Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1941]. Original red publisher's cloth [some dusting and spotting] with endpapers serving as maps. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Portrait frontis of General Joe Johnston, other plates as collated. 503pp. Except as noted, Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Howes H643. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons`, 1894. Original publisher's cloth [some dusting]. xi, [1 blank], 279, [1] pp. Rear inner hinge cracked, Good+. Howes M440. More
Watertown, N.Y. 1905. Original red publisher's cloth [dusted]. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. Port. frontis, illustrated. 256 clean pages. Inner hinges cracked, Good+. More
Harrisburg: 1901. Original brown cloth. Sunned, gum label at spine base. [2], 126 pp. Perforation stamp and rubberstamp 'discard' from Wisconsin Historical Society; a couple of other institutional marks. Otherwise, a clean and Very Good text. Laid in is an autograph letter, signed by Smith, to the State Librarian at..... More
New York: Published by S.R. Wells & Co., [copyright 1869]. Original printed front wrapper [detached but present], contemporary staples. 56, [2 advts] pp. Tables, text illustrations. Good. More
Single leaf, written on recto only in neat ink manuscript. Very Good original colonial document "Charlestown March 4th 1728/9 "The Petition of the Constables of Charlestown Humbly Sheweth, that we the Subscribers having served as Constables for the Town in the year last past: it being a hardship to serve in..... More
New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1863, 1864. Two volume set. Volume 1: Engraved frontispiece of Jefferson Davis, original tissue guard. [10], 368, [2 publ. advts] pp. Volume 2: Engraved frontispiece of "Alex H. Stevens," original tissue guard. [2], iv, [5]-386 pp. Both volumes are original cloth [green, Vol. 1; brown..... More
[Wilmington? 1863]. 15, [1 blank] pp. Stitched, with caption title as issued. Margin toning, couple of rubberstamps on page [1], and a short closed tear [no loss]. Good+. A founder of the New York Times and a Republican politician, Raymond arraigns the Slave Power, which is responsible for the..... More
Boston: A. Williams and Co., 1868. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 35, [1 blank] pp. Old rubberstamps on title page and front wrapper. A few spots. Good+. The author, a Massachusetts man, dedicates his pamphlet "To the Illustrious Major-General George B. McClellan." Greene [1819-1878] calls himself "one of the most faithful..... More
Nashville, Tenn. 1903, 1906, 1906, 1907, 1908. Complete volumes, bound in matching green cloth with gilt spine rules and gilt spine titles. Institutional gum labels, bookplate and discard stamp on each front pastedown, occasional light wear and library marks. Printed on glossy paper. Except as noted Very Good. Cunningham edited..... More
Boston: Printed by Robert Hodge, 1782. iv, [5]-51, [1 blank] pp. An additional 8 pages, "Evidently issued after publication of the main part of the work" [Evans and ESTC], is not present. Disbound and clean. Eckley weighs in on the controversy that also engaged Samuel Mather and Charles Chauncy. Evans..... More
Boston: Printed for, and sold by E. Battelle, 1784. 44pp, disbound with scattered foxing. Inner margin tear to title leaf, costing several letters on page [2]. Good. Attacking "ecclesiastical usurpations," Badger argues that the New Testament does not require public confession "by those, who, in some particular instances, have..... More
Rochester, N.Y. Benton & Andrews, 1869. Original printed yellow wrappers, stitched. x, 100 pp. Rubberstamped front wrapper and title page. Otherwise, a clean and Very Good copy. Butts had supported the Free Soil Party and the "Barnburner" or antislavery wing of the Democratic Party. But during the War he consistently..... More
Washington: Published by Thomas Allen, Madisonian Office, 1840. 21, [3 blanks] pp. Stitched and uncut. Lightly foxed. Good+. The Massachusetts Whig Cushing urges the election of Harrison, the first Whig to gain the Presidency. The biography emphasizes his military and political achievements. This is one of a variety of 1840..... More
Columbus: Scott & Wright, Printers, 1836. 15, [1]pp. Loosened and folded. Good+. The crowd yelled, "A Speech from Douglas- we can't adjourn till we hear from Old Dick." Uninhibited in his enthusiasms, Douglas warns of the danger of Jacksonian Despotism, and attacks Vice-President Van Buren, "a mean selfish, lick-spittle..... More
[Washington: 1840]. 35, [1 blank] pp. Stitched with caption title, as issued. Untrimmed. Lightly toned and spotted. Good+. Fendall, a lawyer and a Whig, became U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia by appointment of President Tyler after the death of Whig President William Henry Harrison. Fendall was well-connected politically..... More
Boston: Redding and Company, 1849. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 24pp. With a humorous frontis, captioned, "What Befell Mrs. Pilkington." Several old rubberstamps; otherwise a clean text. Good+. A tale illustrating the tendency of litigation to create tempests from teapots. Sargent concludes: "What money and labor are annually sacrificed in the..... More
Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, 1899. Original publisher's pale green cloth, title stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Owner inscription on endpaper. [2], 336pp, with all illustrations collated as issued. Inner hinges cracked, else Very Good. "Opie left the Stonewall Brigade and campaigned as a cavalryman until 1864 capture;..... More
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, Publishers, 1910. Original red publisher's cloth [light rubbing, cover decoration, title stamped in gilt on front cover and spine]. 542pp. with frontis portrait and illustrations as collated. Inner hinge cracked, else Very Good. "A general account of border warfare in which Quantrill was so..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1917. Original publisher's cloth [lightly worn, evidence of removal of a spine label], with gilt-lettered spine title on black morocco label. Free endpapers with 'withdrawn' and blotted-out marks. Frontis with original tissue guard. [xxii], 491, [1] pp. Except as..... More
[np: 1868]. Caption title, as issued. 46, 2 pp. Stitched. Very Good but for two old rubberstamps [one in upper margin of title page, the other in lower margin]. The pamphlet consists of an Address explaining the proposed 1868 Constitution, plus the printed Constitution, with Ordinance submitting it to..... More
St. Paul: Wm. R. Marshall, Incidental Printer, 1861. 31, [1 blank] pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers. Institutional stamps on blank portions of front wrapper and title page, else a clean and Very Good text. Governor Ramsey reports that Constitutional "provision has been made for encouraging our aboriginal population..... More
Saint Paul: William R. Marshall, State Printer, 1862. 32pp, stitched in original printed wrappers. Old institutional rubberstamps on blank portions of front wrapper and title page, else Very Good. Governor Ramsey reports on Minnesota's role in the "stupendous national calamity," "the most gigantic rebellion of modern times." He predicts..... More
Philadelphia: Parke, 1817. v, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 136 pp, with frontis of the 1757 Indian Peace Medal with Benezet's facsimile autograph. Bound in modern buckram, light to moderate foxing, Good+. First edition of the life of the great Quaker anti-slavery crusader and pamphleteer, by one of Philadelphia's..... More
Philadelphia: Parke, 1817. v, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 136 pp, with frontis of the 1757 Indian Peace Medal with Benezet's facsimile autograph. Untrimmed, uncut, in original publisher's printed paper over boards [spine and joint wear]. Very Good. First edition of the life of the great Quaker anti-slavery crusader and..... More