[Atlanta, Georgia: 1867?]. Broadside, 16 x 10 in. Printed in three columns. A strong and stirring plea in opposition to the poll tax as "the most unjust and oppressive taxation ever imposed," despite the apparently lofty aim of providing monies for public schools. It is, Farrow declares, "a tax upon... More about THE INJUSTICE OF THE POLL TAXES. To the Members of the Constitutional Convention: [Caption title

[Salem, Mass.]: Salem Observer Press, [1842]. Broadside, 19" x 16 1/2". Caption title and three columns of text and tables within an attractive ornamental border. Old tidelines to upper corners, some foxing, snag at lower left of ornamental border (repaired on verso). Tipped onto a backing board at upper corners... More about FIRE DEPARTMENT. Regulations Adopted by the Firewards of Salem. 1842

Boston, [MA]: J. N. Bradley & Co. 16 State Street, 1841. First edition. 19 cm. 87pp. Blue paper covered boards, black cloth spine, some splitting along joints. Stamp of Lowell Historical Society on front pastedown. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 2924; MCDADE 561. Accused of killing her husband with arsenic she was acquitted. More about A REVIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE LAST TEN YEARS IN THE LIFE OF MRS. HANNAH KINNEY:...

Winchester [VA]: Printed at the Office of the Republican, for the author, 1836-7. Second edition. Two volumes. 8vo. Vol. I: xx, 165pp., 458pp., 35pp. analysis; vol. II: xxviii, 506pp., 34pp. analysis, 17pp. appendix. Recent rebind, leather spine, marbled boards, retaining original spine labels. Persistent foxing. Pencil notes on pastedowns and... More about COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA, COMPRISING THE SUBSTANCE OF A COURSE OF LECTURES DELIVERED...

Boston: Oliver Everett; Paris: Jules Renouard, 1823; 1826. First edition. 8vo. 21 cm. 125pp. Bound with the first French edition (Paris: Jules Renouard, 1826); 125 pp. Later full leather, darkening to spine, gilt rules and gilt stamping on spine label. Some foxing to endpapers of American edition and foxing to... More about NEW IDEAS ON POPULATION: with Remark on the Theories of Malthus and Godwin. [And] Nouvelles Idees...

Germantown, [Pa.]: Christoph Saur, 1774. First American edition in German. 12mo. 17cm. [280] pp. Contemporary calf, rubbed. A very good copy with some browning. Manuscript notes on front endleaf with some bleed through. KARPINSKI, pp. 55. EVANS 13275. First American edition (in English) was published in Boston in 1742. More about DER GESCHWINDE RECHNER ORDER: des Handlers nutzlichr Gehulfe; in Kauffung und Verkauffung

Lancaster, [Pa.]: Johann Bor, 1831. First edition. 12mo. 118 pp. Index. Period calf, spine chipped and worn. Part of blank front endpaper torn away, old dampstaining to gutters, extending into a few early pages of the text. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 7494. More about GESUNDHEITS-SHATZKAMMER; oder kurze, deutliche und richtige Anweisung zur Erhaltung der Gesundheit

Hudson, NY: Printed by Ashbel Stoddard. No. 137, Corner of Warren and Third Streets, 1809. 12mo. 17 cm. 367pp., (4). Four illustrations. Contemporary brown calf with leather label. Boards bowed, front flyleaf lacking, persistent browning to text, an amateurish attempt to color illustrations at some point has left slightly darkened... More about THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN AND LADY'S MONITOR, AND ENGLISH TEACHER'S ASSISTANT: being a collection of...

Raleigh, NC: 1898. Large format photograph, 7 x 9 1/4 inches, mounted on larger card stock, 11 x 14 inches, picturing 10 older women faculty and staff members, one older man, and 44 female students, all posed in four rows in front of a campus building set among tall trees;... More about STUDENTS AND FACULTY AT St. Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., as pictured in a group photograph,...

Raleigh, NC: Standard Steam Book and Job Print, 1970. First edition. 8vo. 32 pp. Detailed review of most aspects of resources, commercial activities, education, etc. Inscribed at the head of the front wrapper "C.S. Mixter / from the author." Thornton 14722. Text block browned, old semi-circle stain through text at... More about NORTH CAROLINA: Her Past, Present, and Future. An address delivered before the faculty and...

Chapel Hill, NC: 1857. Engraved card, 2 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches. Printed on cream glazed card stock.All six of the managers were members of the junior class and all made it through the Civil War years alive. Some darkening around the edges, but very good. (10304). More about "UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA/ Commencement Ball. / Complimentary to / The Graduating Class,...

(Thomasville, NC: City of Thomasville), nd [1930]. First edition (?), a promotional for the city. Eight-panel brochure folded to narrow 8vo. Illustrated from photographs, map; ads for local businesses. A prospectus emphasizing the town's rapid growth after 1900, its central location in the state, its climate, and the infrastructure in... More about THOMASVILLE, North Carolina, City of Industry and Progress [cover title

NP: np, nd [1915, from OCLC]. Small 4to (23 cm.). (24) pp. [including title page]. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Pictured are residences, churches, hotels and inns, and residents and visitors participating in a wide variety of outdoor sports and activities; the text emphasizes the sporting activities, especially golf, hunting, and... More about SOUTHERN PINES, North Carolina: The Land of Sunshine