American History from Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books

NY: Signet , 1961. Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. Signed by Author(s). 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Signet #P2709 [ii], 157, [3] pp., later printing. Very good condition with lite 'dog ears' at the corners o the first several pages. The author's best-known work, in which he darkened his skin and traveled the Deep South; an influential civil… Read more about this item

Photographic Image. Very Good. No Binding. c1917. A TEXAS FAMILY'S PHOTO ALBUM. (200+) PHOTOS-- Album of 47 leaves, approx. 7"x 11". Most snaps: 3"x5" & 2.5"x3.5". Photo album of life in early 20th century-- group and individual snapshots of people brimming with optimism in 1917 Texas, in the San Antonio-Kerrville vicinity-- photos show working men and women (tradesmen,… Read more about this item

NY: Doubleday, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾. 237 pp. Decorated endpapers. Signed on a tipped in White House carte-de-visite. the story begins with his Kansas boyhood, service in the Army, rise to General in WW II, his presidency and major events, and then home to Gettysburg..

Handwritten. Good. No Binding. 1864. HANDWRITTEN 1st DRAFT OF A RESOLUTION TO RAISE FUNDS (by the national delegates to the Democratic Convention) for the family of Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois (the Democratic presidential candidate of the famous 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates). Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, statesman and patriot, ran against Abraham Lincoln in the historic 1858 Presidential election.… Read more about this item

Photographic Image. Good. No Binding. 1917-27. (107) b&w Photos. Disbound sheets, housed in a protective, custom-made box, 7"x10"; leaves have been extensively repaired. 'Country Folks & Life on the Southern Plains'-- in the years prior to the Depression & Dust Bowl, photos of rural Oklahoma, Arkansas & Missouri show folks having good times in the back-woods and countryside. Names… Read more about this item

Billings, Montana: Charles G. Du Bois, 1954. Book. Very Good. Soft cover.