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1906réf. 72585Macon: np 1906. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 27pp. Pages tanned else very good in publisher's wraps. np paperback books
1909réf. 72584Macon: np 1909. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 29pp. Pages tanned else very good in publisher's wraps. np paperback books
2000réf. 234436Bison Books 2000. paperback. Good. 5x0x8. Minor wear. Has a good binding no marks or notations. 176 pages. Bison Books paperback books
1851réf. BK0174Antwerpen: J. E. Rysheuvels 1851. 312 pp. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Binding tight. Text in Dutch. Good plus with a chip to the front wrapper some edge wear tape repairs and light soiling. An uncommon collection of essays sketches and travel narratives by the Belgian journalist Lodewijk Vleeschouwer 1810-1866 including approximately 150 pages devoted to his experiences in the United States between 1828 and 1834. Vleeschouwer traveled through New York Philadelphia Charleston and Savannah eventually finding employment teaching languages and philology at the Chatham Academy and Savannah Lyceum in Georgia. He later returned to Belgium where he became a prominent journalist and satirist. The American section titled Brokken uit eene reize door de Vereenigde Staten van Noord-Amerika "Fragments from a Journey through the United States of North America" begins with a journey from New York to Philadelphia. Vleeschouwer describes a fierce competition between two steamboat companies which reduced fares to nothing and eventually offered passengers free meals before one company abandoned the route. He recounts a collision between competing vessels and gives observations on Philadelphia's streets public works boarding houses and social customs. Other chapters describe American Sunday observances Quaker meetings Methodist preaching and the treatment of Black servants including a confrontation involving a white guest and a Black servant over the biblical descendants of Cain and Abel. The later American chapters concern Vleeschouwer's residence in Savannah including an extended account of a dispute between two young men following a horse race. The quarrel begins when one man who is Jewish takes offense at the name "Shylock" leading to a challenge to a duel and subsequent legal proceedings. Vleeschouwer concludes with an account of his return voyage to Europe aboard the Olive-branch departing Savannah for Liverpool. The remainder of the volume consists of satirical sketches speeches literary criticism and essays including a discussion of phrenology. A relatively unusual Dutch-language account of American life during the Jacksonian period written by a European visitor who spent several years living and working in the United States. Howes V135. . J. E. Rysheuvels unknown books
2018réf. UFRECOO00hcKyle Books 2018. Very Good. Freedman Georgia. Cooking South of the Clouds: Recipes and Stories from China's Yunnan Province. Wand photographer Josh. London: Kyle Books 2018. 287pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Printed cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good with light bumping and fraying. Kyle Books hardcover books
1993réf. UOKEGEO01acmfChildren's Press 1993. Very Good. O'Keeffe Georgia. Georgia O'Keeffe. Danbury Connecticut: Children's Press 1993. 32pp. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing. Children's Press paperback books
2015réf. UOKEGEO00acmfScholastic 2015. Very Good. O'Keefee Georgia. Georgia O'Keefe: Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists. NY: Scholastic 2015. 31pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing. Scholastic paperback books
1990réf. UBONGEO00ajsOxmoor House 1990. Very Good. Bonesteel Georgia. Georgia Bonesteel's Bright Ideas for Lap Quilting. Birmingham Alabama: Oxmoor House 1990. 160pp. Illustrated. 4to. Pictorial hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Oxmoor House hardcover books
2013réf. UFITRAC00ajsVelo 2013. Very Good. Fitzgerald Matt. Racing Weight Cookbook: Lean Light Recipes for Athletes. Fear Georgie. Boulder CO: Velo 2013. 255pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Coffee or stock staining on front cover and first few pages. Velo paperback books
1836réf. List2949Clarke Cobb and Harris Counties Georgia 1836. Three documents. One four-page document measuring 5 x 8 ¾ inches likely previously a single sheet; water stained with some tearing at folds very good. One double-sided document measuring 8 x 10 inches; water stained and folded with large tears at folds possibly with part missing good. One single-sided document measuring 7 ¾ x 12 ¾ inches. Water stained and folded with large tears at folds much damage to margins good. Overall good. Three legal documents in which William Barber buys and sells plots of land shortly following the establishment of Cobb County. In 1834 and 1835 Barber buys plots from John Gann and Elizabeth Kennon for $100 each and in 1836 sells land to Gilbert Rake for $500. Gann is possibly the plantation owner Cobb County pioneer and State Senator. These land contracts date to a time at which a small number of Cherokee—whose territory included present-day Cobb County—had voluntarily left the area following the Indian Removal Act of 1830 while a majority had not done so. The Indian Removal Act required Indigenous people east of the Mississippi River to cede their land to Euro-Americans and move west of it to so-called Indian Territory now Oklahoma. In 1835 the US government met with a group of Cherokee claiming to represent the tribe in New Echota Georgia and signed a removal treaty. When the majority of the tribe viewing the treaty as illegitimate refused to move voluntarily the US government sent the military to intervene. Of interest to historians of Cobb County and land dealings between its early Euro-American residents during the removal of its Indigenous population. unknown books
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1931réf. 40625np 1931. 45 1 blank pp with original printed front title wrapper. Disbound roughly no effect on text library rubberstamp and pencil notes on wrapper. Clean text Good. The plaintiff a Georgia charity sought payment of a legacy under the will of Gazaway B. Lamar who died in 1874. Lamar's will ordered his executors to pursue claims against the federal government "for cotton seized during the war amounting to several hundred thousand dollars for which suits in the United States Court of Claims and elsewhere were then pending." Before his death Lamar collected $342819.80 on those claims. Most of those cotton funds were disbursed before Lamar's death. From the cotton claims collected Lamar's will bequeathed funds "to be devoted to establishing and sustaining one or more hospitals for colored persons who have been slaves and their descendants giving preference to those which once belonged to or were hired by me more especially to provide for the old decrepit the blind the deaf and dumb the insane. . ." The Georgia Infirmary was disappointed with the small amount received under the will as very little remained of the cotton funds when Lamar died. The Administrators argue that the will directs the distribution of assets existing only at the time of the testator's death and so the Infirmary and its representatives The City of Augusta and the Oglethorpe Institute of Savannah administering the Infirmary were entitled only to their share of the cotton funds when Lamar died. unknown books
1980réf. RHAROKL00LRMerrick Printing 1980. Fine. Hart Georgia Williams. Oklahoma On Higher Ground. Inscribed. Bartlesville Oklahoma: Merrick Printing 1980. 1st edition. 112pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt titles. Signed by author. Book condition: Near fine. Inscribed by Hart verso title page. Merrick Printing hardcover books
1819réf. 13404Savannah GA and other locations 1819. 542pp. approximately 200000 words. Large folio. Modern full calf tooled in brown preserving original morocco spine label reading "Letter Book." Minor edge wear and rubbing to boards. Even toning to text occasional staining or spotting. Overall very good. An extraordinary surviving collection of outgoing correspondence from the desk of Thomas Gardner 1772-1822 a prominent Georgia entrepreneur. A native of Glasgow Scotland Gardner emigrated to the United States with his brother James settling in late-18th-century Savannah. The brothers entered into business together and eventually expanded their interests up the Savannah River to Augusta. Thomas married Ann McKinne in Augusta in 1804 the couple produced eleven children. The present highly detailed copybook contains a detailed record of the activities of an early-19th southern tradesman who operated in Georgia's major port cities and primarily traded in various types of cotton Sea Island Upland etc. and Georgia tobacco. In total the letter book contains the text of more than 2100 separate letters sent from Gardner to a wide variety of businessmen and companies including his brother James. The letters range from a few lines of text to quarter half and even a few full pages of text. They were written mostly from Savannah between June 29 1816 and June 22 1819 and mostly concern business matters between Gardner and his correspondents with personal matters necessarily being occasionally reported. Taken together Gardner's letters are wealth of information on the merchant business in the South in the second decade of the 19th century. In addition to the letters a small portion of the book contains some ledger-like financial records including an estate sold by Gardner and a partner at auction in 1816. This estate contained at least five slaves listed as "Nancy and her 2 children" "Jones Richard" and "Mary." In order to recreate the content within the present letter book one would need to track down from the recipients all the letters recorded here a decidedly impossible task 200 years later. The following excerpts provide a flavor of Gardner's letters but the content most certainly goes well beyond this fractional representation: 1 To Martin & Mackie June 29 1816: "Since I last wrote you I am without any of your favors. Robert Lang & Co. have here about 200 crates crockery & some salt. I mention this to you a I think it probable you could make an arrangement with them to bring them up in your boats . That would be mutually advantageous. Cotton has become very flat here 30 to 32 may be considered the nominal value of it & no purchasers. The late accts. from England are unfavorable." 2 To James Gardner February 8 1817: "I am favored with yours of the 30th inst. I feel mortified about the draft you drew in favor of Larimby. I wrote to John Barnes respecting it & he expresses a good deal of regret. I now enclose you 225 dollars to reimburse you for Larimby's wages. Also to pay your Blacksmiths bill. As I don't like overseers to have an account at a store without a check on them I have to beg you to give him orders for whatever may be necessary for my place. On Robert Lang & Co. of Augusta to whom I have this day wrote on the subject. The Iron and Plow moulds had better be got at Augusta. I have purchased two negro fellows which I intend sending up in a few days & may probably increase the number to six if I can purchase them next sale day. When the hams are properly cured I want one half of them sent down to the land. The other half I will keep untill I come up to the sand hills with my family." 3 To Bogart & Wheeland May 15 1818: "Enclosed you have bill of lading for four bales deer skins to your address Brig Amelia I Mott belonging to Solomon Wheeland Augusta. The Amelia will sail the first fair wind. You can therefore effect insurance accordingly. Sea Island Cotton 70.80. Upland 31.32. Rice 6.625. Georgia tobacco 8 @ 9$." 4 To John A. Barnes November 10 1818: "The Augusta stage arrived here last evening but brought no mail. The ship Thorn arrived here on Sunday last from L'pool and brings dates. Six days later than the Georgia. Cottons continued very dull and but few purchasers in market. I have to beg you to go very light into the mkt for I am certain it will tumble here as soon as any arrives. It can be bought this morning in the mkt square at 30 per $. I feel anxious about my Negroes as they have not yet got their winter clothes & the weather getting very cool. They are on board the boat Wasp and if you could get anyone that could get them out & bring them up immediately you could pay them 3 or 4 dollars." 5 To Adam Hutcheson April 181819: "I have drawn on you under date of the 5 inst at 4 months in favor of JP Henry for 1552 3/100 dollars on a/c of 54 barrels Sugar at 13 37/100. The invoice and receipt I will forward you next mail. This is all the sugar I can procure at present of a good quality at your limits. Coffee cannot be got at present under 30 cents today." A phenomenal source for studying the American-English cotton trade as well as other markets for tobacco sugar whiskey and so forth in the Deep South during the early-19th century. unknown books
1850réf. 13416Newnan GA 1850. Broadside 15.5 x 7.25 inches. Minor edge wear old folds substantial foxing. Overall good plus. A very rare broadside memorializing a meeting of the Union Southern Rights Party in late-1850. The text records the proceedings of a November 5 1850 meeting in Newnan the seat of Coweta County Georgia to nominate Congressional candidates and propagate the organization's Preamble and Resolutions. The Preamble asserts that the Union Southern Rights Party of Coweta County has assembled to meet a "crisis which calls for a free and full expression of the opinions of every citizen" and therefore issues their "Declaration of principles and intended action." The six resolutions can be summed up as follows: they oppose the recent admission of California; "Disunion at present" is not the answer.yet; they reserve the right to secede if Congress continues to "war upon our property" and they are "left no other alternative;" they "express the determination of the state of Georgia" at an upcoming convention and wish to "promote true Southern Independence" if necessary; any candidate should "oppose any and every measure which may lead either directly or indirectly to a dissolution of the Union;" and that the people of Georgia should "forget all past Party distinctions and differences" and work together to ensure that the government is "rescued from impending dangers." Here the Union Southern Rights Party stands opposed to secession but reserves the right to exercise it in the future a fairly common viewpoint in the mid-19th century South. They answer some critics further along the path to secession in one passage here stating that "We repel the idea that we are 'Submissionists' or that we have any sympathy with the enemies of Southern Rights." In this way they are emblematic of a large portion of Southern politicians at the time who believed that slavery was an inherent right baked into the Constitution and was further a states rights issue. That viewpoint continued up to during and clear through the other side of the Civil War. Only one holding noted in OCLC and Hummel at Duke University. Hummel 402. unknown books
1955réf. 591083New York: The Downtown Gallery 1955. Softcover. Near Fine. Exhibition catalog. Single sheet folded once to make four octavo pages. Just a touch of wear very near fine. A catalog for the 30th Annual Exhibition at The Downtown Gallery in New York October 4 - 29 1955 which featured work by Stuart Davis Georgia O'Keeffe Ben Shahn Charles Sheeler William Zorach and others. A very nicely printed booklet. The Downtown Gallery unknown books
1969réf. 232191Garden City New York: Doubleday And Company Inc 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Cloth boards lightly dampstained spine ends bumped about very good in a good only dampstained dust jacket with chips and tears and internal tape repair. The author's first novel. Doubleday And Company, Inc hardcover books
1829réf. 32413Milledgeville: Camak & Ragland 1829. Self-styled second edition after the first of the same year with corrections. A series of combative essays lambasting the Kehukee Association one of the largest Baptist societies in the region. Published under the pseudonym of "Nehemiah." A scarce Georgia imprint. OCLC locates only eight copies of the first edition. Not in De Renne. Gathered signatures stitched. Minute edge wear. Overall internally clean. Very good unopened and untrimmed. OCLC 13070208. unknown books
1955réf. acs243St. Louis: The C. V. Mosby Company 1955. Third Edition. Octavo navy blue cloth hardcover silver letters and illustration to upper cover 596 pp. Near Fine with darkened endpapers. From Preface: Since the last edition of this book was prepared many additional psychopaths have been observed pursuing their vivd patterns of maladjustment. A few encouraging reports of successful therapeutic measures have emerged. The number of patients concerned is however too small to furnish substantial evidence that a regularly effective means of dealing with the psychopath’s disorder has been discovered. It is my increasingly strong belief that the immediate and practical goal of all concerned with this problem should be to promote a general understanding that these people have a social disability that is real and extremely serious. Adequate means must be provided to control legally these severely disordered patients like those long ago provided and available today for far less incompetent patients of other types. Even if a truly curative therapy is never devised perhaps half the damage crime waste useless disorder and sorrow caused now by psychopaths could be eliminated by a reasonably wise use of such legal measures for control. The C. V. Mosby Company, 1955. Third Edition. hardcover books
1984réf. 335493qsWinter Park FL: The Florida Native Plant Society 1984. Octavo softbound stiff full-color photo. illus. wrappers 76 pp. Very Good with small address label of former-owner applied to upper cover. From lower cover: A special little corner of this living spaceship we call Earth is southern peninsular Florida. Due to unique characteristics South Florida has developed a rich variety of native plant species. Researchers are confirming the ability of native vegetation to reduce water consumption and improve water quality. Home owners are discovering the benefits of low maintenance native trees and shrubs. People are beginning to call for the preservation of our remaining native heritage. The efforts of The Florida Native Plant Society the writings of Georgia Tasker and the art of Stephanie Moss contribute greatly to this wave of native awareness. The Florida Native Plant Society, 1984. paperback books
1935réf. 9970gcsAthens Georgia: Published by the Author 1935. First Edition. Octavo burgundy cloth hardcover gilt letters xii 295 pp. Near Fine. Contents: Early Settlers of Georgia; The Old Home Place; Ancestry of David Crenshaw Barrow; Childhood Days; War and Reconstruction Days; His Life as a College Boy; Geologist Farmer Lawyer; His Marriage and Home Life; His Life as a Teacher; Students Initiate Him as Chancellor; His Services as Chancellor; Some of His Characteristics; Chancellor Barrow and His Partner; Mr. Barrow and the Sunday School; His Interest in Athletics; THe University of Babylon; Activities during the World War; Some of His Characteristic Labors; Rules for Success; The Ten Commandments; The Lay Ministry; Political Views and Civic Services; Books for Young People; Boyhood Recollections of War; Rural Environment; The Four Essential Schools; County Spirit; Three Words to High School Students; Greek Letter Fraternities; Views on the League of Nations; The Attractions of a Garden; The Negro and His Education; Poems; The Fan; Attorney for the Defendant; Chapel Talks; The Honor System; Views on Public Questions; Clocks; Woman Suffrage and Co-Education; The Boys Meet a Ghost; Forestry; Importance of the Library; Farewell to Graduates; Is the Church Worth While; Compulsory School Attendance; Selfishness; His Love for Georgia Land; A Georgia Negro Citizen; The Mother and Her Sons; Ruth; Law Enforcement; The Open Saloon; The State University Charter; Some of His Sayings; His Last Days; The Twilight Club; Box Borders; My Grandmother’s Key Basket; A Georgia Corn Shucking. Published by the Author, (1935). First Edition. hardcover books
réf. 9582gcsQuarto Knows 2012. Quarto softbound slick full-color illus. stiff wrappers 271 pp. Fine. From lower cover: The one-stop answer book for all your Florida gardening questions! Tom MacCubbin and Georgia B. Tasker with expert gardeners Robert Bowden and Joe Lamp’l have combined years of gardening expertise into the best resource for the Sunshine State. Whether you live in Pensacola or Key West or anywhere in between the Florida Gardener’s Handbook is the must-have guide for your Florida gardening success. Florida Gardener’s Handbook features: eleven popular plant categories from annuals to vines; chapters on edible gardening including citrus fruits nuts and vegetables; extensive selection of beautiful tropical plants; twelve months of around-the-garden advice for each of the plant categories; information on sustainable and environmentally sound gardening practices. With input from the most authoritative gardeners in Florida we have compiled a complete garden reference to answer any question and inspire your planting pursuits. Happy Gardening! paperback books
1990réf. 60733Santa Fe: Gerald Peters Gallery 1990. First edition. 48 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Twenty-one color reproductions. Santa Fe: Gerald Peters Gallery unknown books
1860réf. BK0162Cass County Georgia 1860. Autograph letter signed "John Felton" on lined paper. Possibly written to an S. Slocum with that name verso. 12 x 8 inches. Old folds staining and soiling with chips and short tears at edges; good. An excellent Georgia letter from the first weeks of the secession crisis written twenty days after Abraham Lincoln's election. The writer was almost certainly Captain John Felton 1790-1870 a War of 1812 veteran farmer and longtime Whig who moved to Cass County now Bartow County in 1847. He was the father of future Georgia Congressman William H. Felton and father-in-law of Rebecca Latimer Felton who later became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate. Felton begins with news of poor health drought and the crops before turning to politics: "The whole Country is in an uproar politically we have many Speeches for & Against union & Disunion Tracts & pamphlets in circulation in Order To widen the Breach Between the North & South by those that would be Office Holders. O how we lack a Leader A Washington or a Clay to step in with a Compromise & Calm the Troubled waters but they are gone & left us like a swarm of Bees without a Leader Except Old Beech like a dodo or like an Old Gander that knows nothing but to pick up Trash & throw it Behind Him - from the Signs of the Times I think South Carolina & Ala will secede. What Ga will do is to be Seen." South Carolina seceded less than a month later followed by Alabama and Georgia. Felton's uncertainty about his own state was well placed in Cass County which narrowly elected a delegation opposed to immediate secession; all three of its delegates initially voted against it at the state convention. Felton notes that "This Excitement has caused property to decline" before giving current prices for corn wheat and cotton. He also tells his correspondent that if "the times get Squally in N. York" he hopes he will "Set Sail for what I hope you consider your Southern Home and light awhile at least with us" adding that they would be delighted to receive him. The verso is docketed "S. Slocum"; a Slocum connection to the Feltons is documented as early as 1855-56 when Joseph Slocum was prospecting for copper on what was later recorded as the Felton property.1 1 Joseph P. D. Hull Report on the manganese deposits of Georgia Second report on manganese Index printing company 1919 148. . unknown books
1876réf. 70043Savannah GA: Printed for the Society J.H. Estill Printer 1876. First edition. 8vo. 29 pp. Mounted frontispiece photograph of the reading room showing its vaulted ceiling the book stacks artwork and reading tables. Cover title: Hodgson Hall / Savannah Georgia. None of the OCLC descriptions mention the photograph. Original printed gray wrappers front wrapper and leaf with the photograph detached stitching loosening. Good copy only. Printed for the Society (J.H. Estill, Printer) unknown books
