J.W. Monk Real Estate. Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Circa 1920s. “In Pine Bluff---The Greatest City in the South.” 8.5” x 11”. VG or better (short closed tear to bottom edge, soiling and edgewear, creasing from mailing). Double-sided handbill. Pine Bluff today has the largest African American population in Arkansas. The city was..... More
Late 1950s. 8.5” x 11” illustrated letterhead with “Birmingham Ala” written on front. VG (wrinkling and staining, with pinholes to upper corners). Features illustration of motel with images of Gaston and the lobby, bedroom, master suite, and coffee shop on left side. The letterhead notes the motel’s air-conditioned rooms and..... More
The album was compiled by one Don Cranmer of Birmingham, Alabama, documenting his involvement with the association from its early days and featuring photos of the shows he attended. Oblong (19.5” x 13”) photo album/scrapbook, faux leather covers a bit dusty, ring bound with metal fasteners. Overall VG or better. 32..... More
Division of State Parks, South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism. The Department was created by the SC General Assembly in 1967; although there is no date given, due to some of the songs included, we would date this booklet c. 1972. Stiff copper pictorial stapled wrappers, with Department..... More
1930s. 5.5” x 8.5”. VG+ (some toning and light edgewear). Four of the application questions pertain to the applicant’s health and whether or not he or she had been ill over the past two years. The NAACP Shreveport Branch was chartered in 1914 and is the oldest chartered Unit..... More
34 pp. About VG+ stapled wraps (soiling, 2” stain to front cover, chip at top edge). Includes Calendar for 1931-1932 academic year, listings of Board of Trustees, Administration, and Faculty (Officers of Instruction), General Information including a history of the College, fees, room and board, admission and registration procedures, extra-curricular..... More
“Largest Circulated Door To Door Minority Publication.” 10th Annual Edition. 1988. Softcover, stapled pictorial wraps, approximately 7.5” x 11”. 136 pp. About VG+, a touch of sunning and crease to lower corner, affecting the first twenty or so pages. Launched in 1978 as Euphrates, Atlanta’s Classified Black Pages, this business..... More
Each photograph approximately 4.5” x 6.5” of two baseball players mounted to heavy cardstock (each approximately 8” x 10”) of an unnamed team (jerseys have a large G with a smaller K inside). In the lower right corner of five of the portraits is the photographer blindstamp “L.M. Daniel Atlanta..... More
32 pp. (15 are used, recto and verso). VG or better, with front cover detached, brittle pages with expected wear and occasional soiling. With Pocket Inserts entitled “My General Junk” (which includes two 1952-1953 Elementary Class National Piano Playing Audition Certificates, a letter from Santa Claus and his helpers at..... More
7.25” x 10.25” National Broadcasting Company stationery, folded in thirds for mailing. Foxing to upper half. A typed letter, dated November 20, 1964, to Mrs. E.D. Sledge of Atlanta responding to her comments about a piece he did on his Emmy Award-winning NBC program The Huntley-Brinkley Show on African American..... More
Each approximately 14.5” x 22” with two holes at top of each for string to be worn around neck. Eight placards total (one duplicate), one with hand-written message in marker on reverse; seven printed (all with “We Support the IAM” and marked with the Allied Printing Trades Council Union Label..... More
Macon, GA: The Stinehour Press, 1976. First Edition. SIGNED by Akers on the half-title page. VG+ (slight spine lean, spotting to edge and endpapers) in an VG or better dustjacket with illustration after painting by Athos Menaboni (half inch chip to lower spine, edgewear, ownership address inside front flap). A...... More
Apalachicola, FL: Watertown Press, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED by Bickel on title page. 168 pp, oversized hardcover. Bickel's "haunting visual poetry" of the world of Apalachicola Bay and its people. Bickel's photography has won the Golden Quill for Photography and the New York Art Directors Club Award. More
San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2006. First Edition. SIGNED by 7 contributors (Rick Bragg, Larry Brown, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, L.A. Hoffer, Jack Pendarvis, James Whorton, Jr., Karen Spears Zacharias) on ffep; additionally, Ehrhardt, Pendarvis, Whorton, and Zacharias signed at their contribution. The fifth installment of Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe Series..... More
Kingsport, TN: Tennessee Squire Association, 1965. First Edition. Privately Printed for the Tennessee Squire Association. Near Fine in a VG or better pictorial dustjacket (chipping and closed tears to edges, toning). Laid in is a typed note on Tennessee Squire stationery dated February 26, 1970 to Peg Gay in NYC..... More
New York: Writers and Readers Publishing, 1985. First Edition. Softcover, 123 pp. VG+ (ownership signature inside front cover, mild wear and toning). Introduction by Robert Coles. Afterword by Ben Lifson. Photographs and stories made by students of three schools in southeastern Kentucky communities. A striking portrait of Appalacian life. More
Elberton, GA: Elbert County Historical Society, 2005. First Edition. 266 pp. Illustrations and photos throughout. VG+ (a touch of rubbing and edgewear). SIGNED by Jane Farmer on the inside of front cover. Explores the people of Elbert County from the Civil War through the 1960s. More
New York: Knopf, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine in VG+ price-clipped dustjacket. Jacket design by George Salter. Grau's first novel, which is set on the Isle aux Chiens off the coast of Louisiana. More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. First Edition. SIGNED on the title page by two contributors: Bobbie Ann Mason and Ellease Southerland. VG+ in an about VG unclipped dustjacket (toning to flaps, light staining to lower edge, light wrinkling and rubbing). Other contributors include Padgett Powell, Barry Hannah..... More
Louisville, KY: The Standard Printing Co., 1940. First Edition, one of 350 copies, this copy being unnumbered and formerly belonging to John A. Medley, one of the 5 Medley Brothers from Owensboro, KY who established Medley Distilling Company in 1937. SIGNED by John A. Medley on ffep with his ownership..... More
New York: Harper and Row, 1982. First Edition. INSCRIBED on title page: "To _ Bobbie Ann Mason." Near Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket (a touch of rubbing to rear). Author's first book. More
Fernadina Beach, FL: Wolfe Publishing, 1998. Second Printing. Compiled by The Genealogical Society of Henry and Clayton Counties, Georgia Inc. 766 pp. Near Fine Hardcover (no dustjacket as issued; ownership signature on ffep). An impressive genealogical history. More
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1983. First Edition. VG+ stapled wraps (some soiling and wear to covers), [24 pp.]. INSCRIBED by Rhodes on title page: “For Alison, I hope you enjoy this book as much as I enjoy your company. Love, Marvin K. Rhodes.” 13 photographs, “a summary of a graduate photographic..... More
Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1956. First Edition. 130 pp. INSCRIBED on ffep: "For _ From John Walton July 3, 1956." An account by this Johns Hopkins professor of Filson, the eighteenth century cartographer and historian who helped to found present-day Cincinatti. A replica of Filson's map of Kentucky is..... More
