Prescott, Arizona: Friday Evening, August 10, 1877. Folio broadsheet, 10-3/8" x 16." Four columns per page, light uniform toning. Couple of shallow chips to blank edges. Very Good. Three of the four columns on the verso are a virtual directory of Prescott business establishments: furniture, "general merchandise," druggist, groceries, bakery..... More
Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 1962. Two matching volumes as issued, in original cloth with gilt-lettered title on red spine backing. In original slipcase. Fine. First published in 1950. More
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[Harrisburg? 1855?]. 48pp. Stitched in original printed blue title wrappers [spine-chipped]. Two stab holes in blank left margin. Light scattered foxing, old vertical fold, Very Good. This document, says Howes, was reprinted "to discredit" Cameron, a Pennsylvania kingmaking politician who stuffed his pockets with the spoils of a panoply of..... More
London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court. Published for the Author, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 1809. 4to. [4], 134pp. Original tooled leather, boards detached but present. Good+. On the 1778 Wyoming Valley massacre-- Brits and their Iroquois allies killed 350 patriots, with allegations of torture. Sabin 10268... More
London: Published by the Author, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. Printed by Tosswill and Myers. 1841. Vol. I: viii, 264. Vol. II: viii, 266 pp. Plus maps and uncolored plates (some erratic numbering]. Early half calf over marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine with raised spine bands. Occasional foxing to Volume II..... More
London: Published by the Author, at His Indian Collection, No. 6, Waterloo Place, 1848. Two volumes in matching half green morocco [some rubbing, covers firm], marbled endpapers and edges, gilt-decorated spines. xvi, 296 pp, frontis with tissue guard, 8 numbered plates; xii, 336 pp, plates 9-24. Bookplate on front free..... More
30th Cong., 2nd Sess. , HM43. 1849. 7, [1 blank] pp, disbound. Light tanning. Very Good. More
30th Cong., 2d Sess. HM40. 1849. 2pp, disbound. Light tanning. Very Good. More
[np: 1831]. 42, [2 blanks] pp. Caption title [as issued]. Untrimmed, broken stitching, light wear, else Very Good. Clark was an anti-Jackson Kentucky Congressman and a prominent figure in Kentucky politics before and after his congressional service from 1825-1831. This pamphlet, his swan song as a Congressman, denounces the Jackson..... More
[Morristown, NY: 1889]. 16pp. Stapled as issued in original printed and illustrated yellow wrappers, with wrapper title [as issued]. Text uniformly toned, Very Good. "As all diseases arise from impurities of the blood... it is necessary once in a while to cleanse the system of the many impurities which gather..... More
New York: S.W. Benedict, 1850. 32pp. Disbound. Ink spot on first few leaves, light dusting and minor foxing. Else Very Good. Copway was born in 1818 in Ontario. "His father was an hereditary chief of the Rice Lake Chippewas, a medicine man, and an excellent hunter." DAB. After his conversion..... More
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New York: J. & J. Harper, 1832. xv, [1 blank], [25]-335, [1 blank] pp, as issued. Bound in later cloth, rebacked, new spine label. Contemporary ownership signature of Cyrus Barker at top blank margin of title page. Foxed lightly to heavily, two closed tears expertly repaired without loss. Good to..... More
London, Canada West: Thomas Evans, 1862. Disbound, 24pp Some foxing to title page, else Very Good. Cronyn advises on the condition of things in his Church. He seeks more ministers "to preach the gospel to the red men of the forest, many of whom are still in Pagan darkness; and..... More
Washington: 1929. Typed letter to "My dear Nelson," single page and signed "Charles Curtis." Fine. With an original news agency glossy photo of Curtis standing with Herbert Hoover after they had been nominated as the Republican standard-bearers in 1928 Curtis, "an enrolled member of the Kaw Nation," is the nation's..... More
[NP: 1926?]. Photograph by Underwood and Underwood of the "Granite Shaft" erected by the War Department in 1881 at the Little Big Horn, 6-1/2" x 8-3/4." Attached to original typed Underwood and Underwood description, on Underwood and Underwood stationery [repaired split along fold without loss]. Verso stamped with usual Underwood..... More
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New-Haven: Printed by T. and S. Green, [1770]. 51, [1 blank] pp, but lacking the half title. Broken stitching, two institutional rubberstamps [one a 'duplicate' notation]. Good+. Dana was pastor of the First Church in Wallingford. The cause of celebration: "That we have compleated 100 years since the incorporation of..... More
New York: Dick's Pub. House, [@1893]. [16] pp, original staples and pictorial wrappers [portrait of Lone Star Harry, pink wrapper paper]. Text leaves toned, Near Fine. Lone Star Harry, "America's Representative Scout, known as the Revolver King," was born near Eagle Pass in Maverick County, Texas, in 1855. His career..... More
Washington DC: July, 1855. Printed Broadside, 8" x 12.5". Mounted with tape along blank inner margin of verso. Old folds and light dusting, Very Good. Signed in type: Samuel A. Peugh. Administrator of John Edgar, deceased; A.H Lawrence, Attorney for Petitioner. On verso in manuscript: "No. 56. Saml. A. Peugh..... More
Boston: 1832. 86pp, stitched, untrimmed and partly uncut. Contemporary plain wrappers [some soil, front wrap detached]. Lightly dusted, Very Good. An anti-Jackson campaign pamphlet, arguing that "General Jackson was, and is, utterly disqualified by his personal character and previous military career for the office President:- that his election was the..... More
[Philadelphia: 1800]. 4pp, disbound, a few light spots. Very Good to Near Fine. The Committee recommends, in view of the "very hazardous service" rendered by Hardinge and Trueman on the Indian frontier, that their children be educated and supported at public expense. Evans 38823. NAIP w021845 [8]. More
New York: Published by T. & C. Wood, Stationers, 1835. 31, [1] pp. Disbound without wrappers, scattered light foxing. Good+. "Based in part on the sketch of Harrison which appeared in the Port Folio, 1814" [Miles]. A campaign biography for Harrison's first run against Van Buren and the Jacksonians, dedicated..... More
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St. Paul: 1899. 45pp, with port. frontis. Original staples and printed wrappers. Blank rear wrapper with a chip; front wrapper present but separated from text by a tear along the entire inner margin. Else Very Good. With roster, statistics, record of service [primarily in the Sioux Campaign, and in New..... More
[Chicago: The Henry O. Shepard Co.] for the Santa Fe Route, 1898. 58, [2-maps] pp, photographic illustrations. Original color wrappers [detached, dustsoiled and light edgewear, tape remnants at inside margins]. Light age toning, Good+. This book is an interesting look into the lives of the Moki Indians. It has many..... More
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1928. [12], 209, [1 blank] pp. Original publisher's cloth, title stamped on front cover. With half title and frontis portrait of Custer. Clean text. Full page illustrated plates collated complete. Light wear. Some pencil notes on plate pages, not intruding on the illustrated portions. Very..... More
Boise City, Idaho: Printed at the Statesman Office, 1880. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 19, [1 blank] pp. A vertical fold, ink numeral at blank margin of front wrapper. Very Good. Governor Neil reports on the state of public schools-- they "have not, as yet, accomplished any grand results, nor have..... More