Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926. First edition, 1/1001 copies, (this copy #229). 8vo. xvi, (2), 291 pp. Illustrated from photographs, old paintings, line drawings, etc., plates, portraits. Gwinnett (1735-1777), a native of England and a planter and local public official in the colony of Georgia, was elected..... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1935. First edition. 8vo. 211pp. Brown cloth. Foxing to page edges, else very good. More
Savannah, GA: Industrial Dept., Central of Georgia Railway, nd [ca. 1930]. First editions. 9 volumes. Each pamphlet: 8vo, 12 pp., illustrated from photographs, maps, one double-page. For each of these promotionals, all for cities and towns south and east of Birmingham, there are sections on location, civic improvements, transportation facilities..... More
Mobile, AL: The company, 10, 12, 14 & 16 North Commerce Street, nd [ca. 1875]. First edition (?). 16mo. 76 pp. (a dozen leaves excised following page 76). Handbook to all goods offered by the company, listed by category, giving sizes, prices in some cases, some illustrated; manuscript notes against..... More
Atlanta, GA: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, January, 1945. First edition. 8vo. 56 pp. Maps, one double-page, tables, charts, illustrated chapter headings. Overview of the port of Mobile, its development in the 20th century, new businesses created, etc. Original decorated orange wrappers, stapled. Very good. More
London: Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street, 1837. First edition. 18 cm. Ninety plates, each with a page of accompanying text. Bound in three-quarter blue leather with gilt fillets and raised bands on spine, joints and corners rubbed. Top edge gilt. More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, the Riverside Press Cambridge, 1921. First edition. 8vo. xlvii, 295pp. Burgundy cloth, gilt stamped spine. Some edgewear. else very good. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. More
New York: Broadway Publishing Co., 1908. First edition. 8vo. xxiii, 424pp. Red cloth, black stamped cover with photo of Theodore Roosevelt laid down. Paper label on spine, stamp of St. Paul Dispatch Library on front endpaper, previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Inscribed by the author in the year of..... More
London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1904. First British edition from American sheets. 4to. xii, 270 pp. Some foxing to title page. Gilt stamping on cover and spine. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. Variant binding lacking the color printed garden scene inserted between coat of arms and title. More
Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Rand McNally & Company, Edition of 1951. Later printing (originally published in 1947). 8vo. Blue cloth, title stamped in white on spine, white stamped title and illustration on front board. Edges of spine and corners worn. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. This copy..... More
Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1926. First edition. 8vo. 367pp., with 24 illustrations from photos. Green cloth, some old staining to upper edge of rear board and spine, dust jacket dampstained and edgeworn. Previous owner's signature on flyleaf. Ranching in the Black Hills. Adam's Rampaging Herd 1304. More
Stanford University, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, (1934). First edition. 8vo. ix, (1), 353pp. Terra cotta cloth with title and author stamped in black on spine and front cover. Some flecking and spotting to front cover and spine, else a good, tight copy. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. Two volumes. First edition. 8vo. Frontis. (portrait of Nicolay and Hay with Lincoln). x, (2), 456pp.; Frontis. (portrait of Hay), (4), 448 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, in lightly soiled dust jackets. Later owner's ink signature on front endpapers..... More
Montgomery, (AL): Job Office of the Alabama Journal, 1850. First edition. 8vo. 43 pp. Accompanying this pamphlet is a mid-19th century manuscript address (12mo, 12-pages), also titled “Physic and Physicians,” but without an author attribution. Owen, p. 803 (Curry copy). Ellison 689. OCLC locates two copies (New York Historical Society..... More
New York: Bermingham & Co., Publishers, (1881). First separate edition, an offprint from the Medical Gazette, October 22d, 1881. 8vo. 8 pp [text printed double-column]. “With the compliments of the author” printed at head of front wrapper, inscribed “Dr. Pearson” to the side. Accompanying the pamphlet is a partial autograph..... More
(Philadelphia, PA): American Journal of Medical Sciences, October, 1866. First separate edition, an offprint from the Journal. 8vo. 17 pp. Not in Ellison. Not recorded on OCLC. Original printed self-wrappers (vertical crease, as for mailing, heavily foxed, later owner’s name on verso of final leaf), stitched. Still a good solid..... More
Louisville, KY: Bell and Co., Printers, 1869. One of two editions issued in 1869, this one from the Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal, July, 1869. 8vo. 29 pp. Baldwin’s address upon assuming the presidency of the American Medical Association, emphasizing the reconciliation of physicians after the carnage wrought by the..... More
Birmingham, AL: Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity, August, 1972. First edition (?). 4to. 47, 77 pp. [printed rectos only]. An important post-integration organization fostering co-operation between white and African-American communities in the county, “searching for new approaches to old and complex problems and designed to enable disadvantaged persons to..... More
(Montgomery, AL): The congregation, (c1962). First edition. 8vo. 34 pp. Illustrated from photographs. OCLC locates nine copies (American Jewish Historical Society, Cornell, Auburn, Alabama, Florida, Allen Co. Indiana Public, Brandeis, Hebrew Union, Wisconsin Historical Society). Decorated glossy white wrappers, stapled. Very good. More
Montgomery, AL: Brown printing Co. for the commission, 1916. First edition. 8vo. 125 pp. Well illustrated from photographs, facsimiles, tables, plates. Includes reports on white and African-American illiteracy. The author was serving as secretary-treasurer of the commission at the time of publication. OCLC: “Prints bulletins on illiteracy in Alabama and..... More
Mobile, (AL): Printed at the Advertiser and Chronicle Office, 1839. First edition. 8vo. 33 pp. An appendix, on pages [23]-33, includes two obituaries and five memorial resolutions from Mobile organizations to which Hitchcock belonged. Hitchcock (1792-1839) served as first Secretary of the Alabama Territory, first attorney general of the state..... More
[Montgomery, AL?]: 1857. Printed broadside, 14 x 17 inches, the head in larger bold capitals. “40. All resolutions concerning the subject of slavery, or concerning our relations with any other state, or our relations with the Government of the United States, or to the President thereof, shall before being adopted..... More
Montgomery und Mobile, AL: np, 1897. First edition. 16mo. 39 pp. Two portraits. Scarce German promotional for the state. Title in English at head of front wrapper: Alabama: Geographical position, population, history, climate, soil, and German colonies by Hugo Lehmann (the only English in the pamphlet). OCLC locates nine copies..... More
Marion, AL: Mayor’s office, September 28, 1881. Printed handbill, 8 x 5 5/8 inches, the title in large bold capitals. To observe a day or mourning for the late President James A. Garfield, Mayor Huey requests that businesses close, “the people” assemble for a Memorial Service, and “that the bells..... More
(Tuscaloosa, AL: Thomas P. Davenport, Printer), 1823. First edition, the first publication of the Alabama Grand Chapter constitution, and one of the earliest Tuscaloosa imprints. 8vo. 20 pp. American Imprints 12583 (AMFM, Massachusetts Grand Lodge Library, New York State Library, Duke). Not in Owen. Ellison 55 (Grand Lodge Library). OCLC..... More
