Charleston, S.C.: Grass Roots League, Inc., 1956. Research Bulletin no. 5 from Stanley F. Morse’s Grass Roots League of Charleston, SC, a segregationist, anti-Communist, States’ Rights outfit founded by Morse as the Citizens Grass Roots Crusade in 1952. The bulletin reprints the 1928 ‘Negro Program of the Communist Party’ and..... More
Auburn: Alabama News Magazine, Inc., 1957. A single issue of this segregationist, States’ Rights publication issued from Auburn, Alabama. Content for this issue includes a derogatory Special Report on militant segregationists, John Kasper and Asa Carter, small news items on business & industry in the South, and segregation initiatives broken..... More
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
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
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
[Birmingham]: The Greater Birmingham Committee, [1937]. A rousing speech by Dr. Melvin Eidson of the 1st Baptist Church, Bessemer, on the dangerous “alien ideas, brought over from Europe” that would “tear down our ideals, destroy our patriotic sentiments, wreck our moral standards, destroy our great industries, blight and blast our..... More
Louisville, Ky.: Southern Newsletter, 1959. Two scarce issues of this newsletter focused on labor organizing, desegregation and anti-racism in the South. The newsletter was edited by Eugene Feldman from 1956-61 while he was living in Chicago and it was then shipped to Louisville where it was published and distributed. Feldman..... More
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
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
[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
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
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
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
Jackson, MS: Mississippi Council on Human Relations, [ca. 1967]. A publication collecting four reports issued by the Mississippi Council on Human Relations as an “honest reflection of the problem of hunger and malnutrition among the poverty-stricken children of our state.” The self-described major report is “Observations on the Health Status..... More
Nashville: Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1968. A single issue of the Southern Student Organizing Committee magazine edited by David Nolan. Content for this issue includes articles on Black Mountain College by Roger A. Wicker, the Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union by H. L. Mitchell, Students and Labor by Jim Keenan, a...... More
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
Clayton, Georgia: South Today, 1942-1945. Three uncommon offprints from South Today, a small Southern, literary quarterly founded by Lillian Smith and Paula Snelling in 1936 as Pseudopodia. The magazine focused on publishing the work of little known Southern writers, reviewing the works of Black authors, and countering the stereotypical portrayal..... More
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
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