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Carry Me Home
by Diane McWhorter
Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights eraâÈçs climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation."The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in AmericaâÈçs long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist...
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Alabama Books & Ephemera
Robert Russa Moton of Hampton and Tuskegee
by William Hardin Hughes and Frederick D. Patterson
Chapel Hill: UNC, (1956). 238 pages. First edition. Illustrated. Very good in publisher's cloth in a lightly-worn dustwrapper. Biography of Robert Russa Moton (1867-1940) who worked at Hampton Institute and then became the long-time Tuskegee Institute principal and successor to Booker T. Washington.
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SGD 48.20
MONTGOMERY An Illustrated History
by Flynt, Wayne
Windsor Publications. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by author on endpaper: "To B. C. And LouisePope from J. Wayne Flynt July 25, 1980". Worn and torn DJ. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 196 pages; Extra postage required for priority and international shipping. ; Signed by Author .
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SGD 26.16
A SIGNED AND WITNESSED WAGER BETWEEN ROBERT H. WATKINS AND JACOB K. SWOOPE ON THE OUTCOME OF THE 1840 PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST BETWEEN INCUMBENT PRESIDENT MARTIN VAN BUREN AND WHIG CHALLENGER WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
by [Election of 1840]
[Courtland, Lawrence Cty., Alabama, 1840. Single page, 7-3/4" x 12-3/4." Entirely in ink manuscript. Dated June 20, 1840, and signed at the end by Watkins and Swoope, with Jno. J. McMahon as witness. Inner edge is irregular. Closed tear [no loss] repaired expertly at blank bottom margin. Very Good. This documents records the terms of a wager on the outcome of the 1840 presidential election. "Watkins betts Swoope Ten Bales Cotton of Best quality weighing Five Hundred Pounds Each, on each State in the...
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SGD 1,032.75
Team Work: Dr. Booker T. Washington's Last Sunday Evening Talk to the Teachers and Students, Institute Chapel, October 17, 1915
by Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1859?-1915
[Tuskegee]: Typesetting ana [sic] Presswork Done by Students in the Printing Division of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, 1915. Paperback. Fine. 12p. Softcover in original wrapper. 17 cm. Crease at lower right corner tip on three leaves; otherwise virtually as new. OCLC locates 10 holdings.
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SGD 516.38
Game-Texts: A Guatemalan Journal
by Lane, Erskine
San Francisco, California, USA: Gay Sunshine Press, 1978 The cover is somewhat worn with light creasing and a small black texta mark on the back. The edges of the book are lightly tanned and spotted. 156 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Paper Back. Very Good. Size E: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).
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SGD 27.13
The Alabama Pen Point March-April 1952
by [Alabama]. [Prison Literature]
Speigner, Al, 1952. Very good.. 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 1951 and was issued monthly. This issue includes a lengthy article on parole in Alabama and whether or not it has been...
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SGD 516.38
Guntersville Remembered - Revised and Enlarged
by Smith, Larry J. & Alabama Historical Society Guntersville
Creative Printers, Inc.. New in New dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. New hardcover in a New dust jacket which has been wrapped for protection. No names or other marks. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 208 pages .
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SGD 89.50
Get You a Home in Alabama: Home Seekers and Capitalists Guide to Alabama
by [Alabama]
Montgomery: Department of Agriculture and Industries, 1904. Good plus.. Twenty-one panel illustrated folding promotional on recto, printed with a color county map of Alabama on verso. One tear along fold lines and minor separations at a few crossfolds, light toning. A seemingly-unrecorded Alabama promotional touting the advantages across the state for potential "home seekers and capitalists." The panels of text extoll the virtues of Alabama's geographical location, weather, natural resources, minerals,...
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SGD 516.38
An Act to Charter the Alabama Insurance Company, Approved, February 8th, 1858
by [Alabama]. [Insurance]
Montgomery, Al: Montgomery Post Book and Job Office, 1860. Very good.. 8pp., with a secretarial manuscript certification covering inside rear wrapper, with affixed state seal. Original tan printed wrappers, sewn. Minor dust-soiling to wrappers, soft vertical crease throughout. One pencil correction to text, minor even toning. A seemingly unrecorded Alabama imprint, being an act pertaining to the founding operations of the Alabama Insurance Company, approved in 1858 but not issued until the year before...
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SGD 1,032.75
Autographed Album Page
by CANNON, George Quayle (1827 - 1901)
1890. unbound. near fine. Measures 3 x 4.75 inches, no place, no date, circa 1890. Signed "Geo. Q. Cannon, Salt Lake City, Utah" by the Mormon leader, Utah's first congressman, and executor of Brigham Young's will. On the back is the signature of Alabama Senator and Confederate Congress member "James L. Pugh Ala." Near fine.<br/><br/>
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SGD 240.98
Typed letter, Signed to Dr. Charles S.Macfarland, dated April 20, 1910
by Washington, Booker Taliferro, 1856-1915
[Tuskegee, 1910. Very Good. Single sheet. Tuskegee Institute letterhead stationery. 21cm. Purple ink. Macfarland, of South Norwalk, Connecticut, was involved with the Congregational Church in that city. BTW lists his return address as Hotel Manhattan in New York. BTW tells MacFarland what time he will arrive by train in South Norwalk and states that he plans to return to New York after an undescribed "meeting," perhaps at the Congregational Church. BTW traveled the country, raising funds for Tuskegee...
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SGD 654.08
THE KLANSMAN
by HUIE, William Bradford
First printing, so stated, in the publisher's white cloth over black boards with front panel author facsimile signature gilt, octavo, pp. 303. Spotting on cloth spine akin to foxing shows more readily than if publisher had chosen a darker color than white. Dust jacket erosion at spine ends and flap fold points and random nicks & short tears along perimeter. A splash of coffee or tea during pre-mylar days has left a tideline on the jacket's rear panel, but now protected against further wear by removable...
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SGD 14.39
Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story
by LOGAN, Onnie Lee. CLARK, Katherine
First edition, so stated, in the publisher's tan cloth over beige boards, octavo, pp. xiv, 177. Good and sound with light shelf rubbing at spine ends. Dust jacket is price-clipped.
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SGD 30.91
Proceedings of the First Annual Session of the Southern Immigration Association of America, Held at Nashville, Tenn., March 11, 12 and 13, 1884
by Southern Immigration Association of America
Nashville: R. H. Howell & Co, 1884. Hardcover. Fair. 352p. Original blue cloth. 22 cm. Cover unevenly faded. Extremities worn. Ends of backstrip chipped. Rear endpaper split along hinge. Public library bookplate ("Helen Keller Library"). Gift inscription on title-page from Mr. Cullman -- probably John G. Cullman who is named as one of the Directors of this association. This organization seems to have been focused on convincing American citizens and businesses from other parts ot the USA to relocte to...
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SGD 344.25
Locust Hill
by Kirk, Mary Wallace
Tuscaloosa, Al: University of Alabama Press, 1976. 2nd printing (1976); dj w/unclipped priuce, in mylar; brown tweed c w/black titles; 142 clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by b/w photos, Etc. Including w/family Tree. 8 Vo.
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SGD 16.52
All God's Dangers
by Theodore Rosengarten
First Edition. Interior VG+ in brown cloth w/gold title. VG+, no DJ. In protective mylar shell.
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SGD 68.85
Tenn-Tom Country: The Upper Tombigbee Valley
by James F. Doster; David C. Weaver
Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press. Very light edge wear, jacket has light rubbing, slightly faded spine. Clean copy. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1987.
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SGD 16.52
Framed Signed Photograph
by ALABAMA (country music band)
1995. framed. 8.5 x 7.25-inch black-and-white photo of the country music band Alabama -- no place, no date, circa 1995. Signed with a black marker by the four members of the group: Randy Owen, Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry, and Mark Herndon. Matted in off-white and set in a black frame measuring 15 x 13.25 inches. The photo has two tiny faint stains at the top, but is still in very good condition.<br/> <br/>
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SGD 344.25
De Remnant Truth: The Tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton.
by BURTON, Robert Wilton; MITCHELL, Jake; SPORT, Kathryn; HITCHCOCK, Bert
First printing, in the publisher's illustrated card stock wrappers, octavo, pp. viii, 247.
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SGD 19.90
Autographed Letter Signed on "Diocese of Alabama" letterhead
by WILMER, Richard Hooker (1816 - 1900)
Mobile, AL, 1885. unbound. 1 page, 9.5 x 6 inches, Mobile, Alabama, April 12, 1885. Signed "Richard H. Wilmer" in his difficult-to-read handwriting, responding to an inquiry concerning church policy, in part: "...I report that it is out of my power to join the information sought in your letter of the 6th instant. Right Reverend Dr. Perry, Bishop, is his holiness of the American Church..." Natural folds; near fine condition.<br/><br/> The second bishop of Alabama in the...
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SGD 413.10
OUR BROTHER IN BLACK: HIS FREEDOM AND HIS FUTURE
by Atticus G. Haygood
US: Phillips & Hunt, 1881. Hardback. Good +. Forest green cloth over boards with black particulars in gilt compartment and black floral decorations to spine; black title and floral decorations to front board; debossed rule to rear board. Previous owner's inscription to front and back of first free endpaper; previous owner's library stamp to first free endpaper and rear pastedown; light scattered soiling throughout. Text block is soiled and foxed; top edge sprayed black has faded. Boards are lightly...
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SGD 82.62
Five First-Day Covers of the 1948 George Washington Carver Stamp
by Carver, George Washington, 1864-1943
1948. Paperback. Very Good. 5 personal-sized envelopes, 16.5 x 9.5cm., each bearing one or more of the 3-cent U.S. commemorative stamps issued on the fifth anniversary of Carver's death, cancelled with the phrase "First Day of Issue" and postmarked "Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Jan 5, 9-AM, 1948". Three have one stamp; one has a horizontal pair; and one has a block of four. Each has a different printed cachet on the left, three with a portrait of Carver, two picturing buildings at Tuskegee.
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SGD 48.20
A Report on the Comprehensive City Plan for Muscle Shoals, Alabama
by Frank D. Jones
[Knoxville, Tennessee. c.1935]. [110]pp. Carbon-copy typescript, with pencil emendations. 11 x 8½ inches. Quarter bound in heavy cardboard stock. Title in manuscript to front cover. Text on rectos only. Spine expertly replaced with tissue; light soil; all very clean and legible within. Very good. The Muscle Shoals Sound-and smell-of 1935 included those of furnaces smelting tin, copper, zinc and iron; stockyards and slaughterhouses; the manufacture of shoe polish and sauerkraut as well as the production...
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SGD 1,170.45
Annual Report 1964
by Tuskegee Civic Association
Tuskegee: Tuskegee Institute, 1964. Paperback. Very Good. photos, 12p. Original stapled wrapper. 28 cm. Modest cover soil and wear. Front cover wrinkling. Printed photographic image on front cover of eight people who were among the eleven African Americans who were allowed for the first time in the 20th century to be poll workers in the Macon County Democratic primary elections. Includes a report by C. G. Gomillion, the organizations President. Annual meeting, Butler Chapel A.M. Zion Church, Sunday,...
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SGD 378.68
Service, Vol. 7, No. 4 (November 1942)
by Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee Institute, Ala: Tuskegee Institute, 1942. Paperback. Good. photos, 33p. Softcover in original wrapper. 29 cm. Significant soiling and modest wear on cover. Minor dog-earing. Subscriber's address stamp on back. Published monthly, 1936-1954, and "dedicated to the men and women engaged in various fields of service." Includes a 4-page, half-photos, article ("Brown Hands behind the Army") by *Nat D. Williams. Acting Editor of Service.
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SGD 89.50
