Quality Memorials [cover title].

Ball Ground, Georgia: Southern Marble and Stone Company, [1924]. First edition of this issue, Quarto. 138 pp. Pp. 9-130 are entirely taken up with photographic illustrations of the various tombstones on offer. Publisher's stiff burgundy wrappers with cover lettering and designs in black and silver. A very good copy.Comes with 3 price lists (dated 1924), 2 printed ink blotters, 3 self-addressed envelopes, 6 copies of the Contract and 4 sheets of letterhead paper (featuring the Sphinx). In 1835 the world's richest deposit of white crystalline marble was discovered in the area of Georgia then known as "Long Swamp Valley." As quarries moved into the area it soon became known as Marble Hill. Around 1880 the greater world became aware of these rich deposits and soon sought to take them over. Early in the 20th century, Frank H. Sidall and H.C. Clement, both Northerners looking to make some money in the "New South," created the Georgia Marble Company. By 1916, the Georgia Marble Company had purchased the Southern Marble and Stone Company and four more plant facilities at Marble Hill, Nelson, Ball Ground and Marietta. With the final purchase in 1941 of the Georgia Marble Finishing Works at Canton, the Georgia Marble Company had achieved a virtual monopoly of this excellent supply of top-tier marble. Although it was purchased by a Canadian multinational company in 2003, the Georgia Marble Company continues to be the world's largest producer of marble products.