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“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets": First Edition of Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
MILLER, Arthur.
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan.
New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
First American edition of this incredibly entertaining play. Octavo, original black half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Inge Morath.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 145186
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George Ward Nichols' The Story of the Great March
NICHOLS, George Ward.
The Story of the Great March. From the Diary of a Staff Officer.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1866.
Early printing of Nichols' account of the Savannah Campaign. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with charts and maps, one folding. In good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133029
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"Patriotism, honor, glory, and national prosperity are terms to which the Christian and the mere politician attach different ideas": Second edition of American abolitionist William Jay's A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War
JAY, William.
A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co, 1849.
Second edition of American abolitionist and jurist William Jay's classic antiwar treatise. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In good condition with some wear to the crown and foot of the spine.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 82412
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Frist Edition of Orville Victor's Incidents and Anecdotes of the War
VICTOR, Orville J.
Incidents and Anecdotes of the War: Together with Life Sketches of Eminent Leaders, and Narratives of the Most Memorable Battles for the Union.
New York: James D. Torrey, Publisher, 1862.
First edition of Victor's anecdotal history of the Civil War. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 133076
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First edition of John Codman Ropes' The Story of the Civil War
ROPES, John Codman.
The Story of the Civil War: A Concise Account of the War in the United States of America Between 1861 and 1865: The Campaigns of 1862.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898.
First edition of Ropes' account of the American Civil War. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with maps and plans, with 13 folding maps for Vol II in a pocket affixed to the front pastedown. In good condition. Ex-library.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 133077
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First edition of William Dennison Bickham's Rosecrans' Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps
BICKHAM, William Dennison.
Rosecrans’ Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland: A Narrative of Personal Observations, with a Appendix, Consisting of Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River.
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co..
First edition of William Dennison Bickham's Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition. Ex-library.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 132443
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"The calmest voice and coolest mind in American public life": First Edition of John W. Gardner's No Easy Victories; inscribed by him
GARDNER, John W. Edited by Helen Rowan.
No Easy Victories.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.
First edition of "the father of campaign finance reform", John W. Gardner's fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mariam and Andrew - affectionately, from their friend John W. Gardner." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Herb Weitman.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 110909
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First Edition of Roger D. Hunt and Jack R. Brown's Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue
HUNT, Roger D. and Jack R. Brown.
Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue.
Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, Inc., 1990.
First edition of Hunt and Brown's monumental compilation of biographical sketches of Union brevet brigadier generals in the Civil War. Quarto, original cloth decorated in gilt, profusely illustrated with portraits. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 133074
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First edition of James Peckham's Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, and Missouri in 1861: A Monograph of the Great Rebellion
PECKHAM, James.
Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, and Missouri in 1861. A Monograph of the Great Rebellion.
New York: American News Company, Publishers, 1866.
First edition of Peckham's biography of the first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132918
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First edition of Major Joseph Orton Kerbeys On the War Path
KERBEY, Joseph Orton.
On the War Path: A Journey Over the Historic Grounds of the Late Civil War.
Chicago: Donahue, Henneberry & Co., 1890.
First edition of the Civil War Union spy's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132391
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Col. I Winslow Ayer's The Great Treason Plot in the North During the War
AYER, I. Winslow.
The Great Treason Plot in the North During the War. Most Dangerous, Perfidious, Extensive and Startling Plot Ever Devised! Imminent Hidden Perils of the Republic. Astounding Developments Never Before Published.
Chicago: U.S. Publishing Co, n.d..
Early printing of Ayer's Civil War account. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132537
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Rossiter Johnson's The Story of a Great Conflict: A History of the War of Secession 1861-1865
JOHNSON, Rossiter.
The Story of a Great Conflict: A History of the War of Secession. 1861-1865.
New York: Bryan, Taylor & Co, 1894.
Second edition of Johnson's authoritative work on the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 132319
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"At night the moon became a woman's face. I met the Spirit of Music”: First Edition of The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison
MORRISON, Jim.
The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison: Wilderness. [with] The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison.
New York: Villard Books, 1988.
First edition volumes I and II of this remarkable written collection of writings from The Doors' sensational singer-songwriter. Octavo, two volumes, original half cloth, illustrated with facsimile pages from Morrison's diaries and never-before-seen photos of Jim. Near fine in near fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Wendy Bass. Jacket photo by Frank Lisciandro.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 145174
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First edition of Brantz Mayer's Captain Canot or Twenty Years of an African Slaver
MAYER, Brantz.
Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver. Being an Account of the Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854.
First edition, early issue of the historian's detailed account of the African slave trade without the misprint on page 191. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf, rebacked, additional vignette title. In very good condition, hinges reinforced.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 142153
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"We know that the war is over... but the story of the great conflict will never diminish in interest": Sparks From the Camp Fire, Tales of the Old Veterans
MORTON, Joseph W..
Sparks From the Camp Fire, Tales of the Old Veterans.
Philadelphia: Keystone Publishing Co., 1895.
New and revised edition of this collection of Civil War memoirs. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, illustrated. From the library of Michael Ellsworth Shoemaker, son of William Shoemaker wounded in the battle of Cold Harbor, June 3rd 1864 with his ownership inscription. In good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 132339
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First edition, first issue of Brantz Mayer's Captain Canot or Twenty Years of an African Slaver
MAYER, Brantz.
Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver. Being an Account of the Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854.
First edition, first issue of the historian's detailed account of the African slave trade. First issue with with page 191 misprinted as 19. Octavo, recased with the original publisher's cloth laid down, additional vignette title. In very good condition, hinges reinforced and rebacked.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 142108
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First edition of Henry N. Hudson's A Chaplain's Campaign with Gen. Butler
[HUDSON, Henry].
A Chaplain’s Campaign with Gen. Butler.
New-York: Printed For The Author, 1865.
First edition of Henry Hudson's account of his imprisonment after publishing his hostile criticism of Butler's military policy in the New York Evening Post. Octavo, modern cloth. Hudson served during the Civil War from 1862 to 1865 as chaplain of the 1st New York Volunteer Engineers, as well as war correspondent for the New York Evening Post. In very good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 139497
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Limited Edition Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail; Signed by Illustrator Thomas Hart Benton
PARKMAN, Francis. Illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton.
The Oregon Trail.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945.
Signed limited edition of Parkman’s classic account of his journey along the Oregon Trail. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, pictorial title page, illustrated with numerous plates by Thomas Hart Benton. One of one thousand numbered copies signed by the artist on the limitation page. In near fine condition with very light rubbing to the crown of the spine and a faint stain to the front panel.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 146546
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First Edition of The New York Idea: An Experiment in Democracy; inscribed by Mario Cuomo to William Safire
CUOMO, Mario [William Safire].
The New York Idea: An Experiment in Democracy.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1994.
First edition of the 52nd Governor of New York's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "To Bill Safire, One of our proud hoasts [sic] (but isn't there something wrong with that grammatically? Mario 1994." The recipient, William Safire, was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in…
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 103423
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W.C. King and W.P. Derby's Campfire Sketches and Battle-field Echoes of 61-5
KING, W.C. and W.P. Derby.
Campfire Sketches and Battle-field Echoes of 61-5.
Springfield, Mass.: King, Richardson & Co, 1889.
Early printing of the authors' finely illustrated work on the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated. In good condition. Warping and dampstaining to the rear board. Period ownership inscriptions.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 132308
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First Edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Men of Our Times or Leading Patriots of the Day
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Men of Our Times; or Leading Patriots of the Day. Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Etc.
Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Publishing Co, 1868.
First edition of this work by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Octavo, recased in the original publisher's dark green cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated with eighteen steel portraits, frontispiece portrait of Stowe. Second State with Frederick Douglass's name spelled correctly on the title page. BAL 19449. In very good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 142763
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James Ford Rhodes' History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
RHODES, James Ford [William Tecumseh Sherman].
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 Vol 5.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904.
Early edition of Vol. V of the history of the United States from 1864 to 1866; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original marooon cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated with folding maps of William Techumseh Sherman's Marches and the Grant-Sheridan Campaign of 1865. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145965
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First edition of Burr and Hinton's The Life of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan
BURR, Frank A. and Richard J. Hinton.
The Life of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. Its Romance and Reality: How a Humble Lad Reached the Head of an Army.
Providence, R.I: J. A. & R. A. Reid, Publishers, 1888.
First edition of Burr and Hinton's work on famed Union army general Philip Sheridan. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132349
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First edition of Thomas P. Kettell's History of the Great Rebellion
KETTELL, Thomas P.
History of the Great Rebellion, From Its Commencement to Its Close, Giving An Account of Its Origin, The Secession of the Southern States, and the Formation of the Confederate Government.
New York: N. C. Miller, 1862.
First edition of volume I of Kettell's history of the American Civil War. Octavo, original publisher's cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, illustrated with over 125 engravings including 80 portraits. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 136514
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First edition of The Moment of Truth; Signed by Alan Simpson
SIMPSON, Alan and Erskine Bowles.
The Moment of Truth: Report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
Washington, D.C: 2010.
First edition of Simpson and Bowles' final report on The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Alan Simpson on the half-title page, "Merry Christmas!! Alan Simpson." In fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 117683
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"FOR IN THE END, IS IT NOT FITTING THAT A BOOK ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION SHOULD CLOSE BY STUDYING WHAT THE CONSTITUTION IS NOT ABOUT?" The 1979 Supplement to American Constitutional Law; inscribed by Laurence H. Tribe
TRIBE, Laurence H.
1979 Supplement to American Constitutional Law.
Mineola, New York: The Foundation Press, Inc, 1979.
The 1979 supplement to Tribe's American Constitutional Law. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes, Laurence Tribe 2/09." In near fine condition. Ownership name to the front panel.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 118015
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Charles C. Nott's Sketches of the War
NOTT, Charles C.
Sketches of the War: A Series of Letters to the North Moore Street School of New York.
New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1865.
Second edition of Charles Cooper Nott Sr.'s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132723
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Jacob Bigelow's Florula Bostoniensis. A Collection of Plants of Boston and Its Vicinity
BIGELOW, Jacob.
Florula Bostoniensis. A Collection of Plants of Boston and Its Vicinity, With Their Generic and Specific Characters, Principal Synonyms, Descriptions, Places of Growth, and Time of Flowering, and Occasional Remarks.
Boston: Published by Cummings, Hilliard & Co, 1824.
Enlarged and second edition of Bigelow's authoritative work on the flora of Boston and its vicinity. Octavo, original boards, rebacked, greatly enlarged and with a significant glossary of botanical terms. In very good condition. Period ownership inscriptions and notations.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 137356
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First Edition of Charles Elihu Slocum's The Life and Services of Major-General Henry Warner Slocum
SLOCUM, Charles Elihu.
The Life and Services of Major-General Henry Warner Slocum.
Toledo, Ohio: The Slocum Publishing Company, 1913.
First edition of the biography of one of the youngest major generals in the Union Army. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, top edge red. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 133028
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First edition of Ezra B. Chase's Teachings of Patriots and Statesmen or The "Founders of the Republic" on Slavery
CHASE, Ezra B.
Teachings of Patriots and Statesmen; or, The “Founders of the Republic” on Slavery.
Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1860.
First edition of this work on the opinions of early American statesmen on "the question of slavery." Octavo, recased in the original publisher's cloth, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece of George Washington. In good condition. Ex-library.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142644
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First edition of Jesse Bowman Young's What A Boy Saw in the Army
YOUNG, Jesse Bowman.
What A Boy Saw in the Army: A Story of Sight-Seeing and Adventure in the War for the Union.
New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1894.
First edition of Young's account of his experiences as a soldier boy in the armies of the Union. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 132397
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RARE EARLY PRINTING OF The Yankee Slave Driver or The Black and White Rivals
[SMUCKER, Samuel Mosheim].
The Yankee Slave Driver; or, The Black and White Rivals.
Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1858.
Early printing of this early American abolitionist novel set in Louisiana and attributed to Samuel Smucker. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, recased, illustrated. In very good condition. Reinforced interior hinges. Rare.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142308
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Rare First edition of Holcombe and Adams' An Account of the Battle of Wilson's Creek
HOLCOMBE, R.I. and Thomas W. Adams.
An Account of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, or Oak Hills, Fought Between the Union Troops, Commanded by Gen. N. Lyon. and the Southern, or Confederate Troops, Under Command of Gens. McCulloch and Price, on Saturday, August 10, 1861, in Green County, Missouri.
Springfield, Missouri: Dow & Adams, Publishers, 1883.
First edition of Holcombe and Adams' account of the Battle of Wilson's Creek. Octavo, original publisher's binding decorated in gilt, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 133053
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“World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance": John F. Kennedy's First Edition Copy of The Strategy of Peace
KENNEDY, John F.
The Strategy of Peace.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960.
First edition of the selected foreign policy speeches and statements on defense, peace, and national security delivered by Kennedy during his 1960 presidential campaign. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a very good jacket. Edited by Allan Nevins.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144218
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First edition of Albert Cook Church's Whaleships and Whaling
CHURCH, Albert Cook.
Whale Ships and Whaling.
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1938.
First edition of Church's work on the history of whaling. Octavo, bound in full gilt-decorated morocco, illustrated with numerous photographs of whaling operations at sea and whaleship plans, pictorial endpapers reproducing two facing pages from the logbook of whaler Royal William dated 1834. In fine condition.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 130850
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First edition of George H. Gordon's A War Diary of Events in the War of the Great Rebellion
GORDON, George H.
A War Diary of Events in the War of the Great Rebellion. 1863-1865.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882.
First edition of the historian and Union General's American Civil War Memoir. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 131769
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First edition of Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, at the Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress
Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, at the Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865.
First edition of Vol. III the Official Congressional Report on the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 132562
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Henry Clay Work's Marching Through Georgia
WORK, Henry C. [William Tecumseh Sherman].
Marching Through Georgia: Written in Honor of Sherman’s Famous March From “Atlanta to the Sea”.
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1889.
First Ticknor and Co. edition of Henry Clay Work's greatest hit, "Marching Through Georgia", inspired by Sherman's march to the sea at the end of 1864. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 132439
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"Theodore Roosevelt was intensely human. He was dynamic but not sacrosanct": First edition of J. Hampton Moore's Roosevelt and the Old Guard; in the rare original dust jacket
MOORE, J. Hampton.
Roosevelt and the Old Guard.
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company Publishers, 1925.
First edition of J. Hampton Moore's intimate biographical portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated with engravings and line drawings by C.K. Berryman including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 103580
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"And they said one to another, behold, this dreamer cometh": First edition of William Bradford Huie's He Slew the Dreamer; Signed by Him
HUIE, William Bradford. [Martin Luther King.
He Slew the Dreamer: My Search, With James Earl Ray, For the Truth About the Murder of Martin Luther King.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1970.
First edition of the sensational journalist's report on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by William Bradford Huie on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wenk/Schwartz.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 121041
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First Edition of Charles Carleton Coffin's Freedom Triumphant
COFFIN, Charles Carleton.
Freedom Triumphant: The Fourth Period of the War of the Rebellion From September 1864, To Its Close.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891.
First edition of the acclaimed journalist's work on the fourth period of the Civil War. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 132827
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Finely Bound Example of Scribner's Magazine, Volume 18 XVIII, July-December 1895; With an Early Theodore Roosevelt Article
[THEODORE ROOSEVELT],.
Scribner’s Magazine, Volume 18 XVIII, July-December 1895 [Theodore Roosevelt].
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895.
Finely bound volume of this early Theodore Roosevelt article. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over printed boards with gilt titles to the spine, raised bands. Contents include: Theodore Roosevelt article "Six Years of Civil Service Reform"; article on American posters with many examples; "Landmarks of Manhattan" with six full-page illustrations. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 146034
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Morrison's Strangers Guide and Etiquette For Washington City and Its Vicinity
Morrison’s Strangers Guide and Etiquette, For Washington City and Its Vicinity.
Washington: W. H. & O. H. Morrison, 1862.
Fifth edition of Morrison's classic American etiquette guide. Octavo, original cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the front panel. Illustrated with wood and steel engravings, entirely re-written and brought down to the present time. In near fine condition. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 127990
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Ida M. Tarbell's He Knew Lincoln; signed by her and in the rare original dust jacket
TARBELL, Ida M.
He Knew Lincoln.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.
First Doubleday printing of Tarbell's collected Billy Brown stories, first published by McClure in 1907. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 132584
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First edition of James K. Hosmer's The Color-Guard
HOSMER, James K.
The Color-Guard: Being A Corporal’s Notes of Military Service in the Nineteenth Army Corps.
Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1864.
First edition of James Kendall Hosmer's Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 132043
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W. Birkbeck Wood and James E. Edmond's The Civil War in the United States; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
WOOD, W. Birkbeck and James E. Edmonds [William Tecumseh Sherman].
The Civil War in the United States: With Special Reference to the Campaigns of 1864 and 1865.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1937.
Revised edition of this British account of the American Civil War; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original brown cloth, illustrated with in-text maps and maps at the rear. P.T. Sherman's bookplate to the front free paper beneath his ownership inscription dated July 1938, a few annotations by Sherman throughout the text. In near fine condition with slight bumping to the crown and foot of the spine, light rubbing to the extremities and rear panel. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P.T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member…
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 145994
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First edition of Gertrude Atherton's The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
ATHERTON, Gertrude.
The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.
First edition of the first novel in the author's California series. Octavo, original cloth elaborated stamped in gilt, illustrated by Harrison Fisher. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 116833
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First edition of Francis Marion Crawford's Our Silver
CRAWFORD, Francis Marion.
Our Silver: A Letter Addressed to George S. Coe, Esq. Chairman of Executive Council of the American Bankers’ Association.
New York: Douglas Taylor, 1881.
Rare first edition of Francis Marion Crawford's treatise on the supply and demand for the silver dollar in the United States. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 95874
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First Edition of The Century; Signed by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
JENNINGS, Peter and Todd Brewster.
The Century.
New York: Doubleday, 1998.
First edition of this historic overview of the twentieth century. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by both authors, Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144008
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George Iles's Little Masterpieces of Autobiography Vol. II; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
ILES, George [William Tecumseh Sherman].
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography Vol. II.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908.
The second volume of a stunning collection of autobiographies, this volume containing William Tecumseh Sherman's memoir; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octodecimo, original red cloth, frontispiece portrait of Ulysses S. Grant. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front pastedown. In very good condition. In 1908, upon completing work on 'Little Masterpieces of Autobiography,' Iles sent Philemon Tecumseh Sherman the entire set of works as thanks for Sherman's permission to reprint from his father's memoirs.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145976
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First Edition of Richard S. West Jr.'s The Second Admiral; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
WEST JR, Richard S. [William T. Sherman].
The Second Admiral: A Life of David Dixon Porter 1813-1891.
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1937.
First edition of this biography of one of the most distinguished admirals in the history of the U. S. Navy; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Admiral David Nixon Porter, illustrated with photographs, maps, and engravings. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front free endpaper beneath his ownership signature. In near fine condition. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 145739
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First Edition of William Lloyd Garrison on Non-Resistance; Inscribed by the Co-Founder of the NAACP Fanny Garrison Villard
VILLARD, Fanny Garrison .
William Lloyd Garrison on Non-Resistance. Together with a Personal Sketch By His Daughter Fanny Garrison Villard and a Tribute by Leo Tolstoi.
The Nations Press Printing Co, 1924.
First edition of this tribute to the prominent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Mildred L. Wood May 30, 1925 From Mrs. Villard." Fanny Garrison Villard was a co-founder (with her son) of the NAACP and active in women's suffrage and peace movements. She was the daughter of prominent publisher and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and the wife of railroad tycoon Henry Villard. In near fine condition with a touch of rubbing.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 81133
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"I always proudly said 'I am a Baptist and a Democrat' ": First Edition of Rebekah Baines Johnson's A Family Album; inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson to white house correspondent jack horner
JOHNSON, Rebekah Baines. Introduction by Lyndon B. Johnson.
A Family Album.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965.
First edition of this work documenting Lyndon B. Johnson's family tree, prepared for him by his mother as a Christmas present to her son. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Introduction by Lyndon Baines Johnson. Association copy, inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson on the dedication page, "To Jack and Leota Horner from your friend and admirer Lyndon B. Johnson." The recipient, White House Correspondent Garnett D. Jack Horner, served as President of the White House Correspondents Association and covered Presidents from FDR to Gerald Ford. President Johnson often invited favored reporters to the LBJ Ranch, including Horner on multiple occasions throughout…
Price: $425.00 Item Number: 110560
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Rare George H. W. Bush Vice Presidential Fountain Pen
BUSH, George H. W.
George H. W. Bush Vice Presidential Fountain Pen.
Rare George H. W. Bush Vice Presidential Fountain Pen bearing Bush's signature in facsimile. Housed in the original pen box bearing the seal of the Vice President of the United States. In fine condition requiring the nib insert.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114942
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Rare printing of the Acts Passed at the First Session of the Ninth Congress of the United States including Miami and Pottawatomie Indian Treaties
Acts Passed at the First Session of the Ninth Congress of the United States…Begun and Held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday, the second of December, 1875.
[1875].
Rare printing of the Acts Passed at the First Session of the Ninth Congress of the United States including Indian treaties with the Creek, Cherokee, Delaware, Pottawatomie, Miami Indian tribes. Octavo, bound in contemporary wrappers. The Ninth Congress of the United States was a significant legislative Congress which passed the first laws abolishing importation of slaves in its second session. In very good condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 135321
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First Edition of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman's General Sherman in the Last Year of the Civil War
SHERMAN, Philemon Tecumseh [William Tecumseh Sherman].
General Sherman in the Last Year of the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Thirty-eighth Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at St. Louis, Missouri.
New York: Robert Grier Cooke, 1908.
First edition of this biographical address of the author's father, delivered at the Thirty-eighth reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. Octavo, original wrappers. Author's card tipped in, "With the Compliments of the Author 15 William Street, New York City." In near fine condition with a few small losses to the extremities of the wrappers. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 145970
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Typed Letter Signed by Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter
FRANKFURTER, Felix.
Felix Frankfurter Typed Letter Signed.
Typed letter signed by Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter. Two pages, typescript on Frankfurter’s Supreme Court letterhead, the letter is dated November 14, 1949 and reads in part, "My dear Mrs. McAllister: If persuasiveness, conveyed by an old and very cherished friend, could enable me to hurdle the obstacles that bar my presence at the 50th Anniversary Dinner of the National Consumers League, Molly Dawson's letter would have done it long ago. Please take my word for it that there are very few occasions which could possibly be so tempting as the League's Anniversary Dinner, and few occasions which would…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114070
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"LIBERTY'S BELL HATH SOUNDED ITS BOLD PEAL WHERE MAN HOLDS MAN IN SLAVERY!": Rare first edition of The Liberty Bell by Friends of Freedom
The Liberty Bell. By Friends of Freedom.
Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1842.
Rare first edition of the third annual of the abolitionist periodical, containing submissions by William Lloyd Garrison, Lydia Maria Child, and John Quincy Adams. 12mo, original wrappers adhered to boards, tissue guarded frontispiece. Bookplate. In good condition with some wear to the boards. Rare.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142105
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Rare first edition of Walter Browning or The Slave's Protector
Walter Browning; or, The Slave’s Protector. Founded on Fact.
Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Store, 1856.
First edition of this anti-slavery tract. 12mo, original publisher's cloth, yellow endpapers, engraved frontispiece. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Uncommon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142106
