NP: np, (1907). Only edition of this promotional. Oblong 8vo (14 x 20 cm.). (56) pp. [including title page]. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Elaborate promotional, emphasizing the mild climate, easy-going lifestyle not present in other southern "resort" towns, and sports, and picturing representative homes, hotels, churches, businesses, and public buildings... More about DOWN IN DIXIE, Southern Pines, N.C. [cover and drop-title
Sanford, NC: Cole Printing Co., (1894). First edition. 8vo. 27 pp. Cover title within a bold red border. Thornton 7880. Rather uncommon, OCLC locates 22 copies, about half in North Carolina. Very good. Original printed yellow-green wrappers (a little chipped). (10226). More about AN ADDRESS ON THE REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY of Chatham County, N.C., Delivered at the Centennial...
Philadelphia, (PA): H. Hooker, 1849. First edition. 12mo. 105, (1) pp. Dated at the end of text "Raleigh N.C., October, 1849." The author, at the time serving in the United States Senate, argues against various powers for bishops in the Episcopal church claimed by Ives, "the rule of judgement will... More about AN EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINE DECLARED and the Powers Claimed by the Right Reverend Bishop Ives...
[Fayetteville, NC?]: 1869. First edition. Printed broadside, 13 x 10 1/4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, announcing that Lee had gained the Republican nomination at the party convention in Fayetteville on February 13 for the election on February 25. Thornton 7612. Hummel 1825 (Duke, North Carolina). OCLC... More about TO THE VOTERS / of the / Sixteenth Senatorial / District, / Harnett, Cumberland, and Sampson...
Raleigh, NC: 30 January 1869. First edition. Printed broadside, 11 1/2 x 9 inches, employing several sizes of type, noting a vacancy in the 16th Senatorial District of North Carolina and calling for an election to be held on February 25 to replace John A. Oates who had been "banned... More about A PROCLAMATION, / By His Excellency, W. W. Holden. / [followed by 18 lines of text and other...
Raleigh, NC: Novelty publisher, for the compiler, 1908. First edition. 16mo. 72 pp. Ads for local businesses. Includes an historical sketch of the city, descriptions of public buildings and other places of interest, including educational institutions, a review of the city's industries, a brief business directory, etc. Cover title: "Handbook... More about HAND-BOOK OF RALEIGH, N.C.: Hand-Book of Things You Ought to Know about Raleigh, Capital of North...
Raleigh, (NC): E.M. Uzzell, Steam Printer and Binder, 1889. First edition. 8vo. 27 pp. Thornton 5120. Not recorded on OCLC. Ex-Library of Congress copy, with two small "LC" perforated stamps on title page and an interior leaf and a pencil call number with "duplicate" notation on front wrapper. Very good... More about A STATEMENT CONCERNING THE MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS of the City of Raleigh, N.C., and Other Matters...
[Elizabeth City, NC?]: Dept. of Immigration, Norfolk & Southern R.R., nd [ca. 1900]. Printed broadside, 11 x 5 1/4 inches, bold headline and three long paragraphs of text [printed double-column] on top half, the bottom with a partly printed form headed "Statement." Signed in type by R.O. Preyer, Manager of... More about TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN [drop-title
Pinebluff, NC: Southern C. & T. Assn. nd [ca. 1900]. First edition (?). Oblong 12mo. (16) pp. Map; two pages of ads. Promotional for the Seaboard Air Line Railway and the towns along its route, with brief sketches of each: Virginia (2 towns), Woodland, Lewiston, Louisburg, Kittrell, Youngsville, Lumberton, Mt... More about THREE THOUSAND MILES THROUGH DIXIE LAND and Its Most Progressive Cities & Towns [cover title
(Pinehurst, NC: Pinehurst, Incorporated), nd [1924]. First edition. 12mo. 23, (1) pp. Illustrated from line drawings (with a stereotypically racist "cartoon" on the front cover repeated from the final page of text). Promotional for the state, featuring its progressive legislating (e.g., for better roads and education), its climate, energy sources... More about NORTH CAROLINA PROGRESSIVE. Illustrated by Fred G. Cooper
Greensboro, NC: 1859. 4to. One-page, approximately 200 words. The contract states that Marcellus Jordan of Gilford [sic] County binds himself and his heirs "to carry the mail of the United States for John Stoops, the present contractor on Route No. 5158 from Greensborough by Monticello, Thompsonville, Lenox Castle, and Locust... More about CONTRACTING FOR A POSTAL ROUTE in Guilford and Caswell Counties, in a manuscript form, completed...
NP [Salisbury or Raleigh, NC?]: np, nd [1840, though some references ascribe 1839]. First edition. Printed broadside, two copies on one sheet, each 9 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches, the title printed bold (somewhat faded). Long indictment, pointing out the deficiencies of a candidate. OCLC: "Opposing the election of Abraham... More about TO THE VOTERS OF THE 10th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: / [followed by three columns of dense text]....
(NY and Boston: Frank Presbrey Co. and Rand Avery Supply Co.), nd [ca. 1930]. Promotional. Small 4to (23 cm.) folded, enclosed in its original illustrated mailing envelope, addressed and with stamps still affixed. Illustrated from photographs, emphasizing sporting activities. 31 pp. (six devoted to golf, seven to equestrian sports, the... More about PINEHURST, NORTH CAROLINA [cover title
Reidsville, NC: nd [ca. 1870]. Photograph, 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 (mounted on much larger card stock, 10 x 12 inches), with caption printed in large type below image "For the Sale of Leaf Tobacco, / Oaks & Allen, Proprietors, / Reidsville, N. C." The photograph pictures a large tobacco... More about PIEDMONT WAREHOUSE [title from sign on building in photograph
Hickory, NC: nd [ca. 1900]. Backmark stamp: "Copies by Harvey M. Day, Charlotte, N.C." Both McIntosh and Day were at work in their respective cities at the turn of the 20th century. Some wear around the edges and on verso, a good example. (10305). More about THREE UNIDENTIFIED GENTLEMEN IN JACKETS AND VESTS, posed in a studio, full-length, with arms...
(Oxford, NC: Press of Oxford Orphanage, 1926). First separate edition (first appeared in "Master Mason," January [1926?] number). Narrow 8vo. 35 pp. Illustrated from photographs (portraits and buildings). Not in Thornton. OCLC locates one copy (East Carolina). Very good. Original illustrated wrappers, staples. (10327). More about THE STORY OF THE OXFORD ORPHANAGE. With Report of R.L. Brown, Superintendent, 1925
Elizabeth City, NC: The Independent, (c1934). First separate edition (originally appeared in the "Elizabeth City Independent"). 8vo. (30) pp., including satirical ads. Illustrated from line drawings. Humorous and satirical consideration of the New Deal program, carried through by the Civil Works Administration, to provide rural Americans with privies. Apparently not... More about FORWARD PASQUOTANK! Memorializing a (Back) Housing Program of Unique Cultural, Social, and...
Elizabeth City, NC: The Independent, (c1934). First separate edition (originally appeared in the "Elizabeth City Independent"). 8vo. (30) pp., including satirical ads. Illustrated from line drawings. Humorous and satirical consideration of the New Deal program, carried through by the Civil Works Administration, to provide rural Americans with privies. Apparently not... More about FORWARD PASQUOTANK! Memorializing a (Back) Housing Program of Unique Cultural, Social, and...
NP: np, nd. [ca. 1925?]. First edition (?). 16mo (16 cm.). 8 pp. A nostalgic look at the rural institution in America, with James Whitcomb Riley's famous poem, "The Passing of the Backhouse" printed at the end, "a true-to-life, human-interest story of an old landmark which has endeared itself in... More about OUR OLD FASHIONED OUT HOUSE [cover title
NY: Simonds & Wainwright, April, 1901. Carbon typescript of the report, on S&W company letterhead, unsigned by the company's preparing engineer. 4to. Title page, (6) pp. [rectos only]. Illustrated with a pen-and-ink cross view of the mine and two mounted photographs, picturing the hoisting engine building at the shaft entrance... More about SIMONDS & WAINWRIGHT, Chemical and Mining Engineers and Analysts. Report of North Carolina...
Raleigh, (NC): Edwards & Broughton & Co., Printers and Binders, for the Medical Society and Academy of Medicine, 1875. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. McKee (1814-1874), a Raleigh native, received his medical degree from Pennsylvania in 1839, returning to Raleigh in 1840 to establish a practice that continued to his... More about MEMOIR OF DR W. H. MCKEE, a Member of the North Carolina Medical Society and Fellow of the...
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1857-1858. First edition (Weeks, p. 29: "The printing of these volumes was paid for by James C. Johnston of Edenton, N.C."). 8vo. 2 volumes: viii, 570, (2, ad leaf); vii, 607, (2, ad leaf) pp. Frontispiece portrait, engraved facsimile of Iredell's bookplate; errata slip... More about LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF JAMES IREDELL, One of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of...
Weldon, NC: Harrell's Print, 1898. Advertising handbill for the event. Printed handbill, 9 x 5 7/8 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, one manuscript correction to the text. At the time, Bear Swamp Baptist Church was located in Littleton, Halifax County; Wake Forest holds a microfilm of the... More about WARREN UNION. / NEXT SECTION OF THIS BODY WILL BE HELD WITH THE / Bear Swamp Baptist Church, /...
Charlotte, NC: Observer Printing and Publishing House, 1897. First edition. 8vo. 21 pp. History of the Unity Presbyterian Church and its Lincoln County neighborhood. Drop-title: "The Broad Axe and the Forge." Thornton 8111. Rather uncommon, OCLC locates 13 copies, most in North Carolina. Very good. Original printed rose wrappers (soiled, a little chipped). (10228). More about THE BROAD AXE AND THE FORGE; or, A Narrative of Unity Church Neighborhood from Colonial Times...
Durham, NC: Seeman Printery, December, 1922. First edition, printed for friends only and not for public distribution. 4to. 16 pp. Poetry by the author and others, with a few short prose sketches. Illustrated with a single plate, of the author's dog Pompey Ducklegs. Inscribed by the author "about Easter 1923,"... More about SOME OLD FRIENDS AND NEW FOR SOME YOUNG FRIENDS AND OLD
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