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Chariot in the Sky - a Story of the Jubilee Singers
by Bontemps, Arna ; Cyrus Leroy Baldridge (Illustrator)
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- 1951
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Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. xiii, (3), 238 pages; Philadelphia: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1951. Land of the Free Series; xiii, (3) , 238 pages; Contents clean and secure in original cloth binding (light brick) in very nice dustjacket (Not clipped) . This wonderful book… Read more about this item Item Price
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JOURNAL OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the STATE of SOUTH CAROLINA for the YEAR 1835 Governor's Message by George McDuffie
by McDuffie, George ; et alus
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n.p.: General Assembly of South Carolina. Very Good. 1835. First Edition. Hard Cover. (3), 4-87 pages; Booklet in original self wrappers, contents clean and secure in a modern binding of red polished buckram with gilt lettering at spine; cream endpapers; minor ex-libris markings - small bookplate and LC surplus duplicate release stamp on rear ep;… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Wounded World - W. E. B. du Bois and the First World War
by Williams, Chad L.
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- 2023
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. x, 544 pages; As new in very good dustjacket (one crease to inside flap). The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I-and a new understanding of one of the great… Read more about this item Item Price
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TOINETTE'S PHILIP
by Jamison, Mrs. C. V. ; Reginald Birch (illustrator)
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- 1908
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New York: The Century Co. Very Good. 1908. Pictorial Cloth. x, (2), 236 pages; Contents clean and secure in original green cloth pictorial binding showing a moon rising over a triangular garland of vine leaves. Image and lettering faded at spine The story is set in New Orleans and features orphaned Philip and Toinette, the… Read more about this item Item Price
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AN ACT TO ORGANIZE THE TERRITORIES OF NEBRASKA AND KANSAS In the Senate of the United States, July 21, 1854 Resolved that twenty thousand copies of the Kansas and Nebraska Act, certified by the Secretary of State, be printed in pamphlet form for the use of the Senate
by Hunter, W. ; Chief Clerk
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Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1854. First Edition Thus. Pamphlet. 33d Congress, 1st Session, Senate Mis. Doc. 72; 16 pages; Clean and complete in original self wrappers, stitched at left fold; small faint stain at lower outer corner of first two leaves; foredge curled on a few leaves (unevenly opened); two one word pencil notations in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Pastor's Memorial Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Installation of George W. Blagden, D. D. as Pastor of the Old South Church and Society in Boston.
by Stoddard, Charles - (for the Old South Church)
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- 1862
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Boston: Published for the Use of the Members (Printed by Alfred Mudge and Son). Near Fine. 1862. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 118 pages; Publisher's dark green diced cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with a gilt stamped decorative depiction of the Old South Church, Boston on the front cover. Chocolate brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Printed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913 Including the Magazines and the Poets - a Review
by Braithwaite, William Stanley
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- 1913
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Cambridge: Issued by W.S.B.. Very Good. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 87 pages; Contents clean and secure in original binding of brown cloth spine with brown boards, printed paper titles label on front board. Some wear to cloth at spine ends, corners rounded. William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite (1878 1962) was an African-American writer, poet, literary … Read more about this item Item Price
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Archive: 1941-2 Consolidation of Washington DC Police Court and Municipal Court H.R. 3167; H.R. 4852; H.R. 5431; H.R. 5784; Public Law 512 -- 77th Congress & typescript testimony
by Group ; [including Emory B. Smith ]
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Washington DC: G.P.O. & House District of Columbia Committee. Very Good. 1941 & 2. Hardcover. Folio volume, maroon leather spine over black fabric covered boards, spine lettered in gilt,. The front free endpaper has the rubber stamp, in red ink, of the US House Committee on the District of Columbia. Above this is a clipped… Read more about this item Item Price
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MAKING DEMOCRACY SAFE FOR OIL - Oilmen and the Islamic East
by Rand, Christopher T.
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- 1975
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- 9780316733311
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New York: Atlantic-Little, Brown. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. x, 422 pages; Clean and secure in original blue cloth binding in very good dustjacket. Here is a devastating expose of the most powerful conglomerate of wealth in America: the oil industry. Rand, a Persian and Arabic expert as well as… Read more about this item Item Price
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Martin Luther King - Man of Peace
by Clemens, Thomas C.
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- 1968
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Washington: United States Information Service. Near Fine. 1968. Paperback. 28 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers with image of MLK on front cover. OCLC 464221527 The author Thomas C. Clemens was a veteran Washington writer who followed closely developments in the struggle by Martin Luther King, Jr. and others for equal rights… Read more about this item Item Price
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In the Senate of the United States reported February 18, 1858 -- VIEWS OF THE MINORITY On the Constitution of Kansas adopted by the Convention which met at Lecompton on Monday, the 4th of September, 1857
by Collamer, Jacob ; (from the Committee on Territories)
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Washington: Congressional Globe Office. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 7, (1) pages; Very good condition in original self wrappers; pages unopened. Original owner's name signed in pencil on front wrapper -- "J. Whitcomb". Text printed in two columns. OCLC 83113204 (listing mistakenly labels as printed in 1857). This report presents the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nebraska and Kansas. Resolutions of the Legislature of Connecticut in relation the act to organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas
by Sperry, N.D.
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- 1856
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Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Removed Document. 34th Congress, 1st session, House Mis. Doc. No. 101; 3 pages; Removed document, clean and complete. OCLC 733579437 Excerpt: "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assemblyconvened, That the recent act of Congress, entitled 'A bill to organize the Territories of … Read more about this item Item Price
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Speech of Hon. J. Collamer of Vermont on the REPORT of the KANSAS CONFERENCE COMMITTEE delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 27, 1858
by Collamer, Jacob ; B. F. Wade
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Washington: Congressional Globe Office. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8 pages; Very good condition in original self wrappers; pages unopened. Text printed in two columns. OCLC 9578021 ; OCLC 84271361 This speech addresses the Committee's report on the Kansas Question, including the Lecompton Constitution which would admit Kansas as a slave-holding state, … Read more about this item Item Price
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Kansas. Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, in reference to the Affairs of Kansas May 6, 1856. -- Ordered to be printed
by Van Vorhes, N. H. ; Thimas H. Ford
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Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Removed Document. 34th Congress, 1st session, House Mis. Doc. No. 100; 3 pages; Removed document, clean and complete. OCLC 1065564008 Excerpt: "Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be further instructed, and our representatives requested, to use their best endeavors to secure the passage of laws … Read more about this item Item Price
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THE KANSAS QUESTION -- THE MINORITY REPORT of the Select Committee of Fifteen
by Morrill, Justin S. ; Edwaed Wade ; Henry Bennett ; David S. Walbridge ; Jumes Buffington
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Washington: Buell & Blanchard, Printers. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 16 pages; Very good condition in original self wrappers; pages unopened, small stain at upper right corner of front wrapper. OCLC 43906948 This Minority Report of the Select Committee of Fifteen on the Kansas Question, particularly their opinion on the Lecompton Constitution… Read more about this item Item Price
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Kansas affairs, Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island : concerning the recent occurrences in Congress and in Kansas June 14, 1856 -- Ordered to be printed
by Bartlett, John R.
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- 1856
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Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Removed Document. 34th Congress, 1st session, House Mis. Doc. No. 119; 2 pages; Removed document, clean and complete. OCLC 163586660 Excerpt: "Resolved, That this outrage [when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist… Read more about this item Item Price
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Speech of Hon. J. Collamer of Vermont on THE KANSAS QUESTION In the Senate of the United States, March 1 and 2, 1858
by Collamer, Jacob
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Washington: Buell & Blanchard, printers. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 20 pages; Very good condition in original self wrappers, Pages roughly opened, some foredges curled. Original owner's name signed in pencil on front wrapper -- "J. Whitcomb". Text printed in two columns. OCLC 191225439 This speech addresses the Kansas Question, including the… Read more about this item Item Price
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TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COLONIZATION SOCIETY Presented at the Annual Meeting, May 25, 1853
by Latrobe, J. H. B. ; et al.
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- 1853
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Boston: T. R. Marvin. Very Good. 1853. First Edition. Paperback. 40 pages; Clean and complete in original peach colored wrappers; wrappers separating at spine, chipped at corners. Stitched at left edge. OCLC 430519058 Includes an address by J. H. B. Latrobe in addition to the usual reports on emancipations and repatriations, etc. … Read more about this item Item Price
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KANSAS - Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts in Relation to the Territory of Kansas June 14, 1856 -- Ordered to be printed
by Bartlett, John R.
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- 1856
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Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Removed Document. 34th Congress, 1st session, House Mis. Doc. No. 120; 2 pages; Removed document, clean and complete. OCLC 80248143 Excerpt: "Resolved, That as the intrigues to thrust slavery upon Kansas have been growing more desperate ever since the repeal of the Missouri prohibition, until the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Lecompton Constitution Founded Neither in Law nor the Will of the People - Speech of Hon. Henry L. Dawes, of Mass. Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 8, 1858
by Dawes, Henry L. ; (1816-1903)
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Washington: Buell & Blanchard, printers. Very Good+. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8 pages; Very nice condition in original self wrappers, unopened along top folds. Text printed in two columns. This speech addresses President Buchanan's support for the Kansas Lecompton Constitution which would admit Kansas as a slave-holding state. Dawes fervently argues that the President had… Read more about this item Item Price
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