Various cities: Various publishers, 1975-76. Various formats, including a glossy brochure that folds out into a poster, an 8 ½” x 11” flyer and a tabloid format newspaper. The flyer has some heavy offsetting; browning to newsprint paper, but a VG lot overall. In November 1975, George Wallace, announced his... More about A stapled packet in support of George Wallace’s 1976 Presidential campaign [three items
[Richmond?]: [United Klans of America], [197-]. An 8 ½” x 11” flyer for a United Klans of America rally held in Richmond, VA. The “White Public” was invited to hear featured speakers Robert H. Hudgins (Grand Dragon), Robert L. Long (Grand Kludd), and Calvin B. Williams (Grand Klarogo). “Support Your..... More about United Klans of American, Inc. RALLY, Richmond, VA., Sat. August 12, 8 P.M
An 8 ½” x 11” flyer for a United Klans of America rally held in Suffolk, VA. The “White Public” was invited to hear special guest speaker, Robert M. Shelton (UKA Imperial Wizard), Robert H. Hudgins (Grand Dragon), Lewy Williams (Grand Klaliff), Calvin B. Williams (Grand Klarogo) and Robert Williams..... More about United Klans of American, Inc. RALLY, Suffolk, VA., Sat. August 5, 8 P.M
Richmond, Va. The "Southern Clinic" Press, 1907. First edition. Slim 12mo. Half blue, half grey ribbed cloth stamped in gilt; 102 pp.; frontispiece + one illustrative plate executed by the author's daughter, Mildred. A love story set in the post-Civil War South concerning the titular Kitty Dixon, "a Yankee girl... More about Kitty Dixon, Belle of the South Anna: A Wee Bit of Love and War
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1912. First edition. Octavo (20 cm). Grey pictorial cloth; 224 pp.; photographic frontispiece of a Mountain Schoolhouse. A scarce piece of Kentucky regional fiction. A Very Good+ copy with some light speckling to top edge and two marks of soiling to fore-edge. More about Goose Creek Folks: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains
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Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1935. Second printing. Octavo (22 cm). Green cloth printed in burgundy; dark top-stain; xiii, 186 pp.; black & white photographs; dust jacket. "A psychograph of the South - a paradox of unrest in a land of contentment." Cason, a Southerner, provides a.... More about 90° [degrees] in the Shade
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1969. First edition. Octavo; marbled wrappers printed in red; vii, 123 pp. A collection of letters from middle and upper middle class denizens of Athens to their loved ones fighting for the Confederacy. Very slight wear to wrapper edges, but Near Fine. More about Athens, 1861-1865: As Seen Through Letters in the University of Georgia Libraries (University of...
Chicago: General Defense Committee, [1932]. First edition. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (5 ¾” x 8 ¾”), 27 pp., four photographs. Some browning to wrappers, but a surprisingly well-preserved copy. Scarce in commerce, with no other copies currently available (July, 2019). Less than two dozen copies in OCLC. A sympathetic account of the... More about The Shame That Is Kentucky's: The Story of the Harlan Mine War
Lawrence, Kansas: The University of Kansas Libraries, 1962. Octavo; plain, stapled wrappers; 57 pp.; frontispiece of Fraser, one illustration. A long introduction contextualizing Col. Fraser's imprisonment at C.S.M Prison in Columbia before reprinting his petition. Some light foxing to wrappers, but about Near Fine. More about A Petition Regarding the Conditions in the C.S.M. Prison at Columbia, S.C. Addressed to the...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. First edition. Octavo (21.5 cm). Light blue cloth pictorially stamped in blue; 224 pp.; five full page illustrations by Helen Blair; dust jacket. In this novel for young adults, a group of children flee from their Tennessee home for a cottage on the South Carolina... More about Carolina Caravan
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1931. First edition. 8vo; red cloth with bright gilt, xiv, [2], 429 pp., illus., dust jacket. The uncollected writings of the "Cornfield Journalist," Joel Chandler Harris, edited by his daughter-in-law who'd previously published the "Life and Letters of Joel Chandler Harris" (1918). Organized... More about Joel Chandler Harris, Editor and Essayist; Miscellaneous Literary, Political, and Social Writings
[Savannah]: The Civil War Centennial Commission of Savannah and Chatham County, 1961. First edition. Octavo; perfectbound, plain white wrappers printed in blue; 57 pp.; photographs, illustrations. SIGNED by the author to ffep. An historical account of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry of Savannah, GA, during the Civil War. Appendices include various... More about The Oglethorpe Light Infantry
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, [ca. 1855]. Reprint. 12mo.; brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt spine, 276, 16, [2] pp., engraved frontis with tissue guard. A Southern morality tale set on a Mississippi plantation, in which the heroine, Linda Walton, must rebel against the superficialities and conventions of her class in order... More about Linda; Or, the Young Pilot of the Belle Creole. A Tale of Southern Life
Columbia: League of Women Voters of South Carolina, 1970. First edition. 8vo; orange, illustrated, stapled wrappers, 46 pp. A collection of recipes from members and friends of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina. Appetizers, soups, salads, meat, vegetables and desserts. Some light soiling and wear to wrappers and... More about Time for Action Cookbook
Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1981. First edition. Tall 4to.; grey cloth boards; 96 pp. The author has performed a thankless task in assembling the names of 3,872 Confederate Northern Virginia soldiers killed at Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, which he estimates is approximately 85% complete. Tables at the front tabulate by... More about The Gettysburg Death Roster: The Confederate Dead at Gettysburg
Raleigh: The North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission, [ca. 1961]. First edition. 4to.; side-stapled wrappers with linen tape along spine as issued; 4, 43, 30, 7, [1] pp. Some browning to covers, else a clean and tight copy. Organized into four sections: I. Numerical Designations of Confederate Organizations; II. Local Designations... More about A Guide to Military Organizations and Installations, North Carolina, 1861-1865
Jackson, Miss.: The Kudzu, 1969. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint; 8 pp.; illus. A single issue of this counterculture paper founded by members of the Southern Student Organizing Committee. It was issued sporadically from 1968-1972 and issues remain scarce in commerce. Standard 60s reportage on Black university struggles... More about The Kudzu, Volume 1, Number 10, March 18, 1969
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Cambridge: Published by the museum, 1904. First edition. Octavo. Original brown wrappers stamped in black; 23-63 pp. followed by seventeen leaves of plates. A detailed report of two excavations conducted under the auspices of Harvard's Peabody Museum by Mr. W. C. Farabee and Charles Peabody in Coahoma County, Mississippi, in... More about Exploration of Mounds, Coahoma County, Mississippi [in] Papers of the Peabody Museum of American...
Lexington, Kentucky: Privately printed, 1969. Limited ed. Folio-size (9 ½” x 12”); red cloth boards with hand-colored paper label to front board, 31 leaves hand-lettered and hand-colored on variegated stock (rectos only). Some light soiling to cloth, presumably issued without dust jacket. A VG+ copy. We find four copies in... More about I Take Your Hand
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1859. First edition. Twelvemo (19 cm); viii, [5], 14-269, [1], 6 pp.; frontispiece; 12 plates of illustrations by John M'Lenan. Green, blind-stamped publisher's cloth; bright gilt-stamped spine; chocolate endpapers. Cloth is slightly rubbed with some dust-soiling to top edge, but easily very good or... More about Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters by "Skitt," "Who Was Raised...
Richmond: The Patrick Henry Group, 1963. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). Saddle-stitched wrappers printed in black; 24 pp. Political analysis from right wing journalist and segregationist, John J. Synon, who argues that Nelson Rockefeller can't win the Republican presidential nomination because he lacks the support of the Southern states. He... More about Why Rockefeller Can't Win: An Analysis
Washington, D. C. Chisolm Monument Association, 1878. Third edition. Octavo. Publisher's green cloth ruled and stamped in black to front board with gilt-stamped spine; 330 pp.; frontispiece + one plate of Chisolm monument. A sympathetic account of Judge Chisolm and members of his family who were killed by a Ku... More about The Chisolm Massacre: A Picture of "Home Rule" in Mississippi
Atlanta: Atlanta Historical Society, 1979. 4to.; perfect-bound, illustrated wrappers, 149 pp., illus. A special issue of “The Atlanta Historical Bulletin” on the personal perspective of Atlanta in the Civil War, which was also a major 1979 exhibition of the Atlanta Historical Society. Includes, “Life at the Crossroads of the Confederacy... More about Atlanta in the Civil War: The Personal Perspective (The Atlanta Historical Journal, Volume XXIII,...