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By: McCulloch, Hugh.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: (Washington, D. C.), House of Representatives: 1868
Seller ID: 4521
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 123. Front and rear cover pages loose. From page 1: ".during the late rebellion, a large number of vessels, cribs, and other obstructions, were placed in the channel of the Savannah river by the so-called confederate government, to bar access to the city by the naval and military forces of the United States". The issue for discussion is who is authorized to remove obstructions and who can lay claim to the materials. Captured and abandoned property. View more info
By: McElroy, John
Price: $37.50
Publisher: The National Tribune Co.: 1910
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 016508
Condition: Very Good
Second Edition - enlarged and revised. Publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and illustration of a canteen on front. Moderate rubbing, bumped corners. "Book No. 2" printed on front cover. 271 pages. John McElroy (1846-1929) was a printer, author and soldier in the Civil War. He is most noted for his 4 vol. work "Andersonville", which was based on his experiences as a prisoner of war. This book is a fictional work about the adventures of a two soldiers, "Josiah Klegg, of the 200th Indiana, and Shorty, his Partner". View more info
By: McKee, Irving
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8775
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Publisher's green cloth with maroon lettering. Dust wrapper lightly worn with tape repair reverse back cover and with some glue showing through. Inscribed by the author: "To Bob Young, "thump" like your esteemed ancestor. Irving McKee. Nov. 14, 1951." Young was the grandson of William Winter, America's leading theatre critic (1870's through the 19 teens). Winter appears twice in the text, with McKee pointing out on page 180 that Winter had panned a theatrical performance of Wallace's play "Commodus" with a "quick thump to the author's head." Young himself was th... View more info
Price: $47.50
Publisher: Chicago, IL, Chicago Historical Society: 1939
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019570
Condition: Near Fine
Limited edition. One of 100 copies. Original publisher's blue wrapper. 6" x 7 1/2." Seven pages, complete. Pages are clean and undamaged. This pamphlet features a broadside for one of Abraham Lincoln's speeches in Alton, Illinois in his early political career and provides background information on the historical context of this speech. View more info
By: Meade, George G.; Bigelow, J. M.; Rabaut, C. R.; United States Lake Survey
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: 0
Seller ID: 019782
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Original publisher's plate (chart) from a U.S. government report (36th Congress, 2nd Session, no. 1; circa 1860) showing monthly water levels in the five Great Lakes from 1859-1860. No date, circa 1860. Chart folds out to 20 1/2" x 33." Chart is very clean and intact overall. There is some splitting at the folds and very minimal foxing and browning. Months and years at the horizontal (X) axis. Lake names and water levels are on the vertical (Y) axis. Each lake has readings from three or four stations. George G. Meade (1815-1872) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union genera... View more info
By: Miles, Nelson A.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, New York, Underwood & Underwood: 1898
Seller ID: 12621
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Stereograph on bone colored boards (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with title under the right photo. Wear to the board due to use. Portrait of General Miles with a wreath of flowers around him. General Miles (1839-1925) served in the Civil War, the Indian Wars; and the Spanish-American War. He won the Medal of Honor in 1862 at Chancellorville. He played a role in nearly all of the Army's campaigns against the American Indians in the West - fought the Cheyenne / Lakota / Nez Perce / and captured Geromimo in the Apache wars. He was Commanding General during the Spanish-American War and led the invasion of Puer... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University: 1950
Seller ID: 019961
Condition: Very Good
Original publisher's red cloth binding. 8 5/8" x 11." Ninety-seven pages, complete. Includes a four-page bibliography in the back. Signature of approval in blue ink by Professor Moses Abramovitz (1912-2000), who was a longtime professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Obituary article on Abramovitz laid-in on Page 49. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Chapters include the following: "Review of the Economic Causes Leading to the Slave System in the South," "Southern Staple Production and the Westward Movement in Relation to Slavery,... View more info
By: Morrill, Lot M.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: 1881
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 019385
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Signature on beige card in brown ink by Lot M. Morrill. December 25, 1881. Card is adhered to a beige piece of paper. Card measures 3 3/4" x 2 1/8"; paper measures 6" x 9." Card reads: "Dec. 25-1881, Lot M. Morrill." Card, paper, and signature are very clean and intact. Lot M. Morrill (1813-1883) was a U.S. Senator from Maine (1861-1876) and was Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes (1876-1877). View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Missouri Historical Review: 1917
Seller ID: 10655
Condition: Collectible-Good
Offprint from the MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW (1917): Pages 123-146. Inscribed "Compliments of the Contributor" in ink and receipt date stamp. The letters are concerned with Negro colonization, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Clean copy other than the inscriptions. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: 1863
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 019636
Condition: Very Good
Document handwritten in brown ink on beige lined paper by Brevet Brigadier General William H. Noble. Signed as Colonel. Written on October 5, 1863 in South Carolina. 8" x 12 1/4." One page. Document and signature are very clean and intact. William H. Noble (1813-1894) was commissioned as Colonel in the 17th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in 1862. He fought and was wounded at Chancellorsville and also fought at Gettysburg. In late 1864, he was captured by Confederate scouts and sent to Andersonville Prison. While there, he was made Brevet Brigadier General by Ulysses S. Grant.... View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Cedar Rapids, IA, Iowa Masonic Library: 1925
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019545
Condition: Very Good
Original publisher's beige wrapper with staple binding. June 9-11, 1925. Davenport, IA. 6 3/4" x 10." Fourteen pages, complete. List of publications by the Iowa Masonic Library printed on the back cover. Pages and covers are clean. Reprinted black and white photograph of the Iowa Masonic Library on front cover and portrait photograph of Joseph Benjamin Oakleaf on inside of front cover. This address by Mason Joseph Benjamin Oakleaf is a biography that pays homage to Abraham Lincoln and includes details of his life. From Monaghan, the Lincoln Bibliography, no. 2800: "A varia... View more info
Price: $47.50
Publisher: Peoria, IL, Edward J. Jacob: 1929
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 019573
Condition: Fine
Original publisher's blue wrapper and beige envelope. Pamphlet signed by author in ink on front free endpaper. Pamphlet measures 6 1/4" x 9 1/2"; envelope measures 6 3/4" x 10." Sixteen pages, complete. Pamphlet features a beautiful multicolored illustration of the Gettysburg National Cemetery. Fold-out envelope has a black and beige illustration on the front with portraits of Abraham Lincoln, George Meade, and Robert E. Lee. Pamphlet is pristine and undamaged; a fine copy. The envelope is also clean and intact but has a slight wrinkle near the snap clasp on the back. F... View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Incorporated: 1950
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019580
Condition: Very Good
Original publisher's light blue wrapper. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." 293 pages, complete. Pages and covers are clean and intact. Prices written in pencil by a former owner in the page margins. Full Title reads: "Autograph Letters, Manuscripts and Documents of Three Centuries: Adams, Andre, Blake, Browne, Burns, Dickens, Eliot, Emerson, Queen Elizabeth, Franklin, Jefferson, Keats, Poe, Washington and Many Others; Comprising Selections from the Collection of the Late Oliver B. Barrett; Sold by Order of His Son Roger W. Barrett; Public Auction Sale, October 30 and 31 at 8 p. m. and November... View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press: 1924
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019557
Condition: Near Fine
Original publisher's brown wrapper. Address given March 29, 1923. Published 1924. 6" x 9 1/4." Thirty-six pages, complete. Pages and covers are very clean. Minimal wrinkling on the edges of the covers. Orville Browning (1806-1881) was an attorney and politician involved with the Whig and Republican Parties. His and Abraham Lincoln's political careers overlapped, and they subsequently became lifelong friends. This pamphlet is a combination of excerpts from Browning's diary, which provides first-hand insight in his and Abraham Lincoln's lives, and Theodore Pease's commentary and... View more info
By: Phelan, James
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Louisville, Kentucky, Contre Coup Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 11471
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Edition of Sixty copies. 23 pages; bound in decorative boards with gray cloth backing, gilt lettering. Foreword and Afterword written by Theophile Homard. Phelan was a Confederate military judge from Mississippi who wrote the letter favoring the dismissal of Johnston as commander of the Army of Tennessee. Fine clean copy inside and outside. View more info
Price: $25.00
Seller ID: 10932
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Steel engraved portrait (4 x 5 inch) on full sheet (9 1/2 x 12 inch) of the upper body in suit. Edward Pollard is most famous for his THE SOUTHERN HISTORY OF THE WAR (1866) in which he presents the Southern point of view about the Civil War. He served as the wartime editor of the Richmond "Examiner". Later he wrote THE LOST CAUSE which became the name of the post-war movement to justify the South's position despite the military defeat suffered by the Confederacy. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Charles B. Richardson: 1864
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 018842
Condition: Very Good
First Northern edition. Publisher's pebble cloth with impressed design and gilt lettering. All illustrations present. Map with a one inch tear, extending into printed portion. Nevens, Civil War Books. Vol. 2, page 175: "The first poplular history of the war from the Confederate point of view. Pollard's works are seriously marred by venomous anti-Davis feelings and bitter anti-Northern prejudice." No foxing or staining. 6 x 9 1/4 inches. 386 pages. View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: 1870
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 019121
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Letter written in ink on 5 1/4" x 8 1/2" paper. One page. Dated June 12, 1870 and written in Lynchburg, VA. Edward A. Pollard (1832-1872) was a Southern journalist and author from Virginia. He advocated for secession, the maintenance of slavery, and pro-Confederacy ideas for most of his life, but by the early 1870s, Pollard had changed his opinions and supported Northern capitalism, limited civil rights, and African American voting rights. During the Civil War, he was the editor of the Daily Richmond Examiner. He was imprisoned for much of 1864 by Union forces for his political a... View more info
By: Pollock, J. S.
Price: $37.50
Publisher: 1918
Seller ID: 8939
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Autograph two page letter (8 x 10 inch) signed, on lined sheets. Dated April 8, 1918 from Little Rock, Arkansas. Letter to a family friend (Mrs. Barnett) commenting on news of WWI, health and discussing mutual friends. J.S. Pollock (c.1840- ) was working in the post office in St. Louis when the Civil War broke out and was appointed Post Master in a number of southern cities after the Union Army liberated them. Among the cities were Memphis (1862), Vicksburg (1863), and Little Rock (1864). After the Civil War he remained in the Postal System and later went into banking. Some evidence of folding... View more info
By: Poore, Ben: Perley and O.H. Tiffany
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Philadelphia etc. (and) San Francisco, Hubbard Bros. (and) A.L. Bancroft: 1885
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019050
Condition: Very Good
Publisher's illustrated green cloth. All edges gilt. Illustrated with portraits and drawings throughout. Former owner's signature on front end paper. 594 pages, complete. 6 1/4 x 8 inches. View more info
