ANNALS OF NORTHWEST ALABAMA, VOLUME III. [Local history reference for northwestern Alabama counties of Blount, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Lamar, Marion, Pickens, Walker, and Winston.]

Presumed first edition (no direct statement but with matching dates upon title and copyright pages). 312 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. No dust jacket (as issued?). Pebbled black cloth; light rubbing to boards; residue from removed sticker at lower spine with some shallow overlap onto adjoining lower boards; slight dulling/flaking to front board and spine's stamping but all still easily legible. Some foxing to text block edges; past owner's name/address label affixed to front pastedown; interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. Laid-in at front endpapers is the author's promotional brochure/order form announcing the first printing of Volume III and reprintings of preceding Volumes I and II. With Preface, a few b/w plates, and Index. Features fourteen essays regarding various facets of regional history of which the more interesting titles are: "Some Economic and Social Aspects of the History of Cullman, Alabama" by John Clinton Bright; "An Early Fayette County Home" by Marguerite T. Callahan; "Recollections of Olden Days" by Bertha Massey King; Early History of Winston County, Alabama Schools" by Sallie P. West; "The Pursuit and Capture of Streight's Raiders" by John A. Wyeth; "Some Recollections of My Family" by Andrew Lee Massey; "From Oxcarts to Diesels: A History of Hanceville, Alabama" by Emmie Alldredge Smith; "The Civil War as Seen by Captain Isaac Jasper Rogers" by Charles E. Wilson; and "History of Marion County" by a Committee of School Teachers. Series compiler Carl Atwood Elliott (1913-1999) served eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's northwestern 7th Congressional District from January 1949 to January 1965. {AL-Shelf#1}.…