Birmingham, Al: [ca. 1923]. 229,[3]pp., including numerous photographic plates. Original tan cloth, gilt titles on front cover. Boards a bit dusty, minor edge wear. Hinges slightly cracked but strong, short closed tear to outer margin of title page, occasional mild marginal thumb soiling. A privately printed early-20th-century travel memoir written..... More
Chicago: The W.H. Parish Publishing Co., 1895. 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..... More
Speigner, Al. 1952. Volume 1, Number 6. [6],82,[1]pp. Folio. Original pictorial wrappers, linen spine. Light wear and soiling, contemporary presentation inscription on front cover. Internally clean. Scarce prison periodical published at Draper Prison and representing “the entire inmate body of the Alabama penal system.” The magazine began publication in September..... More
New York: Scottsboro Defense Committee, 1937. 16pp. Original self wrappers printed in black and crimson, stapled. Minor edge wear and dust soiling to wrappers. Internally clean. A scarce pamphlet devoted to publicizing the injustices wrought by the Alabama court system on the “Scottsboro Boys,” nine African American youths who were..... More
Louisville: 1928. [59] leaves. Oblong, narrow octavo. Blueprint self-wrappers with blue paper spine, enclosing blueprint contents. Light wear to spine and corners, some wear to wrappers. Contemporary ownership inscription on front cover. Internally clean. Profile guide map for the Birmingham Mineral Railroad, operating at this time under the name of..... More