‎Abraham‎

‎ROSENBACH Abraham Simon Wolf 1876 1952.‎

‎An American Jewish Bibliography Being a List of Books and Pamphlets by Jews or Relating to Them. Printed in the United States from the Establishment of the Press in the Colonies Until 1850.‎

‎Baltimore:: American Jewish Historical Society 1926. 1926. Series: A special edition of Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society Number 30. Thick 8vo. xi 1 486 11 1 pp. Facsimiles index. Brown gilt-stamped cloth. Very good . First edition. American Jewish Historical Society, 1926. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : EEG1345

‎Merritt Abraham‎

‎The Face in the Abyss‎

‎New York: Horace Liveright 1931. First edition. Slight lean; black mark to top edge; scratches to front flyleaf; covers soiled; very good in a rubbed dust jacket with fraying to edges and spine ends and a small chip to the base of the spine. 8vo 343pp; yellow cloth stamped in black. A decent copy of this collection of stories by the master fantasist. Horace Liveright unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 205096

‎Anscher Abraham‎

‎Detailed Narrative of an 1883-1884 Expedition Through Southern Africa Written by Exploring Party Leader Abraham Anscher a Jewish Chicago Immigrant‎

‎Various places in South Africa Botswana 1884. Overall very good. 295pp. plus five additional letters totaling 60pp. altogether more than 38000 words. Composed mostly on small octavo sheets. Some wear to edges of initial and final few leaves slightly affecting text. Light even tanning. Written in a consistent legible script. An extensive and outstanding manuscript account of travel and exploration in southern Africa during late 1883 and early 1884 by Abraham Anscher a Polish Jewish immigrant to Chicago. The manuscript is composed in the form of a letter addressed to Edith Delia Rogalski but really comprises a travelogue or diary with entries written from September 1883 to mid-January 1884. Five additional letters accompany this account addressed to Edith's later husband Israel Jackson Roe; her parents Samuel and Sarah Rogalski; and her brother Benny. <br/><br/>Anscher's descriptions of his experiences in Africa cover a wide variety of topics including big game hunting; interactions with local indigenous peoples and their rulers; encounters with white missionaries traders and other hunters; ethnographic botanical geological and zoological observations and much more. His account is by turns dramatic and amusing interspersed with personal recollections of family and home cultural and religious notes his addressee was also a Polish-speaking Jewish immigrant to Chicago and reminiscences of earlier adventures in Colorado Utah the California gold fields and elsewhere.<br/><br/>Little can be readily discerned of the details of Anscher's biography beyond the pages of this manuscript. He was born in Mariampol then a part of Poland and today in Lithuania but clearly came to the United States at an early age and was well-educated. He was an adventurer at heart and spent several years in the West perhaps in the U.S. Army for part of this time and partly as a solo fortune seeker. At some point during the mid- to late-1870s he decided to take his adventuring talents to South Africa in order to satisfy his own wanderlust and to create a business of organizing guided African exploration and hunting. The stakes of his chosen profession are mentioned several times throughout his narrative such as when a party member dies of an unspecified illness "My lot is a very hard one just now and my position as promoter and chief adventurer is anything but enviable". From the additional letters present it is apparent that the young Ms. Rogalski was a former love interest of Anscher who spurned his affections and became engaged to a mutual friend. Indeed a letter here addressed to the fiancé offers an apology for presumption of writing to Edith in such a lengthy and cordial manner; at one time all of the individuals addressed by Anscher were a part of the same immigrant community in Chicago.<br/><br/>This absorbing account follows a lengthy excursion organized and led by Anscher across the Transvaal through Bechuanaland Matabeleland and beyond to a settlement he calls Tatti probably Francistown on the Tati River traveling through parts of modern-day South Africa and Botswana. They contain many details of great interest and his vignettes are well-written and dramatically delivered. An immense boa constrictor drops out of the treetops strangling a springbok before his eyes. He finds a five-year-old girl with a broken leg the only survivor of a village massacre; he sets her leg nurses her for a month and eventually conveys her to a missionary station. A young zebra joins the traveling party incurring the jealousy of the team's dogs. A large lizard is trained to sleep in a tent but only after his teeth are removed for safety. <br/><br/>His missive begins in medias res with his party already underway in South Africa near the Orange River in what he calls the "Tarka bush" during mid-September 1883. Anscher decides having missed his last opportunity to send mail "Now to put myself on guard against mischance and not be like the traditional foolish virgins who did not keep their lamps properly trimmed.to have a so-called running letter always open and ready" for his recipient. The group first traveled northeast near and along the Orange allowing Anscher to wax discursive concerning the river's wildlife:<br/><br/>"The wanderings of the river sometimes flowed through immense chasms over hung with stupendous precipices and then like a translucent lake with beautiful towering mimosas and willows reflected from its bosom and a rich variety of fine plumage though without a song; wild geese ducks snipes flamingoes in perfect security feeding on the banks beneath the green shade or basking in the sun's rays on the verdant islands far from the fowler's snare. The swallows also mounting aloft or skimming the surface of the mirror of the stream; while the ravens with their hoarse note might be seen seeking their daily food among the watery tribe or cawing on the bending tops of the weeping willows."<br/><br/>The party leaves the river and skirts the southern edge of the Kalahari to reach Lattakoo modern-day Dithakong a traditional departure point for excursions deeper into the interior of Africa during the 19th century. Thence they headed north again stopping often to hunt for food and sport:<br/><br/>"When on the Kama plains I went one night accompanied by Tytler and Winsloe and one native to a pool of water about two miles from camp. We did not wait more than about half an hour when we heard loud lapping at the water. The natives told me 'Ronimala ' be silent 'There is a lion.' Our next visitors were two buffaloes but we did not fire lest we attract the attention of the lions. Next came three giraffes and one we knocked over on the spot and wounded another but who got away. I have seen plenty of game in my time. I saw and hunted antelope and elk on the Laramie plains and in the Meek Mountains in America before the Union Pacific RR was built. I saw quite enough of buffalo in the Smokey Hills and Montana as well as south of the Green Horn Mountains between California and Arizona but such a variety of game big game and in such number as I saw some years ago in the Transvaal & Swaziland and hereabouts now I never saw anywhere."<br/><br/>As the excursion proceeds further into the interior their encounters with native tribes increases and Anscher observes them keenly and reports with a detailed if somewhat jaded 19th-century eye:<br/><br/>"The town of Kalabeg is already in the Matabele country. Of course they have no religion of any kind for there is no such thing as natural religion. Men acquire knowledge good or bad from instruction of men with more fertile brains. This holds good all the world over. The rainmakers here hold the position of prophets and divines of the so-called civilized countries. These rainmakers who are also the doctors and sextons have great influence over the minds of the people and are held in great estimation by them superior to that of their king who is likewise compelled to yield to the dictates of this personage the rainmaker. Nothing can exceed the freaks of fancy and the adroitness with which the rainmaker can awe the public mind and lead thousands captive at his will. Each tribe has one or more of them and they generally come from other countries for a prophet is seldom honored in his own country."<br/><br/>Arriving in Shoshong in what is now central Botswana Anscher meets some missionaries and witnesses a tribal gathering which leads him to remember the religious theories of a familial acquaintance back home:<br/><br/>"Was present at a Pitsoh or native congress this forenoon held by the natives about some tribe affairs. About 12000 natives present and wound up the proceedings with a war dance. As these tribes are considered by some religious enthusiasts to be of the lost tribes of Israel not your own but ours and as your uncle once spoke to me about them while at Chicago I would therefore request you to kindly tell him to disabuse his mind on this point and that the only peg whereon the so-called lost tribe maniacs hang their argument in favor of their hobby is that the natives practice a certain custom which history attributes to our father Abraham. But this ceremony takes place instead of at the age of 7 days old when they are about fourteen years old and even when older. But they have no tradition as to why it is done. If this simple custom entitles them to be call Jews why for my part they are quite welcome to the honor. But this is about all there is to build the theory on." <br/><br/>Despite his occasionally sarcastic and somewhat disparaging demeanor toward the natives he encounters Anchser seems overall to have a decent connection with them at a personal level and to understand a basic sense of shared humanity. In one particularly poignant episode Anscher meets a mother and father who have walked 300 miles to ransom their two teenaged sons enslaved by a local chief: <br/><br/>"Neither the man's looks nor ornaments excited the smallest emotion in the bosom of the chief and when he was solicited by one who felt something of a father's love to pity the old man who had walked so far and brought his all to purchase his own children he at last replied with a sneer that one of the boys died last year and for the other he wants an ox at least. 'But I have not even a goat' pleaded the old man 'the Matabele have taken all I had and destroyed my hut.' A sigh it was a heavy sigh burst from his bosom one dead and the other not permitted to see anymore. The chief walked off while the man sat leaning his head on the palm of his hand and his eye fixed on the ground apparently lost to everything but his grief. On taking up his trinkets to retire I told him to keep up a good heart that I would try to get him his boy. He started at the sound of my voice kneeled before me and laid down his trinket saying 'take all this but get me back my boy.' I got him his boy for a colored blanket and 1 lb. of tobacco."<br/><br/>When sad and homesick Anscher recalls his time in Chicago and in the West but it is often insufficient comfort. After departing Shoshong for Tatti Anscher must leave his group to "pioneer" a trail to the settlement:<br/><br/>"On the evening of my first day's journey I had to off-saddle a term used here on a waterless plain picketed my horse and went to bed minus my supper or dinner. I awoke suddenly by something touching me on my forehead like the cold nose of a dog but I could see nothing in the dark except my horse who was laying down poor fellow. After this occurrence I could sleep no longer. My head was hot my lips parched and had no taste even for a cigarette. I daresay some of you have experienced waiting for a train early in the morning in some out of the way small RR station where moments appear like days. Well waiting there is not a patch to lying in the dark in Africa's solitude waiting for daylight to come. I tried to divert my mind and think of anything but water but I could not do it! I tried to cool myself by thinking of Chicago in the month of Feb. but that only led me to snow and from snow to water. One may as well try Ovid's 'Remedia Amoris' to cure him from hankering after the girl he loves as to try Chicago in my case as a remedy when thirsty." <br/><br/>The difficulties of obtaining food and water establishing safe camp and finding routes through minimally charted territory evident in this final passage are an ever-present theme of the expedition but Anscher eventually guided his group to their destination where they intended to stay for a month or two before heading further north to Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River. The final entries describe life at the settlement and how a Portuguese colonial explorer and administrator Alexandre de Serpo Pinto whom they met in camp would be entrusted with the present manuscript as he traveled to Namaqualand on the west coast of Africa in the hopes that it would eventually find its way aboard a ship bound for America. Pinto was a fascinating figure in his own right -- he explored the interior of Africa for Portugal in the 1860s and 1870s and after this meeting with our author became the Portuguese Consul in Zanzibar.<br/><br/>Anscher's trail goes somewhat cold after January 1884 when he relinquished control of this massive "running letter." An additional fragment of a later letter to Edith Rogalski included here forwarded via a mining acquaintance in Kimberly contains a few tantalizing details of his onward expedition including an attack on their party near Victoria Falls by a group of slavers led by "an American Negro." He was also working on a journal and taking photographs which are mentioned several times throughout this account but the survival of this other material as well as the ultimate conclusion of this expedition are not known. A wonderful unpublished account of African exploration by a seemingly unlikely and apparently otherwise unknown American character. A complete transcription of the manuscript is available upon request. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 1562

‎Walkowitz Abraham‎

‎Art from life to life‎

‎Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius 1951. Paperback. Articles by Ozenfont Van Vechten Venturi et. al. 40pp of drawings. <br/><br/>Signed on the cover. Haldeman-Julius paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 1892

‎Johnston Abraham Robinson Marcellus Ball Edwards and Philip Gooch Ferguson Edited By Ralph P. bieber‎

‎Marching with the Army of the West 1846-1848‎

‎Glendale CA: The Arthur H. Clark Co 1936. First Edition. Large Octavo. The editor has combined the manuscripts of Johnston Edwards and Ferguson into one work without making any changes to the text except punctuation and capitalization. All three men participated in the war against Mexico their occupation of New Mexico and California. They march from Sacramento and Missouri to take over this land for the United States under the leadership of General Stephen Watts Kearny and General A.W. Doniphan. Portrait frontispiece 368pp. folding map with an appendix containing muster roll of volunteers. Bound in maroon cloth spine lettering and top edge gilt uncut. A lovely nearly fine copy of this important historical event. The Arthur H. Clark Co unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 019119

‎ABRAHAM LINCOLN‎

‎Trial of Abraham Lincoln by the Great Statesmen of the Republic a Mock Trial of President Lincoln for Treason‎

‎<p>In this creative pamphlet Lincoln stands trial before a jury of his "peers" former presidents and statesmen from American history including Stephen A. Douglas Daniel Webster Henry Clay John Hancock Patrick Henry Gouverneur Morris Alexander Hamilton John C. Calhoun James Madison George Mason Elbridge Gerry Andrew Jackson Thomas Jefferson George Washington and William Gaston. The author compiles passages from their speeches in mock dialogue with the defendant Lincoln as they contradict his defenses against their charges.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Pamphlet. <i>Trial of Abraham Lincoln by the Great Statesmen of the Republic. A Council of the Past on the Tyranny of the Present. The Spirit of the Constitution on the Bench—Abraham Lincoln Prisoner at the Bar his own Counsel.</i> New York: Office of the Metropolitan Record 1863. Original printed wrappers stitched. 29 3 pp. First Edition.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Excerpts:</b></p><p>"<i>George Washington the father of the American Union who was surrounded by the great statesmen of the Revolution and by others of a still later date…had assembled for the trial of the present incumbent … on charges of the gravest and most serious character. the Spirit of the Constitution…occupied the bench of Justice.</i>" 4-5</p><p>"<i>Abraham Lincoln is herein charged with treasonable intent purposes and designs in having committed the following unconstitutional acts in the course of his administration:</i></p><p>"<i>1. In having declared war against independent and sovereign States under the pretence of repossessing himself of certain forts and other property seized and held by said States.</i></p><p>"<i>2. In having arrested citizens of the United States and incarcerated them in Government bastiles without process of law.</i></p><p>"<i>3. In having suppressed the liberty of speech thereby denying to the citizen the Constitutional right of criticizing the acts of his Administration.</i></p><p>"<i>4. In having prohibited and stopped the publication of certain newspapers for the exercise of the same right referred to in the preceding charge.</i></p><p>"<i>5. In having placed the military above the civil power as shown in the establishment of martial law over portions of the country which were not embraced within the theatre of war.</i></p><p>"<i>6. In overthrowing State sovereignty as in the case of Virginia the integrity of which was violated by the erection of the so-called State of Kanawha within its limits.</i></p><p>"<i>7. In having approved indorsed and partially carried into execution the unconstitutional act of Congress known as the Confiscation Bill.</i></p><p>"<i>8. In having approved of the infamous law known as the Conscription Act which was not only subversive of the Constitution but violative of State sovereignty.</i></p><p>"<i>9. <b>In having attempted to carry into execution the Emancipation Act thereby violating the most sacred guarantees of the Constitution.</b></i> 5-6</p><p>"<i>The criminal looked around the court and on the faces of the assembled patriots of the past but as they returned his gaze they shuddering averted their heads. Then the Spirit of the Constitution addressing him spoke as follows:</i></p><p>"<i>'You have been tried and found wanting. You have been given the opportunity of saving a nation but you have stabbed it to the heart. You were born in the freest country under the sun but you have converted it into a despotism. You have violated your oath; you have betrayed the trust reposed in you by the popular will and to the outraged justice of your countrymen I now leave you with the brand of "Tyrant" upon your brow. They will hereafter inflict upon you that penalty which justice demands while history will pronounce its judgment upon the infamous acts of your Administration.'</i>" 28-29</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Contemporaries historians and others have criticized Lincoln for violating state sovereignty freedom of speech and freedom of the press for suspending habeas corpus and imposing martial law. All of these charges figure prominently in this ghostly trial of the President.</p><p>The publisher and possibly author of this pamphlet was John Mulally the Irish-born editor and proprietor of the <i>Metropolitan Record</i> a weekly Catholic family newspaper published from 1859 to 1868 in New York City. From 1859 to March 1863 it was the official organ of the Archbishop John Hughes of New York. Catholic critics accused it of taking an "open and avowedly treasonable course…since the war broke out; but more especially since the President issued his Emancipation Proclamation" and of forcing Archbishop Hughes to withdraw his support.</p><p><i>The Indiana State Sentinel</i> a Democratic newspaper published in Indianapolis printed much of the pamphlet on its front page declaring it "perhaps the most thorough and effective exposition of the terrible character and extent of the departure of the present Administration from the word and spirit of the fathers of the Constitution that has yet been put in print."</p><p>In 1863 authorities arrested Baltimore booksellers Michael J. Kelly and John B. Piet publishers of the <i>Catholic Mirror</i> for printing works of a "treasonable character." On May 23 1864 Provost Marshal detectives again arrested Kelly and Piet and searched their store. Among the "inflammable matter" found were 97 copies of <u>this</u>pamphlet envelopes with rebel flags 57 packs of playing cards with Confederate officers and some 212 Confederate photographs. The authorities imprisoned Kelly and Piet in Fort McHenry. On May 28 Kelly's son received permission to reopen the store and authorities allowed the press to resume publication of the <i>Catholic Mirror</i> on May 30 while Kelly and Piet awaited trial. On June 1 and 2 Major General Lew Wallace ordered Kelly and Piet released if they each posted a $5000 security bond not to violate any departmental regulations.</p><p>In March 1864 Major General William S. Rosecrans a Catholic commander of the Department of the Missouri ordered the Provost Marshal General in St. Louis to seize all issues of the <i>Metropolitan Record</i> to prohibit further distribution of the newspaper in that department and to punish all vendors who sold or distributed issues of the newspaper knowing their "traitorous contents." Rosecrans had read enough in the <i>Metropolitan Record</i> to satisfy himself that "no reasonable freedom nor even license of the press suffice for the traitorous utterances in those articles" and that they were "a libel on the Catholics who as a body are loyal and national." In November 1864 Major General Hugh Ewing commanding the District of Kentucky likewise banned the circulation of the <i>Metropolitan Record</i> and seven other newspapers in his district.</p><p>In the midst of the 1864 presidential election campaign the <i>Metropolitan Record</i>advertised for canvassers to sell this as "the great campaign pamphlet of the day." Mulally later reportedly repudiated McClellan as the Democratic nominee favoring a peace candidate instead.</p><p>111 Eberstadt 332. Monaghan 252. Sabin 41234. LCP 10399.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Margin dusting to the front wrapper Very Good.</p> Office of the Metropolitan Record paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 23743

‎ABRAHAM LINCOLN. HENRY CHARLES LEA‎

‎Union League of Philadelphia Supports Re-Election of Lincoln as “the man for the timeâ€‎

‎<p>"<i>As a MAN OF THE PEOPLE understanding them and trusted by them he has proved himself the man for the time.</i>"</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN. HENRY CHARLES LEA.</b>Printed Pamphlet. <i>No. 17: Abraham Lincoln</i> March 1864. 12 pp. 5¾ x 8¾ in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Excerpts:</b></p><p>"<i>What will be the place assigned by history to Abraham Lincoln</i>" p3</p><p>"<i>Few of us can forget the feelings of doubt and distrust with which we regarded his advent to the Presidential chair. That his native energy had elevated him from a youth of poverty and labor was reassuring and yet the narrow sphere in which his life had mostly been passed seemed to deprive him of the opportunities of familiarity with the great principles and details of statesmanship requisite for the perilous contingencies of the future.</i>" p3-4</p><p>"<i>Thus with doubt confusion and demoralization around him with no landmarks in the past to serve as a guide for the present or as a precedent for the future did Mr. Lincoln undertake the awful responsibilities of his high position. Thus relying on himself and on the people he boldly set to work to restore the Republic.</i>" p5</p><p>"<i>The country was saved so soon as the people recognized in their President a man who believed that he could save it and who honestly intended to do so. Had Abraham Lincoln done no more than this he would have merited a place between Washington and Jackson. It is a great thing to lift a nation to the highest level of its duties and responsibilities and few men to whom in the world's history the opportunity has been vouchsafed have accomplished the task so thoroughly.</i>" p6</p><p>"<i>And now the momentous question arises before the American people—to whose hands shall be confided the delicate trust of restoring the Union of our fathers</i>" p7</p><p>"<i>The great duty to which Mr. Lincoln has dedicated himself with rare singleness of purpose is the one thought which engrosses every true American heart—the re-establishment of the Union on a permanent basis.</i>" p7</p><p>"<i>The results of the war during the last twelve-month have not shown that the Proclamation was a mistake in military policy.</i>" p9</p><p>"<i>When Mr. Lincoln recommended the plan of compensated emancipation which was adopted by Congress he showed that he recognized fully how great an element of future strife lay in the institution of slavery and how beneficial to the whole country its abolition would be. Moderate in all his opinions he wanted a gradual not a violent change and long after his Emancipation Proclamation was issued he provoked the wrath of the radical emancipationists in Missouri by lending what aid he constitutionally could to the 'conservatives' in that State who desired that the extinction of slavery should be brought about gradually. Possibly in this Mr. Lincoln was mistaken yet if so the error arose from the desire which he has constantly manifested to harmonize the conflicting interests of the country even at the expense of temporary popularity.</i>" p9-10</p><p>"<i>The wisest statesman does not disdain to profit by experience nor can the head of a popular government adopt measures of fundamental change before the people are ripe for them. It is probable that Mr. Lincoln learned much as the war wore on; at all events the people did.</i>" p10</p><p>"<i>There are many who have richly earned the gratitude of the people for eminent services rendered to the Republic in the hour of her trials. There is no one who has so signally centered upon himself the confidence of all. There have been mistakes of detail in military naval and financial matters—mistakes inseparable from the sudden transition from profound and prolonged peace to civil war upon the largest scale. Yet in the general policy of the administration in its principles of statesmanship there have been few errors save those arising from a too generous disbelief in the sincerity of Southern madness.</i>" p11</p><p>"<i>Had Mr. Lincoln moved faster than he has done he would have left the people behind him and lost the support without which no popular government can conduct an exhausting war.</i>" p11</p><p>"<i>As a MAN OF THE PEOPLE understanding them and trusted by them he has proved himself the man for the time.</i>" p12</p><p>"<i>no one can be named who unites like Abraham Lincoln the kindliness and firmness the skill and experience the native sagacity and honesty to bring about an harmonious settlement and to extort from repentant rebels the implicit confidence which those high qualities have won from all loyal men.</i>" p12</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>The Union League Club of Philadelphia formed in 1862 as a patriotic society to support the Union and the policies of the Lincoln administration. The members of this private club represented the Philadelphia region's elite in business education and religion.</p><p>On April 15 1864 Lea met with Lincoln in Washington and three days later he wrote to Lincoln including two pamphlets he had recently written for the Union League Club including this one. He informed Lincoln "To prevent misconstruction perhaps I should add that I am a man of independent position with nothing to ask at your hands except the preservation of our institutions."<br /></p><p><b>Henry Charles Lea</b> 1825-1909 was born in Philadelphia and received a classical education from a private tutor. He showed particular promise in natural history. He joined his father in the publishing business in 1843 but had a nervous breakdown in 1847. While recuperating he read medieval French history and decided to become a historian rather than a scientist. Over the next fifty years Lea produced ten books and numerous articles on medieval institutional legal and ecclesiastical history. During the Civil War Lea was a member of the Union League of Philadelphia and led its Board of Publication. In that role he wrote many of the League's published pamphlets including this one. From 1863 to 1865 he served as a Bounty Commissioner and aided the provost marshal in recruiting soldiers including African Americans.</p> books‎

Bookseller reference : 24898

‎Veterans and Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Bay Area Post‎

‎Remember Welcome to the 65th Anniversary of the Defense of Madrid title from cover subtitle caption title‎

‎Oakland: n.p. 2002. Pamphlet. 15p. illustrated with photos ads very good program in wraps. n.p. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 227010

‎Lincoln Abraham‎

‎DEATH OF YOUR KIND AND BRAVE FATHER" PRESIDENT LINCOLN WRITES TO MISS FANNY MCCULLOUGH."THE‎

‎Valparaiso IN: Sandlin's Books and Bindery 1994. leather spine and front cover gilt-stamped. Miniature Book. oblong miniature book 5.3 x 5.8 cm. leather spine and front cover gilt-stamped. viii 41 3 pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies Bradbury Sandlin's Books and Bindery 3. Frontispiece. A letter from President Lincoln to a bereaved young friend. Foldout facsimile of letter. Introduction and notes by Robert Geoffrey Newman. Sandlin's Books and Bindery unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 118120

‎DeJesus Joy L. editor foreword by Ed Vega Piri Thomas Abraham Rodriguez Jr. Ed Vega et al.‎

‎Growing up Puerto Rican; an anthology‎

‎New York: William Morrow and Company Inc 1997. Hardcover. xxi 233p. very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. William Morrow and Company, Inc hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 93879 ISBN : 0688137407 9780688137403

‎LINCOLN Abraham‎

‎The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Late President of the United States of America and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward Assistant Secretary on the Evening of the 14th of April 1865: Expressions of Condolence and Sympathy Inspired‎

‎Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office 1967. Ex-library copy with inkstamps on title and at intervals in the margins of the text. Front joint split but holding wear to binding occasional pale foxing. Thick 4to 28.5 x 22 cm. Engraved frontispiece portait of Lincoln. xxx 930 pages. Original dark-green half morocco crimson cloth boards spine gilt marbled edges. FIRST EDITION with inserterd engraved leaf dated 2 March 1867 at front printing the resolution by the Senate and House of Representatives to print this book and distribute one copy to each Senator and Representative of the Thirty-ninth Congress and to each Foreign Government and one copy to each Corporation Association or public body whose expressions of condolence or sympathy are published in the volume. One hundred copies were bound in full morocco and the remaining copies were ound in half morocco as on this copy. <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 406387

‎Abraham Lincoln‎

‎LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES; AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMY AND NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES‎

‎Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers 1864. Hard Cover. Good binding. The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln published by Peterson and Brothers. With portrait frontispiece and publisher's adverts at the rear. 4 17-187 19 pp. Lacking endpapers. Hinges cracked but holding. Loss to the bottom corner of the final advertising leaf. Writing on the pastedown and recto of the frontispiece. Some foxing. Shelfwear and loss to the corners of the boards and extremities of the spine. Patterned brown cloth with gilt and blindstamped lettering and decoration. Good. Good binding. T. B. Peterson & Brothers unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 286487

‎Silva y Molina Abraham de‎

‎Oidores de la Real Audiencia de Santiago de Chile durante el siglo XVII‎

‎Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Litografía i Encuadernacion Barcelona 1903. First edition. Paper wrappers. A good copy wrappers detached and chipped bookseller's sticker; top edge of leaves professionally repaired. 75 pp. Sm. 4to. Publicado en los Anales de la Universidad Tomo CXIII Julio I Agosto de 1903. Biographies of the thirty-four judges of the Real Audiencia Santiago de Chile in the 17th century. OCLC locates three copies: Harvard Univ. Texas at Austin and BN Chile. Palau 313702. Imprenta, Litografía i Encuadernacion Barcelona unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 39751

‎Lincoln Abraham‎

‎By the President of the United States A Proclamation. Respecting Soldiers Absent Without Leave. Executive Mansion March 10 1863‎

‎Washington D.C.: Executive Mansion 1863. Small Octavo. 4 page folded pamphlet issued to military. The large number of desertions in the Civil War was becoming epidemic. Previously they might go home to bring in a harvest to visit a wife or girl friend or simply be tired of either war or what often seemed like endless waiting for something to happen. This offered soldiers amnesty if they returned before April 1 1863. Their only penalty would be the forfeiture of pay and allowances during their absence. After that date they will be arrested as "deserters and punished as the law provides." Pages 2-3 lists 36 places where they can report. Besides those near the places of conflict it includes locations as far away as Fort Vancouver Washington Territory Fort Randall Dakota Territory Salt Lake City and San Francisco. Executive Mansion unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 027103

‎Abraham James‎

‎Six Alphabet Poems‎

‎Sawmill Press 1997. Limited Edition. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Folded chapbook: oblong 3 X 10" 4 leaves plus covers. #25 of 100 copies signed by James Abtaham and Allison Abraham. Six poems. Enclosed in original un-printed oblong white envelope. Sawmill Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 006986

‎Lincoln Abraham‎

‎Gettysburg Address--New York Daily Tribune November 21 1863‎

‎New York City: New York Daily Tribune. Good with no dust jacket. 1863. Newspaper. Original issue of the New York Daily Tribune November 21 1863 featuring a very early printing of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Paper measures 15 5/8 x 19 7/8 inches. Typical disbound tears to spine not intruding into text save for a couple tears to final leaf but no loss of text. Uneven trimming to bottom edge with loss of a line of text on several pages. Front page headlines include "Entire Success of the Rio Grande Expedition" "Siege of Charleston" and "From the Army of the Ohio". The report from the Gettysburg Ceremonies and Consecration of the National Cemetery fill three columns on page 2. Lincoln's short speech was preceded by several other orators including Edward Everett's ninety minute speech. Lincoln's 271 word speech remains one of America's best known and memorable speeches soon to be published in newspapers throughout the United States. Some Eastern papers published the speech on November 20th. Versions printed on the 20th are the Address’s first appearance and are highly desirable as are other early printings such as this copy. ; 12 pp . New York Daily Tribune unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 021633

‎Woodhead Abraham‎

‎CHURCH-GOVERNMENT PART V. A RELATION OF THE ENGLISH REFORMATION and the Lawfulness Thereof Examined by Theses Deliver'd in the Four Former Parts‎

‎Oxford: Printed at Oxford 1687. First edition. 4to.12260pp. Cont. tooled paneled calf a bit worn surfaces pitted extremities of spine chipped front hinge split but still holding. Calf spine label listing the author as "Walker" chipped. Woodcut title page portrait. Minor worming at top blank margins text unaffected. The first four parts alluded to in the title were separate works published during Woodhead's lifetime. "Part V" is based on unpublished manuscripts found after his death in 1678. Wing W3440. Printed at Oxford unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 3053

‎Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Bay Area Post‎

‎59th anniversary dinner February 25 1996‎

‎San Francisco: the Post 1996. Pamphlet. 12p. 7x8.5 inches illustrations program very good in stapled pictorial yellow wraps. Ronnie Gilbert was the guest artist. the Post unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 254923

‎Verghese Abraham‎

‎My Own Country: a doctor's story of a town and its people in the age of AIDS inscribed & signed‎

‎New York: Simon & Schuster 1994. Hardcover. 347p. personal inscription signed by Verghese very good first edition first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. On the doctor's experiences caring for AIDS patients in Johnson City TN and the disease's impact on the social fabric of the community. Verghese was an Indian living and educated in Ethiopia who immigrated to the US as a doctor at about the same time that AIDS arrived. Simon & Schuster hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 50443 ISBN : 0671785141 9780671785147

‎Cahan Abraham‎

‎Bleter fun mayn leben בלעטער פון מיין לעבע‎

‎New York: Forverts 1931. Five-volume autobiographical work in Yiddish by the Jewish socialist and longtime editor of the Forward. Two volumes have internal rubberstamps of a Yiddish club with the author's initial on the spine as if for shelving in the club's library; another volume has a private ownership stamp two others are unmarked. Forverts unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 233868

‎Multer Abraham J.‎

‎No more partitioning of Palestine leaflet‎

‎Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1948. Single 5.5x8.5 inch sheet printed both sides reproducing Congressman Multer's comments in the Congressional Record. Multer reacts here to rumors that the territory of Israel was to be divided to take away the Negev and swap it for the western Gallilee. "If there is to be peace in Palestine it will not be brought about by demanding that the Israeli who have been attacked give up more of their territory to the invaders who have broken the peace. Government Printing Office unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 228651

‎Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade‎

‎39th Anniversary‎

‎Berkeley: n.p. 1976. Pamphlet. 12p. stapled wraps 5.5 x 8.5 inches front wrap slightly silverfished along top edge else very good condition. Page of contributions recieved after printing laid in. Short tributes to guest of honor Alvah Bessie by various authors including members of the Hollywood Ten. Also includes a tribute to Paul Robeson. n.p. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 227006

‎Reisen Abraham‎

‎Poems. Translated by Aaron Kramer‎

‎N.pl n.d. Pamphlet. 24p. wraps 5.5x8.5 inches very good condition. Reisen was a Yiddish poet who immigrated to the US in 1914. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 38074

‎Rodriguez Abraham Jr.‎

‎Spidertown; a novel‎

‎New York: Hyperion 1993. Hardcover. 323p. very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped pink version dj. First novel by the Nuyorican writer. Hyperion hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 208040 ISBN : 1562828452 9781562828455

‎Frederics Diana pseudonym of Frances Rummell introduction by Julie Abraham foreword by Karla Jay‎

‎Diana: a strange autobiography‎

‎New York: New York University Press 1995. Hardcover. xxxix 242p. foreword introductions author's foreword very good first printing of this new edition with added materials quarter-cloth over decorated boards. The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature series editor: Karla Jay. New York University Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 201413 ISBN : 0814726321 9780814726327