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

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

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

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

Elkhorn, WV: Elkhorn Press, 1995. Reprint. Orange, stapled wrappers; 47 pp. one photograph. A facsimile reprint of the 1916 edition. The author chronicles several violent, late 19th/early 20th century feuds in Kentucky including, The Tolliver-Martin or Logan Feud, the Hargis-Cockrell Feud, & the Thompson-Daviess Tragedy. A Fine copy. 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

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

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

[Charlottesville, VA]: Albemarle County Historical Society, 1964. Thick 8vo.; perfect-bound wrappers, 210, [3] pp., illus. One of 1,000 copies printed. A special Civil War issue of the Albemarle County Historical Society’s magazine. As stated by the eds. in the preface: “The purpose of this publication is to set forth 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