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1821WRCAM32408Milledgeville: Grantland & Orme 1821. 40ii pp Dbd. All leaves loose. Edge wear and chipping heavier to first leaf. Evenly toned. Good. The laws of Georgia passed at the relevant session. "This is the original edition of this scarce work" - De Renne. OCLC locates only one copy at the University of Texas at Austin. DE RENNE I p.376. OCLC 48543920. Grantland & Orme unknown books
1817WRCAM32374Milledgeville Ga.: S. & F. Grantland 1817. 164v pp. with 143 and 144 repeated in pagination. Dbd. First leaf lightly toned. Contemporary ownership signature at head of first leaf. Overall internally clean. Very good. The acts of the Georgia assembly for the relevant period. Of particular importance are the provisions for the disposition of lands lately acquired or about to be from the Creeks and Cherokees. "The Penal Code of December 20 1817 is printed on pp.92-143 repeated" - De Renne. A scarce Georgia imprint. DE RENNE I p.360. CHECKLIST OF SESSION LAWS p.46. S. & F. Grantland unknown books
1849WRCAM54037Augusta Ga 1849. iv96113-192pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards spine gilt. Extremities worn spine chipped front board detached rear joint tender and partially split. Two 20th-century bookplates on front endpapers small ink library deaccession stamp on rear blank some toning. Good. An almost-complete run of the seventh year of this rare southern agrarian periodical. THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR was an important southern agricultural manual published in Georgia from 1843 until the 1880s when it acquired other periodicals and changed its name. Unlike many of its contemporaries the periodical was published throughout the Civil War though it moved from Augusta then to Athens after the war and then finally to Atlanta. The subtitle describes the work and its goal: "a Semi-monthly Journal devoted to Southern agriculture designed to improve the mind and elevate the character of the tillers of the soil and to introduce a more enlightened system of culture." Present here are eleven of the twelve issues for 1849 each 16pp. lacking only issue seven. A rare run of an important southern agricultural publication. hardcover books
1831589071831. Milledgeville 1831. 1st ed. Milledgeville 1831. 1st ed. 1831 Compilation of Georgia Law Georgia. Dawson William C. Compiler. A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia Passed by the General Assembly Since the Year 1819 to the Year 1829 Inclusive: Comprising All the Laws Passed Within Those Periods Arranged Under Titles With Marginal Notes And Notes of Reference to the Laws Or Parts of Laws Which are Amended or Repealed: To Which are Added such Concurred and Approved Resolutions As are Either of General Local or Private Nature: Concluded With a Full and Ample Index to the Laws and a Separate One to the Resolutions. Milledgeville: Published by Grantland and Orme 1831. 488 150 xxix pp. Text in parallel columns. Quarto 10" x 8". Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards lettering piece and blind fillets to spine. Light rubbing to boards and extremities corners bumped a few minor scuffs and stains to boards hinges starting. Toning and light foxing to text faint dampstaining in places to margins internally clean. A desirable copy. $400. First edition. This was the fifth digest of Georgia state laws preceded by others from 1801 1802 1812 and 1821. It is digested alphabetically by topic. Babbitt Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 87. unknown books
1829WRCAM32413Milledgeville: Camak & Ragland 1829. 26pp. Gathered signatures stitched. Minute edge wear. Overall internally clean. Very good unopened and untrimmed. 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. OCLC 13070208. Camak & Ragland unknown books
1810WRCAM32385Milledgeville Ga 1810. 1762xv pp. Gathered signatures stitched. Moderate edge wear. Heavy foxing minor dampstaining occasional minor tears. Good. The acts of the Georgia assembly for the relevant session including legislation on the lottery county management and personal petitions. Rare. OCLC locates only four copies. DE RENNE I p.340. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 20205. OCLC 10269041. unknown books
186237602Bibb County Georgia 1862. Neat ink manuscript on recto and verso of a single leaf folded for recording 7-1/2" x 12-1/2." Written entirely as a contemporary duplicate copy by the Notary Public. With docketing sheet old folds separating. Very Good.<br/><br/> The deed was made "in the second year of the independence of the Confederate States of America." For the sum of $2700 Cherry conveys to the Confederate States 27 acres "in the Macon Reserve" boundaries described with a map attached not present here reserving to Cherry a right of way through the lands. Witnessed by Benjamin V. Iverson. unknown books
1843WRCAM41656Milledgeville Ga 1843. 558pp. Stitched as issued. Titlepage lightly soiled; bottom portion with some chipping and slight loss. Scattered foxing and toning heavily in spots. Light dampstaining to last few leaves. Good. Lengthy record of the proceedings of the Georgia House of Representatives for the relevant session indexed. Not in DeRenne; no individual copies listed on OCLC. Scarce. unknown books
1843WRCAM54035Augusta Ga 1843. 4208pp. Contemporary black morocco and marbled boards rebacked in 20th-century buckram. Boards quite rubbed edges worn. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown one-fourth of titlepage lacking filled with blank paper with seven letters supplied in manuscript facsimile some toning and foxing ink stain to bottom margin of some leaves top corner of last leaf torn costing about twelve lines of text in the third column. Good. The entire first year run of this rare bi- weekly southern periodical published in Georgia from 1843 until the 1880s when it acquired other periodicals and changed its name. THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR was an important southern agricultural manual that unlike many of its contemporaries was published throughout the Civil War though it moved from Augusta then to Athens after the Civil War and then finally to Atlanta. The subtitle describes the work and its goal: "a Semi-monthly Journal devoted to Southern agriculture designed to improve the mind and elevate the character of the tillers of the soil and to introduce a more enlightened system of culture." Present here are the first twenty-six issues of the periodical each 8pp. each preceded by the titlepage and an Index. Individual issues of the magazine are scarce but the entire first year is positively rare. SABIN 88334. hardcover books
1968144528Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With holograph annotations and agency stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Directed by Frankenheimer based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo and starring Alan Bates Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm. Set in the era of Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he winds up having to go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. <br/><br/>Set in Russia shot on location in Hungary <br/><br/>8.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1864WRCAM32567Milledgeville Ga 1864. 174pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers stained scuffed along lower portion of spine. Age- toned. Else very good. Lists the variety of legislation considered by the Georgia Assembly in the third year of the Civil War from the reorganization of the state militia to the development of a state navy. Also includes laws regulating stills and exempting from taxation cotton and other property from Confederate states. Continuously paginated but with a separate titlepage for the extra session. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2780. DE RENNE II p.666. unknown books
1808WRCAM32382Milledgeville: Printed by D.L. Ryan 1808. 4173pp. Half title. Later half sheep and paper boards. Titlepage and final text leaf detached. Tanned and foxed. Good only. Scarce printing of acts passed at a special session of the Georgia Assembly in May 1808. The legislation enacted included laws regarding the state militia a lottery to raise funds to build a church in Savannah and several acts regarding judicial procedures. OCLC locates only two copies at the University of Virginia and the University of Washington. DE RENNE I p.335. MACDONALD CHECKLIST OF SESSION LAWS p.46. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 15096. OCLC 10603318. Printed by D.L. Ryan hardcover books
180960420Milledgeville GA 1809. Partly printed document 6 5/8 x 8 inches employing several sizes and styles of type the text enclosed within an ornamental border and with a seal attached picturing an arm brandishing a sword. Irwin a native of North Carolina moved as a child with his family to the Georgia back county and served with his father and brother during the American Revolution; as governor he signed the act rescinding the fraudulent Yazoo land law. "His leadership patriotism and impartiality were recognized and honored throughout his career" DGB. Marbury is best remembered for his role in the publication of Georgia's first official digest of laws Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia 1802. Some browning but very good. Folded. A nice example of early and somewhat crude Georgia letterpress printing. #7651. <br/><br/> unknown books
1967129429Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. <br/><br/>Set in Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he must go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. <br/><br/>Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. By 1960 the blacklisted Trumbo one of the Hollywood Ten began to receive credit for his work in Hollywood after serving time in a federal penitentiary for his conviction in the House Un-American Committee hearings to impugn possible Communists in the US. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Hungary. <br/><br/>Light blue titled wrappers dated September 7 1967 with a credit for screenwriter Trumbo. 138 leaves with least leaf of text numbered 129. Mechanically and xerographically duplicated dated variously between 9/6/67 and 9/7/67 with a revision page dated 8/7/67. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Rear wrapper now encapsulated in mylar. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1861WRCAM53708Milledgeville Ga 1861. 351pp. Stitched gatherings. Dust soiling and adhesive residue to outer leaves. Toning and foxing. Good. An uncommon journal of proceedings in the Georgia state Senate in their first session after Secession. The work includes a defiant and animated message from the Governor Joseph E. Brown as well accounts of the measures taken by Georgia to integrate itself into the Confederacy and to prepare for war. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2811. unknown books
199515955JMetuchen NJ: The Scarecrow Press 1995. First Edition. With a card by signed by Georgia Hale affixed to the page opposite the title page. Illustrated. Fine bright copy in a fine dust jacket. The memoirs of silent film star Georgia Hale’s relationship with Charles Chaplin as the lovely heroine in his comic masterpiece ‘The Gold Rush’ and as his off-screen companion. With stories of well-known personalities of the times including Marion Davies Sergei Eisenstein Ralph Barton Albert Einstein and Oona O’Neill whom Chaplin married in 1943. With passages from Hale’s previously unpublished correspondence with Chaplin and with illustrations from the Chaplin archive most of which are published here for the first time. The Scarecrow Press unknown books
1795WRCAM839Hartford 1795. 64pp. Gathered signatures stitched as issued. Lightly tanned. Tear in upper margin of final two leaves affecting four words of text else very good. Untrimmed and partially unopened. One of the pamphlets relating to the Yazoo Claims problem. The controversy was a result of the granting of lands by the state of Georgia in the area of present-day Alabama and Mississippi touching on the course of the Yazoo River. This pamphlet was issued by the Georgia Mississippi Company to defend their rights to the lands they were offering for sale in Georgia Alabama and Mississippi. The lands were granted to the Company by the Georgia legislature after extensive bribes changed hands and the case quickly became a major scandal. Georgia rescinded the grant the following year although the case dragged on in court until 1814. According to Everitt Wilkie this was printed in Hartford not Philadelphia as stated in Evans. HOWES G126 "aa." EVANS 28745. STREETER SALE 1158. DE RENNE I p.270. VAIL 1027. COHEN 7867. SABIN 27112. DAH V p.503. REESE FEDERAL HUNDRED 51. unknown books
197721329New York: Atlantic Editions 1977. First edition. Broadside. Fine. Lithograph 26¾ by 34¼ inches finely printed in full color at the Press of A. Colish in Mt. Vernon NY. It features O'Keeffe's 1925 work "Black and Purple Petunias" reproduced in actual size of the original. So far as we know there was but a single printing for the 1977 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Except for a tiny marginal closed tear along the side it is in fine condition. Atlantic Editions unknown books
1897WRCAM55574N.p. likely Augusta Ga 1897. 173pp. plus a sample stock certificate from the Georgia Mutual Colony Association laid in. In-text illustrations. Tall octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Front wrapper soiled around the edges upper corner of front wrapper chipped. Text a bit tanned but clean. Very good. An uncommon promotional for a small agricultural community developed in Georgia in the last decade of the 19th century. The work touts the "extraordinary suitability of the Belair lands for settlement into a prosperous suburban farm and town colony.surrounded by the most favorable conditions and attractive environments." The Belair Colony was comprised of 4000 acres of land near Augusta and most of the directors of the board were Augusta businessmen. The text includes a description of the area in and around Belair and has chapters on the "Plan of Colonization" and the "System of Farming Recommended." The work has numerous photographic illustration showing the Belair railroads housing in the area a "famous spring" in Belair local farmlands watermelon and cantaloupe dealers in Augusta the Richmond County Agricultural Society building a cluster of pears grown near Belair the Augusta high school and fields of sugar cane pears peaches and a poultry farm near Belair. The last three pages include samples of the stock application the title bond and one page of promotional text about Augusta. A sample stock certificate is laid in. OCLC records two physical copies of this rare promotional at Augusta University and the University of Georgia. OCLC 13997010. unknown books
1812616541812. Augusta: Printed by Adams & Duyckinck 1812. Augusta: Printed by Adams & Duyckinck 1812. 1812 Compilation of Georgia Law Georgia. Clayton Augustin Smith Compiler. A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia Passed by the Legislature Since the Political Year 1800 To the Year 1810 Inclusive. Containing All the Laws Whether in Force or Not Passed Within Those Periods Arranged in a Chronological Order With Comprehensive References to Those Laws or Parts of Laws That are Amended Suspended or Repealed: Together with an Appendix Comprising Such Concurred and Approved Resolutions As Are of a General Operative Nature And as Relate to the Duty of Officers The Relief of Individuals And the Settlement of Boundary Between Counties And this State with North Carolina: Concluding with a Copious Index to the Whole. Augusta: Printed by Adams & Duyckinck 1812. vi 708 20 pp. Includes four pages of testimonials. Quarto 10" x 8". Later buckram calf lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Some rubbing to extremities light fading to spine later owner bookplates to front pastedown and free endpaper one of Ellis Merton Coulter. Light browning and foxing to text occasional dampstaining. Early annotations to front endleaf interior otherwise clean. A solid copy with a nice provenance. $900. First edition. This was the third digest of Georgia state laws preceded by others from 1801 and 1802. It is digested alphabetically by topic. Ellis Merton Coulter 1890-1981 was a notable American historian of the South and a founding member of the Southern Historical Association. He was known for his glorification of the Old South belief in white supremacy and segregation. Catalogue of the Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library I:346. Babbitt Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 86. unknown books
1893WRCAM53817N.p. either New York or Washington D.C. 1893. 45pp. Original printed front wrapper rear wrapper lacking. Unobtrusive institutional ink stamp on front wrapper. Minor toning to paper. Good. A rare pamphlet comprising the defendant's response to the United States Supreme Court in a case regarding funds for the care of former slaves that were supposed to be paid out of the estate of Gazaway B. Lamar according to his will. The plaintiffs argue for the $100000 bequeathed to them in Mr. Lamar's will funds intended "to be devoted to establishing and sustaining one or more hospitals in Augusta and Savannah for colored persons.who have been slaves and their descendants giving preference to those which once belonged to or were hired by me." The respondents' attorney Joseph H. Coates breaks his argument down into five points and in summation states that there simply isn't enough left in the estate to satisfy the claim. The plaintiff's circuit court appeal is present in OCLC in only one copy but there are no physical copies in OCLC of this response from the defendants. OCLC 576732450 digital reproduction. unknown books
1821589031821. Augusta: Published by T.S. Hannon 1821. Augusta: Published by T.S. Hannon 1821. 1821 Compilation of Georgia Law Georgia. Lamar Lucius Q.C.A. Compiler. A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia Passed by the Legislature Since the Year 1810 to the Year 1819 Inclusive: Comprising All the Laws Passed Within Those Periods Arranged Under Appropriate Heads With Notes of Reference to Those Laws Or Parts of Laws Which Are Amended or Repealed: To Which Are Added Such Concurred and Approved Resolutions As Are Either of General Local or Private Moment: Concluding with a Copious Index to the Laws And a Separate One to the Resolutions. Augusta: Published by T.S. Hannon 1821. iv 1300 pp. Quarto 10-1/2" x 8-1/2". Recent period-style imitation sheep raised bands and lettering pieces and gilt fillets to spine marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities owner bookplate to front pastedown. Light to moderate browning foxing and occasional marginal damp staining internally clean. $1000. First edition. This was the fourth digest of Georgia state laws preceded by others from 1801 1802 and 1812. It is digested alphabetically by topic. Babbitt Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 86. unknown books
186137603Sumter County GA 1861. Manuscript document 7-1/2" x 25." Neat ink manuscript listing after the prefatory sentence quoted in our title 57 names in the first column and names 58-64 in the second column. Similar flourishes in the names suggest that at least many were written in an identical hand. The two columns are separated by a rule in manuscript. Old folds Very Good.<br/><br/> Allen Sherrod Cutts listed as Captain heads this list of 64 volunteers. Cutts raised this Battery of Artillery at the outbreak of the War. The Battery arrived in Virginia after the First Battle of Bull Run and saw action at the Battle of Dranesville. In 1862 Cutts expanded the Battery to a Battalion the 11th Georgia Artillery Battalion as its commander. <br/> Cutts was promoted to Major Lieutenant Colonel both in 1862 and colonel April 1864. The Battalion served in the Artillery Reserve of the Army of Northern Virginia under General Pendleton in the Seven Days Battles; and it fought at Antietam Fredericksburg Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. After the War Cutts entered politics as a Democrat was mayor of Americus-- the County Seat of Sumter County-- and a member of the Georgia General Assembly.<br/>Speicher THE SUMTER FLYING ARTILLERY 2009. Wikipedia article on Cutts. unknown books
1884280East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia Railway Company O'Brien John F. General Superintendent and Flippen T. D. Auditor. <i>East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia Railway Company List No. 14. List of Stations and Names of Agents. </i>ETV&G Railway Office of the Auditor Knoxville January 31 1884. A broadside directory listing the agents by name and by town for the East Tennessee Division and branches for the Alabama division the Atlanta division and the Brunswick division and branches. A broadside sheet 34 cm x 36 cm black ink on white paper fold creases otherwise very good. The ETV&G railway became part of the Southern Railway in 1894. The ETV&G made Knoxville Tennessee a wholesaling center as it provided both passenger and freight rail service to many small communities in Appalachia. East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Company books
189553704Augusta GA: Augusta Litho. Co. 1895. First edition. Oblong 8vo. 76 pp. Illustrated portraits scenes of Augusta and the unit's training camp from 1893; profusely illustrated with local ads some illustrated. Includes a brief historical sketch by Charles C. Jones unit rosters biographical sketches for the officers of the Civil War Years a two-page sketch on the unit's Civil War battle flag and a wealth of other information. The unit served throughout the war as a company in the Cobb Legion Army of Northern Virginia. Not in Nevins or Broadfoot. Dornbusch lists no publications for this unit. OCLC locates one copy Georgia. Original illustrated wrappers spine ends chipped. Very good. 509. <br/><br/> Augusta Litho. Co.) unknown books