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ABERCROMBIE Lascelles The Sale of Saint Thomas in Six Acts
124 Tall 8vo, original blue buckram, beveled edges; t.e.g., others untrimmed; endpapers discolored.ONE OF 480 SIGNED COPIES London: Martin Secker, 1930. ENGLISH LITERATURE
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ACKLAN William Hayes Sterope: The Veiled Pleiad
300 8vo, green cloth, some paint spots on covers Washington: Gibson Bros., Printers and Bookbinders, 1892. Wright III, 13. Not in McVoy. FIRST EDITION. Set in Ante Bellum New Orleans LOST CAUSE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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ADAM Alexander Roman Antiquities: or, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans
xii and 17-565 8vo, in half sheets, full contemporary calf, front hinge cracked, but firm, edges worn; a.e.yellow ownership signature on front free endpaper "N. Beardsley | Yale College" New-York:: Printed by William A Mercein, Sept. 1819. Third American Edition, preceded by the Philadelphia 1807 and the New York 1814 editions. Thomas Jefferson owned this edition, but it was sold in the Poor Sale and does not appear in Sowerby, see O'Neal, "J efferson's Fine Arts Library," No. 2. The editor, Wilson, was a Professor at Columbia and a member of the New Jersey Legislature HISTORY
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[ADAMS]. Beringause Arthur F. Brooks Adams: A Biography
Portrait frontispiece; xiii, 404 +index on x 8vo, black cloth; dust jacket. First Edition New York:Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. AMERICAN HISTORY ECONOMICS
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[ADAMS]. Cater Harold Dean, Editor Henry Adams and His Friends: A Collection of His Unpublished Letters
Frontispiece and 8 half-tone plates; cxix and 797 8vo, green cloth; dust jacket present, but defective Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. AMERICAN LITERATURE BIOGRAPHY
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ADAMS Charles Francis [Jr.] Charles Francis Adams
ix and 426 +advertisements on [4] 8vo, navy blue cloth, top edge gilt; front inner hinge starting, but sound. Ownership signature of the Texas bibliographer W. E. Winkler on the front free endpaper. In the series "American Statesmen" edited by John T. Morse, Jr. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. AMERICANA BIOGRAPHY
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ADAMS Charles Francis Charles Francis Adams 1835-1915: An Autobiography. With a Memorial Address...by Henry Cabot Lodge
Photogravure frontispiece; lx and 224 Large 8vo, black cloth, gilt; t.e.g. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1916. BIOGRAPHY POLITICS
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ADAMS Charles Francis Charles Francis Adams 1835-1915. An Autobiography. With a Memorial Address ...by Henry Cabot Lodge
Portrait frontispiece; lx and 224 Large 8vo, black cloth; top edge gilt; very slight wear over hinges; a few leaves carelessly opened Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1916. AMERICANA BIOGRAPHY
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[ADAMS Edward Coker (1865-1943] Lyra Nigeriae by Adamu
xii and 99 Small 8vo, full green niger, front cover title in gilt; some slight wear to corners and extremities of spine; pp. 31/32 repaired with Japanese tissue covering marginal hole--no loss of text and closed tear repaired on pp. 93/94; non-authorial gift presentation on front free endpaper London: Andrew Melrose, 1909. This edition has apparently gone unnoticed and appears to be the first; no other copies located. Fisher Unwin produced two later editions in 1911 and 1914. Pasted onto the front endpapers are two photographs: on the pastedown is a young Nigerian woman clad only in graduated silver bangles from ankle to knee; on the free endaper are pictured two women wearing short skirs and standing on either side of a white woman dressed in white dress and hat; in the background can be seen a large of villageers, many of whom are male. Adams was probably a District Officer in the Colonial system and may be the Edward C, Adams who regularly contributed to various British children's magazine at this period--many of stories being about policemen POETRY AFRICA
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ADAMS F[rancis]. C[olburn]. Manuel Pereira; or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina. With Views of Southern Laws, Life and Hospitality
[iv, 302 +advertisements on [1] 8vo, dark navy-blue cloth, blind-stampped with only the minutest wear over corners, one corner bumped; some internal foxing Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard, 1853. Wright II, 12. Based on fact, Pereira, a British seaman was seized in Charleston harbor when he went ashore, His ship had made landfall there when threatened by a storm at sea. At root was a South Carolina statute that required the imprisonment of black seamen who came ashore or , if found to be former slaves, their return to that condition. The state's Statute was eventually found to be unconstitutional because it was in conflict with a treaty signed between the governments of the United States and Great Britain SOUTHERN LITERATURE south Carolina
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[ADAMS]. Ford Worthington Chauncey, Editor Letters of Henry Adams (1858-1891)
Photogravure frontispiece; vii and 552 Large 8vo, navy blue cloth, gilt; t.e.g. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1930]. BIOGRAPHY
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ADAMS Franklin P. The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys
2 volumes, large 8vo, natural linen; top edges tan New York: Simon and Schuster, 1935. JOURNALISM BIOGRAPHY
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ADAMS Franklin P. So Much Velvet
xii and 144 8vo, pale-green paper-covered boards; orange cloth spine, worn; ownership signature on front free endpaper. First Edition Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. AMERICAN LITERATURE
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[ADAMS Henry] A Henry Adams Reader. Edited by Elizabeth Stevenson
xvi and 392 8vo, beige cloth, dust jacket with slight wear to extremities Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1958. AMERICAN LITERATURE
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ADAMS Henry The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography
x and 519 Large 8vo, navy blue cloth, very small spot on front cover; t.e.g. Three bookplates on front pastedown Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1918]. AMERICAN LITERATURE BIOGRAPHY
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ADAMS James Truslow The Adams Family
8 half-tone plates; x and 364 8vo, maroon cloth; extremities of spine slightly worn; dust jacket present, but chipped and lacking several small fragments Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1930. BIOGRAPHY POLITICS
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ADAMS James Truslow The Adams Family
8 illustrations; ix and 364 8vo, maroon cloth, some minor wear over hinges and corners; dust jacketlacking inch segments at head and tail of spine and small areas over corners Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1930. AMERICAN HISTORY BIOGRAPHY
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ADAMS John Quincy Letters and Addresses on Freemasonry ... With an Introduction by Charles Francis Adams
332 8vo, maroon cloth, somewhat soiled; bookplate of Deacon Philo Carpenter's estate Dayton: UnitedBrethren Publishing House, 1873. A collection of previously published letters, published posthumously by his son. Interestingly the bookplate is that of another hater of Freemasonry. A nice association piece. FREEMASONRY
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ADE George People You Know
Frontispiece and full page illustrations by John T. McCutcheon & others; 224 Small 8vo, pale blue printed cloth with floral design on front cover and spine; corners bumped, spine slightly faded; a few pages carelessly opened. First Edition, Russo p. 51 New York: R. H. Russell, 1903. AMERICAN LITERATURE
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[ADE]. Kelly Fred C. George Ade: Warmhearted Satirist
282 8vo, maroon cloth, dust jacket present but repaired with scotch tape and lacking small portionsat head and tail of spine Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1947. AMERICAN LITERATURE BIOGRAPHY
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[ADMIRALTY LAW. Nichols Benjamin Ropes Argument of Plaintiff's Counsel in the Case of Willard Peele and Others versus the Merchants; Insurance Company...Upon the Question of Admiralty Jurisdiction, in Cases of Policies of Insurance [AND] Extracts from Godolphin, Sea Laws, Jenkins, Maline, Zouch and Exton, of all the Parts of those Treatises which Relate to the Admiralty Jurisdiction in Cases of Contracts
2 volumes bound in one, as usual; 35 pp. and 132 pp. 8vo, plain contemporary wrappers Boston: Howe & Norton, 1826. LAW
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[AESTHETIC PERIOD] Scroll and Fern Autograph Album
Vignettes some printed in green or red and [64] Oblong 16mo, pictorial gray wrappers, brown cloth spine s.l.: s.n., [© 1878]. Charming little blank book with some pages have small vigneetes birds, a dog, a pod of peas with heads inside, in varying colors, all worked around a scroll to sign in, plus, others have green ferns, and still others have Japanese motives as does the cover. The wood-engravings are not signed, but are almost certainly by A. Blanc AMERICANA AESTHETIC PERIOD
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[AFRICAN-AMERICAN] Armstrong Mrs. M. F. Helen W. Ludlow Hampton and Its Students
Folding plate; text illustrations; songs with music; 255 + [2] 8vo, tan pebbled cloth, gilt; corners and extremities of spine worn with slight loss of cloth. New-York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1875. Haynes 683. Second edition, first published the year before, this edition has a "Form of Bequest" at the end and was probably published as a fund-raiser. The two editions have separate Haynes’ numbers AFRICAN-AMERICAN AMERICANA EDUCATION
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[AFRICAN-AMERICAN]. SOUTHERN NEGRO YOUTH CONGRESS Souvenir Journal, Southern Youth Legislature, Columbia, South Carolinea, October 18-20, 1946 . [cover title].
20 halftones (2 full-page); 20 Small folio, blue printed stiff wrappers [Birmingham, Alabama: The Organization], 1946. One holding in OCLC (Chicago Public Library). The full-page halftones are of Paul Robson who was the guest of honor at the Youth Festival held on Saturday night, October 19, and Congressman Adam Clayton Powell who was the keynote speaker on the opening day, Friday, October 19. There is a quarter-page halftone of W. E. B. Dubois who received a citation for distinguished service as the climatic end of the conference. The remaining halftones are of attending members of the Congress. This Congress took place in "Freedom Road territory...made famous in Howard Fast's unforgettable novel as scene of the united achievements of black men and white men during the years of Reconstruction." Mr. Fast was also a speaker. Pages 14-20 and the inside covers contain advertisements from local businesses. AFRICAN-AMERICAN
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[AGASSIZ]. Agassiz G. R. Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz with a Sketch of His Life and Work
18 plates and 2 folding maps 8vo, brown buckram Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1913. NATURAL HISTORY BIOGRAPHY
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AIKEN Conrad Preludes for Memnon
[vii], 112 8vo, black cloth; bookplate New York & London : Charles Scribner's, [1931]. AMERICAN LITERATURE POETRY
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[ALABAMA]. Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Willett, E. He... The Traditional Pottery of Alabama
6 color plates; numerous halftones; and 70 Oblong 4to, pink stiff wrappers; front pictorial; small abrasion on fore-edge of front cover Montgomery: [[The Museum]], 1983. ALABAMA DECORATIVE ARTS
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ALABASTINE COMPANY The Only Durable Finish. Alabastine. A Superior Substitute for Kalsomine, Wall Paper &c.
Single leaf, printed on both sides and folded into three panels with 12 tinted samples on the innercenter panel. Unfolded size 5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches s.l.: [The Company], 1885. Not in Romaine nor in McKinstry. Accompanied by a form letter in the original envelope from the Eastern Agents (Samuel H. French, Paint Manufacturers, Philadelphia whose imprint appears on the front panel). Dating is based on the date of the letter, the product has various patents, the latest one being 1882 TRADE CATALOGUE AMERICANA
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[ALCOTT]. Bedell Madelon The Alcotts: Biography of a Family
xv and 400 8vo, navy blue paper-covered boards, light blue cloth spine; dust jacket with very minorchip at top rear hinge [New York]: Clarkson N. Potter, [1980]. AMERICAN LITERATURE BIOGRAPHY
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[ALCOTT]. Sears Clara Endicott Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands
8vo, gray cloth; pictorial oval on front cover; spine faded; slight wear to extremities; ownership signature on front free endpaper Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. BIOGRAPHY
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ALLEN Hervey Toward the Morning
Color frontispiece, xiii and 282 8vo, very pale lime-green cloth; dust jacket repaired on the inside with tape. Volume three of the quintet "The Disinherited" New York & Toronto: Rhinehart Company, [1934]. AMERICAN LITERATURE
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ALLEN PRESS The Allen Press Bibliography
Illustrated; 114 and [9] Folio, tan cloth: outer margins uncut. DE LUXE EDITION--ONE OF 750 COPIES in mint condition San Francisco: Book Club of California, [1985]. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS
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ALLEN'S LONE STAR BALLADS B[enjamin]. F[ickling]. Porter The Marseilles Hymn!
Single sheet (10 x 7 7/8 inches), printed on one side only Galveston & Houston: [Francis D. Allen, 1861-1864]. Not in Parrish and Willingham; no copy located in OCLC. This is No. Eleven of the Allen's Lone Star Series. Dating is based on the discovery by the Late Franklin Gilliam of the Collected Lone Star Ballads "Allen's Lone Star Ballads, No. I" which was published in 1863 and included this ballad, and the fact that at this time, Allen was spelling his name with an "en", but 1873, he had changed this to "Allan"--Winkler & Friend 506 (considered at that time to be a ghost)--See Brick Row Book Shop Catalogue No. 97, No. 596--now at the University of Texas, see Parrish & Willingham 6615. The tune of the Marseilles became greatly identified with the Southern cause, as it had in Louisiana during the War of 1812. There are several texts put to the music--Harwell "Confederate Music", Chapel Hill, [1950], p. 52 mentions words by Armand Blackmar and a Mrs. L. Fanshaw; there were several French versions with words by Canonge, but fails to mention this by Porter. CONFEDERATE IMPRINT MUSIC
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ALOE A. S. & Co. Circular of the Latest Novelties and Inventions for the Use of Civil Engineers, Architects and Draughtsmen
Illustrated with wood-engravings (unsigned); 12 8vo, self wrappers, front cover included in pagination stapled at the centerfold; has been folded; separation of the first and last leaf at head of spine (1.5 inches). Printed in blue on blue paper [Saint Louis, 415 N. Broadway: The Company], Circa 1890's. Company not represented in Romaine or McKinstry. "Albert Sidney Aloe (1842–1893) was a Jewish immigrant from Scotland who settled in St. Louis, Missouri, in the early 1860s, and sold spectacles and other optical goods. He was soon offering surveying instruments and medical and laboratory supplies as well. The firm was A. S. Aloe in the years 1867–1876, Aloe & Hernstein in 1876–1880, Aloe, Hernstein & Co. in 1881–1884, and then A. S. Aloe & Co. By 1905, it claimed to be "the largest house in the world'" [our thanks to the Smithsonian Institution's website for the preceding information]. The date of this piece is therefore after 1884. An OCLC search for the printer, C. B. Woodward, reveals that firm to have been active from 1891 to1898. Items offered for sale include trasparent amber triangles, lettering angles, spiral curves and irregular curves; mahogany straight edges; T-squares; protractors; and a drawing table (patented in 1890) SCIENCE TRADE CATALOGUE
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[AMERICAN INDIANS]. Littlefield George E. Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the American Indians
24 8vo, pale green wrappers, front printed, slightly soiled and with chipping at bottom and outer edge of front cover; has been folded in half vertically; final leaf and back wrapper detached Boston: [The Company], Nov., 1883. Three copies located in OCLC. Over 590 titles relating to North American Indians, including many Canadian tribes (catalogue has been microfilmed from the copy in the Canadian National Library). The obvious great rarities are not present: the Gass is the London printing of 1808, and Adair is present in German edition of 1782 in boards, uncut for $3.00. Laid in is a 4-page announcement concerning Samuel A. Green's "The Indian Wars". Page [3] contains other titles by Green; page [4] "Town Histories..." AMERICAN INDIAN BOOKSELLING
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[AMERICANA—AFRICAN AMERICAN]. Brown Ina Corinne The Story of the American Negro
xiii and 208 8vo, orange stiff wrappers with stunning front cover by Aaron Douglas, probably the best-known painter of the Harlem Renaissance. Front wrapper slightly ragged at outer edge; inch-long splits on both outer hinges of spine; first few leaves dog-eared at bottom front corner; ownership signature on half title New York: Friendship Press, [1936]. The author, a Texan who was educated at SMU went to Nashville in 1921 as secretary for the missionary education of young people in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. She lectured widely throughout the South on race relations, to both white and Afro-American groups. For four years she was a trustee of Paine College for Negroes in Augusta, Ga. In 1929 she traveled to Europe, Asia and Africa. She and a female companion crossed Central Africa alone from the mouth of the Congo on the west to Mombasa on the east--a feat that few, if any, other white women had accomplished AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART-AFRICAN AMERICAN
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[AMERICANA—CIVIL WAR]. BARTLETT John Russell Literature of the Rebellion. A Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the Civil War in the United States...Together with Works on American Slavery.
477 Tall 4to, green half calf; green cloth; some wear to extremities of spine. ONE OF ONLY 60 COPIES PRINTED IN QUARTO FORMAT--260 copies in 8vo; Sabin 3743. Inserted into the center of the first gathering are two leaves—on the first is pasted a letter from Bartlett:“Providence June 1, 1868 | Samuel Agnew Esq. | Dear Sir | In compliance with your request I take pleasure in sending you my photograph. | And remain | Very truly yours | John R. Bartlett.” On the second leaf is pasted a carte de visite showing a standing Bartlett with his right hand on an upright chair. His clipped signature is pasted below. We have been unable to locate Samuel Agnew in either American or British biographies of the period Boston; Providence: Draper & Halliday; Sidney S. Rider & Bro., 1866. CIVIL WAR AMERICANA PHOTOGRAPHY
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[AMERICANA—CIVIL WAR BROADSIDE] The Soldier's Camp Companion, Containing the most important information in relation to the soldier's duty, pay, rations, allowances, bounty (in money and land), how to apply for it, who is entitled to it, &c. Compiled from the late U.S. Laws, with Advices and Hints on Camp Life, from an Old Campaigner
Broadside, 17 1/8 x 11 3/4, printed in three columns; has been folded, two small holes each affecting one word; a flaw in the paper affecting the word "Camp" in the first line of type; some minor chips in the margins New York: S. C. Rickards & Co., 102 Nassau St, [circa 1861]. OCLC lists the Connecticut State Library as the only holding library for this ephemeral piece. ] Although no date is given, the opening paragraph of this piece reads: " As a large number of our young men, from town and country, are about to depart for the active duties of a soldier's life, perhaps it would be well to give a few hints on matters generally relating to the camp and the march, by one who has been "through the mill...." The author then addresses such matters as cleanliness; the treating of wounds received in battle; details of pay and a list of army rations; "General instructions for obtaining arrears of pay and bounty". There are also "Invaluable Recipes"--an indication of the haste with which this was put together are two recipes that soldiers would hardly need: one for face-powder and the other for removing freckles! At the foot of the broadside: "Agents wanted all the caps, and throughout the Country, to sell our various styles of Unequalled Prize and Stationery Packages...Largest and oldest Prize Package House in the World" . AMERICANA CIVIL WAR
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[AMERICANA—CIVIL WAR—UNION] Springfield Daily Republican, EXTRA
Broadside, 22 x 15 1/2, printed in 6 columns on one side only. Removed from a bound volume; no evidence of folding, but all edges somewhat chipped, not affecting text Springfield, Mass.: Saturday May 25, 1861. The left three columns are filled with news of the war in Virginia. General Butler enters Virginia. A report of a fight in Alexandria and a follow-up column stating it to be a false alarm. Also reported in the funeral of Col. Ellsworth who was shot in Alexandria. Interesting news from a Northern source, just over a month after Virginia seceded and two months before the first battle of Manassas which was July 21, 1861 AMERICANA
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[AMERICANA—ECONOMICS]. Carey Henry Charles The Unity of Law
xxiii and 433 + advertisements on 24 Large 8vo, green blind-stamped cloth; front slightly spotted; a few very small blisters on back cover. Ownership signature in pencil on free front endpaper and on title Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1872. The last book by this noted economist AMERICANA ECONOMICS
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[AMERICANA—ECONOMICS]. Handey William H. Political Equilibrium
175 8vo, black ribbed cloth, paper label on spine; endpapers heavily foxed; some minor staining andfoxing to remainder of leaves Hagers-town: Printed by Schnebly and Weis, 1842. First Edition. Sabin 30221; American Imprints 42-2203; not in Dorfman. Handey is anti Andrew Jackson's economic policies and is very much in favor of protective tariffs; he also (in the final chapter) supports the formation of a national bank AMERICANA ECONOMICS
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[AMERICANA]. ELLIOTT William S. An Oration Before the Washington Light Infantry on Their Fifty-First Anniversary, Being the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth of Washington's Birth; Delivered at Hibernian Hall on Monday, February 22d, 1858
14 8vo, full deep purple morocco, all edges gilt; gold tooling on edges of boards and forming borders on the outside edge of boards; ruled binder's blanks bound in at end; evidence of the removal of a bookplate and/or shelf mark on blank following front endpaper and on blank following final leaf. Glorifying Washington and also the regiment's involvement in the battle of Cowpens. Not in Sabin, nor in Turnbull Charleston, S.C.: Steam Power Press of Walker, Evans & Co., 1858. AMERICANA
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[AMERICANA—FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT]. Greene George Washington The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Speech of Prof. George W. Greene, of east Greenwich, Delivered in the House of Representatives of R.I., May 28 1869 [caption title]
8 8vo, disbound, spine showing evidence of previous pamphlet binding [Providence?]: s.n., 1869. No copy located in OCLC. The author was an educator and historian (holding the first chair of American History at Cornell). Greene's speech is very supportive of this amendment and rather flowery in the true tradition of nineteenth century oratory:"And, thus...the failure of the 14th amendment to give security to society by giving security to the new members of that society, brings us logically to the 15th amendment. The first recognized a right; the second provides the means of enforcing it." He ends by saying "Let us no longer delay to record the name of Rhode Island on the side of progress and right. Republican congressmen in early 1869 believed it was necessary to enfranchise the adult black male as a counterweight against a resurgent Democratic party. Two years earlier political need had impelled Congress to mandate black voting for the South by federal law; now, Congress found it expedient to inaugurate Afro-American voting in the Northern and border states by means of a constitutional amendment. They also wished to safeguard black voting in the South by banning racial discrimination in the exercise of the franchise. The Fifteen Amendment states that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on 'account of race color, or previous condition of servitude." Although intended to confer the right to vote on the Negro (the Fourteenth Amendment had made Afro-Americans citizens); many states had poll taxes and land-owning provisions which effectively kept many blacks from voting. Federal courts often interpreted this amendment very narrowly and over a period reduced its effectiveness. In "United States v. Reese" the Supreme Court put state and local election off limits to federal election enforcement (1876) and in "Williams vs. Mississippi" literacy tests and poll taxes(which were largely prejudicial to blacks) were upheld (1898); the most egregious case being "James vs. Bowman" (1903) when the Court emasculated it by denying federal authority under the amendment to prosecute a non-official who by bribery prevented some Kentucky blacks from voting in a Congressional election However the "Voting Rights Act" of 1965 owed its constitutional underpinning to the Fifteenth Amendment. AMERICANA
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[AMERICANA]. FIRE ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA Charter of the Trustees of the Fire Association of Philadelphia with the Original Articles of Association now in Force...By-Laws and Standing Resolutions
34 8vo, has been folded vertically; disbound, spine showing evidence of previous pamphlet binding. Sabin 61658 who lists two earlier: 1826 and 1833, and a later, 1867 Philadelphia: Bicking & Guilbert, Printers, 1856. AMERICANA COMPANY CONSTITUTIONS
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[AMERICANA]. HOPE HOSE COMPANY Constitution and Rules of Order, of the Hope Hose Company, As Revised and Adopted at a Stated Meeting of the Company, February 5, 1857
Extra engraved title and 24 8vo, disbound, lacking wrappers, spine showing evidence of previous pamphlet binding; ownership signature on engraved title. The company was founded in 1803. No records in OCLC Philadelphia: Wm. S. Young, Printer, 1857. AMERICANA COMPANY CONSTITUTIONS
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[AMERICANA—INSURANCE—Artisans' Order of Mutual Protection Summer Pleasure Tour of the Artisans' Order of Mutual Protection, to New York, the Highlands of the Hudson, West Point, and Newburgh
7 woodcuts illustrating the description of the trip, plus illustrated advertisements; and [16] Oblong 8vo, buff printed wrappers, slightly soiled; map on back cover [Philadelphia,1885]. On the inside cover a description of the benefits provided by the Order; then the bulk of the pamphlet is devoted to glowing descriptions of the Hudson. The trip started in Philadelphia by train then transferred to the "mammoth and palatial three-decked iron steamer Sirius" x AMERICANA
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[AMERICANA—INTEREST TABLES] Burritt Elijah Hinsdale Burritt's Universal Multipliers, for Computing Interest. Simple and Compound; Adapted to the Various Rates in the United States on a New Plan; To Which are Added Tables of Annuities and Exchange
72 Small 12mo, marbled paper-covered boards, expertly rebacked in brown leather; yellow printed label on front cover, some wear to corners; endpapers foxed; some minor dampstaining to first few leaves New York: Henry C. Sleight, 1830. This is the "First Pocket Edition".The first 13 pages contain instructions for the use of the tables; then to p. 66 are the tables for computing simple and compound interest; the last few pages contain a table of coins giving the value of various gold coins of different countries. Very scarce in trade and only four holdings in OCLC AMERICANA FINANCE
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[AMERICANA—KENTUCKY]. Lottery Havana Lottery of Kentucky AND [Form Letter—Egerton Brothers]
Handbill, 8 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches text within plain double-rule border. New York City: Fletcher Bros.,1866. The lottery offers 5,200 hundred prices ranging from a grand prize of $40,000 to 5,000 prizes of $20.00 each to be drawn in Covington, Kentucky on January 31st, 1866 Sold with a form letter from Egerton Bros., General Lottery Agents in Covington, Kentucky and dated August 23rd, 1864 for another Havana Lottery, also to be drawn at Covington, on September 30th, 1864. The letter, which is chipped at the margins, is in facsimile hand and offers the prospective purchaser a package of 16 tickets for $10.00 "And so sure are we that we understand our business, would advise you to make this investment at all hazards and will agree that if the [none of the tickets] we send you does not draw at the very least one of the 5000 prizes we will send you another [package] in any of the extra lotteries at our own expense." The only reference we have found is in the Filson Library which has a similar handbill with a later date and letter from a different firm offering the same terms as this letter. AMERICANA
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[AMERICANA—KNOW-NOTHING PARTY]. Hunt Theodore G. Speech of Col. T. G. Hunt At the Houma Barbecue, Parish of Terrebonne, on the 15th September
8 8vo, uncut and partially unopened; paper browned, some slight insect damage including a small hole through the 4 leaves which affects a few characters only; some staining and minor chips New-Orleans: American Party of Louisiana, 1855. Not in Sabin; Jumonville 2465. Extremely scarce: OCLC lists two holding libraries: Tulane and Louisiana State University; NUC adds Western Reserve. The author, born in South Carolina, was at this stage a Congressman from Louisiana in the Thirty-Third Congress. The first part of his speech (p. 1–5) is devoted to a defense of the Missouri Compromise and an attack on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill: "...I am assailed by the adherents of an administration (faithless to the honor of the country in its foreign appointments—faithless to the interests of trade and commerce in its reckless and unconstitutional obstruction of the improvement of rivers and harbors—faithless in the distribution of patronage to the best portion of its former friends, the Union loving conservative men of the Democratic party) for my vote and speech in Congress for maintaining good faith in respect to the Missouri Compromise. Educated in a school of honor, I have ever regarded good faith as the basis of human confidence—the only bond which holds men together in peace, safety and concord. I confess, therefore, that my feelings and understanding revolted at the proposal to overthrow and repeal the Missouri Compromise. I knew well that that Compromise had saved the Union—that it had restored peace and tranquility to the country at a time when section stood against section in fierce and hostile attitude, and when the sternest patriots trembled for the existence of the Union..." The later part of the speech is devoted to the Know-Nothing party's stand against immigration: "...Indeed for the last few years the influx for each single year has exceeded the total immigration for the first thirty years of the government; and now for the present year it is believed that the number of immigrants will exceed 500,000, and amount, perhaps, to a larger number than the entire population of Louisiana, white, free and bond...The vast hords [sic] that are precipitated upon us are composed chiefly of the rudest classes of the common laborers of the monarchical governments of Europe. They are uneducated, ignorant and prejudiced persons, and bring with them only those false ideas of government derived from their former associations and their degraded condition of life. They retain, in a good degree, their early habits and modes of thinking. They are extremely clannish and in many instances of late years, have not been separated from one another, and diffused throughout the land, and mixed up with and absorbed in the American population; but have formed settlements, sometimes of counties, by themselves, preserving even their native language...they cannot be politically incorporated with and assimilated to us, so as to be, in heart and understanding, in principle and feeling, part and parcel of the great body of the intelligent, republican free people of America...." AMERICANA
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[AMERICANA. MADISON James] Letter from the Secretary of State Accompanying Certain Laws of the North-Western and Indiana Territories
55 8vo, disbound, spine showing evidence of previous pamphlet binding, small tear to title, not affecting text, untrimmed [Washington, D.C.]: 14th January, 1802. Shaw and Shoemaker 3298. Ohio which comprised a large area of the western portion of the North Western Territory was admitted to the Union in 1803 as the 17th State; Indiana was admitted in 1816 as the 19th State; the remainder of the Territory was later admitted as the States of Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. The laws contained in this pamphlet refer to land taxes and were presented to Congress to vote upon as was consistent with the practice of Territorial Laws AMERICANA WESTERN EXPANSION
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[AMERICANA—ORDNANCE]. Terrell John A. Improvement In Heavy Ordnance. Terrell's Perforated Reinforce Cannon, Patented December 1868
Two folding plates; 20 8vo, pale green wrappers, front printed with a vignette of the cannon; considerable chipping to the edges; rubberstamp on front "Discarded" Louisville, Ky.: Terrell, Dietz & Co, Printers, 1872. Not in NUC; only two holdings in OCLC: University of Kentucky and the U.S. Army Field Artillery School. We have been unable to track down Mr. Terrell. The two wood-engravings are of very high quality and are done by Richard Ten Eyck of New York. The impetus that drove Terrell to his invention improving heavy ordnance was the construction of iron-clads which were impervious to regular cannon balls: "Until the means are provided for crushing the iron sides of Monitors and Merrimacs, nations must tremble for their maritime cities in time of war." Most of the guns produced up to this point were unstable and the barrels burst under the strain of continual firing. "Single guns have been made that would endure the discharge of 2,000 rounds before bursting, but the average number...is not over twenty." AMERICANA
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[AMERICANA]. REAVIS Logan Uriah The Commercial Destiny of the Mississippi and the Improvement of Its Great Water System. A Lecture
42 [43-50] including covers; pp. 44-50 are advertisements St. Louis: s.n., 1880. Second revised edition. The author, a journalist, was born in Illinois and moved to St. Louis in 1866 and devoted much of his energy to persuading his fellow countrymen to move the capital to St. Louis. This work is in the same vein and makes mention of the possibility of a canal through the isthmus of Panama AMERICANA
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[AMERICANA—RELIGION]. Jones Samuel (1735-1814) A Brief History of the Imposition of Hands on Baptised Persons
Handbill, 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 on browned laid paper, probably of American origin sl: sn, [ca. 1805?]. Notin Shaw & Shoemaker. Only other copy located at the Library Company of Philadelphia. This is at the height of the controversy about the Laying on of Hands which caused a real schism in the Baptist Church. Mention is made of John Marks and David Thomas who left Philadelphia for Virginia and established the Ketocton Association in 1766 one of the first five Baptist settlements. This seems to have been somewhere in Loudon County fairly near Middleburg AMERICANA RELIGION BAPTIST
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[AMERICANA. RUSH Mrs. Caroline E.] The North and South, Or, Slavery and Its Contrasts. A Tale of Real Life
Frontispiece and 5 wood-engraved plates; 350 12mo, red blind-stamped cloth, spine lacking 1/8 inch at head and tail; corners bumped; some soiling and foxing. Wright II, 2138. Published the same year as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Philadelphia: For the Author by Crissy & Markley, 1852. AMERICAN LITERATURE AFRICAN-AMERICAN ANTI-TOM
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[AMERICANA—VIRGINIA IMPRINT]. Bernard Stephen A New Grammar of the French Language Divided into Forty Lessons
148 and 96 8vo, marbled paper boards; brown leather spine with red leather spine label; lacking front free endpaper; some pages browned and some foxed. Richmond: Printed for the Author, 1832. Haynes 1466—a very early Virginia French Grammer. There is a work devoted soley to French verbs published in 1827 AMERICANA IMPRINTS
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[AMERICANA--4TH JULY ORATION]. Palfrey John Gorham An Oration Pronounced Before the Citizens of Boston, on the Anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence
42 8vo, disbound with spine showing evidence of previous pamphlet binding; lightly foxed and with pencil notes on three pages and an ink correction on one Boston: Press of John H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1831. Palfrey, at this time Minister of the Brattle Square Church in Boston, was the author of the History of New England which remained the standard work for decades despite its New England Puritan bias and anti-English animus AMERICANA
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[AMERICANA--NEUTRAL COMMERCE]. A Word to Federalists and to Those Who Love the Memory of Washington
14 8vo, side-stitched; age-darkened and chipped; uncut and unopened; bottom lower right of all leaves dog-eared, not affecting text. s.l.: s.n., [ Boston, 1810]. Sabin 105462—not differentiating between this 14 pp. printing and one with 8 pp. The American Antiquarian Society's copy of the 14 pp. edition has a contemporary ownership signature dated 12 June 1810" on title. a Federalist pamphlet in the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign of 1810 AMERICANA
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[ANDERSEN]. Toksvig Signe The Life of Hans Christian Andersen
Frontispiece and many text illustrations; xii and 289 8vo, red cloth, soiled, spine faded; top edgeyellow New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1934]. CHILDREN’S BOOKS BIOGRAPHY
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[ANDERSON, Alexander]. Merry Robert The Pleasures of Memory, by Samuel Rogers...and the Pains of Memory...and all the Other Poems of Samuel Rogers
7 copperplate engravings; 178 12mo in half-sheets, original printed boards New-York: David Longworth, April 1814. 3rd New York Printing, preceded by the 1802 and 1808 editions, all with plates by Anderson ENGRAVING
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[ANDERSON]. Howe Irving Sherwood Anderson
xiii and 271 8vo, light-blue cloth, spine slightly faded. In the American Men of Letters Series [New York]: William Sloane Associates, [1951]. BIOGRAPHY AMERICAN LITERATURE
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[ANDERSON]. Mumford Jones Howard, Editor Letters of Sherwood Anderson: His Life and Work
4 half-tones; xxix and 479 8vo, black cloth with wear over hinges and at head and tail of spine; dust jacket with some creasing along top front edge and wear at head and tail of spine; price-clipped. Gift presentation on the front free endpaper from Anderson's fourth wife Eleanor (the dedicatee of the present volume) to Ferdinand Schevill, a great friend of Anderson's and the recipient of several of the letters in this volume. First Edition Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1953]. LETTERS AMERICAN LITERATURE INSCRIBED COPY
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[ANDERSON]. Schevill James Sherwood Anderson: His Life and Work
8 half-tones; xvi and 360 8vo, gray cloth; dust jacket slightly abraded at head and tail of spine and over corners [Denver]: University of Denver Press, [1951]. BIOGRAPHY AMERICAN LITERATURE
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[ANONYMOUS]. Fabric Samples Season 1905-6. New Printed Opera Flannel. Wool Cashmere with Silk Stripes. Shrunk & Fast Colors. Chintz Effect. Class H. 27 Inch. Stock at London Address. [cover label
8vo, blue embossed cloth, printed label in gilt on front cover. 9 panels, accordion style. [s.l., United Kingdom: The Company], 1905. 15 samples of the same cloth in different color combinations. The following definition of opera flannel was found: a light flannel, highly finished. TRADE CATALOGUE FASHION
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[ANONYMOUS]. Gentleman of the Bar The Self-Taught Conveyancer or Farmers' and Mechanics' Guide: Being a Compilation from the Most Approved Authorities...
iv and 91 12mo in half sheets, marbled boards, worn; brown leather spine lacking top half inch; ballpoint notation on front free endpaper York, Penn.: P.Hardt and to be Had of Shaefer and Maund, Baltimore, 1849. A.I 49395; Cohen 8144 LAW
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[ANONYMOUS] The Journal of Law. Conducted by an Association of Members of the Bar [Caption title]
384 8vo, full contemporary leather, red label on spine; expertly rebacked, corners bumped; some foxing and browning; back free endpaper lacking a segment. Ownership signature of Allen McComb on front free endpaper, dated Aprile [sic] the 18th 1836 Philadelphia: [The Periodical], July 7, 1830–June 22, 1831. Volume I (24 issues)—all published. Not in Mott. Institutionally relatively common—but very scarce in trade. Pages 119–127 contain a discussion of the Pennsylvania penitentiary system with a contribution by Franklin Bache. This appears to be the first law journal that was directed to the layman. Nesmith, one of the previous owners, was connected with the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Some of his papers are at Dartmouth College AMERICANA LAW PERIODICAL
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[ANONYMOUS] The Kitchen and Fruit Gardener. A Select Manual of Kitchen Gardening, and Culture of Fruits...A Calendar of Work to be Performed Each Month of the Year. The Whole Adapted to the Climate of the United States
108 +publisher's advertisement on [12] 12mo, dark brown ribbed cloth, corners bumped and showing wear; lacking 1/8 inch at head and tail of spine; paper label largely lacking; foxing throughout most of the volume due to the poor quality of the paper Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1844. GARDENING
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[ANONYMOUS] Veterans All
200 8vo, purple cloth, some fading to front cover and spine [New York]: American Library Services, 1925. Not in Haynes. A WWI novel set in Charlottesville by an unknown author. Jefferson Davis Moon, the son of a UVa Professor of Chemistry, falls under the influence of alcohol and loses $2,000 in a poker game, in order to pay his debts he alters a $20 check to make it $2,000--his debts are covered by his best friend Grant, a Northern student and the orphaned nephew of another faculty member who is his father's best friend, Grant does this because he is in love with the miscreant's sister. Later, again under the "influence" Jeff decides to steal some platinum from the Chemistry building safe. Grant catches him in the act, Jeff throws a lighted cigarette carelessly away and it ignites some explosives and the building is burned to the ground. Jeff escapes and Grant runs after him and is suspected of setting the fire. Jeff, full of remorse leaves Charlottesville the morning following the fire to go to France to join the Lafayette Espadrille, having left a sealed letter to his father to be opened in the event of his death. Old Dr. Moon vehemently opposes the romance of Grant and his daughter on the grounds that Grant is a Northerner. Grant, who was never charged for his supposed involvement in the fire, also leaves to go to war. Jeff becomes a flying ace, dies in battle but is listed as missing for three years; Grant comes home safely, finally news of Jeff's fate is confirmed; the letter is opened by Dr. Moon and in it Jeff reveals where he hid the platinum. Dr. Moon finally agrees to let his daughter marry Grant. Not very well written, but full of local details and undoubtedly a roman a clef, if only one were able to sort the characters out. Characters include a pair of old maids whose blood is so rarefied that they cannot marry anyone for fear of thinning it--they are also ouija-board enthusiasts, various business men and faculty members SOUTHERN LITERATURE CHARLOTTESVILLE
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[ANONYMOUS] Walter Seyton: A Story of Rural Life in Virginia
4 black and white line drawings; 117 +advertisements on [2] 12mo, royal blue embossed cloth; wear to corners and extremities of spine; lacking the front free endpaper Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859. Not a first, two previous editions in 1858. A moral tale for children. We have not been able to determine the author's identity JUVENILE FICTION SOUTHERN LITERATURE
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ANONYMOUS The Book of Trades; or Circle of the Useful Arts. Third Edition
Extra-engraved title, copperplate engravings and woodcuts; xii and 388 pp. Small 8vo, olive-green ribbed cloth, intricate blind-stamping to covers, spine pictorial and gilt; inner hinges cracked but firm; ownership signature on front pastedown Glasgow: Richard Griffin & Co., 1837. Nice copy of a charming little book which divides the trades into various areas, Food, Shelter, Clothing, Traveling and the Liberal Arts ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
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ANONYMOUS The Letters of Junius
Two volumes each with a different engraved frontispiece and title vignette.12mo, full mottled calf with intricate strawberry roll border within broad and narrow rule borders; edges of boards also decorated, but pattern difficult to discern; all edges with brown mottling, red leather spine labels, spine with intricate design different marbled endpapers in each volume Boston: N. H. Whitaker, 1827 and 1826. The first and last few leaves are browned, caused by the poor paper used for the marbled endpapers; page xii of Vol. I badly trimmed in binding. Note Vol. I is dated 1827 and Vol. II is dated 1826. Hannah Dustin French illustrates the strawberry roll on a "Book of Common Prayer" in "Bookbinding in America" (opposite p. 93) and Willham Spawn informs us that it is only known on New York bindings. This set bears the ownership signature and rubber stamp of George Edward Tabb (1810-1867) who was born and raised in Gloucester County, Virginia. Tabb married Mary Harrison Randolph (1819-1904) the daughter of William Fitzhugh Randolph and Jane Cary (Harrison) Randolph. They lived at Woodstock Plantation, Mathews County, Virginia. Tabb was educated at Yale University and the University of Virginia, he was a lawyer, planter, justice of the peace, during the Civil War he attained the ranks of captain and provost marshal HISTORY LETTERS
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ANONYMOUS Poems by [within a pentagram] S
vi and 71 pp. 8vo, maroon cloth, title in gold on front cover and spine, some wear to corners and extremities; ownership signature of Robert Lynn Batts on title London: Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd., Printers, 1909. No other copy located. Both COPAC and OCLC searched by title, printer, and year. Clearly, this was originally the author's own copy for there are numerous alterations and corrections throughout, these are substantive and can only reflect authorial intent. It is unknown whether the great Texas lawyer Batts wrote poetry, but it is clearly his ownership signature on the title; interestingly, the poems are mostly North or South American in content and one is called "The Rose of Texas." POETRY
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ANONYMOUS [Charles Dickens] The Wedding Bells. An Echo of the Chimes
Title vignette and2 hand-colored lithographs "by the author"; [iv] and 136 Small 8vo, crimson, horizontally ribbed cloth, outer hinges darkened due to previous tightening; blind-stamped rules with ornate corners; spine and gilt; title page printed in blue and red; a.e.g. London: Thomas Allman, 1846. Carr B397. Six holdings in OCLC; COPAC adds 3 more, none identifying the author. Charming little volume. Ownership signature of an Emily Saunders on the front pastedown, dated January 1847 VIRGINIANA SCIENCE
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[ANTHOLOGY] The American Caravan. A Yearbook of American Literature.
xvii and 843 8vo, dark-green textured cloth. This impressive compilation, edited by Van Wyck Brooks, Alfred Kreymborg, Lewis Mumford and Paul Rosenfeld, features 72 writers, many luminaries, but others now largely forgotten New York: The Macaulay Company, [1927]. AMERICAN LITERATURE ANTHOLOGIES
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