A HISTORY OF GEORGIA, FROM ITS FIRST DISCOVERY BY EUROPEANS TO THE ADOPTION OF THE PRESENT CONSTITUTION IN MDCCXCVIII. In Two Volumes by Georgia / Stevens, William Bacon - 1847

THE ROSE B EDITION. Du Bose, Heyward. Porgy (1925 George H. Doran Mauve "B" Hardcover 1st Edition/ 2nd printing thus, known as the Mauve or Rose "B" Edition. Decorated By Theodore Nadejen. USED. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Mauve/Purple boards with gold gilt titling and owl cartouche. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR "PORGY AND BESS", THE DRAMATIC BROADWAY MUSICAL AND MOTION PICTURE, SCORED BY AMERICAN COMPOSER GEORGE GERSHWIN.

Philadelphia: Herman Hooker. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and rounded, foxed, front and rear . free endpapers removed.. 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Original brown blindstamped cloth titled in gilt on spine. Mezzotint frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Page engraved by John Sartain after a painting by McCoughtry. 101pp + 5pp of publisher’s ads. Measures 6.25 x 4 inches. Sympathetic biography of Anne Randolph Meade Page (1781-1838) , born into an evangelical Christian family near Fredericksburg, Virginia, and married to Matthew Page, a Virginia politician and plantation owner. The book, written by her son-in-law, describes her work to improve conditions for the large number of enslaved people on her husband’s estate and to finance the American Colonization Society in the work to promote migration of freed African-Americans to Liberia. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

The Easton Press, 1989. 2 vols. The Leather-Bound Library of American History. First thus; Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Issued without dust jackets. Used - Fine, "as new" condition. Bindings and text blocks are tight, bright, crisp, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Appear unopened / unread. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spines. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. All edges gilt. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints and permanent satin ribbon markers. Notes from History sheet laid in. Photo is of the set we have at Barbed Wire Books. A beautiful gift!

Georgetown, KY: Ann Bevins (Stated 4th Printing, 2005). Like new hardcover and dust jacket, 319 pages. The only indications that this is the 4th Printing are on the front of the dust jacket and a 2005 quote from the author on the back of the dust jacket. The publication page of the book shows 3rd Printing, Revised 1989. ABOUT THE BOOK: A HISTORY OF SCOTT COUNTY AS TOLD BY SELECTED BUILDINGS was first published in 1981. At least thirty percent of the buildings depicted as standing at that time, by the time of this fourth printing in 2005, have disappeared from the landscape, some by fire, and others by neglect and outright demolition. Many are endangered, and it will take a near-miracle, launched and completed by caring and sensitive owners to restore to these near-misses the appearance and character that original and historic-eras owners intended. Historian and author Ann Bolton Bevins believes that old houses, commercial and industrial buildings, structures, and sites have a way of communicating to… Read More

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: 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.

New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, 1896. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Original publisher's cloth, the bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 7.75 inches tall; 310 pages with a frontispiece. An uncommon novel to locate. Ref: American Catalogue 195-1900 p524; Book New Vol 15 p289. 'A love story set in the picturesque Mississippi valley describing the conditions that prevailed immediately after the War of the Rebellion. Uncle Scipio is old negro slave.' Publishers Weekly Background Information: Jeannette H. Walworth was an American novelist and journalist. Born in Philadelphia, in 1837, she removed to Natchez, Mississippi, while a child, with her father, Charles Julius Hadermann, a German baron, who became the president of Jefferson College. On his death, the family removed to Louisiana. [wiki]

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

Boston: Eastern Pub. Company, 1900. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Mustard cloth with gilt titles and decoration in dark green. 8vo; 7.25 inches tall; vii, 131 pages. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with tiny corner rubs and some age-discoloration of the cloth on the spine and edges. . 13 stories of Plantation Life focusing on servants and writing conversations in dialect that depict benevolent masters and honored slaves. Written from a revisionist perspective. Ref: Wright American fiction ; v. 3, no. 4253.

Salem, N.C.: Gedruckt bey Blum und Sohn, 1849. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 8 pages. Bound in printed wrappers (the title page is the front cover) and housed in a 20th century stapled cardboard folder, secured very tightly in the binding with black cloth-tape. The paper is browned and has some wear or pest damage at the corner of the front cover and the following leaf. The translation into English is, "Report of the Evan's Activities. Tennessee Lutheran Synod, during its Ninth and Twentieth Session, held at the Becks Church, Davidson County, N.C. From October 20th to 23rd, 1849." Rare. Worldcat lists other reports from the Evangelical Lutheran Church that were printed in Salem, N.C. in the 1820s to the 1840s, but we have not found a copy of this report listed.