus, Georgia: "Sumter Republican" Book and Job Office, 1874. First edition. Small 8vo, unbound pamphlet, 7 pages. An interesting imprint from Reconstruction-era Georgia. The Sumter Republican had been published in Sumter county since 1854 (and took its name from the American system of government rather than the political party founded...
Norfolk, Va. J. W. Fatherly, Book and Job Printer, 1872. First edition, ex-library with a small ink stamp at the head of the front wrapper and their withdrawn stamp on the inside rear wrapper. 8vo, original printed purple wrappers, 28 pages. A dissection of the question of a Union in...
Lexington [Kentucky]: Printed and Published by T. T. Skillman, 1815. First Lexington edition. 12mo, original calf, brown leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 308 pages. A nice imprint for one of the great missionary accounts, the posthumous memoirs of this first-wave missionary to India. The Dwight sermon has a separate...
Lexington (K.): Published by Joseph Charless. Printed by John W. Scott, Philadelphia, 1804. One of two evident Charless editions published in 1804 (see below). 12mo, original calf, red morocco label, gilt rules and lettering, 287 pages. Per the Imprints Inventory (Kentucky) 218, this title was also published with the imprint...
Chapel Hill: Published for the Center for Documentary Photography, University of North Carolina Press, (1981). First edition. Oblong 8vo, original rust-orange cloth, 115, [3] pages. Illus. Orignal dust jacket. A deep dive into the work of a Decatur County documentary photographer. Small ink note “Cat ‘87” on the rear paste-down.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1878. First edition. Large 8vo, original lilac-gray cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering, 163, [1], [4] pages. Illus. Travel writings from Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, printed from the magazine plates and collected here in book form. Includes two pieces by Lanier, “St. Augustine in April”...
Alexandria [Virginia]: Printed at the Sou: Churchman Office, 1843. First edition. 8vo, removed, 56 pages. Tipped-in errata slip. The low-church bishop includes the expected flings against the Church of Rome. American Imprints 43-3413.
[Louisville?] On Board the Steamer Diana, May 24, 1846. 1 page, single leaf of blue ledger paper, 13.5 x 8 inches, approx. 310 words. The optimistic letter of a man leaving for war in Mexico by way of New Orleans. Heritage, on the verge of embarking from Louisville, writes his...
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