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Text Box: Early Pee Dee Settlers, Part One and Part Two, two volumes, by John M. Gregg, softcover, ISBN: 1-55613-912-8, Heritage Books, 1993, 629 pages (both volumes). These volumes identify more than 5,700 of the individuals who settled or were born in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina before 1790. They are listed alphabetically along with the known dates of their residence. If known, the spouse, children, origin, occupation, specific area, sources of information on the entry, Revolutionary War service and other miscellaneous information is included. Maps are also included. Condition: near fine/ no dust jacket; a few pencil marks inside text. Price $24.00

Text Box: Charlotte And The Carolina Piedmont by Tom Hanchett and Ryan Sumner,Levine Museum of the New South, Images of America Series, softcover, ISBN:0-7385-1580-9, Arcadia, no publishing date, 128 pages of black and white photographs with text; history. This is a book of archival photographs which celebrates the history of the Charlotte region, preserving local heritage. It begins with the Old South: 1740’s-1860’s, and ends with Banking Boomtown: 1970’s-200’s. Condition: new/no dust jacket Price: $10.00

Text Box: A Dutch-English Odyssey, Stories of Brewer and Estey Families in North America 1636-1996 by Floyd I. Brewer, ISBN: 0-9635402-2-x, hardcover, privately published 1997, 548 pages with black and white photographs, charts, maps, bibliography, index; family history. Condition: very good/ fine with protective cover, the book has a cracked front hinge; otherwise it is in fine condition Price: $25.00

Text Box: Homesteads Ungovernable, Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860, by Mark M. Carroll, ISBN: 0-292-71228-6, softcover, University of Texas Press, 2001, 244 pages, notes, bibliographical commentary, index; history. In this book, the author draws on legal and social history to trace the evolutions of sexual, family, and racial-caste relations in the most turbulent polity of the southern frontier during the antebellum period (1823-1860). From a review: “…this book makes an important contribution to historical scholarship on Texas and the Southwest, race relations, and several discrete subjects within family law, in particular marriage and the rights and duties of partners outside of marriage.” Condition: very good +/ no dust jacket, some highlighting Price: $8.00

Text Box: Bulwark of Empire, by Roger Willock, hardcover, ISBN: 0-921560-00-1, second edition, Bermuda Maritime Museum Press, 1988, 159 pages with black and white photographs, endpaper maps, subject index, names of persons, names of ships; history. This book is the history of Britain’s naval base on Bermuda. From the blurb: "This book records the development in the nineteenth century at Bermuda of Britain's major naval base in the West Atlantic, and the fortifications which grew hand in hand with the new dockyard. The primary purpose of the base at Bermuda was to protect the dockyard from an attack from the United States. The ways and means by which this goal was accomplished, and the strategic value of the Bermuda Islands to British imperial defense comprises the story of this book, which was first published in 1962 as the first book on Bermuda fortifications." Condition: as new/ as new Price: $20.00

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Text Box: Oglethorpe’s Children, Adventures in the New World, by Suzanne M. Aviles, signed by author with inscription on title page, ISBN: 189149512-7, softcover, The Oglethorpe Press, Savannah, Georgia, 2004, 121 pages with black and white illustrations; history. This is a book for young adults (middle school, early high school) to learn through the characters the challenges and dangers of colonizing, as well as the friendships established with native peoples. The colony is Savannah, Georgia, the year 1733, and the young people in the story were actually on the manifest of the ship, Anne, which brought colonists from England. The book was written to engage children in history so that they may understand that history has meaning in their lives. Condition: near fine/ no dust jacket Price: $40.00