Americana

Havana, Illinois: David A. Badger. Very Good+. 1985. Limited Signed Edition. Hardcover. Clean faux brown leather. 8vo oblong. Limited & signed edition, 10/200. Text tight, clean & intact. Drawings of landmark homes in St. Charles, Illinois. Book contains brown hand written text with drawings. Illinois, Mid-West; Drawing Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Unpaginated pages; Signed by Author .

Faulkner County Historical Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1991. No Edition Stated. Pictorial Hardcover. Page edges very slightly toning, first couple pages have very tiny crease; b/w photos; 128 pages .

Albany, N. Y.: C. Van Benthuysen and Co.. Very Good-. 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Lightly soiled blue paper covered boards. Leather spine with spine label. Leather protected front corners. Spine ends and edges have light wear. First 59 pages have a damp stain on bottom corner. Text's interior is tight, and intact. 60 pages of indexes. Frauds of the following canals: Champlain, Black River Canal, Chemung, Genesee Valley, Oneida Lake, Oswego, Crooked Lake. Illustrated with fold-out charts. New York Canal Frauds ; Fold out Charts; Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 866 pages .

Harrisburg, PA: Printed By Henry Welsh. Very Good. 1832-33. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in clean red cloth with bright gilt title on spine. Volume 1. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Interior of text is tight & intact. A few pages have a small damp stains. Title page and page three have small mended edge tears. Contents: Boroughs, Bridges, Canals, Railroads and Turnpikes ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1023 pages .

Middlebury, VT: Printed by Ephraim Maxham, 1841. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 92pp. Disbound. Includes the original front wrapper. Signed and inscribed by Thomas A. Merrill on the cover to I. P. Wheeler, founder of The People's Press: "I. P. Wheeler with the respects of T. A. Merrill." The historical sketch of the first settlement of Middlebury was collected by the author at a meeting of several of the first residents. With a plan of Middlebury, a table of the home lots, a list of periodicals and original works published in Middlebury, a list of lawyers, physicians, stores, and more. Library stamp on title and last page, chipping to edges (partially affecting the author's signature), some scattered foxing, tear to lower edge of one of the leaves. A good copy. Scarce. Sabin 48006. ; Octavo; Signed by Author.

Indianapolis: Union Direct Co, 1902. Octavo. 284 pages. A very scarce Indiana directory covering towns and villages in 19 contiguous counties around Indianapolis with thousands of ads from the items of the era; bicycles and horse-drawn wagons in an age just before the automobile appeared on the scene in Indiana even before 1900. Dr. W.T. McCarthy's full-page ad on how he can cure cancer. This informative directory provides an insight into what Indianans' were interested in at the beginning of the 20th century. The inserts bound into the book include Dr. Bush's Gasaway, Gas Belt. This has the Library of Congress copyright stamp which shows it is one of the two copies, deposited to secure copyright. Bound in 1/4 red cloth over printed tan paper covered boards, spine lettering black, wear to corners, light wear, and soiling to spine. A very good copy.

1862 RARE 1ed Civil War Prison Life in Tobacco Warehouse Richmond Virginia CSA
"Prison-Life in the Tobacco Warehouse at Richmond" is a rare Civil War-era book of sketches and reports on prison life during the American Civil War. Author William Harris was a prisoner at the Richmond Tobacco Warehouse – while there, Harris kept a journal which was later published.
Nevins says of this work:
"Reflects lax, fairly comfortable conditions in early officers' prison; good descriptions of Winder, Wirz, and other officials".

Item number: #17444
Price: $499
HARRIS, William C
Prison-life in the tobacco warehouse at Richmond
Philadelphia, G.W. Childs, 1862. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o 175, [1]
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References: not in Eicher; Nevins I, 193
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Language: English
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Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Brown cloth
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Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 13cm)
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ALS to Hon. J.R. Lewis, Sept 20, 1863, 7.5x10". Declining [Judge] Lewis's invitation to attend a Washington D.C. political event in support President Lincoln. "Our soldiers in the field will look with great anxiety at the endorsement which their friends give at the ballot box, when I and confident Iowa will heartily respond favorably to their cause. /// Hoping that you will cast a united vote for the Union ticket and thereby convince the rebels that we of Iowa stand firmly in favor of our cause and country."
Samuel Ryan Curtis [1805-1866] was the most successful union general west of the Mississippi, remembered mostly as the victor at the battles of Pea Ridge [1862] and Westport [1864]. But Curtis was far more than just a successful general. He played a key role in the opening and exploitation of the American West, as an engineer, politician, railroad advocate. He was also one of the first Republicans elected to Congress, serving three terms the 1st Iowa congressional district In September,… Read More

LaPorte, Indiana : Jas. W. Beasley, Harry U. Wilstach, Publishers, 1879. RARE directory for the city of Logansport, Indiana, 1879-1880, Very Good Minus, covers and end papers soiled, cloth at spine with several small holes, contemporary prior owner name in ink front cover and front end page. 201 pages, with several pages of advertising front and back. An excellent source book for local history and genealogy. Not located at OCLC, although 2 Indiana libraries hold the 1879-80 Beasley's Crawfordsville Directory. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

MILLER, HENRY. Mother, China, and the World Beyond. Small 8vo. Original orange decorated cloth. Capra Press, Santa Barbara 1977. First Edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Miller. This is copy No. 72. Mint.

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, bookplate on front free endpaper, sectional maps waved at top edge. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Navy cloth titled in cloth and photo reproduction mounted to front boards. Top edges gilt. xii, 590pp. Index. Folding sectional maps in pocket at rear. 100 black and white illustrations and photos. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

State first edition and first printing. Book would be in 'as new' condition except for a name stamped at the top of the inside covers and at the top of the pages on all three sides (only visible when book is closed. unclipped dj has some small tears and wear at edges. Author tells the turbulent stories of 130 abandoned town in Idaho along with 130 b&w photos.

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[12]+19+[errata+104+40+64+83 pages with engraved frontispiece, fourteen engraved plates, all by Gribelin and folding letterpress table. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 4 3/4") bound in contemporary style leather with five raised spine bands with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped decorative cover. ( Church 821; European Americana, 705/21; Field 122 (later edition); Howes B410; Pilling, Algonquian, p. 43; Sabin 5112; Streeter sale 2:1098; Vail 297) First edition.
Robert Beverley, best known, as author of The History and Present State of Virginia, In Four Parts (1705), the first published history of a British colony by a native of North America. Beverley worked as a clerk in Jamestown using family connections to advance politically while acquiring substantial wealth. In 1703 he sailed to England to appeal a suit he lost before the General Court, and there he penned his history, a collection of personal history, official accounts, and material borrowed from others. Beverley self-consciously identified… Read More

1866 Confederate 1ed Jefferson Davis Prison Life Civil War Slavery President CSA
"A sympathetic account of Davis's confinement at Fortress Monroe; by the physician assigned to attend him; includes several long conversations." (Nevins)
A rare first edition of the "Prison Life of Jefferson Davis" by John Joseph Craven. According to Sabin, this first edition was printed on both small and large paper and includes a "Political Letter written to a Citizen of Illinois." This work also 'helped cement Davis's image as a Lost Cause martyr." (Boritt, Holzer). It was
"written by the physician in attendance during the imprisonment in Fortress Monroe…A kind of diary of the daily life, giving the gist of conversations. Written by a Union man, but sympathetic and forgiving. Unlikely to please the rabid element of either side." (Larned, Lit. of Am. History).
Includes full-page woodcut engraving of Davis in prison.
Item number: #30431
Price: $499
CRAVEN, John Joseph
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NY : E.J. Hale & Son, 1878 Alexander Means was an inventor, physicist, poet and a past Emory College president at the original campus in Oxford GA. Many say he was the father of modern electricity. His famous light bulb experiment preceded Tesla and Edison by decades. This is a very rare first edition (1878). The book is in sound condition. Blue cloth cover intact as well as binding. Minor cloth fray on spine and damp stain on rear cover. What is most remarkable about this book is that it is inscribed by one of his former slaves after his freedom. The inscription reads " Susie , Accept this cluster of Poems by one of my old masters from your affecionate husband A.F.P Decatur Ga, Apr 1878. A most precious inscription to a valuable 19th C book.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.