Selma, her institutions and her men: With new introduction and index by John Hardy - 1978-01-01

Reprint Co, 1978. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0871522756 . Text is clean. Cover shows light shelfwear. Dust jacket shows some shelfwear, several small stains to front panel of DJ. ; 218 pages .

Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, 1978. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Brick red cloth with gilt titles; No Flaws or Blemishes but previous owner's name and embossed stamp on the front free endpage; Top of the text block a bit dust-dulled;  8.75 inches tall; 218 pages.. This reprint is of the first comprehensive history of Selma, Alabama, containing a new introduction to the work and its author and a new index. The history traces the development of the community "from one or two loghouses in 1815 to a populous and wealthy city in 1879. As founder and editor of the weekly newspaper, the Selma Sentinel, and mayor of the city from 1873 to 1875, Hardy had a full set of municipal records when he began his work. Most of those records have subsequently been lost or destroyed and his book preserves early incidents in the life of the town.

Orig. pub. Selma, AL, 1879. Reprinted 1978. Print on Demand Edition 2017. xviii, 218 pp., new intro., new index This reprint edition of the first comprehensive history of Selma, Alabama, contains a new introduction to the work and its author and a new index. The history traces the development of the community "from one or two loghouses in 1815 to a populous and wealthy city in 1879." Selma was a center of commerce, the iron industry, and the slave trade and rendered important service to the Confederacy. Chapters concerning municipal government, railroads and manufacturing, churches and Sabbath schools, social organizations, Blacks, and biographical sketches of the founding and leading citizens of Selma are included. As founder and editor of the weekly newspaper, the Selma Sentinel, and mayor of the city from 1873 to 1875, Hardy had a full set of municipal records when he began his work. Most of those records have subsequently been lost or destroyed and his book preserves early incidents in the life… Read More