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The University of Alabama Reader: What is the Ideal Society?

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Boston:: Bedford/St. Martin's,, 2004. Near Fine. 8vo. 482pp. Light curling to covers. Selections from A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers; Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, with Readings; selections from many great minds. .... more information

Price: 15.00 USD

ARTISTS AND WRITERS IN THE EVOLUTION OF LATIN AMERICA; EDITED BY EDWARD DAVIS TERRY.

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University, University of Alabama Press,, 1969. x, 191p., index. .... more information

Price: 27.30 USD

YUCATAN IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION

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Tuscaloosa:: University Alabama Press,, 2008. New. First edition. Octavo; 192p photos, bibl., wrps. New .... more information

Price: 20.00 USD

MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL SESSION OF THE CENTRAL BAPTIST ASSOCIATION HELD WITH SHADY GROVE CHURCH, COOSA COUNTY, ALABAMA. COMMENCING ON SATURDAY, OCT. 6th, 1866.

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Wetumpka, AL:: printed at the "Elmore Standard" office,, 1866. Unbound sheets. 8vo.; 10pp., (2). Two small holes (from a pin?) along left border, slightly affecting a few letters in text. Very good. .... more information

Price: 125.00 USD

REV. I. B. PERRY, PASTOR OF LILLY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, BRUMMIT HEIGHTS, AND MACEDONIA MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, LEEDS, ALABAMA.

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Birmingham, AL:: The churches,, nd [ca. 1950]. 4-page leaflet on heavy stock. Three photographic portraits: Rev. Mr. Perry, his wife, and their young son. Illustrated self-wrappers (ink number at head of front and rear wrapper). .... more information

Price: 150.00 USD

CATALOGUE OF THE WEST ALABAMA AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, HAMILTON, ALABAMA, THIRTEENTH ANNOUNCEMENT, 1907-1908.

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Hamilton, (AL):: Ford Bros. Printers,, (1907). 8vo. (34) pp. Illustrated, class portrait plates. Original printed gold wrappers, stapled. Very good. .... more information

Price: 150.00 USD

GET YOU A HOME IN ALABAMA: HOME SEEKERS AND CAPITALIST GUIDE TO ALABAMA [cover title].

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Montgomery, AL:: Brown Printing Co.,, nd [1903]. Broadsheet, 21 x 26 inches, folded to 12mo. 21-panel illustrated promotional on recto, color county map of the state on verso. Some breaks at folds, but very good overall. .... more information

Price: 225.00 USD

MAP OF SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM TERRITORY [cover title].

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[Washington, DC?]:: The company,, 1923. Broadside, 21 x 31 inches, with color, folded into stiff wrappers, a narrow 8vo; inset maps of Florida and Cuba and the Birmingham, Alabama, area. Includes an index to all the system's railway stations and connecting steamship line. Very good. .... more information

Price: 150.00 USD

RAND, MCNALLY, & CO. 'S INDEXED COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP POCKET MAP AND SHIPPERS' GUIDE OF ALABAMA, ACCOMPANIED BY A NEW AND ORIGINAL COMPILATION AND READY REFERENCE INDEX, SHOWING IN DETAIL THE ENTIRE RAILROAD SYSTEM...AND ACCURATELY LOCATING ALL CITIES, TOWN

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Chicago, (IL):: Rand, McNally,, (c1884). 12mo. 32, (4) pp. Map title. "Rand, McNally & Co.'s Alabama," 20 x 13 inches, printed in color. Original printed tan wrappers. Very good. .... more information

Price: 150.00 USD

BEAUTIFUL ISLE, SONG ADDRESSED TO DAUPHIN ISLAND MOBILE POINT, (FORT BOYER, ALABAMA).

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Louisville, (KY):: Peters, Webb & Co.,, (c1850). Large 4to. 5 pp. Lithograph view of Dauphin Island in the bay just south of Mobile. Disbound (soiled, some tears into margin, one affecting view, tape-repaired on verso). Good copy. .... more information

Price: 150.00 USD

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FREEDMAN'S HOSPITAL NEAR TALLADEGA, ALABAMA, FOR THE YEAR 1874.

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Montgomery, AL:: W.W. Screws, state printer,, 1875. 8vo. 8 pp. Original printed wrappers (soiled, spine somewhat worn), stitched. .... more information

Price: 150.00 USD

FEDERAL CHEMICAL COMPANY, CAPITAL, $3,000,000: OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF THE GREATER PORTION OF ALL THE DEVELOPED PHOSPHATE FIELDS IN TENNESSEE, AND OF THE LARGEST AND BEST EQUIPPED FERTILIZER PLANT IN THE WORLD [cover title].

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Montgomery, AL:: Marks & Gayle, resident managers for the states of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and West Florida,, nd [1902]. Narrow 16mo. 20 pp. Illustrated. Original illustrated tan wrappers, stapled. Very good. .... more information

Price: 150.00 USD

OIL / ALL DOUBT REMOVED / AS TO THE PRODUCTS FROM / THE O'HENRY OIL FIELD / AT COTTONWOOD, ALABAMA / (ACTUAL DRILLING AT SEALY WELL NO. 1 BEGINS ON OCTOBER 6) / .. [followed by five paragraphs of text].

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Dothan, AL:: The Commercial Press for Kestner Land Development Co.,, 1927. Broadside printed in blue on stiff paper, 13 3/4 x 9 inches, employing several sizes and styles of typefaces. Paper browned, else very good. .... more information

Price: 150.00 USD

REPORT OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER, UPON THE SURVEY, LOCATION, AND PROBABLE COST OF THE NORTH EAST AND SOUTH WEST ALABAMA RAIL ROAD, MADE TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORY, JULY 5TH, 1855.

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Tuscaloosa, AL:: Printed by M.D.J. Slade,, 1855. 8vo. 32 pp. Original printed tan wrappers (soiled and a little chipped); old tideline in margin, but very good. .... more information

Price: 375.00 USD

Fourth Graduating Exercises of the Emerson Institute College Building, Mobile, Ala., May 26th, 1887 [cover title].

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[Mobile, AL]:: 1887. 16mo. (4) pp. Printed card stock. One contemporary manuscript correction. Fine. .... more information

Price: 150.00 USD

Louisiana along the Texas and Pacific Railway [cover title].

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(St. Louis Missouri):: The railway,, nd [ca. 1915]. Small 4to folded to narrow 8vo. 26, (1) pp. [printed double-panel], Illustrated, plate, railway map. Caption title: Louisiana. OCLC locates two copies (Alabama, Historic New Orleans Collection). Original printed green wrappers, with address panel for mailing on one panel, stapled. Very good. .... more information

Price: 150.00 USD

The Little Alabama Coon [cover title].

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Dundee, London & NY:: Valentine & Sons Ltd.,, nd [ca. 1925]. Small 4to. (34) pp. [including verso of front cover and recto of rear cover]. Illustrated, black-and-white and mono-color plates by G.F. Christie. Original multi-color chromolithographic stiff boards (rubbed); some internal soiling, a good copy of a rare book. .... more information

Price: 750.00 USD

A Bird's Eye View of Our Territory / [followed by a large map and eight lines of promotional text].

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Knoxville, TN:: Daniel Briscoe, Bro. & Co.,, nd [ca. 1900]. Broadside printed in red and black, 17 x 13 1/2 inches. Advertises the Briscoe dry goods and notions business located in Knoxville during the early decades of the 20th century. The regional map includes Tennessee west to Nashville, much of Kentucky, the mountains of West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina, up-country South Carolina, and northern Georgia and Alabama; the company's building is superimposed over Knoxville. "The House that made Knoxville Famous as a Dry Goods Market." Not recorded on OCLC. Folded; several splits at corner folds, but a very good copy. .... more information

Price: 125.00 USD

Grand Opening of the New Weatherly Funeral Home, Serving Central, South and Southwest Alabama, 1940-1954: Dedication Saturday, November 20, 1954 - 1 P.M., York, Alabama [cover title].

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Birmingham, AL:: Rapid printing Co.,, 1954. Revision of a similar earlier publication (a copy of which, without outer wrappers, is offered in this lot). 4to. (16) pp. Illustrated, portraits of the business owners; ads for other local African-American businesses. Includes a history of the business and illustrations of interiors from the home. Both of the copies offered here appear to have been used as mock-ups for an even later edition, with some portions crossed out and ink notes providing instructions for proof, etc. .... more information

Price: 175.00 USD

Alabama Musical Popularity Contest / Legion Field / Birmingham, Alabama / Sunday August 15, 1943 [followed on the recto by 54 lines printing the program and listing 42 competing groups, choruses and choirs and quartets, and the judges; the verso prints ad

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Birmingham, AL:: Printed by B.T.W. Business College Press [for] Smith & Gaston,, 1943. Broadsheet, 12 1/2 x 6 inches, $300 in cash prizes were to be awarded and the competition was preceded by "Group Patriotic Singing" of "America" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Folded and a little soiled. Very good. .... more information

Price: 125.00 USD

Directory and Program of the Seventy-Second Session of the North Alabama Conference of the African Methodist Church to be Held in Grants Chapel A.M.E. Church … Birmingham, Alabama, November 23-28, 1949. Rt. Rev. S. L. Greene, D.D., LL.D, Presiding Bishop.

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Birmingham, AL:: Rapid Printing Shop,, 1949. 8vo. 24 pp. Portraits; ads for local businesses. Original illustrated wrappers (soiled and a little worn). An illustrated broadside, 12 1/4 x 6 inches, announcing the program for a December, 1949, tribute for the Rev. A. L. Tooson, is laid in. .... more information

Price: 125.00 USD

Souvenir Dedication Program of First Congregational Church, Birmingham, Alabama, 1882-1952, November 2-9, 1952 [cover title].

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Birmingham, AL:: The church,, 1952. First edition. 4to. (32) pp. Illustrated with portraits of pastors and deceased members; ads for local businesses. Short historical sketch by Mrs. B.H. Hudson, list of patrons, report from the building committee (the dedication was for a new building, to replace the one destroyed by fire in 1949), program for the week's activities, etc. .... more information

Price: 85.00 USD

The sale of five slaves as recorded in an autograph document transferring ownership of "Five Negroes viz. Fanny, Wyatte, Alex, Jeff & Jim" to Grandison Hudson, Amanda Waser, Munroe Augustus, and Robert-George Hudson of Montgomery County, Alabama, for $200

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4to. One-page, approximately 75 words; docketed on verso. Folded, paper browned, some ink smudges, but very good. .... more information

Price: 300.00 USD

Catalogue of the Preparatory and Normal Departments of Talladega College., Talladega, Alabama, 1871-'72. Incorporated February 17, 1869.

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Montgomery, AL:: Barrett & Brown,,, 1872. 8vo. 30 pp. Wood engraved frontispiece of Swayne Hall on the campus. Original printed green wrappers (soiled, spine partly eroded, some other wear at extremities). Good copy of a rare pamphlet. . .... more information

Price: 850.00 USD

Year Book City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Birmingham, Alabama, 1950-51.

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Birmingham, AL:: Forniss Printing Co.,, 1950. First edition. 16mo. 27 pp. Brief history of the organization, lists of clubs, members, and committees, and a month-by-month calendar of events. .... more information

Price: 125.00 USD

HALF FARE / EXCURSIONS / FOR HOME SEEKERS TO / NORTH ALABAMA / WILL LEAVE ON THE / FIRST AND THIRD TUESDAY / OF EVERY MONTH. / LIMESTONE COUNTY, ALABAMA. / [14 paragraphs of text follows].

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Chicago, IL:: D.M. Frederiksen & Co.,, nd [ca.1895]. Printed broadside on orange paper, 16 x 8 inches. Chip in left margin (not affecting text). Matted. A very good copy. .... more information

Price: 225.00 USD

Deposit Book of the National Freedman's Savings and Trust Company [cover label title].

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[Philadelphia, PA]:: Wm. Mann Steam-Power Printer,, nd [ca. 1870]. Account book with manuscript entries. 12mo. 14 pages for account activity entries, four used, 1870-1883; front endpapers printing lists of officers and trustees of the company and the various branches and their cashiers, rear endpapers printing rules and regulations for the institutions. This copy records transactions made for John Donegan at the Huntsville, Alabama, branch ($82 deposited in 1870, $25 deposited in 1873, various withdrawals and interest deposits over the next ten years). We have not previously encountered any kind of Freedmen's Bank record or account book. For an account of the bank, see Walter Fleming's The Freedmen's Savings Bank:.... more information

Price: 750.00 USD

Office Sup't. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands, / Sub-District Huntsville. / Huntsville, Alabama, January 20, 1866. / Circular No. 1. [caption title].

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Signed in type by "John B. Callis, Colonel U.S.V., and Superintendent Dist. Huntsville, Bureau R., F. & A.L." Signed in manuscript "Official / W. Irving Miller / 1st. Lt. & Asst. Superintendent." Huntsville, AL: The bureau, 1866. Printed broadside, 12 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches, employing a display type for the headline. Folded (separated along central fold); some browning, but very good, the separation reparable. .... more information

Price: 3000.00 USD

The sale of three slaves as recorded in an autograph document transferring ownership of "one Woman named Rachel about twenty three years of age … and her two children Henry about two years of age and Mary about four months old" to Thomas Price of Alabama"

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Folio. One page, approximately 75 words; docketed on verso. Folded (tear at central fold); edges somewhat chipped and frayed, browned. .... more information

Price: 200.00 USD

An Act to Charter the Alabama Insurance Company, Approved, February 8th, 1858.

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Montgomery, AL:: Montgomery Post Book and Job Office,, 1860. 16mo. 8 pp. Original printed tan wrappers (creased). Very good copy. .... more information

Price: 450.00 USD

The Statutes of the State of Alabama, Relative to Chancery Proceedings, and Rules for the Regulation of the Practice in the Courts of Chancery; Adopted by the Judges of the Supreme Court, at the Term Commencing in January, 1841.

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Mobile, (AL):: S.W. Allen (Dade & Thompson, printers),, 1841. 12mo. 27 pp. Original printed blue wrappers (publisher's ad on rear wrapper); some light foxing, but a very good copy. .... more information

Price: 1250.00 USD

APPOINTMENT OF STAFFORD SELLMAN OF LAWRENCE COUNTY, ALABAMA AS GUARDIAN FOR JOHN DYER SELLMAN, the 13th day of December, 1824.

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Single sheet, measuring 7 1/2 x 12 inches. A partially printed document, completed in manuscript, from the Orphan's Court of Lawrence County. Signed by John Gallagher, Clk. of the Orphan's Court, with his seal affixed to verso. Creased from folding, else very good. .... more information

Price: 150.00 USD

REPORTS OF THE COMMISSIONERS, APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR TO EXAMINE THE BANK OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA AND ITS BRANCHES, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF 23d DECEMBER, 1837.

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Tuscaloosa:: printed at Office of the "Flag of the Union",, 1838. Stitched self-wraps. Tall 8vo.; 46pp. Unopened. Two folding charts (one loose, laid in). Damage to margins of first several pages (small burn[?] hole through the margins, not affecting text); old staining at gutters; one signature printed on very high acid paper, severely browned, with insect damage to edges, touching a few letters of text. A tender, untrimmed, unopened copy. .... more information

Price: 750.00 USD

Declaring allegiance to the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, in a partly printed document, completed in manuscript and signed by W.D. Oats, 2 December 1862, in Montgomery, Alabama. Broadside, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, signed by A.J. Walker

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Oats also swears to "serve [the C.S.A.] honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever. Walker (1819-1872), a native of Tennessee, read law and moved to Alabama in the early 1840s; he was elected to the state supreme court in 1856 and served until 1868, the final nine years as chief justice. Folded, but a very good example of a scarce Confederate oath of allegiance. .... more information

Price: 450.00 USD

Acts of the Called Session, 1862, and of the Second Regular Annual Session of the General Assembly of Alabama, Held in the City of Montgomery, Commencing on the 27th Day of October and Second Monday in November, 1862.

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Montgomery, AL:: Montgomery Advertiser Book and Job Office,, 1862. First edition. 8vo. 226 pp. Parrish & Willingham 2623. Contemporary cloth-backed boards, leather spine label. Text block browned, else very good. (590) .... more information

Price: 250.00 USD

Acts of the Called Session of the General Assembly of Alabama, Held in the City of Montgomery, Commencing on the Second Monday in January, 1861.

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Montgomery, AL:: Shorter & Reid, State printers,, 1861. First edition. 8vo. 161, (1) pp. Parrish & Willingham 2620. Later tan buckram (rubbed), leather spine label. Text block browned, else very good. (592) .... more information

Price: 175.00 USD

Proceedings of the Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Alabama, Held in the City of Montgomery, Commencing December 3d, 1860.

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Montgomery, AL:: Barrett & Wimbish, Steam Printers & Binders,, 1861. First edition. 8vo. 64, (4), xcvi pp. Parrish & Willingham 8578, locating nine copies (Alabama Archives & History, Alabama, Georgia, Boston Athenaeum, Southern Mississippi, Duke, North Carolina, Virginia, Marshall). Original printed yellow wrappers. A little edgewear, else very good. .... more information

Price: 225.00 USD

Proceedings of the Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Alabama, Held in the City of Montgomery, Commencing December 2d, 1861.

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Montgomery, (AL):: Advertiser Book and Job Office,, 1862. First edition. 8vo. 47, lv pp. Parrish & Willingham 8579, locating nine copies (Alabama Archives & History, Birmingham/Jefferson County Public, Alabama, California-Santa Barbara, Emory, Georgia, Boston Athenaeum, Duke, Virginia). Original printed green wrappers. A little edgewear, else very good. .... more information

Price: 225.00 USD

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, during January and June Terms, 1860, by John W. Shepherd, state reporter. Vol. XXXVI.

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Montgomery, (AL):: Montgomery Advertiser Book and Job Office,, 1861. First edition. 8vo. 808 pp. Parrish & Willingham 2699. Later law sheep (rubbed, joints partly cracked). Owner's name, but a good solid copy. (593) .... more information

Price: 200.00 USD

Secession March. Sur le motif de la Marseillaise. Composed for the piano by Wm. Herz.

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Mobile, AL:: J.H. Snow,, (c1861). First edition. 4to. 7 pp. At head of title: "To first Regiment Ala Volunteer Corps." Parrish & Willingham 7431, locating four copies (Alabama Archives & History, Yale, New York Public Library, Tennessee State Library). Disbound (spine repaired with archival paper). Some browning, old tideline, else very good. .... more information

Price: 450.00 USD

A Discourse, December 25, 1847, to the Male and Female Bredren of Alabama, by Cudjo. Price 12 1/2 cents.

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NP:: np,, nd [1847 or 1848]. One of at least three editions (LCP/HSP Afro-Americana 2853 and 2854 describe two editions differing from this one). 8vo. 8 pp. (discourse on pp. 3-8). Title-page cut of "Cudjo," an African-American in formal attire, delivering his discourse. Caption title: "Negro Sermon." "Cudjo" delivers a Christmas sermon in dialect, a humorous retelling of the story of Genesis, with instructions on the taking of a wife and preparing for judgement day. A bookseller's note on the front endpaper describes this title as "1st Ala Black dialect book?" Later burgundy quarter-morocco and cloth, gilt spine title. Fine. .... more information

Price: 3000.00 USD

The Mercantile Agency Reference Book, (and Key) for the Within States [Alabama], Corrected up to January 1, 1872.

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New York:: Dun, Barlow & Co. [and others],, (c1872). The earliest credit reference work for the state of Alabama. Narrow 8vo. (4), 81 pp. Cover title: "Alabama / Jan. 1872." Lists businesses and individuals in business, by city or town, rated by "pecuniary strength" and "general credit." Seven years after the Civil War and the ratings are generally very low. Ownership signature of Craig Throckmorton, Tuscumbia, Ala. (James Throckmorton, a planter and miller, is listed under Tuscumbia). Not in Owen. The earliest edition noted on OCLC is for 1882 (Alabama Archives & History only). Gilt-stamped black leather (rubbed, spine a bit eroded). Some insect damage to last two leaves.... more information

Price: 2500.00 USD

Benjamin Branham's Protractor System of Garment Cutting, with Instructions in Making Up; for the Benefit of Ladies.

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Huntsville, AL:: Printed at the "Democratic Herald" Office,, 1842. First (only?) edition. 8vo. (11) pp. 4 full-page diagrams (text on versos) that are metal cuts done from plates whose securing screw heads are evident. The title, copyright, and first page of text printed in portrait alignment, following pages of text printed in two wide columns facing each diagram. Self wrappers, stitched. Very worn, edges frayed, wanting large chips from margins that take a corner of the title page guilloche border and two inches from one edge of the final plate, moderately browned and stained, stitching loose. Title page bears the name "G.W. Johns" in ink and there are a.... more information

Price: 6500.00 USD

Mobile Directory and Commercial Supplement, for 1855-6, Embracing the Names of Firms, the Individuals Composing Them, Householders and Freeholders Generally, within the City Limits, Alphabetically Arranged; also, a Synopsis of the History of Mobile, and a

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Mobile, (AL):: Strickland & Co.,, 1855. First Strickland directory for Mobile (the first Mobile directory was published in 1837). 8vo. 125 pp. 43 pages of ads at the rear. Spear, p. 197, locating three copies (Alabama Archives & History, Mobile Public, American Antiquarian Soc.). Owen, p. 1067. Ellison 962 (Mobile Public only). OCLC locates one copy (Alabama-Birmingham). Original cloth (rubbed, worn, joints amateurishly reinforced), printed paper label on upper board (half chipped away). Lacking front endpaper, text browned, but a good solid copy of a rare southern city directory. (1203) .... more information

Price: 4500.00 USD

The Brown Printing Company, Corner Dexter Avenue and McDonough Street, Montgomery, Alabama: Printing, Binding [cover title].

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Montgomery, AL:: The company,, (1913). Promotional for the company. Oblong 4to. (12) pp. Illustrated with half-tones, portraits of the principals. Promotional description of the business, issued with the opening of new premises and celebrating 48 years in business; includes descriptions of the presses, the book bindery, and services offered. Not recorded on OCLC. Original printed light green wrappers (edges a little chipped), tied. Very good. (1365) .... more information

Price: 300.00 USD

Prospectus of the Flag of the Union and Montgomery Advertiser [caption title].

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Montgomery, (AL):: M'Cormick & Walshe,, 1846. Folio. (2) pp., printing a letter from the publishers announcing the projected publication on one leaf and the prospectus, three columns of dense type, on the other, face to face; verso of the printed letter used as an address leaf. The recent removal of the capital of Alabama from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery, caused Jonathan M'Cormick, proprietor of Tuscaloosa's State Journal and Flag of the Union, and Jonathan Walshe, proprietor of the Montgomery Advertiser, to propose a consolidation of their papers, to be issued in Montgomery as the Flag of the Union & Montgomery Advertiser, adhering to the "old land-marks of.... more information

Price: 1500.00 USD

Mobile Base Ball Association [cover title].

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(Mobile, AL:: The association [printed Commercial Ptg. Co., Mobile],, 1908). First edition (or first annual issue?). 8vo. 31, (1) pp. Illustrations from photo portraits of the team members, profusely illustrated with ads for local businesses, some with cuts. Ball park guide, with unused scorecard, printed home-town lineup, visiting Birmingham lineup pasted in, portraits and biographical notes for manager and players highlighting their previous baseball experience, season schedules for Mobile and other teams, park rules, and scoring; produced for the team's first year in Mobile (having been purchased and moved from Shreveport). Unrecorded on OCLC or any baseball or Alabama bibliography or reference consulted. Original illustrated wrappers (some insect erosion to.... more information

Price: 1500.00 USD

Ordinances and Constitution of the State of Alabama, with the Constitution of the Provisional Government and of the Confederate States of America.

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Montgomery, (AL):: Barrett, Wimbish & Co., Steam Printers and Binders,, 1861. First edition. 8vo. 152 pp. Front wrapper imprint: "Montgomery Advertiser Book and Job Printing Office." Parrish 2610. Ellison 1249. Original printed yellow wrappers (some soiling, a little wear at the extremities, rear wrapper tape-repaired). Text block foxed throughout, but a good solid copy, quite scarce in the original wrappers. (1353) .... more information

Price: 3500.00 USD

Anniston City Directory, 1887-88; Contents: A General Directory of Citizens, Directory of the Churches, Societies, Associations, and Miscellaneous Information, Portraits of Some of the Leading Citizens, Cuts of Buildings, and a Complete History of the "Mo

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Atlanta, GA:: R.A. Howard, Publisher (Byrd & Patillo, printers),, (1887). . First edition of the first Anniston city directory. 8vo. xl, (4), [41]-158, (12), clxxi-cxcv pp. Illustrated, portraits, engraved views of buildings, etc. Not in Owen. Not recorded on OCLC. Original roan-backed printed boards (rubbed, head of spine severely chipped). Ex-library copy, with remains of number at base of spine, label removed from front board,, and accession number; hinges strengthened, several pages loose, but a good copy of an apparently unrecorded Alabama city directory, the first for Anniston. (2499) .... more information

Price: 2500.00 USD

Anniston City Directory, 1889-90; Contents: A General Directory of Citizens, Directory of the Churches, Societies, Associations, and Miscellaneous Information, Sketches of the Rise and Progress of the Leading Industries, and a Complete History of the Mode

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Anniston, AL:: G.H. Norwood, printer,, 1889. First edition of the second Anniston city directory. 8vo. 167 pp. Illustrated, wood engraved views of buildings, etc.; advertisements, several on inserted colored leaves. Ownership signature of "R.P. Huger / Mayor" on front endpaper; Huger, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, was first elected mayor of Anniston in 1887, immediately embarking on a plan to modernize the 'Model City," as it was called. Several ink and pencil corrections through the text dated 1891. Not in Owen. Not recorded on OCLC. Original leather-backed printed boards (rubbed, corners bumped). Ex-library copy, with remains of number at base of spine, label removed from.... more information

Price: 2500.00 USD