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. More about Savannah
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 about Doc. No. I. Governor's Message and Reports of the Public Officers of the State, of the Boards of...
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 about The Millennial Harbinger: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Primitive Christianity . . . New...
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 about Report of the Committee of the City Council of Charleston, upon Interments within the City, and...
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 about Scorpio (Sonnets
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[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 about No. 115. Noah’s Carpenters [caption title
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[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 about “Down and Out and Up Again” [wrapper title; caption title:] Was a Derelict; Now He’s a...
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 about The New Light, or, Discourses on the Christian Church, on the Evils of Sectarianism and on the...
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 about The Millennial Harbinger: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Primitive Christianity . . . New...
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 about An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language, Illustrated by the...
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 about Poems
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[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... More about The Shell Point Meeting . . . [caption title
[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 about Original mounted photo with pencil attribution "Main Street, Rome, Ga. during cotton...
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 about Autograph letter, signed E. M. Allen, to his sister Abby M. Hiller (Abigail Maxey Allen Hiller
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 about Nightfall
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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 about Minutes of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Session of the Parmony [sic] Primitive Baptist Association,...
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 about The State Sovereignty Record of Massachusetts. By a Son of Norfolk
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 about Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Harriet Newell, Wife of the Rev. Samuel Newell, Missionary to India,...
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 about The Gospel-Mystery of Sanctification Opened, in Sundry Practical Directions: Suited Especially to...
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 about Understandings: Photographs of Decatur County, Georgia . . . Introduction by Alex Harris
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 about Highways and Byways of American Travel
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 about The Law of Proportion in the Church of GOD: Considered in a Pastoral Address of . . . Bishop of...
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 about Statements in Reply to Certain Publications from the Medical Society of South-Carolina
[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 about Autograph letter, signed, to his wife as he departs to muster in at New Orleans
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Charleston, S. C. Printed by B. Jenkins, 1846. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet, 32 pages. An anti-Catholic argument against Mariolatry, with a coda addressed to women that argues that virginity (as such) is no especial virtue when compared with marriage. The Belfast-born Smyth (1808-1873) was a moderate slavery reformer and... More about Mar[y] Not a Perpetual Virgin, nor the Mother of God: But Only a Sinner Saved by Grace, through...
