New Haven: Hezekiah Howe 1828. First edition 8vo pp. 36; removed from binding wrappers wanting; last couple leaves lightly foxed otherwise clean and sound. Jehudi Ashmun a caucasian was a member of the American Colonialization Society which founded the colony of Liberia. Ashmun moved there and served as the de facto governor and supported a constitution that gave black citizens the ability to serve in government. He grew ill shortly after his second term and died soon after returning to the States. Leonard Bacon was an influential anti-slavery advocate. His work Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays from 1833 to 1846 was an influence on Lincoln. American Imprints 32060; not in Afro-Americana. <br/><br/> Hezekiah Howe unknown books
New York: Harper and Brothers 1926. First Edition. Very good. 8vo. Green cloth title labels affixed to front spine. INSCRIBED by the author: "Helen Thompson / with L.B.'s warmest / wishes" Mild exterior handling wear small spot of discolor to front. Endpapers age toned trace foxing else sound clean. <br/><br/> Harper and Brothers hardcover books
BACON Leonard. Autograph Letter Signed. Two pages on personalized stationery to Leonard Kennedy no year but dated Feb. 9. "Thanks for your learned but brief epistle. The great Sir John certainly left nothing to be desired." Discusses forwarding a signed book and seeing Kennedy soon. Also urges him to read Parker's "A Thousand Years of the Tartars". "It will give you new ideas about China if you haven't." Also "What a remarkable record the city of Buffalo has achieved." $75.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
New York: Harper and Brothers 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good . 8vo. Plain black cloth gilt title lettering to spine. In original unclipped jacket $2.00. INSCRIBED by the author: "Owen Wister Esq. / from his friend / the author." Jacket substantially edgeworn with area of paper loss to rear center. Corners bumped spot of discolor at upper end of spine moderate handling wear about exterior. <br/><br/>Association copy inscribed to Wister author the Western classic "The Virginians." Harper and Brothers hardcover books
New Haven: Printed by B.L. Hamlen Printer to Yale College 1848. Printed salmon wrappers. First edition. Very light foxing early and late faint dust soiling to wrappers tiny nick to toe of spine else a fine copy as usual. Printed by B.L. Hamlen, Printer to Yale College unknown books
London: Oxford University Press 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 86 pages. A collection of poems. A tight near fine copy in a close to near fine price clipped dust jacket with some minor wear. Oxford University Press unknown books
New York Oxford University Press 1943. 1943. First edition. 8vo. Title page printed in orange and black. Dust jacket unclipped; small chip. Very good. 86 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Oxford University Press, 1943. hardcover books
New York: Oxford University Press 1943. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author to fellow poet Ralph Hodgson. Fine in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Oxford University Press hardcover books
New York: Oxford University Press 1943. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Oxford University Press hardcover books
New Haven nd. Quarto broadside 252 x 240mm. A separate printing of this ten stanza poem published as the Bacons' holiday greeting for some unspecified year. Not reported in OCLC/Worldcat. unknown books
Andover: published by the Society of Inquiry Respecting Missions 1823. First edition 12mo pp. xii 13-108; original tan paper wrappers; title printed in black on front cover; lower spine a bit chipped; slight dampstaining on front cover; otherwise very good. Compiled for the benefit of the Society of Inquiry Respecting Missions an organization formed by undergraduates at Williams College. American Imprints 11660. <br/><br/> published by the Society of Inquiry Respecting Missions unknown books
Philadelphia: The Pickering Press 1947. Broadside 12 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Slight bump at lower edge and faint tanning otherwise near fine. First separate edition. Handset in Cloister Oldstyle at the Golden Hind Press and printed by the Pickering Press. A handsome ephemeron. The Pickering Press unknown books
New York: Harper & Bros. 1930. Linen and boards paper label. Slight foxing of endsheets and top edge else nice in darkened nicked white dust jacket. First edition limited issue. One of only 50 numbered copies specially printed and bound and signed by the author. This copy additionally inscribed by the author with "dearest love." Harper & Bros. hardcover books
New York: Harper 1930. First edition. One of 50 copies printed on Vidalon paper numbered and signed. Original quarter white cloth with printed label spine slightly discolored but nice copy in the dust jacket. Inscribed by Bacon to Mr. & Mrs. Charles Mills Gayley. The poem "The Archaeologist of the Future" based on an idea by Sherwood Anderson wonders about the rediscovery of "Alice in Wonderland'" <br/><br/> Harper hardcover books
New York: Harper & Brothers Publisher 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 129 pages. Number 25 of only 50 copies printed on Vidalon Velin. A fine copy in an about very good spine darkened dust jacket with some splitting along the spine in a near fine slipcase with publisher's printed label. Signed by Bacon on the limitation page and with an additional presentation by him on the front free endpaper. A very nice copy. Harper & Brothers Publisher unknown books
Hanover: The Dartmouth Press. Very Good-. 1845. Pamphlet. 23 pages appears to have been removed from a bound volume. Shows some light soiling and toning but overall about very good. . The Dartmouth Press unknown books
New Haven: A. H. Maltby 1833. Second Separate edition so stated. Paperback. Good. 24p. Pamphlet. 23cm. Disbound removed from a bound volume. Foxing moderate on title-leaf light elsewhere. Six digit number stamped at top of first text leaf. Bacon was one of the leading lights of Congregationalism during his lifetime. This is Bacon's closely argued and perhaps once persuasive dismissal of the criticisms of Garrison and others of the schemes of the American Colonization Society. <br/><br/> A. H. Maltby paperback books
New Haven 1833. 24pp. Disbound scattered foxing. Good. <br/><br/> The only edition recorded by American Imprints NUC the Library Company Dumond and Sabin despite its stated description. "Bacon was a strong colonizationist and bitter opponent of immediate emancipation. He was equally opposed to slavery and to organized antislavery effort." Dumond 23. In this piece Bacon's loathing of the Garrisonian "fanatics" and their abolitionist ideas comes through loud and clear. "Reader notice the admirable simplicity of the proposal. The remedy for slavery is that slavery should cease. How simple and yet how effectual. Certainly this looks like philosophy." <br/>FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. AI 17489 5. LCP 759. Dumond 23. Sabin 2671. Not in Blockson Work. unknown books
Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1914. First edition thus. Softcover. An offprint from The University of California Chronicle Vol. XVI No 3. An about fair copy in stapled wrappers with some creasing to the corners and some soiling as well. Inscribed and initialed by Bacon on the front cover. Scarce. University of California Press unknown books
Berkeley: Reprint from the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE XVI:3 nd. Printed wrappers. Offprint. Small chip to one corner light dust soiling. Very good. Reprint from the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE XVI:3 unknown books
Stanford: Stanford University 1920. Printed wrappers. First edition of this Phi Beta Kappa Poem. Wrappers faintly tanned at edges else a very good or better copy. Stanford University unknown books
1936. BACON Leonard. THE GOOSE ON THE CAPITOL. NY: Harper and Brothers 1936. 8vo. orange cloth. First Edition. Signed presentation from Bacon on the front endpaper: "Tom Coward. with the author's best wishes." Very Good some wear sunning. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1928. Linen and boards paper spine label. Spine label and edges a bit dust marked otherwise a very good copy in modestly sunned slipcase with minor wear. First edition limited issue. One of an unknown number of copies for presentation in addition to fifty numbered copies specially printed on English handmade paper differently bound and signed by the author. This copy is signed by the author with a '-' in place of the number and bears his inscription to printer/typographer Carl P. Rollins. With Rollins's bookplate. Harper & Bros. hardcover books
Berkeley: Reprint from the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE XVIII:4 nd. Printed wrappers. Offprint. Dust soiling at upper edge very good. Reprint from the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CHRONICLE XVIII:4 unknown books
New York: Harper & Brothers 1935. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Fine in very good dust jacket. With printed broadside Christmas poem laid in. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1935. First edition. Hardcover. An about near fine copy in cloth binding with some fading and a few spots to the spine. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
New York: Knopf 1923. Cloth and boards paper label. Near fine in lightly chipped spine darkened dust jacket. First edition of this pseudonymous work Bacon's first substantial book from a trade publisher. A four line quotation in manuscript signed by Bacon is attached to the verso of the title-leaf. Knopf hardcover books
New York: Knopf 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Blue cloth tan title label to spine top page edge dyed red. SIGNED and with an original poem in the author's hand. Moderate handling wear more prominent to rear. Last endpaper with crease marks slight foxing to interior more so at extremities. <br/><br/>Orignal poem in praise of Carmel CA penned to front endpaper: "Wise men say and I know well / There is only one Carmel. / Romes and Londons are to burn. / From them in contempt I turn / Who perpetually seek / The undeniably unique. / Many roses many trilliums / Many Helens many . / Only one of Mrs. Williams. / Leonard Bacon / January 8th 1924" Knopf hardcover books
New Haven: Durrie & Peck; NY: Gould. Newman & Saxton 1839. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis viii 400p. Hardcover in recent quarterbinding. 23 cm. Moderate foxing. An autograph Letter signed by Bacon mounted on back of frontis in which Bacon asks someone for aid with a Wethersfield-related genealogical problem. <br/><br/> Durrie & Peck; NY: Gould. Newman & Saxton hardcover books
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press 1927. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. First edition. Fine. Prints Bacon's extended "Quincibald in Mediocria" and Tinker's "The Idea of a College." Yale Univ. Press unknown books
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press 1927. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. First edition. Fine. Prints Bacon's extended "Quincibald in Mediocria" and Tinker's "The Idea of a College." Yale Univ. Press unknown books
New Haven: Pr. by B. L. Hamlen for the Foreign Evangelical Society 1845. 8vo. 43 1 blank pp. <br><br>Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly age-toned. Pencilled presentation inscription on title-page partially cut off by binder's trimming. Pr. by B. L. Hamlen for the Foreign Evangelical Society unknown books
NY:: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1943. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press, hardcover books
New York: Office of the American Biblical Repository 1840. 8vo. 25 pp. <br><br><br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in American Imprints. Removed from a nonce volume. Foxing throughout. Office of the American Biblical Repository unknown books
BenBella Books. Paperback. 1935618253 very good little creased books carefully packed and shipped promptly . Very Good. 2010. BenBella Books paperback
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