[New York: 1862]. 17, [1 blank] pp. Stitched in original printed green wrappers. Lightly worn and toned, two institutional marks at top blank margin of front wrapper, else Very Good. A scarce, open letter to the 37th Congress, then in session. The author expresses prevalent pro-Union, anti-Negro sentiment of..... More
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. 25 West Fourth Street. 1860. Original cloth [rubbed at extremities, spine lettering dulled]. Port. frontis of a clean-shaven Lincoln, 'Middleton, Strobridge & Co.' in small lettering. Port. of Hamlin after page 194. 216 pp. Foxed, lacks endpapers, some doodling on blanks. Good+. "Barrett..... More
Baltimore: W.M. Innes, 1863. 32pp. Disbound, light tanning, light foxing, a few early ink notations. Very Good. Baltimore, many of whose citizens had been arrested and held without trial for their pro-southern sympathies, was a hospitable place to publish this strict constructionist view of the Constitution, opposing the raising..... More
Buffalo: 1862. 34pp, printed in double columns, bound in modern plain wrappers. Light tanning, light chipping of foredge of first several leaves [no text loss]. Good+. Benedict fell victim to War Secretary Stanton's order to "arrest and imprison any person or persons who may be engaged, by act, speech, or..... More
[Springfield? Chicago? 1860]. 16pp. Caption title, as issued. Disbound with some loosening, paper clip shadow on first and last leaves. Printed in two columns per page. Good+. This Illinois campaign document is probably the first of three printings, each with similar but not identical material. Each attacks Douglas..... More
[np: 1864]. Original printed wrappers [old institutional plate and withdrawal], stitched, 28pp. Light wear, Very Good. For a biography of this St. Louis German-American, see DAB. The attribution of authorship is by NUC. The Constitution grants the national government all the power it needs, in war or peace, to..... More
New York: Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. [c.1860-1865]. Folio broadside, 12" x 16". Black and white bust portrait of a well-groomed, bearded Abraham Lincoln. He wears a dark jacket and vest with a white button-down collared shirt and dark bow tie. In very small print below the caption appears..... More
New York: Printed by F. Somers, 1866. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 39pp + final blank. Shallow corner chips, Good+. Reprinted from the American Presbyterian Review for 1866, this pamphlet is a window on Reconstruction. Prentiss was intelligent and insightful, and brother of the renowned Mississippi lawyer Sargent Smith Prentiss..... More