Original small broadside printed in black ink on light brown paper. No date, circa 1919. 4" x 9 1/2." Unpaginated, four pages (one leaf folded in half and printed on all sides), complete. Former owner's faint signature in black ink in top margin of first page: "W. K. Bracken [?]." Pages are clean and intact overall but have browning, slight chipping along edges, and a closed tear along bottom edge measuring 1/2" but not affect text. A Good copy. A concise broadside containing what may be a sermon by Reverend James L. Gordon, a minister of the First Congregational Church of Washington, D... View More...
Ex-library. Original publisher's pamphlet printed in black ink on white paper. 5 1/4" x 8 1/4." Thirty-eight pages, complete. Table of Contents included in front. Possibly disbound. Stamp from the Princeton University Library on title page, affecting part of the text in the title. Pages are very clean and intact except for library stamp, slight age toning, and the small occasional mark. A Very Good copy. Horace Greeley (1811-1872) was an American editor, publisher, politician, and founding editor of the New-York Tribune. He was also an abolitionist and advocate for women's rights. ... View More...
Original publisher's brown cloth binding. 5 1/2" x 8." 345 pages, complete. Index in back. Beautiful gilt decorative border with star pattern and impressed decorations on front cover. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Gilt decoration on spine. Impressed decorations on back cover. Black and white frontispiece portrait of Halpine included. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Charles G. Halpine (1829-1868) was an Irish journalist, author, and soldier during the American Civil War. Halpine also used the pen name, "Miles O'Reilly." This book is a collection of Halpine's p... View More...
Original publisher's dark brown paper-covered boards backed with light brown cloth. Gilt lettering on front cover. 5" x 7 1/4." Forty-four pages, complete. One black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, complete. Pages are pristine and intact. Covers are very clean and intact except for a few tiny chips at the corners and edges. Binding is tight. A Near Fine copy. J. Frank Hanley (1863-1920), also known as Frank Hanley, was an American politician from Indiana. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Indiana State Senate and was also Indiana's 26th gover... View More...
The last chapter of F. W. Hart's biography on Abraham Lincoln. Original publisher's white wrapper. 5 1/8" x 8." Eight pages, complete. Black and white illustration of Lincoln on front. Black and white reprinted portrait of Hart on the inside of the front cover. A clean copy. Hart recounts the end of the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in this biographical article. View More...
Original publisher's beige papers wrappers with staple binding. 6" x 9." Ten pages, complete. One piece of ephemera laid in, a solicitation for membership to the ALA (unfilled leaf printed in red lettering on gray paper). Pages and covers are very clean and intact except for age toning, a few small wrinkles at head of spine, and a tiny bump at bottom of fore-edge on back cover. A Near Fine copy. Bulletin No. 55, the March 1939 issue of the quarterly Bulletin of the Abraham Lincoln Association. The Abraham Lincoln Association (ALA) was founded in 1908 as the Lincoln Centennial Associatio... View More...
Original publisher's beige papers wrappers with staple binding. 6" x 9." Ten pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact except for age toning. A Very Good copy. Bulletin No. 30, the March 1933 issue of the quarterly Bulletin of the Abraham Lincoln Association. The Abraham Lincoln Association (ALA) was founded in 1908 as the Lincoln Centennial Association. The ALA is still active to this day as a scholarly forum that focuses on the study of Abraham Lincoln. This issue contains the "President's Report" by Logan Hay, the "Executive Secretary's Report" by Benjamin P. Thoma... View More...
Publisher's brown pebble cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. Somewhat faded at spine. Some wear, top and bottom of spine. Internally moderately foxed. Illustrated. Copy of Lewis W. Neville, Woburn, Mass. with his name written on a front end paper. 688 pages, including index. View More...
Original printed wrappers, some soiling and a small chip from back bottom corner. The Rev. Hedge laments the fact that many people in the North throught the Civil War would be an easily won fight and he predicts and long and costly battle ahead. The author was a friend of Emerson and a foundier of the American Transcendentalism movement. 4 7/7 by 7 5/8 inches. 19 pages. View More...
Two volumes, complete. Publisher's black pebble cloth with gilt lettering. Joints cracked on volume one only. Unworn binding. Clean both in text and binding. 1069 and 626 pages. An accu5rate and useful reference. 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. View More...
Original publisher's yellow wrapper with staple binding. 6" x 9." Fourteen pages. Pages and covers are clean and intact. A pristine, fine copy. Typed letter laid-in from Zens L. Smith, Assistant to the President at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, to Ralph R. Ritzman. Signed by Smith in blue ink. The letter is dated December 7, 1928, typed on Knox College stationery, and is clean and intact. The letter reads: "My dear Dr. Ritzman: Thinking that you may wish to add to your collection of Lincoln memorabilia the address delivered by Mr. Emanuel Hertz at our celebration last October, I... View More...
Original publisher's light blue wrapper. 6" x 9." Seventeen pages, complete. Pages are clean; binding is tight. From Monaghan, the Lincoln Bibliography, no. 3026: "Lincoln from a Masonic standpoint." This is an address given at a Masonic forum, extolling the virtues of Abraham Lincoln and how his character aligned with the Masonry. A story in the back details how Lincoln, while not disavowing the Masonry, never applied to join the order. Limited edition. View More...
374 pages; brown cloth binding with gilt lettering. Thomas Higginson was an American author, abolitionist and soldier. The volume is filled with articles revised from the "Atlantic Monthly". Blanck - Bibliography of American Literature #8422. Very good clean copy. View More...
340 pages; 6 pages advertisements; brown cloth binding, gilt lettering and pattern design on the cover. Contents include - "Old Salem Sea-Captains"; "Revolutionary Congressman on Horseback"; "New-England Vagabond"; "The Maroons of Jamaica" and "Suriname"; "Gabriel's Defeat"; "Denmark Vesey"; and "Nat Turner's Insurrection". Blanck - Bibliography of American Literature #8362. Very good clean copy. View More...
82 pages, with illustrations and frontis; bound in soft leather with title and illustration. Top of pages gilted. Fictional romantic account of a soldier in the American Civil War. View More...
Original document printed on beige paper. 5 3/4" x 9 3/8." Two pages (one sheet), complete. Document is very clean and intact. Very minimal age wear to the paper. A fine copy. Robert B. Hilton (1821-1894) was a newspaper editor and lawyer who served in the Confederate House of Representatives as a representative from Florida. In 1863, he introduced a bill making men who had sent a substitute to fight for them in the Confederate Army liable for military service if their substitute deserted, proved physically unfit, or later became subject to military service. This is an early copy of th... View More...
Original publisher's green cloth binding with impressed decorations on front and back covers. Gilt lettering on spine. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 407 pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Slight deformation to the binding from over-compression. Small puncture near tail of the spine. Slight foxing in the bottom margin of the last few pages not affecting text. Mary J. Holmes (1825-1907) was an American novelist and short story writer. She was a very popular author; about two million of copies of her books were sold in her lifetime, a figure bested only by that of Ha... View More...
Original wrappers, with crease running down center. Concerns the sale of bonds to reduce the debt run up by the United States government during the Civil War. 14 pages. View More...
