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1936. 13.7 x 19.1 cm. Governor of Kansas, Landon led his state through the dustbowl days of the Depression, and promised to bring America back under Republican leadership. Pictures of his family early childhood, goals, aspirations. Frontispiece photo of Landon. Pasted in front cover is flyer ""Landon Marches On"" and this copy includes a letter, pasted on front free endpaper from President of the Kansas Daily Newspaper Association, enclosing booklet. Paper booklet, ""Property of John U. Bergquist"" hand written on cover. Good. . Catalogs: History/Biography.

London, England: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1855. 8.2 x 12.3 cm. This little book about Crimean War is dedicated to Rt. Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., Secretary at War. This edition includes letter from ""our Most Gracious Queen"" noting accounts of Miss Nightingale and Mrs. Bracebridge, and expressing her sympathy to families of those lost and wounded. Letter is dated Christmas, 1854, from Windsor. Brief accounts of battles of Alma, first Allied victory; Balaklava, second victory with great disaster to British troops; and Inkerman, called ""the soldier's battle"". Memoirs of officers killed include Major-General Henry William Adams; Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcart; Lieutenant-Colonel Edward William Pakenham (nephew of Sir Edward Pakenham who fell before New Orleans); Memoirs of some 200 officers killed provide excellent biographical data and relate units men belonged to, family connection, peerage, and more. Also list of officers wounded; chronology of incidents of the war. 16mo.… Read More

Concord, NH: The Granite Monthly Co, 1915. 17 x 25 cm. Hopkinton Celebration. Frontispiece photo of Commodore George H. Perkins of Contoocook, as a young naval officer.. Perkins had a distinguished naval career, including command of a gunboat that ran the batteries at Port Hudson; received the rebel surrender at New Orleans, assisted in the blockade of Sabine Pass, and commanded a monitor in the Battle of Mobile Bay. He was the father of Mrs. Larz Anderson of Brookline, MA. Many photos of people and places in Hopkinton. Paper periodical, good. . Catalogs: History/Biography.

Salem, MA: The Massachusetts Magazine, 1908. 18 x 24 cm. "The Idylls of Franklin County"" by Rev. Thomas F. Waters. Attack on Deerfield Sept. 1, 1675. Attack of Feb. 29, 1704 on Deerfield settlers by French and Indians. Cover features photo of George Sheldon, who wrote history of Deerfield. Tipped-in photographs of Memorial Building in Deerfield, George Sheldon's Home, also Paul Revere's Home in Boston. ""Hon. John N. Cole"" by John N. McClintock, with photo. ""Hon. Louis A. Frothingham"" by John N. McClintock, with photo.""Robert Luce"" by John N. McClintock, with photo. ""Colonel William Prescott's Regiment"" by Frank A. Gardner, M.D. ""The Old Royall House"" at Medford, by Helen Tilden Wild, with tipped in photo. ""Personal Diary of Ashley Bowen of Marblehead"" extract of diary kept on voyage from Boston to Halifax. April 1759. Ad for New Ocean House, Swampscott. Ad for American Sewage Disposal Co., John N. McClintock, President. Ad for Thomas B. Mosher books. Paper periodical, cover lightly… Read More