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152. De Bow, James Dunwoody Brownson. THE INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES, ETC., OF THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN STATES...IN THREE VOLUMES [VOL. III only].
New Orleans: Published at the Office of De Bow's Review, 1853. 584,x,[2] pp.

Title continues: embracing a view of their commerce, agriculture, manufactures, internal improvements, slave and free labor, slavery institutions, products, etc., of the South : together with historical and statistical sketches of the different states and cities of the Union : statistics of the United States commerce and manufactures, from the earliest periods, compared with other leading powers : the results of the different census returns since 1790, and returns of the census of 1850, on population, agriculture and general industry, etc.: with an appendix. First edition. Original cloth, light scattered foxing. A very good copy of volume three, [S-Z]. The most important source of its kind on United States commerce, industry, agriculture, labor, etc. It was compiled by the superintendent of the U.S. census and leading political economists of the era. This volume covers [S-Z], so includes: Southern Industry, Slaves, Slave Trade, South Carolina, Savannah, Steamships, Sugar, Texas, Tobacco, Turpentine, United States, Virginia, Wisconsin, West India Islands, etc. HOWES D-185.
$ 350.00

153. Hawkins, Dexter A. EDUCATION THE NEED OF THE SOUTH. A PAPER READ BEFORE THE AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING HELD
AT SARATOGA, SEPTEMBER, 1877. New York: Printed by Nelson & Phillips, 805 Broadway, 1878. 16 pp.

First edition. Original printed wrappers, shows crease where folded. A near fine copy. Hawkins is listed at 10 Wall Street, New York.
$ 150.00

154. Holmes, J. A. ROAD BUILDING WITH CONVICT LABOR IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
[np, ca.1901]. 319-332 pp., 5 plates.

First separate edition. Offprint from Yearbook of Department of Agriculture for 1901. Original self-wraps, stapled as issued. A very good copy. The photographic plates show the work of convicts in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. The portable convict quarters on wheels are also illustrated.
$ 75.00

155. Odum, Howard Washington (ed). SOUTHERN PIONEERS IN SOCIAL INTERPRETATION.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1925. vi,221 pp.

First edition. Original cloth. A near fine copy. Preface dated Chapel Hill, N.C., March, 1925. Introduction: A Southern Promise by Howard W. Odum. Contents: Woodrow Wilson by Gerald W. Johnson; Walter Hines Page by Robert D. W. Connor; Charles Brantley Aycock by Edwin A. Alderman; Seaman A. Knapp by Jackson Davis; Augustus Baldwin Longstreet by John Donald Wade; Joel Chandler Harris by Julia Collier Harrie; Booker T. Washington by Monroe N. Work; Madeline McDowell Breckinridge by S. P. Breckinridge; Edward Kidder Graham by Robert D. W. Connor. THORNTON 10196.
$ 45.00

156. Soule, Andrew M. ADDRESS OF PROF. ANDREW M. SOULE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE ON BEEF CATTLE INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH DELIVERED AT BIRMINGHAM,
JANUARY 27, 1903, BEFORE THE ALABAMA LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1903. 23 pp.

First edition. Original printed wrappers. A near fine copy. WORLDCAT (OCLC: 22106796) records only three institutional holdings.
$ 250.00

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