Autograph Letter Signed on Hire of Enslaved Person. por Thomas Taylor - 1860

Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1863 IN FAIR CONDITION. Engraved frontis intact, 120pp, bound in brown, blind stamped cloth. Corner wear on covers, wear to top/heel of backstrip, lacks free endpapers, pencil notation inside back cover, which has been crossed out, interior foxing. By the Author of Elfie Grafton, wrotten for the Mass. S. S. Society. CIVIL WAR FICTION.

Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1866. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. 14pp. Very good. Bit of soiling to outer wrappers, else tight and nice. Collis, a colonel with the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry, published this collection of documents regarding the character of one Frederick Fernandez Cavada (1832-71) to protest Cavada's appointment as United States Consul at Trinidad de Cuba. Cavada was cashiered for "behav[ing] himself in a cowardly manner in the presence of the enemy, by absenting himself from the battle-field" at Fredericksburg, but was reinstated. Cavada displayed similar cowardice at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, but resigned before he could be tried. Whether the publication of Collis's pamphlet affected Cavada's Consul appointment we have not been able to determine. Most unusual. First edition. DORNBUSCH I, P 275A. SABIN 14457.

First Edition Maroon Half-Leather. #411 of 500 copies. This is Illustrated by John Groth. This limited editon in two volumes, is in a beautiful slip cased, with red leather spines and buckram covered boards. Paper labels on spines and front boards. Volume one is signed by the editor, the illustrator and by O. Scott Petty, the author's Grandson, who wrote the introduction.

Ypsilanti, Mich.: Ypsilantian Press. Near Fine. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean blue embossed cloth with bright gilt title on front cover. Interior of text is tight, clean and intact. Decorated endpaper. Civil War Related; various glimpses of places, people and things. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 191 pages .

New York: J. M. Hager, 1865. Paperback. Very Good +. 32 p.: illustrations; 15 cm. Sewn; grey wrapper with portrait of J. M. Hager. Wrapper title and copyright statement. "Matthews & Warren, Stereotypers & Printers, Buffalo, N.Y." Inside front wrapper and both sides of back wrapper have advertisements for Steinway & Sons pianos and Carhart, Needham & Co.'s organs. Pages 1, 2, and 14-16 also contain Steinway & Sons advertisements; last page contains advertisement for the Florence reversible feed sewing machine. Contains the lyrics of the choruses and text of dialogues telling the story of the American Civil War. Written by Henry Morford (1823-1881), this dramatic depiction ends with the assasination of President Abraham Lincoln, the ascension of Andrew Johnson to the presidency, and a "Grand Tableau of Peace." A version of this first appeared in 1863, during the war. There are also several later, expanded editions of this work. This is the first… Ler mais

Washington: Washington Irving Publishing Co.. Very Good+. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean black cloth has bright gilt decoration & title on front cover. Portrait frontispiece. Text tight, clean & intact. Very lightly rubbed spine ends & front corners. Endpaper has a few fleck of foxing. South, Jeff Davis Arkansas Senator ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 80 pages .

THE ROSE B EDITION. Du Bose, Heyward. Porgy (1925 George H. Doran Mauve "B" Hardcover 1st Edition/ 2nd printing thus, known as the Mauve or Rose "B" Edition. Decorated By Theodore Nadejen. USED. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Mauve/Purple boards with gold gilt titling and owl cartouche. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR "PORGY AND BESS", THE DRAMATIC BROADWAY MUSICAL AND MOTION PICTURE, SCORED BY AMERICAN COMPOSER GEORGE GERSHWIN.

NY: Eakins Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket faintly rubbed.. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Essay by Lincoln Kirstein, black and white photographs by Richard Benson. Poems by James Madison Bell, Frances E. W. Harper, James M. Whitfield, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whiman, and Charles Ives. Quotes by Frederick Douglass, Henry Ward Beecher, Black cloth binding. Unpaginated. Selected reading. Photoessay on the statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens memorializing the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first black volunteer Civil War regiment, formed in February 1863 and which lost half its soldiers during an attack on Fort Wagner, outside Charleston, South Carolina on July 18, 1863. List of soldiers killed, who died in captivity, and went missing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

The Conquest of Kansas by Missouri and her Allies, A History of the Troubles in Kansas from the Passage of the Organic Act until the Close of July, 1856. William Phillips, Phillips Sampson and Company, 1856. First Edition. Boston: 414 pp plus ads 6pp in back and ads on front and back paste downs and fly pages.Narrative includes some of the following notable sections:Kansas before the Passage of the Organic Act, The First Invasion, Governor Reeder, the First Election, Smart Electioneering TrickThe March Election, Protests, Bogus Legislature, Shannon Appointed, Topeka Constitution, Pat Laughlin, Pardee the Martyr, Law and Order Convention, Rescue of Branson, Wakarusa War, Mobbing the Ballot Boxes, Skirmish at Eason, State Legisltuare, Dragoons, Sheriff Jones Shot, Marshal Donaldson Declares War, Sacking of Lawrence, Guerilla War, Law and Order in Leavenworth, Captain Walker, Battle of Black Jack, Battle of Franklin, Nimrod Whitfield, Death of Cantral, Sacking of Osawattomie, A Chapter of… Ler mais

Fourteen volumes in original hardcovers. Series 1: volumes 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26. 1896-1914. Generally condition runs from Good to Very Good plus. These are heavy volumes that are prone to binding failures when handled improperly. Some of these volumes are sound, some strengthened with new endpapers, some where binding is starting. None have failed bindings. The earlier volumes show more general wear to the boards than later volumes. I have prepared a more complete condition report on each volume so feel free to inquire. Shipping will be actual cost to me not more (weight of this is about 44 pounds). Please see images of the books you will receive. Notes: a quite interesting set with maps, charts and images of warships in every volume. An incredible feat of research that took 33 years to complete. (Civil War)