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London: Geroge G. Harrap and Company Ltd.. Very Good- in Poor dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition. A biography of Abigail Adams, the wife of American founder and President John Adams and mother of later President John Quincy Adams. Mrs. Adams is described on the jacket as America's "first emancipated woman". Abigail Adams was a keen writer of letters, many of which were used by the author to craft this work. With black & white Benjamin Blythe drawn frontis portrait of Abigail Adams; as well as six additional black & white plates bearing images of scenes from her life. With maps of Boston and Massachusetts Bay colony in 1775 to front endpapers. --- In full orange buckram cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations gilt-stamped on spine. Dark red jacket with drawing of a colonial American scene. --- With sunning and whitish splotch to spine, else a clean, tightly-bound copy. Poor only jacket with very little remaining of the spine, a few… Read More

Washington, D. C. / New York: Institute of American History. Very Good+. 2008. Stapled wraps. 1932821635 . A selection of documents, letters and texts of speeches by Abraham Lincoln sharing a common theme of slavery. His Emancipation Proclamation is the most significant of them, but others include his attempts to convert his decree into law in the form of the 13th Amendment. With numerous photos and drawings depicting the documents and people described. With an introduction by Allen C. Guelzo. --- In light blue stapled wraps with black & white photographic portrait of Mr Lincoln to cover, alongside a portion of the original text of the Emancipation Proclamation. --- An excellent copy: clean and bright but with a few scratches to cover and retailer's sticker to back panel.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; 48 pages .

Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur H. Clark Company. Very Good+. 1905. Hardcover. A four volume reprinted portion of Reuben Gold Thwaites's massive 31-volume series on travel in the American West in the 18th and 19th centuries (Howes T.255). Compiled from the notes of Major Stephen H. Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the party by Edwin James, botanist and geologist to the expedition.Edited with notes, introductions and index by Mr. Thwaites. This rather scarce set presents the account of the experiences of the Stephen H. Long expedition of 1819-1820, in which Long was sent to find the source of the Platte River in the Rocky Mountains. With a large fold-out map in vol. I depicting the drainage of the Mississippi River, along with several plates bearing black & white images of people and sights seen during the expedition. --- In full rust cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling; top edges gilt, remaining edges deckled. --- Many pages are unopened, and with some light… Read More

Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea. Very Good+. 1823. Hardcover. A two-volume first edition of an account of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains by expedition botanist and geologist Edwin James. Compiled from the notes of Major Stephen H. Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the party by Mr. James. This rather scarce set presents the account of the experiences of the Stephen H. Long expedition of 1819-1820, in which Long was sent to find the source of the Platte River in the Rocky Mountains. Lacks the separate accompanying oversize atlas which was issued in 1822 per Howes J.41, who remarks [the expedition was notable in that it supplemented] ". . .earlier discoveries of Pike and of Lewis and Clark, and pronouncing the plains region as nothing but a desert, incapable of cultivation!". --- In maroon half leather and marbled paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling, four raised bands to spines and marbled endpapers. --- A very nice set, with bright, mostly… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. A collection of hundreds of black & white illustrations from the pages of Harper's Weekly showing people and scenes from around America from 1857 to 1900. The illustrations are accompanied by the text of John A. Kouwenhoven. --- In pictorial paper-covered boards with facsimiles of news clippings to endpapers. Unpaginated (about 250 pp.). The cover images are repeated on the dust jacket. --- With chafing to edges of covers, leaves are lightly tanned but volume is tightly-bound and unmarked. Jacket with quite a few chips and tears; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for any shipment other than by USPS Media Mail in the US.); Ex-Library; Quarto (11 to 13 in. tall); [c.250 pp] pages .

New York: Oxford University Press:. Fair with no dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. A third edition of this work, which first appeared in 1917. An examination of aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic to Patagonia. With lots of drawings, maps and a few photos. One of the maps, showing locations of various tribes in North America, is tipped in at rear of volume and folds out. --- In red cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Map of North America showing tribe locations laid in. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With underlinings in red and black throughout, page 264 with pasted-on listing of typewritten tribe locations, prior owner's signature to front free endpaper and with a partial split in mid-book. Covers with some soiling. Overall, a sound copy which makes it a useful reference, but with some damages.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xvii, 466 pages .

New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 007032526X . A wide-ranging pictorial history of railroading in America. With dozens of black & white and color photos, paintings, drawings, charts, tables and period ads from the 19th and 20th centuries. The gamut of railroading is covered, from the engineering marvels of the roadbeds and rolling stock, through urban trams to the elegance of passenger service of a bygone era. --- In blue cloth-covered boards backed in darker blue cloth, with eagle to cover and titling to spine, both in gilt. Jacket with color William Harndon Foster painting "As the Centuries Pass in the Night" to cover. --- An about Very Good+ copy: clean and tightly bound though with a little dusty soiling to cloth. Price-clipped dust jacket with small tears and chips to edges but remaining intact and protected in archival mylar protector. (Due to the considerable weight of this item, extra shipping… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of this pictorial guide to the history of the American West. Beginning with trappers and hunters, the growth of the area is documented in over 1000 illustrations in the form of drawings and photos. Also with information about gold and silver mines, manifest destiny, mountain crossings, crime, cowboys, gunfights, railroads, saloons and many other topics. The pictures are accompanied by the text of Mr. Beebe. Includes title page illustration by E. S. Hammack and wild mounted cowboy art to endpapers. --- In brown cloth-covered boards with titling in blind to cover; decorations and titling in black and gilt to spine. Dust jacket repeats the Hammack title page art. --- With minor dampstains at lower gutters near front and rear of volume and water spotting to textblock top edge, else a tightly-bound, unmarked copy. Unclipped jacket also in great shape, but with minor… Read More

Edwin D. McKee. Very Good+. 1948. Stapled wraps. Stated 10th Edition, 1948. The wondrous geology of the U.S. Desert Southwest is described in some detail by Edwin D. McKee, assistant director of the Museum of Northern Arizona. With numerous black & white photos, as well as illustrations and charts by Louis Schellbach and Russell Hastings. --- In stapled wraps with eye-pleasing color illustration of the Grand Canyon to cover, text presented on gloss leaves. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, unmarked and mostly lacking damages, though with faint reddish marks to cover.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall ; 50 pages .

Very Good. Stapled wraps. An undated reprint of 22 replies to questions posed by Senator Thomas Hart Benton to Augustus Storrs before the U.S. Senate in 1825. The questions pertained to the worth of commerce to the southwest of Missouri and were influential in the recognition of the Santa Fe trail as a viable trade route. --- In stiff white stapled wraps. A facsimile of the U.S. Senate transcript of 1825.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); 14 pages .

New York: The Nutshell Publishing Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1902. Hardcover. Formerly property of a library but showing few signs thereof. In maroon quarter leather and cloth covers; gilt titling & decorations. Heavily deckled edges, top edge gilt. Loaded with drawings and cartoons (apparantly all by Mr. Fleming), many poking fun at Washington, DC and its turn of the 20th century leaders. From chapter II: "Henry Slocum ['Hank'] was as fine a specimen of Yankee manhood as it was possible to find." --- A firm, clean copy but with some rubbing at edges of covers. With rubberstamping on front pastedown and inked presentation remarks on front free endpaper. Library coding in white on spine. Lacks a dust jacket.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 346 pages .

New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Good in Good dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. An ex-library copy of a facsimile of the original 1865 report of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in that same year, and on the subsequent trial of 8 of the conspirators. Includes 2 frontis photos, a facsimile of the original testimony, title page, map, and a couple of drawings. With an introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern. --- In brown cloth-covered boards with spine titling in gilt and cover fillets in blind. Jacket features drawing of John Wilkes Booth jumping down to the stage from Lincoln's booth after the shot was fired. --- Evidence of former ownership by Denver Public Library consists of rubberstampings (including deaccession statement), stickers, and mylar jacket protector taped to covers. One leaf near front of book appears to have been cut out, otherwise a sound, fully readable copy.; Ex-Library; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xxiv, 422 pages .

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. [c.1947]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition offering one of the world's most famous autobiographies, which explores the rich diversity that was the life of Benjamin Franklin. Also included are other Franklin writings, such as selections from his "Poor Richard's Almanack." With an introduction by Henry Steele Commager. --- In Toledano spine 8 / blue cloth / gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks / red topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h, verso lists 322 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1947 (though 1944 date appears in book). ML #39.2. --- A very nice copy: clean and tightly-bound but with a little age-toning to leaves; some loss to cover gilding. Fair-only, unclipped dust jacket with quite noticeable rubbing and tears, creases & chafing to edges; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xix, 264 pages .

New York: The Illustrated Modern Library / Random House / A. S. Barnes & Co., Inc.. Near Fine. 1944. Hardcover. A Modern Library illustrated edition in slipcase of the American founding father's autobiography, which is an important account of colonial life and the emergence of the nascent American Republic, by one of its leading citizens. Also includes entries from Poor Richard's Almanack (1749, 1756 and 1757) as well as numerous other writings; and with a list of the chief events in Mr. Franklin's life. With an introduction by Henry Steele Commager and color illustrations by Thomas Hart Benton. Illustrated Modern Library #039.2. --- In green patterned paper-covered boards with bas-relief, cameo-style oval portrait of Franklin on cover. Spine titling in gilt on black quarter cloth; blue topstain. Volume housed in tan paper-covered slipcase with Benton-illustrated title label pasted to one side. --- An exceptionally well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked.… Read More

Oceanside, California: Second Renaissance Books. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 156114147X . A hardcover work presenting a collection of Ayn Rand's reproduced biweekly letters, which were distributed to her subscribers between October 11, 1971 and January-February 1976. The author was a novelist and the founder of the Objectivist Movement. With a facsimile of Rand's manuscript of the opening and closing passages of her most famous novel, "Atlas Shrugged." --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with author's facsimile signature and titling in gilt to cover and spine. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- An excellent copy: unmarked, bright and tightly-bound, though with minor soiling to cloth.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; (10), 389 pages .

Lincoln: Bison Books / University of Nebraska Press. Very Good-. 1979. Softcover. 0803272049 . A softcover edition of Stan Hoig's examination of the 1868 Battle of the Washita River in present-day western Oklahoma. The U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry, let by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, was victorious in this action against a band of Cheyenne Indians. Many consider this to be a massacre, as the Cheyennes didn't consider themselves at war when attacked. With numerous black & white illustrations and pair of maps. --- In wraps with William Maugham color illustration to front panel. --- With prior owner's signature to half title and some small tears to cover edges, else a sound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xvii, 268 pages .

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Very Good+. 1991. First Edition Thus. Softcover. 080326335X . A first printing of the University of Nebraska Press softcover reprint edition of a collection of letters, mostly between Captain Frederick Benteen and Private Theodore Goldin. The two both fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, in which Gen. George Custer was killed, along with over 200 fellow US Army soldiers. The letters provide keen insights into the actual events of the battle. With a handful of black & white photos showing various people mentioned in the book. This work originally published by Liveright, c.1974. --- In stiff gold wraps with Tom Eckersley image of Custer to front panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy lacking markings but with mild creasing to covers and a tiny remainder mark to textblock lower edge.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xxiv, 312 pages .

New York: The Viking Press. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670159158 . First Edition. A collection of highlights from these seven years, which occurred near the end of the long run of this once-influential New York broadsheet. With newsclips and editorial cartoons at endpapers. --- In full yellow cloth-covered boards, in mock front page design jacket. --- Book with remainder mark to lower textblock edge, significant top corner bumps; otherwise clean, firm and unmarked. Jacket with tear near center of spine (with corresponding blemish to underlying cloth), some light chafing and soiling and bearing orig. $12.50 flap price. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxx, 465 pages .

Lincoln: A Bison Book / University of Nebraska Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1971. Softcover. 0803251416 . Stated Fourteenth Bison Book printing, August 1971. Black Elk, the holy man of the Oglala Sioux, tells his life story to poet John G. Neihardt. A second cousin to Crazy Horse, Black Elk was present at both the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Wounded Knee Massacre. With illustrations by Standing Bear. --- In blue and beige wraps with Standing Bear artwork to cover. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy, though with rubbing to front cover, prior owner's signature to half title and binding is somewhat brittle and susceptible to tearing.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xv, [3], 281 pages .

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Fine with no dust jacket. 1978. First Edition. Leather. A first edition of Bruce and William Catton's work of American history in a deluxe Franklin Library issuance. In this work the authors tell of events from Christopher Columbus's time through the early part of the 19th century. With a special introductory note by the authors and illustrations by Dennis Lyall. Also with a number of attractive maps. Issued as part of the publisher's First Edition Society series which preceded the Doubleday & Company trade edition. One of an unspecified limited number in the series. --- Bound in full brown bonded leather covers with four raised bands on spine. Text presented on quality papers. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Brown silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about-Fine copy: bright,… Read More