1st item: The New Constitution of the State of Tennessee, as revised by the Convention of Delegates, Assembled in Nashville, January 10, 1870. Nashville: Jones, Purvis & Co., Printers to the State, 1870. 8vo, 32pp, re-covered in unrelated paper covers. Note: Known for permanently abolishing slavery, this version was also written in order to undo […]

Collection of five (5) books pertaining to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, held in Nashville, TN, May 1-October 31, 1897. 1st -2nd Items: Two copies of ART ALBUM OF THE TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL with photographs by W. G. and A. J. Thuss; Nashville: Marshall and Bruce Company, 1898 containing many photos of the exposition and Nashville area; one cover stating […]

1st Item: SONGS OF THE SOUTH verses and pictures by Howard Weeden, published by Doubleday, Page and Company, New York, 1904. Inscribed by author on half title page “Yours Sincerely / Howard Weeden”. Octavo, 94 pp, poems interspersed with illustrations, hardbound in grey cloth with pictorial front cover with gilt lettering, gilt lettering to spine. 9 […]

SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy, New York: Random House, 1979. First Edition, First Printing; Octavo, 471 pages, stated first edition with publication line 24689753, hard bound in quarter black cloth over yellow paper boards embossed “CM” in gilt lettering with gilt lettering to spine, includes original pictorial dust jacket with $12.95 price on flap, in protective archival […]

OUTER DARK, Cormac McCarthy, Random House, New York, 1968. First Edition, stated “First Printing” on copyright page; inscribed and signed on front free endpaper “For Dr & Mrs Frank Rogers / Cormac McCarthy”. Original light blue 1/4 cloth and gray paper boards; First state jacket with price of $4.95 and date of 9/68 intact, in […]

Author Signed, THE ORCHARD KEEPER, Cormac McCarthy, Random House, New York, 1965. First Edition, with stated “First Printing” on copyright page; inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper “To Mr & Mrs Susano / Cormac McCarthy”. 8vo, in publisher’s green and red boards with gilt stamping, with dust jacket in protective archival cover. McCarthy’s first […]

Two antique vellum-bound books. 1st Item: Bibliothèque Universelle Des Historiens, by Louis Ellies du Pin.; Amsterdam: François L’Honoré, 1708. 376 pp., plus 8 pp table of contents and forthcoming catalogue at rear. “Containing their lives, abridgments, chronology, geography, and a critique of their histories” (translated). 4to. with engraved frontispiece, title page vignette, 6 foldout maps intact. Pertaining to ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, […]