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
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
Hattiesburg, Mississippi: The Petal Paper, 1959. First edition. A compilation of articles with personal comments from “The Petal Paper,” a weekly newspaper edited by P. D. East in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In his sardonic style, East frequently attacks segregationists such as the White Citizens’ Councils, Dixiecrats, the Ku Klux Klan and..... 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
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
New York: CORE, 1962. First edition. An account of the expulsion of Southern University students in Baton Rouge, LA, for their participation in CORE-led sit-ins in 1960 and 1961. Stapled wrappers (5 ” x 8 ½”) printed in blue, [12] p., photographs. Rubbing to wrappers, vertical crease down the middle..... 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
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