Antebellum South

New York: Harper & Brothers, Pubslishers, 1859. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. John M'Lenan. 12mo. 269, [4] pages. TITLE PAGE IN FACSIMILE. Hardcover bound in original blue publisher's cloth with spine titles in gilt and cover designs in blind. The binding is worn and bumped and has some fraying and tearing at the spine ends. A couple of nicks on the spine are touched up with blue. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Appears to have two identical facsimile title pages tipped in (consequently lacking the original title; the frontis is NOT in facsimile). The text has some moderate foxing throughout. An early owner's blind stamped name is on the first page of the text. There is a folding newspaper article pasted onto the rear pastedown. Collates complete with all illustrations, including the frontis. A scarce volume of 19th century humor looking at the people and stories of Surry County, North Carolina. Hardin Edward Taliaferro (1811-1875) was a southern… Read More

These four volumes are bound in 3/4 leather (spines and cover corners) with marbled covers and endsheets. Volume One: 1850 - 1854, Volume Two: 1854 - 1860, Volume Three: 1860 - 1862, Volume Four: 1862 - 1864. All four volumes are in Very Good Condition. Volume Four contains a pocket inside the back cover containing six maps. Due to the size of this item, expedited or priority shipping prices will be individually quoted. Media Mail cost within the U.S. will remain as listed.

1804. An Eminent Local as Guarantor and a "Negro Woman Named Tiggy" as Collateral [Slavery]. [Virginia]. [Bond Agreement to Settle a Debt]. Henry and Patrick Counties, [Virginia], December 7, 1804. 12-1/2" x 8" part-printed document inscribed in neat hand, signed by William Banks, Jr. and docketed on verso. Moderate toning, light soiling, horizontal and vertical fold lines, small holes along main horizontal fold line just touching a letter of text. $750. * This document, a clerical copy, outlines an agreement by Samuel Brewer Jr. to pay David Perkins[?] $25.24 and additional legal costs of $7.62. George Hairston [1750-1825], the prominent Virginia planter, politician and Revolutionary War officer, served as the guarantor. Notably, Brewer's collateral was "one Negro Woman named Tiggy," held at the Patrick County sheriff's office until the debt was discharged.

Bricks Without Straw, A Novel. By Albion W Tourgee, Author of "A Fool's Errand" etc. New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert. 1880. Believed to be first edition. 'A classic of American political fiction first published in 1880, a mere three years after Reconstruction officially ended, Bricks Without Straw offers an inside view of the struggle to create a just society in the post-slavery South. It is unique among the white-authored literary works of its time in presenting Reconstruction through the eyes of emancipated slaves. As a leading Radical Republican, the author, Albion W. Tourgée, played a key role in drafting a democratized Constitution for North Carolina after the Civil War, and he served as a state superior court judge during Reconstruction. Tourgée worked closely with African Americans and poor whites in the struggle to transform North Carolina's racial and class politics. He saw the ravages of the Ku Klux Klan firsthand, worked to bring the perpetrators of Klan atrocities to justice, and… Read More

Raleigh: Division of Archives and History / Department of Cultural Resources, 1980. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Quartos. lvi, 664; (xxxvi), 960 pages. SIGNED by editor William S. Powell on the title pages of both volumes. Hardcovers with a blue dust jacket. The jackets show moderate rubbing and wear with some scuffs and brief edge tears and chips. Jackets are sound and complete. A sound set with secure inner hinges and clean text. The half title page in both volumes has been signed by Lindley Butler, a NC historian. Contains several illustrations. Complete 2 volume set. Volume I is dated 1980; Volume II is dated 1981.

Joplin, Missouri: College Press, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavos. Variously paginated. FACSIMILE REPRINTS. Brown hardcovers. Light to moderate wear to the bindings. A few of the bindings have scuff or contact marks on the spines, but overall a sound, clean set. Text is unmarked. Facsimiles of the original volumes published between 1830 and 1870. These books are undated. The publisher had noted that the sets were published in the 1970s. We have found another source indicated that they were published in 1987. This set is 38 of 41 volumes and LACKS the volumes for the years 1837, 1850, 1868. The set weighs about 70 pounds, so extra shipping will be required.

More than Mercer House: Savannah's Jim Williams & his Southern Houses written and signed by Dorothy Kingery, the hardcover book is like new except at the last page the sewn in bindings comes a little away from the book just for about 1/3 of the way up, no pages are loose and it's the very end of the book, the buckram black cover is beautiful; the dj has edge and cover wear to the front, but still looks good in the sense that you can still see the cover and back photographs very well.

Raleigh, N.C.: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1903. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. xvi, 443 pages. Hardcover bound in original green cloth with titles in gilt. An ex-library copy with full markings. Modern removable clear mylar jacket. Shelf label on the spine and ink stamps (included "Discarded" stamps) on the endpapers. Inner hinges just starting. Text is toned but generally clean. SIGNED on the second front flyleaf, "Compliments of the Author." (The book does not contain the author's actual signature but is signed as "the Author."). Nathaniel Macon (1757-1837) was born near Warrenton, North Carolina and represented North Carolina in both houses of Congress. He served briefly in the American Revolution. He was a defender of slavery and voted against the Missouri Compromise in 1820. In 1835 he served as President of the convention to revise the Constitution of North… Read More

NY : E.J. Hale & Son, 1878 Alexander Means was an inventor, physicist, poet and a past Emory College president at the original campus in Oxford GA. Many say he was the father of modern electricity. His famous light bulb experiment preceded Tesla and Edison by decades. This is a very rare first edition (1878). The book is in sound condition. Blue cloth cover intact as well as binding. Minor cloth fray on spine and damp stain on rear cover. What is most remarkable about this book is that it is inscribed by one of his former slaves after his freedom. The inscription reads " Susie , Accept this cluster of Poems by one of my old masters from your affecionate husband A.F.P Decatur Ga, Apr 1878. A most precious inscription to a valuable 19th C book.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Book is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends, a couple small, light scratches to front board else a bright & solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges & covers, light bumping to spine ends else still bright, intact & whole. Book is signed/inscribed by author on inner front board. FOLCAS 9/23 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .

Raleigh, N.C.: Printed at the Recorder Office / Published by Order of the Society, 1846. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 26 pages. Soft cover bound in original pink printed wrappers. The wrappers show wear and have sunning about the edges and soiling from handling. A sound copy. Signed in pencil at the top of the front wrapper, "J. A. Jarratt" or "S. A. Jarratt." Now housed in a removable board back plastic sleeve. The text block is sound, and the text is a bit toned and has just a little sporadic foxing. Bartholomew Figures Moore (1801-1878) was a North Carolina attorney and politician and was largely a Union loyalist during the Civil War He was born in Halifax County and graduated from UNC in 1820 and was a trustee of the University 1840-1868 and then again from 1871 until his death. He was a member of the NC Constitutional Convention of 1835 and was Attorney General of North Carolina (1848-1851).… Read More

Raleigh: Printed by Bell & Lawrence, Printers to the State, 1826. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 11 pages. Soft cover. Stitched pamphlet with a simple string tie at the spine The binding is worn with creases and chips along the edges. Several dam spots at the fore edge and at the bottom of the title page (which is the front cover). Browning and foxing to the text. The issue was the claims of members and descendants of the Continental Line during the American Revolution who were supposed to receive land grants in the western part of Carolina, afterwards Tennessee. George Edmund Badger (1795-1866) was a superior court judge, Secretary of the Navy, and was a U.S. Senator, originally from New Bern, North Carolina. In 1828 he supported Andrew Jackson as President, but he opposed the National Bank, so he joined the newly formed Whig Party. In 1840 he was appointed as Secretary of the Navy, and he did much to modernize the… Read More

York, PA: George Shumway, 1968. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. George Shumway. Folio. 200 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a tan and black dust jacket. The jacket shows some edge wear with some brief tears at the headcap. Jacket is rubbed, especially on the rear panel. A couple of stains at the foot of the jacket spine. INSCRIBED by author John Bivins to Mary Jarrell (NOT the wife of Randall Jarrell) on the leaf before the title page and dated 1969. Text is sound and clean. Illustrated throughout.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1852. European edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. Two vols bound in one- xii, 352 pp, vi, 317 pp. No frontis portrait. Quarter black morocco over brown faux-leather, gilt spine titles. The same year as its publication in Boston with a new preface by Stowe written for the European edition - "No Nation Can Remain Free With Whom Freedom Is A Privilege and Not A Principle."A prior owner's name written neatly in front but otherwise an antiquarian book in Excellent condition with very light foxing affecting a few pages.

New York, Basic Civitas Books, 2004, hardcover, xxi-394 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Near Fine in Fine dustjacket, Signed and inscribed by the Author as an addendum on the dedication page, "and for Daniel-with all good wishes, Jean Fagan Yellin 10/04" Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight bumps to head and heel of spine, one page edge wrinkled. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, as new in protective Brodart sleeve. Drawing upon decades of original research with never-before-seen archival sources Yellin creates a complete picture of Harriet Jacobs, author of one of the most widely read slave narratives of all time, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and brings to life the struggles and triumphs of this extraordinary woman whose life reflected all the major changes of the nineteenth century, from slavery to the Civil War to Reconstruction to the origins of the modern Civil Rights movement. Illustrated with a selection of black-&-white photographs on 8 glossy… Read More