[np: 1844?]. Printed and decorated silk broadside, 18-1/2" x 13-1/2." Six red horizontal, flag-like stripes. Old tape bleedthrough at extremities from prior matting, light wear. Good+. The flag depicts a raccoon thumbing his nose at the moon. The illustration became a common Whig Party symbol in 1840. The coon is..... More
New York: Greeley & M'Elrath. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait and Co., 1844. 24mo. Original cloth [rubbed, hinges firm]. 384pp. A clean text and Very Good. Illustration for 'The Coon Song' at page 355; full page engraving of Ashland at page 150. Good+. Songs for Clay's troops in their all-out effort to..... More
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[Jacksonville, IL: Illinois Patriot, 1834]. Broadside, printed in four columns, 15-3/4" x 11-1/4." Right margins are wide and generous, inner margins trimmed closely, with three chips costing about ten words or parts thereof [or a total @3500 words]. Good or so. The 1834 Congressional contest in Illinois's Third District was..... More