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Vector Analysis With Applications To Geometry and Physics
by Manuel, Simon Green, and W a Rutledge Schwartz
Alabama Books & Ephemera
![MANUSCRIPT PETITION TO GOVERNOR A. B. MOORE, URGING HIM "TO APPOINT OSMOND L. STRUDWICK OF MARENGO COUNTY 1ST, 2D, OR 3D LIEUTANANT [sic] IN SOME COMPANY OF THE REGIMENT NOW BEING ORGANIZED IN ALA-- AND IN THE EVENT YOU HAVE NOT NOW THE APPOINTING POWER REQUEST YOU TO USE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH THE SECRETARY OF WAR TO GET THE APPOINTMENT FOR HIM.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/903/177/1331177903.0.b.jpg)
MANUSCRIPT PETITION TO GOVERNOR A. B. MOORE, URGING HIM "TO APPOINT OSMOND L. STRUDWICK OF MARENGO COUNTY 1ST, 2D, OR 3D LIEUTANANT [sic] IN SOME COMPANY OF THE REGIMENT NOW BEING ORGANIZED IN ALA-- AND IN THE EVENT YOU HAVE NOT NOW THE APPOINTING POWER REQUEST YOU TO USE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH THE SECRETARY OF WAR TO GET THE APPOINTMENT FOR HIM.
by [Alabama in the Confederacy]
Demopolis, 1861. [4] pp, folded folio sheet. Ink manuscript written on the first two pages, docketed on last page. Old folds, Very Good. Each of the six petitioners-- James Taylor Jones, Jno. T. Liman, Nathan B. Whitfield, R.M. Campbell, O.H. Prince, and [--] Torbert-- signs in his own hand, on the day Lincoln was inaugurated as President. The petition was probably written by O.H. Prince. They attest to Strudwick's "good family," fine education, "irreproachable moral character." Moreover, at six feet...
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£283.26
THE CHARACTERISTICS AND AIMS OF FREEMASONRY. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE PUBLIC INSTALLATION OF THE OFFICERS OF FULTON LODGE, FULTON AND HALO LODGE, CAHABA, DALLAS COUNTY, ALA., ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, JUNE 23D, A.L., 5855
by Cushman, Rev. Comp. Geo. F
Selma, 1855. 8pp, sewn, original printed wrappers with wrapper title, as issued. Very Good plus. Everywhere but in the halls of Masonry, sectional strife and fanaticism are "putting in peril that union which the Fathers founded by their wisdom and hallowed by their prayers." Masons "trace our existence back far beyond any written records." FIRST EDITION. Not in Owen, Ellison, Sabin, Eberstadt, Decker. OCLC locates eight copies under two accession numbers.
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£121.40
Mobile East
by Dews, Robert P. Bobby
Edison, Georgia: Rebel Books, 1972. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. Very Good hardcover edition, inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper. No dust jacket, minor shelf wear to cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 220 pages; Signed by Author .
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£12.95
Scenes in Alabama. Published in Twelve Parts
by [Alabama Photographica]. [Clark, Thomas Harvey]
Chicago: The W.H. Parish Publishing Co, 1895. Good plus.. Title leaf, twenty-one text leaves (one illustrated with a photograph), plus seventy-one photographic plates (all called-for), most full-page but some with two photographs per sheet, and the wrappers to Part 12 bound in at rear. Folio. 20th-century green buckram. Ex-library, with stamps or call numbers removed from a few leaves and the rear pastedown, call number still present on retained wrapper for Part 12. The cover title of this work reads...
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£768.84
History of St. Clair County (Alabama) INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR
by Mattie Lou Teague Crow
Huntsville, Alabama: The Strode Publishers, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Inscribed by Author. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Volume contains General History, Places of Interest in St. Clair County, Important People from St. Clair County and Events of Special Note in St. Clair County. Black and white photographs throughout. [x], frontispiece, Foreword, Footnotes, Bibliography and Index. 205 pp. <br><br>CONDITION: Hardbound burgundy boards, gilt embossed sketch and title on cover, gilt title...
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£105.21
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee
by NORRELL, Robert J
First edition, so stated, in the publisher's original gray boards with gold-lettered red cloth back-strip, octavo, x, 254 plus colophon. Black and white illustrations. Small remainder mark, top edge near spine.
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£10.08
The Lloyd Noland Story Health and Medicine in Jefferson County, Alabama.
by ROBINSON, E. Bryce, Jr., MD
Publisher's stapled card-stock wrappers with red upper panel Society crest, octavo, pp. 28. Illustrated. Just light age-toning to wrappers.
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£10.08
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, FROM CLAIBORNE ALABAMA, 21 FEBRUARY 1865, TO GOVERNOR THOMAS WATTS, SEEKING ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARMY AS A BEAT COMMANDANT
by [English, Jonathan]
Single leaf, 8" x 13," completely in ink manuscript on blue paper. Old folds, a few pinholes along folds affecting six to eight letters. Else Very Good. "DEAR SIR, I HOLD A COMMISSION FROM YOUR EXCELLENCY AS BEAT COMMANDANT BEARING DATE OF FEB. 14TH 64. I HAVE FILLED THE DUTIES IMPOSED UPON ME BY SAID COMMISSION, TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY AND WHEN YOUR EXCELLENCY CALLED OUT THE MILITIA LAST AUGUST I VOLUNTEERED IN A COMPANY OF CAVALRY AND WAS ELECT 2D LIEUT, AND IN THAT CAPACITY HAVE SERVED YOUR...
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£202.33
SIMON SUGGS' ADVENTURES LATE OF THE TALLAPOOSA VOLUNTEERS TOGETHER WITH TAKING THE CENSUS, AND OTHER ALABAMA SKETCHES WITH PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN SIMON SUGGS
by HOOPER, Johnson J
Publisher's faded black cloth spine over green card stock wrappers, octavo, pp. 146. Eight illustrations by Darley. A FAIR-only reading copy with many old stains across top edge and upper portion of fore-edge (see Photos). Johnson Jones Hooper was former editor of the Montgomery Mail newspaper. Alabama author Rhoda Coleman Ellison refers to his Suggs character as an "incarnation of frontier rascality." (For more on the author and his Simon Suggs stories, see Ellison, Early Alabama Publications,...
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£8.62
A New Day Coming: Alabama Since 1930.
by THOMASON, Michael
Publisher's stapled card stock wrappers in octavo format. This slim volume is one in a series of pamphlets entitled "Perspectives: The Alabama Heritage," and is paginated 190-206 accordingly. Several library "Discard" stamps on the endpapers.
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£10.08
County Map of the States of Georgia and Alabama
by MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus Sr
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1877. unbound. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 13 3/4" x 21 1/4"<br/> <br/> Interesting double-page map of Georgia and Alabama showing all counties, railroads, major routes and waterways. Two insets show town plans for the cities of Savannah, Georgia, and Atlanta, the capitol of Georgia. In excellent condition. One small closed tear to left margin. <br> <br> Samuel Augustus Mitchell Sr. (1792-1868) is one...
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£141.63
The Movable School Goes to the Negro Farmer
by Campbell, Thomas Monroe
Tuskegee Institute: Tuskegee Institute Press, 1936. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. frontis (photo of the author), photos, xiv, 170p. Original red cloth. dj. 23 cm. Jacket somewhat soiled with some small chips on backstrip and a couple of much larger chips on back panel. Short tear in top margin on one leaf neatly closed with short strips of Filmoplast, an adhesive paper mending tape. Campbell was the first African American employed as an Extension Agent by the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.
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£222.56
![The Montgomery / Weekly / Advertiser! / Published in Montgomery, Ala., / Every Monday Morning, / W.W. Screws, Proprietor. / [followed by 42 lines describing the contents of the paper, its political cast, and subscribing terms]. Signed in type "W.W. Screws, Proprietor, / Montgomery, Ala."](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/253/743/329743253.0.b.jpg)
The Montgomery / Weekly / Advertiser! / Published in Montgomery, Ala., / Every Monday Morning, / W.W. Screws, Proprietor. / [followed by 42 lines describing the contents of the paper, its political cast, and subscribing terms]. Signed in type "W.W. Screws, Proprietor, / Montgomery, Ala."
by [Advertising]
Montgomery. AL: [Printed at the Advertiser?], 1875. Printed broadside, 22 1/2 x 8 inches, a visually appealing display broadside employing several sizes and styles of type, including display types, and printed in red and blue, the whole enclosed within a blue border. "A reliable Democratic Journal! Devoted to the Interests of the Democratic party, and Opposed to Radicalism in all of its injurious and revolting character ... the finest agricultural articles ... as a political newspaper it speaks for...
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£2,023.25
SPEECH BY E.L. RUSSELL, ELECTOR OF THE FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, DELIVERED AT THE OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN, AT DEER PARK. MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW CITIZENS:..
by Russell, E[dward] L[afayette]
[Mobile?, 1888. 16pp, stitched. Caption title, as issued. Toned, Good+. Russell served in the Confederate Army, then practiced law, became general counsel to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and was active in post-War Democratic Party politics [National Cyclopedia of American Biography]. Here he endorses the Democratic presidential ticket of Cleveland and Thurman. This was Grover Cleveland's bid for re-election to the presidency. His victory in 1884 was the Democrats' first since the War. His actions...
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£222.56
Southern Mythmaking: The Savage and the Ideal.
by HOBSON, Fred
Publisher's stapled card stock wrappers in octavo format. This slim volume is one in a series of pamphlets entitled "Perspectives: The Alabama Heritage," and is paginated 207-239 accordingly. Several library "Discard" stamps. Includes a substantial bibliography.
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£11.69
HISTORY OF THE FIRST REGIMENT ALABAMA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY C. S.A.
by McMorries, Edward Young
Montgomery, 1904. 142pp, original printed wrappers [light spine wear] and staples. Deckled edges, Fine. "He served first at Pensacola, was transferred to the Mississippi, traveled by rail from Mobile to Corinth and Memphis, and by boat to Island No. 10, where he was captured and taken to Camp Butler Prison near Springfield, Illinois. On being exchanged, he...was sent to Georgia to oppose Sherman's march on Atlanta, and after its fall followed Hood to the gates of Nashville" [Coulter]. "A factual...
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£303.49
South to a Very Old Place
by Murray, Albert, 1916-2013
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 230p. Original black cloth. dj. 22 cm. Jacket Good with moderate soiling, a short ragged tear at top of front panel and some chipping at ends of backstrip. INSCRIBED on half-title by Murray ("For Yvette because big mamas really come in all sizes Albert Murray"). Nonfiction book about white Soouthern writers and the American South. Yvette Le Roy, the inscribee, was a New York librarian who had owned Liberty House, a bookshop in Harlem...
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£68.79
THIS INDENTURE, MADE THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF JULY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY, BETWEEN WILLIAM G. PARISH OF THE FIRST PART, AND SALLY D. LLOYD OF THE SECOND PART, WITNESSETH - THAT THE SAID PARTY OF THE FIRST PART, FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION OF THE SUM OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS...CONVEY, UNTO THE SAID PARTY OF THE SECOND PART, AND TO HER HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER, LOT NUMBER TWO OF SECTION TWENTY FOUR, IN TOWNSHIP TWO, NORTH, OF RANGE THREE EAST, IN THE DISTRICT OF LANDS OFFERED FOR SALE AT TALLAHASSEE IN THE TERRITORY OF FLORIDA CONTAINING ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE ACRES..
by [Parish, William G.]
Leon County, Florida and Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 1852. Broadside deed, 7.75" x 12". Printed, completed in manuscript. Lightly tanned. Old folds, a few short fold splits [no text loss]. Signed by Parish and three witnesses. Verso has acknowledgment of Parish, signed by C.M. Cook, Commissioner in the State of Alabama, and an acknowledgment of filing by Hugh Archer, Jr., Clerk of the Circuit Court of the State of Florida. Good+. William G. Parish of Alabama was appointed one of twelve directors of...
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£48.56
Locust Hill
by Kirk, Mary Wallace
University Of Alabama Press, 1976. 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dj Has Light Edgewear With A Couple Small Tears, One Taped, & Very Light Soiling. Dj Spine Is Lightly Tanned. Light Wear. Very Light Soiling.
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£5.26
Bigbee Baptist Association of Alabama, One Hundred Eleventh Annual Session
West Greene and York Churches, 1962. Softcover. Very Good. West Greene and York Churches, Alabama, 111th Annual Session held September 19-20, 1962. Yellow paper cover, stapled spine, brown printed title. 48 pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
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£16.19
ANTIQUITIES OF THE SOUTHERN INDIANS, PARTICULARLY OF THE GEORGIA TRIBES
by Jones, Charles Colcock, Jr
Orig. pub. New York 1873. Reprinted 1972, 1983. Print on Demand Edition 2009. xvi, 532 pp. + illus. A study of the Indians of the southeastern states, this book emphasizes the Georgia tribes but also contains information on the aboriginal inhabitants of Virginia, the Carolinas, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee. The following topics are covered: the location of the various tribes, the physical characteristics of the Indians, religion and idol worship, medicine, tools and artifacts,...
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Letters to Chas. O'Conor. The Destruction of The Union is Emancipation
by Nathaniel Macon
Philadelphia: John C. Campbell, Bookseller [...], 1862. 8vo, 38pp. Printed wrappers, dbd, rmvd., lacks lower wrap, else clean and very good. Jenkins 223:118 catalogued a similarly-titled edition of this pamphlet: "A series of nine lengthy letters (dated Aug.-Oct 1860) by a prominent Alabamian to Charles O'Conor, the well-known New York lawyer. Macon demands strict adherence to slavery as a social and legal necessity, although a moral injustice. The issue of slavery in the territories receives full...
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£242.79
ABSTRACT OF JOURNAL OF EXECUTIVE SESSION OF THE CONGRESS, C.S.A. FEBRUARY 27, 1861. THE CONGRESS BEING IN EXECUTIVE SESSION MR. RHETT FROM THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, MADE THE FOLLOWING REPORT
by [Confederate States of America]
[Montgomery, Alabama, 1861. Autograph document, entirely in ink manuscript, in the hand of Alex. B. Clitherall, Assistant, and signed "J.J. Harper, Secretary per Alex B. Clitherall Asst." Letter written by Clitherall, an Alabama lawyer and assistant to Burton Harrison, Jefferson Davis's private secretary. Written on the recto of first leaf; docketed, in the probable hand of Harrison, on recto of second leaf: "Commn to European Powers. For the President." Blank verso of second leaf is laid down. Very...
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£1,011.62
Cease Not to Think of Me The Steele Family Letters
by Patricia H. Ryan
Huntsville AL: Huntsville Planning Department. Very Good. 1979. Second Printing. Softcover. Very Good softcover edition, no names or marks. Cover has some light wear and there is some spotting to the page edges. There is also some sticker residue on the rear cover. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 184 pages .
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£40.46
Autographed Letter Signed
by ALABAMA CLAIMS COMMISSION -- William Richardson
Washington, D.C., 1872. unbound. 4 pages (front and back) with each two-page spread measuring 10 x 16 inches, marked "Private," Washington, D.C., April 12, 1872. Rare letter by the American politician and negotiator to the former Confederate States of America Treasurer Tyler, in preparation for Richardson's successful trip to Geneva to obtain damages from Great Britain, letting Tyler know of a Judgeship opportunity available to him by the means of Richardson's resignation, in part:...
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