Knoxville: Heiskell and Brown, 1823. Two volumes. viii,v,342; viii,360pp. Contemporary calf, gilt leather labels. Extremities lightly worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on each titlepage. Light to moderate foxing throughout both volumes. Very good. Collected sermons of the Rev. Robert Henderson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Murfreesboro. Henderson helped found the.....
London: Richard Bentley, 1835. [12],336;[8]340pp. Original paper boards, printed spine labels. Hinges and spines cracked, spine extremities and labels chipped, light edge and corner wear. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper of vol. 1. Light dust soiling at edges, with an occasional fox mark. Good, in original condition. Untrimmed.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. xii,168,32pp. Half title. Original brown cloth, spine gilt and stamped in black. Spine cocked, front hinge starting, light wear to cloth. Contemporary ownership inscription on half title. Light tanning. Good. An atypical work by the author of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS, based on his association.....
London. 1880. 23pp. Original printed wrappers, spine perishing. Worming to rear wrapper, light worming to interior, slightly affecting text. Loose printed advertisement laid in. Light tanning. Good. A prospectus for the utopian community of Rugby, Tennessee, by one of its founders, Thomas Hughes, English author of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS.....
Philadelphia. 1860. 526pp. plus advertisements. Original cloth. Cloth sunned and edgeworn. Some scattered spotting. A good, tight copy. A collection of letters written by Kate Conyngham and originally published in the SATURDAY COURIER in 1853-54, giving observations gleaned from her travels in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., South Carolina, and.....
[Kentucky; Tennessee; Georgia. 1862-1863]. 14 manuscript letters, most on small bifolia, two to four pages in length. Previously folded. Light wear at folds. light tanning; an occasional patch of soiling. Very good. A group of fourteen letters written home by Union Pvt. Henry D. Isbell of the 1st Ohio Light.....
Nashville. Aug. 3, 1818. [1]p. Quarto. Old fold lines. Contemporary paper strip along left edge on verso. Minor toning. Very good. Andrew Jackson writes to Philadelphia publisher and bookseller Mathew Carey, thanking him for a gift of some books. The letter was written from Nashville after Jackson's return from the.....
Albany: Webster & Wood, 1828. 32pp. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth, gilt titles. Mild bowing to front board. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Contemporary inked number to top of titlepage, small chip to bottom corner of titlepage, moderate toning and foxing. Good plus. One of three 1828 issues of this.....
Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1828. 22pp. Three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Minor foxing, light vertical crease. Very good. Untrimmed. A compilation of Jackson's letters to Secretary of War John Armstrong during the Creek War of 1814-15, tending to defend Jackson against persistent allegations that he acted unfairly to the.....
Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1828. 63pp. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth, gilt titles. Boards slightly bowed. Small ink notation on titlepage, bottom corner of last leaf torn, text somewhat tanned. Good plus. Lacks the folding muster rolls. The controversy surrounding Jackson and his execution of several alleged deserters during the.....
Nashville. 1857. 26pp. Dbd. Small interior chip to titlepage, slightly affecting imprint. Light tanning and faint foxing. About very good. An official printing of Andrew Johnson's message to the state legislature as Governor in 1857. The message includes an account of the state's finances, a report on the operation of.....
Nashville. 1877. x,435pp., including in-text illustrations, plus eight folding maps. Original red-orange pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Minor rubbing and edge wear. 20th-century Tennesee collector bookplate on front pastedown, front flyleaf torn. Internally clean. Very good. Contains several separate reports by Killebrew on topics such as tobacco growing, stock-raising, mineral regions.....
Memphis. Dec. 13, 1866. 4pp., on a folded quarto sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Very good. Letter written by Louis LaGrill to the mayor of Brownsville, Texas, searching after his wayward son, who had apparently run off with a group of Mexican Republican troops. The Andrew Johnson administration not-so-.....
Paris: Chez de Bure [et al], 1758. Three volumes. xvi,358; 441; 451,[3]pp. plus forty engraved plates, two folding maps, folding plan, and errata. Half title in each volume. 16mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt. A beautiful, fresh, fine set. One of the most useful contemporary authorities on French Louisiana.....
London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1763. Two volumes. [4],l,vii,[1],368pp. plus folding map; [8],272pp. plus two folding map. Half titles. 12mo. Contemporary full calf, gilt ruled, leather spine labels, edges painted red. Front hinges cracked, boards rubbed, spines slightly chipped, light corner and edge wear. Light dampstaining.....
Nashville. 1825. 48pp. Dbd. Somewhat tanned, scattered foxing. Very good. A presentation copy, inscribed by Lindsley, "J. P. Cunningham from the author" at the top of the titlepage. Cumberland College, then the only college in the lower Mississippi Valley, had just been chartered as the University of Nashville when Lindsley.....
Nashville. 1832. 67pp. Original stiff paper wrappers. Dust soiling to wraps. Contemporary ownership inscription on rear wrapper. Toning and foxing. Good. Lindsley undertook the presidency of Cumberland College in 1825, then the only college in the lower Mississippi Valley, when it had just been chartered as the University of Nashville.....
Philadelphia. 1849. Two volumes. xii,312pp. plus [32]pp. publisher's advertisements; iv,[13]-316pp. Original cloth. Head and toe of spines chipped, light scattered foxing, else very good. First American edition. The author travelled all over the eastern United States as far as the Mississippi Valley, including a trip by land from Washington to.....
Memphis: S.C. Toof & Co., 1897. 298pp. Illustrated. Original grey publisher's cloth, gilt. Corners worn, lightly soiled, text block lightly shaken. Front flyleaf detached, bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Good. "Sketches of Memphis veterans who upheld her standard in the war, and of other Confederate worthies." Most of the.....
Nashville. 1904. 520pp. plus numerous portrait plates, including frontis. Original cloth, spine gilt. Cloth lightly worn, front hinge cracking. Bookseller's label on rear pastedown. Internally clean. Very good. A substantial Confederate regimental, containing rosters, biographical sketches, several dozen photographic portraits, and separate company histories, together with the general history for.....
Chicago: Chicago Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1933. 141pp. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Small stain in lower outer corner of front cover. Very good. Includes McMurtrie's text on the history of printing in Tennessee and a bibliography listing 316 Tennessee incunables.
Chicago: Chicago Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1933. 141pp. Original red cloth, spine gilt. Light wear to spine extremities. Author's presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Very good plus. Includes McMurtrie's text on the history of printing in Tennessee and a bibliography listing 316 Tennessee incunables. This copy with a......
[Various places]. 1937-1942. Twenty-three volumes. Folio. Uniformly bound in green buckram, spines lettered in gilt; some with original wrappers bound in. Very good. A collection of the useful state imprint bibliographies, spearheaded by Douglas McMurtrie and published by the WPA Historical Records Survey Program. States covered include Tennessee, Ohio, Nevada.....
Nashville. 1885. 200pp. Color folding map. Large octavo. Original cloth. Cloth sunned and bit spotted, frayed at head and toe of spine, ex-lib. bookplate and ink notations, map split at one fold. Good. As the author states in the introduction, "Our chief desire has been to present fairly the rich.....
Nashville. 1861. [2],[193]-293pp. Original sheep. Boards detached, spine perishing, edges worn. Contemporary annotations on front endpapers. Light tanning and dampstaining, stray ink marks internally. Fair. Proceedings from the various state conferences of the Southern Methodist Church in 1860. Scarce, Allen locates only one copy at the University of Tennessee.
