Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Library, [1950]. 91, [1], [4 blank] pp. Original printed wrappers [minor rubbing at spine]. Light marginal tanning of text, else quite clean. Very Good. More
[Charlotte: 1891]. Printed octavo leaf, folded to [4] pp. Attractive type fonts, Very Good. "First known as Biddle Memorial Institute, the school was founded in 1870 on Beatties Ford Road by the Catawba Presbytery. Colonel W.R. Myers donated the land. The school was named for Henry Biddle husband of its..... More
Salem, N.C. [1865]. Original printed, illustrated, and decorated wrappers with wrapper title [as issued]. 36pp, minor edge chipping, scattered staining. Good+. Not a Confederate imprint, the text referring to Andrew Johnson as President. Blum, according to the advertisement on the rear wrap, owned the Salem Printing Office and published the..... More
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Fort Ellis, NC, near New Bern: 1862 [January 31]. Oblong folio broadsheet, uniformly tanned. 12-3/4" x 18-1/2." Printed, with manuscript additions. Signed in ink by J.M. Mayo, Commanding Company. Contemporary "Duplicate." A few pinholes at fold intersections, not affecting text, Very Good. Most spaces available for the requested detailed information..... More
[Greenville? 1917]. 12pp. Caption title, as issued. Three punch-holes in blank margins, original staples as issued [a couple of leaves separating]. Ink marks in blank margins of first page. At head of title: "Please read carefully and hand to some intelligent friend." At foot of title: "NOT YET BUT SOON."..... More
Baltimore: Printed by John Murphy & Co., 1860. 16pp, untrimmed, stitched [loosened], scattered foxing, some wear. About Good+. As the sectional crisis heated up, Murphy's Baltimore press began a little cottage industry in pro-slavery pamphlet material, printing speeches of Clingman, Jefferson Davis, and other Southern politicians. "We shall have to..... More
[Raleigh: 1852]. Folio Broadside, 12-1/2" x 17-3/4." Printed in four columns beneath caption title. Old folds, pinhole at a fold intersection affecting portions of a couple of letters. Signed in type and dated at the end. The name of the Letter's recipient, Dr. Ladson A. Mills, is also printed in..... More
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Statesville, N.C. 1894. Dated in type Nov. 5, 1894. Broadside, printed in two columns separated by a rule, 6-3/4" x 11." Old folds, with a small split at a fold intersection [no text lost; blank verso with browning around the intersection]. Else Very Good. [offered with] PRINTED BROADSIDE ADDRESSED TO..... More
Raleigh: Printed at the Office of the Raleigh Register, 1861. [2], 16, [2 blanks] pp. Stitched, lightly toned, Very Good plus. Crumpler delivered this scarce speech at a time of strong Union sentiment in Ashe County, which in February would reject secession by an overwhelming margin. But when President Lincoln..... More
[np: 1872]. 8pp, caption title [as issued], disbound. Good+. Delano, an Ohio-born Republican functionary, was Grant's Secretary of the Interior at the time of this speech. "During his five-year tenure serious charges of frauds in the Bureau of Indian Affairs came to a head" [DAB]. Delano attacks "the specious cry..... More
[Raleigh? 1823]. 15, [1 blank] pp. Caption title, as issued. Disbound. Scattered light and moderate foxing. Good+. Signed at the end in type: "November, 1823. CAROLINA." A scarce pro-Calhoun, anti-Crawford piece for the 1824 presidential election. When Calhoun decided to seek the presidency in 1824 "both Crawford and Adams, the..... More
Baltimore: Printed at the Publication Rooms, 1846. 45, [1] pp. Disbound, stitched. Light foxing to first and last leaves, else text quite clean. Good. OCLC 50392122 [1-Univ. NC]. More
Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1791. 203pp. Folio. Original blind-ruled calf [lightly rubbed, rehinged]. Light scattered foxing, Very Good. This was an eventful Session of the first Senate. In late December 1790, the Journal records the receipt from Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, of a report "containing a plan for a...... More
Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1791. 203pp. Folio. Modern leatherette, minor toning and light scattered foxing, Very Good. This was an eventful Session of the first Senate. In late December 1790, the Journal records the receipt from Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, of a report "containing a plan for a national..... More
Raleigh: Thomas Henderson, Jun.- State Printer, 1819. 8pp, folded and uncut. Generously margined. Two persistent and prominent fox spots in the margins. Good+. This rare Report, signed at the end in type by the Federalist Gaston, records a pivotal moment in North Carolina's legal history: the Legislature's establishment of the..... More
Edenton: Printed by Hodge & Wills, Printer to the State of North-Carolina, 1791. Folio. [4], iv, 712, xxi [Index], [3- Subscribers] pp. Bound with additional Session Laws beginning 5 December 1791, pages 713-732; 15 November 1792, 20pp; 2 December 1793, 23, [1 blank] pp; 7 July 1794, 8pp; 30 December..... More
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Greenville [NC?]: Herald Printing House, 1898. 8pp, stitched in original printed title wrappers. Small lower portion of blank rear wrapper adhering to first text page, abrading several letters; small circular hole at upper blank margin of front wrap. Else Very Good. Unrecorded, so far as we can determine. The Organization's..... More
[Washington: 1817]. 14, [2 blank] pp, disbound. Small sketch diagram of canal and proposed changes. Scattered foxing. Good+ to Very Good. "In obedience to so much of the order of the honourable, the Secretary of War, dated May 31, 1816, as relates to the connexion of the navigation of Elizabeth..... More
[North Carolina: c. 1840?]. Single leaf, 9-1/4" x 11-14," in ink script, written on the recto and seven lines of the verso. Old horizontal fold, small chip at blank margin. Very Good. Signed at the end, "Augustus Moore | Chairman." The Meeting, called to honor the memory of fellow attorney..... More
New Bern, NC: E.L. Davenport & Co., 1862. Folio. 14" x 20". 4pp, printed in six columns per page. Old folds, several fox blotches. Good plus. E.L. Davenport & Company issued the 'Newbern Daily Progress' and 'Newbern Weekly Progress' from 1853 until some time in 1862. As the area came..... More
Salem [NC]: Printed by Blum & Son, 1847. Stitched in original plain wrappers. 24pp. Lightly spotted. Chip at lower corner affects several words, Good+. A full record of the proceedings, with reports, addresses, and names of participants. OCLC 988599958 [1- TN State Arch.] as of January 2024. The University of..... More
Raleigh: Wm. E. Pell, State Printer, 1867. Elephant folio sheet, folded to [4] pp, each page 17" x 21-1/2." Each page printed in six columns. Old folds, with occasional minor effect on text. Light foxing. Good+. This issue of the Sentinel prints, in five and one half columns on the..... More
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[North Carolina: 1790]. Single leaf, printed on the recto [manuscript additions in parentheses] and docketed on verso in ink manuscript, noting service of process, costs and fees. Old folds. Several short fold splits at blank margins. Good+. The printed document appears to be unrecorded. Currency is still British. Capt. Robert..... More
Raleigh: Jno. W. Syme, Printer to the Convention, 1862. 119, [1 blank] pp. Disbound. Title page printed on verso of first leaf. Light to moderate foxing, Good+. Military and civil affairs are treated in this wartime Convention. Parrish & Willingham 3384 and Thornton Official Publications 433 [listing this with other..... More
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1860. Eleven Journals, 1860-1870. All printed in North Carolina, with the following imprints: 1860-1864, Fayetteville [by Hale]; 1865, Raleigh [Gorman]; 1866-1868 & 1870, Fayetteville; 1869, Raleigh [Littlefield]. Each Journal @60-128 pp. Bound together in later buckram. First editions, scattered fox and tan, none with original wrappers. Light scattered wear, corner..... More