[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.....
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.....
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.....
Abbeville, South Carolina: 1817. 10 x 7.75", partially printed document completed in manuscript. A "License to work a still for distilling spirits from Domestic Materials" issued to James Baskins of Abbeville, South Carolina in 1817. The document notes that Baskin's still had the capacity of 77 gallons, and it allowed.....
Orangeburg, South Carolina: The Orangeburg Observer, 1937. Octavo, orange wrappers with red and blue lettering, 28 pp. A scarce community cookbook from Orangeburg, South Carolina. University of South Carolina only in OCLC. In fair condition with staining to covers, vertical crease through center, staining to pages, including damp staining along.....
Columbia, S.C. Calvo & Patton, State Printers, 1878. Octavo, stitched pamphlet, lacking wrappers, 64 pp. A report of a committee appointed to investigate alleged electoral fraud committed by John J. Patterson, a Republican elected in 1873 to represent South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives. His opponents in the.....
Columbia, S.C. James H. Hope, State Superintendent of Education, 1939. 6.25 x 3.75", red stapled wrappers with black lettering, 172 pp. A scarce directory of the segregated schools of Jim Crow era South Carolina. The first half lists various kinds of teachers (i.e. "vocational," "industrial"), divided by race into "White".....
Columbia, S.C. The Columbia Urban League, 1991. Quarto, softcover, ix, 66, 4 pp. Ex Richland county public library with pocket to rear wrapper verso, sticker over spine. MIld staining to covers.
Sumter, South Carolina: Hasty's Wonder Remedy Co., Circa 1910. Broadside measuring 12 x 9", promoting Hasty's Health Restorer, a "Blood Purifier and Body Builder" offered by a patent medicine company based in Sumter, South Carolina. The text advertises the extraordinary nature of the medicine: "Hasty's Health Restorer will positively cleanse.....
Charleston, S.C. Walker, Evans & Cogswell, Co, 1913. 9.75 x 6.75", beige cloth covers with red cloth spine, gilt spine lettering, variously paginated, several sections printed in variously colored paper. Front hinge cracked, pages toned, covers worn with front cover lettering rubbed. A rare Jim-Crow era directory for the city.....
Columbia: The State Company, 1923. First Edition. 8vo, green cloth with gilt spine lettering, 611 pp, illustration plates and folding maps. Ownership inscriptions and notes of Nellie R. Farwell of New Orleans. Two Williamsburg, SC postcards laid in bearing additional notes by Farwell. Soiling and discoloration to covers, bit of.....
Columbia, South Carolina: A.S. Johnston, 1851. First Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth with gilt spine titles, vii, 406 pp. Edited by Richard K. Cralle. "Published under the direction of the General Assembly of the State Legislature of South Carolina" (title page). Mild staining to covers, wear to corners and spine.....
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover with dust jacket, 216 pp. Part of the regional murder series. Book very good with toning to pages,dust jacket fair with tears, chips, and numerous tape repairs. Scarce in jacket.
Orangeburg, S.C./Columbia S.C. Williams Publishing/R.L. Bryan Company, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 174 pp. Biography of Joseph DeLaine, the South Carolina civil rights leader known for his work on Briggs v. Elliott. Edited by Tom Poland, with photographs and cover design by Cecil Williams. This copy signed by.....
Orangeburg, S.C./Columbia S.C. Williams Publishing/R.L. Bryan Company, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 174 pp. Biography of Joseph DeLaine, the South Carolina civil rights leader known for his work on Briggs v. Elliott. Edited by Tom Poland, with photographs and cover design by Cecil Williams. Near fine.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1930. 8vo, black cloth with gilt spine lettering, [12], 245 pp, photographic illustration plates. First Edition. Includes much on slavery, cotton culture, the Civil War and the African American population of the Southern Sea Islands. By a pioneering woman historian at the.....
Charleston, South Carolina: Lucas & Richardson (Book Press), 1882. Octavo, blue cloth with blue and gilt lettering, xii, 200 pp. A history of newpaper publishing in Charleston. Revised edition, first published in 1872. Toning and foxing to pages, mottling, staining and discoloration to covers, tear to center of one table.....
Columbia, South Carolina: The State Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover with dust jacket, 485 pp. Scarce in jacket. Staining to covers, staining to upper text block edge, foxing to endpapers, foxing, toning, and staining to jacket, splitting to jacket along folds, large chip to jacket at lower spine and.....
Huntsville, Alabama: AM Press, 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket, 407 pp, illustrated. A history of South Carolina Gamecocks basketball under head coach Frank McGuire. A very good copy with a bit of foxing to spine of jacket, small paper abrasion to lower spine of jacket.
Charleston, S.C. Walker, Evans & Cogswell, 1874. Second Edition. Octavo, green cloth with gilt titles, 596 pp. Second edition, revised. This copy with ownership inscription of Major William Wirt Humphreys, who fought for the Confederacy and helped organize the Company B, Fourth South Carolina Infantry Regiment, also known as the.....
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1878. First Edition. Octavo, light brown cloth with gilt spine titles, 336 pp. "'Thirty-Four Years'" (1878), written by Mrs. Celina E. Means, of Spartanburg, and published under the pen-name of 'John Marchmont,' is a novel of the Reconstruction era, and probably the first to introduce.....
Columbia, SC: The State Company, Publishers, 1908. First Edition. 8vo, green cloth, gilt titling to cover and spine, 160 pp. A 1908 collection of short fiction by South Carolina writer Elliott Crayton McCants, centered on Southern characters in and after the Civil War. Offsetting/discoloration to endpapers, bit of wear to.....
Columbia, S.C. Charles A. Calvo, 1884. 8vo, 216pp, maroon cloth with black decoration and gilt lettering. This copy inscribed to front pastedown by O.J. Bates of Columbia, S.C, dated 1884, with additional handwritten correction in the same hand to errata leaf. Memoir of a long life lived in Columbia and.....
Charleston: S. Babcock & Co, 1842. Second Edition. Octavo, full brown leather binding, 346, [2] pp. This copy belonged to Major William Wirt Humphreys, who fought for the Confederacy and helped organize the Company B, Fourth South Carolina Infantry Regiment, also known as the "Palmetto Riflemen". With Humpheys' ownership inscriptions.....
Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1917. First Edition. Large octavo, beige illustrated cloth, 386, [1] pp, with 128 illustrations from drawings by Alice R. Huger Smith, photographs, and architectural drawings by Albert Simons. Limited first edition, "of the 1000 copies printed many were destroyed in the publisher's fire" (Howes.....