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... More
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
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
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
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
![No. 115. Noah’s Carpenters [caption title]. Confederate Imprint.](/pictures/thumb/14019.jpg?v=1465913969)
[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
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
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
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... More
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
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
[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
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
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
![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. Harmony Primitive Baptist Association.](/pictures/thumb/13938.jpg?v=1465913969)
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nlle. Orleans [New Orleans], Feb. 22, 1841. Stampless cover, unlined bifolium, 10.25 x 8.25 inches, approx. 450 words. Carmelite Winchester writes to her husband from New Orleans, noting that she enjoys her room at the St. Charles hotel but nothing compares to home; she begins her letter the day before... More
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
[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
![Mar[y] Not a Perpetual Virgin, nor the Mother of God: But Only a Sinner Saved by Grace, through the Worship and Mediation of Jesus Christ, Her God and Our God. Together with a View of the True Position, Duty, and Liberty of Woman, Under the Gospel Dispensation. Rev. Thomas Smyth.](/pictures/thumb/15870.jpg?v=1465913979)
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
