Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, 1786. pp [8], 407, [1 blank] pp, but lacking the half title. One Contents leaf loose, last leaf loose with some wear and a repaired closed tear [no loss]. Scattered foxing. Good+. Bound in later quarter calf and marbled paper over boards. The first collected edition of..... More
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[n.p. 1868 or early 1869]. Manuscript poem in verse. 7-7/8" x 14-3/4". Nine verses. Entirely in ink script on blue paper. A few words crossed out and changed. Matted with two bookplate engravings of Presidents Grant and Johnson by H.W. Smith. Each bust engraving with facsimile signature beneath the portrait..... More
Skaggaddahunk [New York?]: Scantlewood, Timberlake & Co., Printers to the "North River Society." 1866. 29, [3 blank] pp. Stitched [loosening] in original printed wrappers [shallow extremity chipping]. Clean text. Good+. A poem satirizing President Johnson's 1866 'Swing Around the Circle,' his disastrous effort to rally the voters to his policies..... More
London: Printed for W. Flexney... 1787. Quarto. [2], x, 24 pp, in contemporary drab plain wrappers. Engraved title vignette of a slave in chains. Stitched. Title page dusted; with an expertly repaired margin tear [no text affected]. A few spots. Else Very Good. A slave, who had planned to marry..... More