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Winchester, Virginia: [Robert H. Gallaher], "Friday Morning, February 14, 1862." Folio newspaper, single sheet measuring 18 inches by 24 inches folded once vertically forming four pages.
Old folds, lightly browned & foxed, tiny losses at fold intersects, brief youthful scribblings in ink & pencil in the margins, old ink signature in the top margin of page one & small rubber stamped mark in the bottom margin of page one, otherwise very good.
Contents include: Military Forces of the State;Federal Account of the Partial Destruction of Harper's Ferry; $20 Reward for Deserters from Company A; Strasburg Extension; Head Quarters Department of Northern Virginia, General Orders

No place [Columbia, South Carolina]: no publisher [the author ?], no date [1973 ?]. First edition, this copy signed in ink by Devereux at the ffep. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), viii & 125 pages, illustrated. Original tan cloth lettered & decorated in black in dust jacket which replicates the binding.
A fine copy in very good price-clipped dust jacket, moderately browned at the spine, toned & soiled, with brief edge wear including a tiny loss at the top of the spine & a short closed tear.
This issue with no publishing information which we believe precedes the edition published by the State Printing Company of Columbia, S.C. in 1973.
"My aim is to write a biography of two owners of Hagley Plantation in Georgetown County ... I will mainly put into this writing facts that are illustrative of the strengths and weaknesses of a great antebellum Southern agrarian civilization ..." ~Excerpted from the author's preface.

Baltimore, Maryland: Thomas Dobbin, Printer & publisher, number 2647, April 4, 1803. First edition. Original broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 21.25 inches by 26.5 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. Text in five columns, printed on laid paper. Brigham, Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820 (1962 edition), vol. I, pp. 249 & 250.
Old folds, moderately toned, foxed, & soiled, lightly tattered, some creasing, small loss in the lower margin not affecting text, a very good copy.
A poignant & horrific newspaper which includes several advertisements for runaway African American slaves, an example of which is provided in full below.
"Twenty Dollars Reward.RAN away from the subscriber, living in Anne Arundel County, near South River, State of Maryland, on the 5th of July instant, a negro girl named KITTY JOYCE; about 20 years of age; of a yellow complexion; straight and well made; has a mole on one side of her nose; and bushy hair. Her clothing when she ran off, was entirely of… Read More