Southern Americana
Doc. No. I. Governor's Message and Reports of the Public Officers of the State, of the Boards of Directors, and of the Visitors, Superintendents, and other Agents of Public Institutions or Interests of Virginia.
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..... More
The Millennial Harbinger: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Primitive Christianity . . . New Series — Vol. II.
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..... More
Report of the Committee of the City Council of Charleston, upon Interments within the City, and the Memorial from Churches and Citizens.
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..... More
Scorpio (Sonnets)
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..... More
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No. 115. Noah’s Carpenters [caption title].
[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..... More
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“Down and Out and Up Again” [wrapper title; caption title:] Was a Derelict; Now He’s a Cruiser Among College Men . . .
[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..... More
The New Light, or, Discourses on the Christian Church, on the Evils of Sectarianism and on the True Manner of Becoming Christians. Also, Dissertations on Infants, Idiots, and Pagans: Together with Inquiries into the Origin of the Negro Race, Essays on Abolitionism, Free-Masonry, Odd-Fellowship, &c. &c. &c.
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..... More
The Millennial Harbinger: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Primitive Christianity . . . New Series — Vol. II.
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..... More
An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language, Illustrated by the Appropriate Exercises, and a Key to the Exercises . . . The Third Edition, Corrected, and Much Englarged.
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..... More
Poems.
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..... More
Original mounted photo with pencil attribution "Main Street, Rome, Ga. during cotton season."
[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...... More
Autograph letter, signed E. M. Allen, to his sister Abby M. Hiller (Abigail Maxey Allen Hiller).
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..... More
Nightfall.
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..... More
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Minutes of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Session of the Parmony [sic] Primitive Baptist Association, Convened with the New Bethel Church, October 10th, 11th, and 12th, 1874.
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..... More
The State Sovereignty Record of Massachusetts. By a Son of Norfolk.
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..... More
Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Harriet Newell, Wife of the Rev. Samuel Newell, Missionary to India, who died at the Isle of France, November 30, 1812—Aged 19 years. (Extracted from the third Boston Edition.) To Which is Annexed a Sermon, Delivered in Boston, September 16, 1813 . . . by Timothy Dwight.
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..... More
The Gospel-Mystery of Sanctification Opened, in Sundry Practical Directions: Suited Especially to the Case of Those Who Labour Under the Guilt and Power of Indwelling Sin. To which is added, A Sermon on Justification.
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..... More
Understandings: Photographs of Decatur County, Georgia . . . Introduction by Alex Harris.
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..... More
Highways and Byways of American Travel.
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”..... More
The Law of Proportion in the Church of GOD: Considered in a Pastoral Address of . . . Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Virginia, to the Minister and Members Thereof . . .
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. More
Statements in Reply to Certain Publications from the Medical Society of South-Carolina.
Charleston [S. C.]: Printed by J. S. Burges, 183 King-St. 1834. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 9 x 5.75 inches, stitched as issued, untrimmed, 23, [1] pages. Unopened. A salvo in an ongoing controversy among the medical men of South Carolina, between the Medical College of South Carolina and the Medical..... More
Autograph letter, signed, to his wife as he departs to muster in at New Orleans.
[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..... More
Gunn’s Domestic Medicine, or Poor Man’s Friend . . . Expressly Written for Families in the Western and Southern States. It also contains Descriptions of the Medicinal Roots and Herbs of the Western and Southern Country, and how they are to be used in the cure of Diseases . . . Fourth Edition.
Madisonville [Tennessee]: Printed at the Office of Henderson & Johnston, Edwards & Henderson—Printers, 1834. Fourth edition. Large 8vo, contemporary (likely original) sheep, brown leather label, gilt rules and lettering, xv, [1], 604 pages. The great populist domstic medical guide of Jacksonian America, with much on herbal remedies as well as..... More
Stampless cover autograph letter, signed E. Harding, to his family member (perhaps niece), Maria A. Queen of Washington, D. C.
Mount Vernon, Alabama, April 20, ‘27, [i.e.,], 1827. One page on a lined bifolium, 9.75 x 7.75 inches, approx. 250 words. A prelude to flush times in Alabama and representative bit of evidence of the growth of the internal slave trade, from the soon-to-be commander of the Mount Vernon Arsenal..... More