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The Epidemic of 1878, in Mississippi Report of the Yellow Fever Relief Work
by Power, J. L
Jackson, Mississippi: Clarion Steam Printing Establishment. Poor. 1879. Paperback. Poor softcover, no name or marks Cover is tattered and rear cover is missing. The book ends at 208, but some pages are missing at the rear. The book is held together by a large clamp. Sold AS IS. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages .
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£44.51
Tenn-Tom Country: The Upper Tombigbee Valley
by James F. Doster; David C. Weaver
Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press. Very light edge wear, jacket has light rubbing, slightly faded spine. Clean copy. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1987.
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£9.71
Deed of Coveyance from Wm. Shaw to the Commissioners of Madison County. March 27, 1828. (with) State of Mississippi, Madison County, Indenture, March 28, 1828. (Two holograph documents)
by Shaw, Wm. and Honor Shaw. John P. Thompson (associate justice)
1828. Ephemera. Two documents each on 9.5 x 7.75 inch paper, written on both sides. 1. Indenture March 26th, 1828, between Wm. Shaw and the Commissioners appointed by the General Assembly donating a certain tract of land containing twenty acres 'lying and situated in the Town lately known by the name of Madisonville in the County and State aforesaid for the purpose of erecting public buildings therein.' 2. Wm. Shaw and his wife, Honor Shaw, appear before John P, Thompson, Associate Justice for Madison...
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£60.70
MILITARY ANNALS OF MISSISSIPPI: Military Organizations Which Entered the Service of the Confederate States of America from the State of Mississippi
by Rietti, J.C., compiler
n.p.n.d., Reprinted 1976, 1988. Print on Demand Edition 2011. (iii), 245 pp., new index Brief historical sketches and rolls and rosters of military organizations in the service of the Confederacy from the state of Mississippi are included in this book compiled by a member of the 10th Mississippi Regiment. This is a compilation of several newspaper sketches of Mississippi's military contributions to the Civil War effort. Some regiments are covered in chronological order with muster rolls, lists of...
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£32.37
Piney Woods and Its Story. (Signed and with ephemera)
by Laurence C. Jones
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1922). Ninth (Revised) Edition. Frontispiece, 154pp. + [18] halftone plates. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth. Slightly cocked; endpapers tanned; Very Good in a soiled dust jacket. Inscribed: "To Mr. W.H. Middlebrook. In the spirit in which he met us. Laurence C. Jones, Founder + Principal of the Piney Woods School, Piney Woods Miss. Feb. 1939." A University of Iowa graduate and educational reformer, Jones dedicated his career to supporting Black literacy in the mode...
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£242.79
THE GREAT HOUSES OF NATCHEZ
by Miller, Mary Warren & Ronald W. Miller
University Press of Mississippi. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ in mylar. Light spotting to the rear of the DJ. ; Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 122 pages; Extra postage required for priority and international shipping. .
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£15.38
THE HISTORY OF GEORGIA, Vol. I
by Jones, Charles Colcock Jr
Orig. pub. Boston 1883. Reprinted 1965, 1966, 1969. Print on Demand Edition 2016. xvi, 556 pp., index + illus., maps
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£48.56
MOSQUITOES. A FACSIMILE AND TRANSCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. Limited edition.
by FAULKNER, William. McHaney, Thomas
Edition limited to 500 copies, quarto, pp. 99. Light bumping of upper board tips, else fine in the publisher's half-cloth.
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£36.42
HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI, THE HEART OF THE SOUTH, Vol. IV, (Biographical)
by Rowland, Dunbar
708 pp., index, 125 illus. Biographical information on the following individuals is contained in Volume IV: Abernethy, H.B.; Aby, S.H.; Aderholdt, T.S.; Aldridge, F.M.; Alexander, J.P.; Alexander, G.B.; Alexander, H.N.; All Saints College; Allen, Arthur; Allen, J.F.; Allen, J.T.; Allen, T.D..; Anderson, E.A.; Anderson, R.B.; Andrews, F.H.; Armstrong, T.C.; Arnold, G.L.; Arrington, J.H.; Ashley, W.F.; Aycock, W.J.; Backstrom, J.W.; Bailey, C.K.; Bailey, J.W.; Bailey, P.G.; Baird, R.W.; Ballard, E.E.;...
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£66.77
HISTORY OF ALABAMA AND INCIDENTALLY OF GEORGIA AND MISSISSIPPI FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD. With Annals of Alabama, 1819-1900, by Thomas McAdory Owen
by Pickett, Albert James
Orig. pub. Birmingham 1900. Reprinted 1975, 1988. Print on Demand Edition 2013. 773 pp., illus., index Pickett's history, one of the most valuable works on the history of the Southern country, is an account of the territory of Alabama prior to its admission as a state with later chapters containing many biographical sketches of men prominent in the later developments of the commonwealth. The Annals by Owen, historical facts in outline fashion, continue that history from statehood in 1819 to 1900....
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£56.65
MISSISSIPPI AS A PROVINCE, TERRITORY AND STATE with Biographical Sketches of Eminent Citizens
by Claiborne, J.F.H
Orig. pub. Jackson 1880. Reprinted 1978. Print on Demand Edition 2011. vi, xxiii, 591 pp., illus., new intro., new index This classic work by "the Father of Mississippi History" is considered by the Mississippi Historical Society to be the best of the early histories. Claiborne, a congressman, newspaper editor, and member of a family which played an important part in the affairs of the state, used as sources original manuscripts, newspapers, books, government records, personal reminiscences of prominent...
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£50.58
ROMANTIC PASSAGES IN SOUTHWESTERN HISTORY. Including Orations, Sketches, and Essays
by Meek, Alexander Beaufort
Orig. pub. New York 1857. Reprinted 1975. Print on Demand Edition 2011. viii, 9-330 pp. This is a collection of essays, largely historical, concerning Alabama and the old Southwest from the beginning of settlement to 1850. As the title indicates, Meek, a lawyer, newspaper editor, and politician, chose the more colorful incidents of Alabama history, but he vouches for the authenticity of the factual material presented. In general the events related pertain to Spanish and French exploration of the...
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£34.40
THE HISTORY OF GEORGIA, Volumes I & II
by Jones, Charles Colcock Jr
Orig. pub. Boston 1883. Reprinted 1965, 1966, 1969. Print on Demand Edition 2016. the set This is the "classic" work on the history of Georgia through the Revolutionary War by Charles Colcock Jones Jr., one of the most versatile and prolific historical writers of all time. He was the first native-born Georgian to write a history of his state. In his U.S. IANA, Wright Howes called this a "most scholarly history of the colonial and revolutionary period of this state." The history received accolades from...
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£97.12
![The Replevin Law of 1861. Natchez Courier Extra...July 22, 1865 [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/028/173/1582173028.0.b.jpg)
The Replevin Law of 1861. Natchez Courier Extra...July 22, 1865 [caption title]
by [Reconstruction]. [Mississippi]
Natchez, Ms: July 22, 1865. Very good.. Broadside, 13.75 x 9.5 inches. Printed in three columns. Moderate toning and foxing, old folds, couple of small tears expertly repaired on verso, two tape remnants at top edge likely from previous matting. A very rare newspaper extra printing the first civilian law in Occupied Mississippi following the conclusion of the Civil War. After the war, only military justice was in force in Mississippi. According to an 1866 Mississippi court case: "civil government of...
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£1,213.95
FOUR CENTURIES ON THE PASCAGOULA
by Cain, Cyril Edward
Vol. II, (iii), 255 pp., index
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£30.35
Mississippi to Madrid
by James Yates
New York: Shamal Books, 1986. Perfect-bound, 5 3/8" x 8 1/8", in glossy pictorial wraps, 221 pp. Very good, lightly worn spine ends, wear and rubbing to corners and edges, lightly soiled wraps with large crease to rear and sticker residue to cover.. The memoir of James Yates published in 1986 by Shamal Books. Yates was born to sharecroppers in Quitman, MS in 1906 and left for Chicago at the age of 16 where his interest in labor politics was intensified through his involvement with organizing the Dining...
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£279.21
HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN OF GEORGIA
by McLendon, Samuel G
Orig. pub. Atlanta 1924. Reprinted 1974. Print on Demand Edition 2009. 200 pp., map Using all the early land grants and other records of the state, McLendon, who was secretary of state in Georgia at the time he wrote this book, put together a valuable study of Georgia's land disposition history dealing specifically with the lands acquired from the Creek and Cherokee Indians and the Georgia western lands in largely what is now Alabama and Mississippi. He discusses the headright and land lottery counties....
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£28.33
Diagram of the Surveying District South of Tennessee
by [Mississippi Territory]. Bradford, C.A., surveyor
Jackson, Ms: Surveyor's Office, 1845. Very good.. Lithographic map, 18.25 x 11.5 inches. Old folds and creases, minor foxing, very short split along one fold line. A rare survey map depicting Choctaw and Chickasaw cessions after the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and showing the changes wrought by the ensuing fifteen years of land speculation in the area. The map itself centers on land in the Mississippi Territory south of the "Boundary Line Between the Choctaw and Chickasaw Cessions" down to the...
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£364.18
HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI, THE HEART OF THE SOUTH
by Rowland, Dunbar
Orig. pub. Chicago & Jackson 1925. Reprinted 1978. Print on Demand Edition 2013. The set Available by volume The result of years of laborious research by the gifted director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, this four-volume work was written to satisfy the need for a definitive narrative history based on original sources of information. Volumes I and II contain the historical narrative, beginning with the physical features of Mississippi, a description of the Indians, the European...
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£295.39
KATRINA Catastrophe on the Gulf Coast
by The Mississippi Press
The Mississippi Press. Near Fine. 2005. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 128 pages .
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£18.61
THE CRADLE OF THE CONFEDERACY; OR, THE TIMES OF TROUP, QUITMAN AND YANCEY.
by Hodgson, Joseph
Orig. pub. Mobile, AL 1876. Reprinted 1975. Print on Demand Edition 2018. xv, 528 pp. This is an important book for the study of the organization of political parties in the South, consisting in great measure of original material. Alabama was the cradle of the Confederacy and William Lowndes Yancey was the moving spirit of secession. The book concentrates on political factions in Alabama in the 1850s and includes many of Yancey's speeches. Other Gulf states enter the picture with the intrusion of the...
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Historic Architecture in Mississippi.
by Mary Wallace Crocker
Jackson, Mississippi: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973. AL3 - A hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the front free endpaper in good condition in poor dust jacket. Dust jacket worn with scattered tears, open tears, chipping, stains, and discolored. Book bowed, wear and tear on the bottom spine edge, scattered foxing and stains on the cover, page edges, and some inside pages, previous owner's label adhered and name written on the front fixed endpaper,...
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£10.51
Mississippi: The Closed Society
by Silver, James W. (James Wesley)
NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., , 1964. 2nd printing; dj w/lite wear, unclipped price, in mylar; 250 clean, unmarked pages/index.... 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by b/w Plates. 8 Vo.
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£12.91
Portraits of the Riverboats
by Davis, William C
London: Salamander Books. 2001. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near fine condition in pictorial laminated boards in a very good dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made clear archival plastic sleeve. Full-page black & white photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 144 pages. Contains a rare collection of contemporary photographs with accompanying essays. . Hardback.
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£13.22
THE LIFE OF JOSEPH BISHOP, the Celebrated Old Pioneer in the First Settlements of Middle Tennessee, Embracing His Wonderful Adventures and Narrow Escapes with the Indians, His Animating and Remarkable Hunting Excursions. Interspersed with Racy Anecdotes of Those Early Times.
by Gray, John W
Orig. pub. Nashville 1858. Reprinted 1974. Print on Demand Edition 2010. (xii), 236 pp., frontis., new intro., map One of the most engaging and valuable of the first-hand books of Tennessee historical reminiscences, this narrative recounts the adventures of a pioneer, hunter, Indian fighter, and scout during the time from 1790 to 1820 as told by Joseph Bishop to the author. Written in a very florid style, it nevertheless conveys the flavor of an old pioneer's adventures and character. The late Tennessee...
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£32.37
