Atlanta: The Foote & Davies Company, 1900. 229pp., plus two frontispiece plates. Original blue pebbled cloth decoratively stamped in blind on boards, with gilt titles to spine and front board. Minor edge wear and rubbing, very light soiling. Minor even toning to text, but really clean internally. An appealing copy..... More

[Atlanta: The Print Shop on Morris Brown College Campus, ca. 1940s]. [8]pp. Original cream wrappers printed in black, stapled. Moderate foxing to wrappers, light foxing to text. A brief but notable biography of the namesake of Morris Brown College, written by a legendary bishop of the A.M.E. Church, Bishop Daniel..... More

Lexington, Ky. August 16, 1884. [1]p., on Southern Exposition pictorial letterhead. Quarto. Very minor edge wear. A unique manuscript letter written by the fifth Bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, Isaac Lane (1834-1937). The main thrust of Lane's letter, written while he was attending the 1884 Southern Exposition in..... More

Milledgeville, Ga. 1947. [43]pp., printed on rectos only. Illustrated. Original red textured wrappers, screw bound. Minor edge wear, a few short closed tears. Gift inscription to title leaf from the school's principal, otherwise clean internally. A humbly-produced yearbook for George Washington Carver High School, an African American segregated school in..... More

[Mainly Georgia and Tennessee: ca. 1896-1897]. 102 miniature cabinet card photographs, each 1.75 x 2 inches, each mounted on card measuring 2 x 3 inches, all sequentially numbered 1-105 (with no #44, 62, 98, or 100, but with an additional image numbered 51 1/2) and all but five with short..... More

[Various locations, mostly in Georgia and Florida: mainly 1856-1876]. Sixty manuscript letters and documents, totaling approximately 110pp., plus a handful of drawings and a manuscript architectural sketch. Some wear and occasional chipping and minor losses to letters. Occasional minor repairs. An eclectic and wide-ranging archive containing unique reportage of antebellum..... More

Atlanta: 1933. 24pp. Original printed self wrappers, stapled. Some thumb-soiling and ink stamp on front cover, small typed notice affixed to top of front cover, minor edge wear. Internally clean. Fourth edition of a scarce pamphlet printing extracts from reports of an Atlanta race relations conference, distributed "for class in..... More

[N.p. 1937]. [3],53pp., rectos only, including fifty-nine vernacular sepia-toned photographs measuring 2.5 x 3.5 inches and a few maps and manuscript diagrams. Typed self wrappers, brad-bound. Minor creasing and dust-soiling to wrappers. Clean internally. A profusely illustrated report, with a few hand-drawn diagrams and numerous manuscript emendations, focused on various..... More