Birmingham: Rapid Printing Co., [1954]. 20pp. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Minor edge wear and soiling. Occasional blue ink editorial notations to text. A proof copy of a profusely-illustrated program advertising the grand re-opening of an African-American-owned funeral home in York, Alabama. The text includes a short note on the..... More
[Birmingham, Al. ca. 1950]. [4]pp. on a single folded sheet of cardstock. Illustrated. Minor dustsoiling and edge wear, inked number at top of front and rear wrapper. An apparently unrecorded leaflet providing a brief introduction to Rev. I.B. Perry and his family in Birmingham around the turn of the 20th..... More
[Various locations in Alabama, South Carolina, and Korea: 1978-1979]. Twenty leaves, illustrated with 175 photographs, almost all in color, plus assorted ephemera. Contemporary spiral-bound photograph album bound in decorative cloth. Moderate chipping, some staining, and edge wear to cloth. Minor dampstaining to bottom edge of some leaves, but contents generally..... 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
Stevenson, Al. 1889. 16pp., plus prospectus laid in. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light creasing to wrappers, mild edge wear. Mild even toning to text block. A rare promotional pamphlet touting the investment opportunities in Stevenson, Alabama, located "in the heart of the Alabama and Tennessee Coal, Iron and Timber Region."..... 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
[Claiborne, Al. 1829]. Three manuscript documents, totaling [3]pp. Some tanning and moderate toning, minor soiling, small area of loss from removed wax seal on one document, minor ink burn to one document. A manuscript letter and two lists of slaves sold to the Dillet Plantation (later Dillet Park) in Claiborne..... 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