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The Cabin and Parlor; Or, Slaves and Masters By J. Thornton Randolph [pseud.]
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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.
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Battle Cry of Freedom: Two Volume Set : The Civil War Era
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A Checklist of Kentucky Cabinetmakers from 1775 to 1859
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Paris, KY: Edna Talbott Whitley (1st Edition, 1969). Softcover in protective clear plastic sleeve, 146 pages. Ex-library reference (not circulated), with the expected labels, markings, and wear. Spine is faded, with remains of old clear tape used to reinforce. Inner hinges have been reinforced with clear tape that has yellowed with age. This is the 1st Edition of A CHECKLIST OF KENTUCKY CABINETMAKERS FROM 1775 TO 1859, a very scarce cabinetmaker reference and one of the few places this information was published. Edna Talbott Whitley was born in 1891 in Paris, Kentucky to Robert C. Talbott, a lawyer, and Sallie Scott Grimes. Edna married Wade Hampton Whitley in 1909. Edna became a Kentucky historian and published works including Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture in 1956, George Berk an Eighteenth Century Painter, and in 1969 she compiled this list of cabinetmakers in Kentucky.
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A Day on the Cooper River
by Irving, John B.; Enlarged and Edited by Louisa Cheves Stoney
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Columbia, South Carolina: The R. L. Bryan Company, 1932. Second Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 220, [1] pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in navy blue cloth. Light to moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. Small white blemish at the top edge of the front cover. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. The text is a little toned. There is underling to a line on page viii, but otherwise the text appears clean. Complete with the portrait frontis and the folding map just before page 5. The Editor's Notes at the beginning states that 300 copies were published. Originally published in 1842
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The Cabin and Parlor; Or, Slaves and Masters By J. Thornton Randolph [pseud.]
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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.
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Battle Cry of Freedom: Two Volume Set : The Civil War Era
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A Checklist of Kentucky Cabinetmakers from 1775 to 1859
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Paris, KY: Edna Talbott Whitley (1st Edition, 1969). Softcover in protective clear plastic sleeve, 146 pages. Ex-library reference (not circulated), with the expected labels, markings, and wear. Spine is faded, with remains of old clear tape used to reinforce. Inner hinges have been reinforced with clear tape that has yellowed with age. This is the 1st Edition of A CHECKLIST OF KENTUCKY CABINETMAKERS FROM 1775 TO 1859, a very scarce cabinetmaker reference and one of the few places this information was published. Edna Talbott Whitley was born in 1891 in Paris, Kentucky to Robert C. Talbott, a lawyer, and Sallie Scott Grimes. Edna married Wade Hampton Whitley in 1909. Edna became a Kentucky historian and published works including Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture in 1956, George Berk an Eighteenth Century Painter, and in 1969 she compiled this list of cabinetmakers in Kentucky.
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A Day on the Cooper River
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Columbia, South Carolina: The R. L. Bryan Company, 1932. Second Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 220, [1] pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in navy blue cloth. Light to moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. Small white blemish at the top edge of the front cover. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. The text is a little toned. There is underling to a line on page viii, but otherwise the text appears clean. Complete with the portrait frontis and the folding map just before page 5. The Editor's Notes at the beginning states that 300 copies were published. Originally published in 1842
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Types of the Sunny South
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Brooklyn, NY: The Albertype Co., 1890. Date is from citation in Wordcat. 16 Albertypes. There are three punched holes which originally had a ribbin to bind the book. As is all is complete but the pages are loose. Some chipping and tears around the edges of the covers. Tears across spine. 1 1/2 inch tear and chip at bottom of spine. Slight browning of pages. Marvelous photos.. Soft Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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Penguin Press, 2018-11-06. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Delbanco, Andrew : The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. New York : Penguin Press/Random House, 2018. First edition. Size is super royal octavo (8vo), 9.5/25cm h. Quarterbound in publisher's red paper boards and cream white cloth spine, bright gilt lettering imprinted to spine and (author's initials only) front board. Plain white endpapers. Textured semi-glossy dj in color. [x] pp prelim material, 453 numbered pp, one blank following. Numerous b&w photos/illus. Illust credits, notes, index. Condition notes: fine, tight, sharp corners. A bit of rolling to spine ends. No notes or highlighting. Lovely copy. We personally inspect every book we offer.
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Thomas Green Clemson
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td [border: 1px solid #ccc;]br [mso-data-placement:same-cell;]Like new dustjacket. Book itself has a minor bump to the bottom corner. Tight, clean and square. Free of any markings except for some initialing on page xvi along with a personal post-it note from the initialer on Clemson Universitypost-it about how they are thanked in the credits of the book. There is a photocopy of a personal note on Clemson University letterhead from Jerry Reed in the front of the book. (see photos) 358 indexed pages with some black and white illustrations and photos. Includes a bibliography. History. Biography. South Carolina. 1.25" X 6.25" X 9.25" 3cm X 16cm X 23.5cm Thomas Green Clemson (1807–1888), the founder of Clemson University in Clemson, SC, was no ordinary man. Fifteen scholars and specialists of history, science, agriculture, engineering, music, art, diplomacy, law, and communications come together to address Clemson's multifaceted life, the century and issues that helped shape him, and his ongoing…
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Carry me Back to Old Virgiinny
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Gone With The Wind
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MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."
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Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
by Skitt; [Harden E. Taliaferro]
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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…
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Southern Exposure: A documented expose of the anti-democratic forces in the deep South
by Stetson Kennedy
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364pp + index, 4 pages b&w photographs, illustrated end papers. DJ intact but frayed on top and left side of spine (see photo). Price intact. Scarce signed first edition of human rights activist Kennedy's visit to the deep South, exposing the "Problem of the South and the historical roots of all its evils..." Boldly signed on title page. Book is in essentially unread condition and appears to be the only signed copy listed online.
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Brunswick County, Virginia 1720-1975 Revised to 2000: The History of Southside Virginia County
by Gay Neale
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Brunswick County Bicentennial Committee, 1999. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. Edges of boards show minor rubbing. Lower edge of DJ has two small tears and rear panel shows some rubbing. Interior is pristine. Overall a clean, solid copy showing very minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy at Barbed Wire Books.
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CONFEDERATE ATHENS
by Coleman, Kenneth
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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 .
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More than Mercer House: More
by Dorothy Kingery
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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.
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An Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina... June 5th, 1846
by Moore, Bartholomew F
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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).…
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