Raleigh, North Carolina: Baptist University for Women, 1907-1911. 12 issues of this student literary newspaper published at the Baptist University for Women (today Meredith College), edited by members of the Philaretian and Astrotekton literary societies. Includes Volume 1, Nos 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, and 11 (1907), Vol 2.....
Charleston, South Carolina: G.W. Aimar, Ca 1850s-1860s. Single leaf printed to recto only, 10 x 8". A broadside advertising products manufactured by George Washington Aimar at his Charleston, South Carolina pharmacy, founded in 1852. These included "Aimar's Neurotic Oil," and "Aimar's Pearl Cement." Four in OCLC. Some foxing to broadside.....
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.
Cincinnati, Ohio: Wrightson & Co, Printers, 1861. Single leaf printed to recto only on yellow paper, almost completely filled out with manuscript to verso. A broadside program for a musical performance held during the graduation ceremony at Walnut Hill Academy, a school in Cold Spring, Campbell County, Kentucky. The broadside.....
St. Augustine: Max Bloomfield, 1884. Octavo, 7.25 x 5.25", pink printed wrappers, 110 pp, illustrations from drawings, folding frontispiece map, folding map at end. Soiling to wrappers, which are splitting and detaching along spine. Chipping to wrappers at corners and spine ends, old bookstore ticket to rear wrapper verso, else.....
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.
Memphis, Tennessee: 1925. Octavo, 9.75 x 6.5", brown cloth with black lettering, 202 pp, local advertisements. A community cookbook by the women of the Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Most of the recipes are attributed; there are many Creole recipes, including jambalaya, creole rice, shrimp a la creole, etc......
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.....
Waynesville, North Carolina: Courier Printing Company, 1908. Octavo, red illustrated wrappers, 184 pp, illustrations from photographs. Soiling and staining to wrappers, chipping and tearing to wrappers, especially spine, small chips to corners of last leaf, offsetting to some pages, owner inscription to front wrapper, and title page, good.
Lawrenceburg, Tennessee: 1874. Single leaf printed to recto only, 8.75 x 6". A scarce broadside from Reconstruction-era Tennessee, signed in type by J. Lum Chaffin, a Democrat of Lawrenceburg. The broadside solicits the opinions of local Democrats in regards to Chaffin's potential candidacy for County Court Clerk of Lawrence County.....
Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana: 1862-63. A collection of eight letters, totaling 24 pages, handwritten in ink and pencil. One letter appears to be incomplete, possibly lacking a second leaf. The letters were sent by Zachariah Jordan Howell, and his brother-in-law Joseph Dickson Whitworth, while serving in the Confederate Army with.....
Charleston, South Carolina: 1848. Bifolium, 10 x 8", with text printed to first page only, filled out in manuscript. A monthly report sent to the parents of Arthur Middleton, a sophomore at the College of Charleston, in July, 1848. The upper portion records the student's absences, while the lower half.....
New York: G.W. & C.B. Colton, 1870. Hand-colored lithograph map of Virginia and West (By God) Virginia, delineated by county, with insets of Richmond and Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Gosport. Richmond is identified as the capitol of Virginia, but no city is so designated in West Virginia, which did not vote.....
N.P. Circa 1860s to 1870s. Cartes de visite photo measuring 4 x 2.25", captioned "Confederate Generals" in the image, with tax stamp to verso. Some fading to image, mild soiling and foxing, loss to half of stamp.
North Carolina: 1831 to 1856. A collection of 31 letters, totaling 84 pages, belonging to the Emerson family, a prominent Baptist family in Oakland Township, Chatham County, North Carolina. 21 of the letters were sent by Rosanna Dowd Emerson to her son, Andrew Jackson Emerson, while he was studying at.....
London: F. Jullion, 1780. Octavo, tan boards with leather spine, 290 pp. Volume One only. A new edition, carefully corrected and improved. This copy with important Georgia provenance, from the Burke County plantation of Georgia founding father and Revolutionary war hero John Milton. It is inscribed to front pastedown "Jno.....
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.....
St. Cloud, Florida: The St. Cloud Tribune Co, 1925. Octavo, green wrappers, 62 pp. Collection of songs for Florida club women, by the cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics at the Florida State College for Women. Damp staining to pages, soiling, staining and slight chipping to covers, good.....
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. An unusual promotional booklet for the "Sunset Route" of the Southern Pacific Railway, which connected New Orleans.....
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.....
Swansborough, North Carolina: 1789. Single leaf measuring 13 x 8", with two pages of ink manuscript, headed "Swansborough in N. Carolina November 20, 1789" and signed by Jonathan Boardman. An 18th century letter by Jonathan Boardman (1751-1791), a Norwich, Connecticut man who moved to North Carolina sometime in the 1780s.....