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1956réf. 610794New York: Reporter Publications 1956. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. First edition. Quarto. 134pp. Ty Cobb cigarette card tipped in illustrations by Feliks Topolski including a lard fold out poster photographs and paintings by Thomas Eakins ten photographs by Harry Callahan. Pictorial wrappers. Wrappers mildly soiled and toned short tears on spine ends else a very good copy. Containing Loren Eisley's Big Eyes and Small Eyes Ring Lardner Writes a Letter "The Wonderful World of Robert Benchley" Jan Juta To King Solomon's Mines "Lewis Carroll Writes to Some Young Friends" "Vater und Sohn" Larry Koller The American Gun Rudyard Kipling The Finest Story in the World "Mr. Lincoln Writes a Short Short Story" with a manuscript facsimile written in Abraham Lincoln's hand inserted and more. Scarce. Reporter Publications unknown books
1957réf. 601567Great Neck New York: Channel Press 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Introduction by Carl Sandburg. 12mo. 192pp. Owner address label on front fly corners lightly bumped near fine in a very good age-toned acetate dust jacket with short tear on spine head and chips on top corners housed in a very good lightly soiled and rubbed slipcase. Channel Press hardcover books
1907réf. 582979New York: The Author 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 206 1 pp. Text in Yiddish; bound and paginated in the Yiddish style. Flyleaves with short foredge chips and tears and a bit soiled both hinges had been badly split but have been very nicely restored but with evidence of repair and causing the front board to sit a bit proud at the foredge sound and near very good; the text has been nicely preserved. The final page prints an advertisement for other works by Cahan offered by New York's B. Weinstein. Cahan was an author and socialist leader best known for being the longtime editor of the Yiddish-language newspaper Foreword and the semi-autobiographical novel The Rise of David Levinsky. The Author hardcover books
1942réf. 568662New York: Privately Published 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 188pp. Offsetting on verso of "contents" page spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped very good without dust jacket as issued. Affectionately Inscribed by Merritt on the verso of the "contents" page. Pieces from The American Weekly of which Merritt was editor. Uncommon Signed copy. Privately Published hardcover books
1864réf. 175101864. Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Figures Album of pasted oval portraits with signatures underneath each image. 1861. Features most notably Abraham Lincoln with a pasted signature below his image. This mid-nineteenth-century photographic album assembles oval portraits of political and military figures during the Civil War era including a pasted signature beneath an engraved portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the 15th page. Dated inscriptions from 1861 situate the compilation at the outset of national conflict. The inclusion of Lincoln Henry Clay and numerous uniformed figures reflects contemporary practices of collecting and memorializing political leadership through photographic reproduction and autograph acquisition. Photographic album measuring approximately 4.5 x 7 inches. Dark green morocco boards with gilt "Photographs" title. Contains 93 black-and-white and sepia portraits most approximately 2.5 x 2.25 inches mounted on pages. Lincoln portrait with separate pasted signature "A. Lincoln"; Henry Clay portrait with pasted signature; additional signatures written directly on album leaves. Spine chipped at head with separation; rubbing along margins; binding intact; photographs generally clear with minor age toning. Overall condition very good. he album reflects nineteenth-century commemorative culture preserving images and autographs of national figures during a transformative political moment. unknown books
1969réf. 445001Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 332pp. Blue cloth gilt. Scratching on the boards very good issued without dustwrapper. Maryland Historical Society hardcover books
1969réf. 445000Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society 1969. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 332pp. Blue cloth gilt. Slightest rubbing on boards else fine issued without dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author. Maryland Historical Society hardcover books
1960réf. 558694New York: Sterling Publishing House Co. Inc 1960. Unbound. Very Good. Portfolio. Color facsimiles of 36 historical maps. Each map measures approximately 12" x 9" printed on 17" x 11½" paper with descriptive text in the left margin. Housed with a title page sheet and unprinted top sheet in a four-fold chemise. Unprinted topsheet sunned at the edges first two leaves with some very light toning and a couple of tiny corner creases; the maps are otherwise bright and fine. The chemise is good only with toning wear and soil and a 1" creased tear on the cover panel. A nice production and the chemise has done its job keeping the maps bright and fresh. Sterling Publishing House, Co., Inc unknown books
1970réf. 560731New York: St. Martin's Press 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. 718pp. Owner name on the front pastedown else fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing creasing and short tears. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1960réf. 561636Washington: The Library of Congress 1960. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Foreword by L. Quincy Mumford. Introduction by Arthur G. Burton. Quarto. xi 498pp. Gift inscription on front blank boards very slightly bowed with a tiny faint stain on the front cover and top corner of the textblock not affecting interior very near fine. The Library of Congress hardcover books
1863réf. 182911863. Maine Farmer. January 8 1863 prints the full text of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation within one week of its issuance providing contemporaneous evidence of how federal emancipation policy was circulated to the Northern public during the Civil War. Published just days after January 1 1863 the issue situates emancipation alongside ongoing war reporting integrating the declaration of freedom for enslaved people in Confederate states into the broader military and political narrative of the Union war effort. Introduced under the subheading "The following is the text of the President emancipating the slaves in the rebellious states" the proclamation asserts federal authority through wartime powers declaring that "all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free" and further authorizes the enlistment of Black men into the armed forces. The proximity of this text to battlefield reports and personal correspondence underscores the immediacy with which emancipation entered public discourse as both military strategy and social transformation. Maine Farmer. Vol. not stated. Maine January 8 1863. 4 pages. Newspaper format. The Emancipation Proclamation appears in full on the second page accompanied by additional Civil War coverage including reports of troop movements battle outcomes and casualties. On the same page a letter from a Union soldier of the 16th Maine Regiment written at the Battle of Fredericksburg reads in part: "Dear Father I write you while lying on the battlefield wounded perhaps fatally. Tell mother I think of her while lying here and wish I had her to be with me in my last parting moments." An editorial note explains that the letter was written in pencil on the battlefield the paper "tinged with blood" and that the soldier died the following day linking the proclamation directly to the lived experience of wartime sacrifice. Issued at a turning point in the Civil War the publication captures the intersection of emancipation policy military necessity and public communication in the Union states. The inclusion of both the proclamation and firsthand testimony from the battlefield demonstrates how questions of slavery citizenship and national survival were experienced simultaneously at the level of policy and individual life. Newspapers such as this served as primary vehicles through which federal decisions reached civilian audiences shaping understanding of the war's aims and consequences. Small edge tears and light foxing present not affecting text. Overall very good. unknown books
1864réf. 544469New York: D. Appleton and Company 1864. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition. Octavo. 65 3pp. Albumen frontispiece of a painting captioned "The Last Judgement". Two pages of music for a Gregorian Chant. Brown cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Small stain on front board some tears and light fraying at the crown very good. D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1987réf. 547321Amsterdam: Historisch Documentatiecentrum voor het Nederlands Protestantisme 1800-heden 1987. Softcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Slim octavo. 39pp. Text in Dutch. Frontispiece portrait of Kuyper. Plain perfectbound wrappers with printed dust jacket. Bottom corner gently bumped throughout else fine in fine dust jacket with corresponding gentle bumping. Features speeches by J. van Es Dr. G. Puchinger Prof. dr. C. Datema Dr. J. de Brujin and Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers and P. Oosterlee. Laid in is a modestly creased Typed Letter Signed by contributor Dr. G. Puchinger sending the book along. Speeches given on the one hundredth anniversary of Kuyper's death. Historisch Documentatiecentrum voor het Nederlands Protestantisme (1800-heden) unknown books
1907réf. 466750New York: The Current Literature Publishing Co 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. Blue cloth gilt. Very good or better. The Current Literature Publishing Co hardcover books
1992réf. 468836New York: The Library of America 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Volume one of two only. Octavo. xix 898pp. Cloth mildly soiled mild musty odor very good in a very good dust jacket with internal soiling. The Library of America hardcover books
1895réf. 517161New York: McClure's 1895. Unbound. Very Good. Publisher's promotional broadside. Illustrated from a portrait of Lincoln by Corwin Knapp Linson. Measuring 12½" x 19½". Several small chips and edge tears one longer closed tear at the top edge affecting the title but stopping short of the image bright and very good. A handsome publisher's broadside announcing the publication of "A New and Richly Illustrated Life of Abraham Lincoln" in McClure's magazine. The serial will publish 300 pictures the only and previously unpublished early portrait of Lincoln and "much new and valuable material from people now living about Lincoln's youth and public career. McClure's unknown books
1863réf. 175681863. Lincoln Abraham. African Troops Scarce U.S. Senate executive document transmitting a message from Abraham Lincoln and accompanying State Department correspondence concerning the French deployment of Black troops to Mexico during the American Civil War. Issued by the 37th Congress 3rd Session in February 1863 the report reflects the convergence of emancipation-era policy racialized military labor and international imperial strategy. U.S. Senate Executive Document No. 40 37th Congress 3rd Session; February 1863. Original printed pamphlet in standard folio format.Prepared under the direction of William H. Seward the document compiles diplomatic intelligence indicating that France transported African troops from Egypt-specifically from regions identified as "Dalfour" and Nubia-to reinforce forces stationed at Veracruz during the French Intervention in Mexico. The stated rationale as recorded in the report was that "the black race is not subject to the yellow fever" revealing the period's racialized medical assumptions and their direct application in imperial military logistics. Produced in the immediate aftermath of the Emancipation Proclamation this document is especially significant for situating Black military labor within a global context. While the Union was actively recruiting African American soldiers U.S. officials were simultaneously monitoring European powers deploying African troops across colonial networks. The report thus provides rare contemporary evidence of how race disease theory and military necessity intersected in both American and European wartime policy. This document holds strong research value across multiple fields: African American military history Civil War diplomacy transnational slavery and emancipation colonial medicine and 19th-century imperial warfare. It is particularly notable for documenting the perceived biological resilience of Black soldiers as a strategic asset-an idea central to both colonial and military history. AS per OCLC Scarce in institutional holdings with only a small number of recorded copies including Wyoming North Texas Michigan and Faulkner University. OCLC data should be understood as approximate and subject to revision. Condition: Light dampstaining to the lower right blank corner; otherwise in very good condition and clean legible text. unknown books
1994réf. 529985Chicago: Open Court 1994. Softcover. Fine. Reprint. Tall octavo. 285pp. Fine in wrappers. The replies of 60 scientists including 24 Nobel Prize winners to a set of questions about science and God. Open Court unknown books
1952réf. 461282New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 264 2pp. Illustrated. Printed illustrated blue paper over boards. Tiny tear at the crown faint foxing on the foredge light smudging on the boards else near fine. Parke-Bernet Galleries hardcover books
1961réf. 466013Roseburg Oregon: Veterans Administration Hospital Psychology Service 1961. Softcover. Very Good. Second printing. Quarto. 127pp. Quarter canvas and printed green wrappers. Owner's name on front wrap a little edgewear very good or better. Veterans Administration Hospital Psychology Service unknown books
1909réf. 466710New York: Outlook Co 1909. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. A little wear along the spine very good or better. Issue devoted to Lincoln. Outlook Co unknown books
1958réf. 466709Washington D.C.: Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission 1958. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 40pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Spine sunned a bit else near fine. Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission unknown books
1953réf. 460279Springfield: Charles C. Thomas 1953. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 72 1pp. Printed blue fabrikoid binding. Ownership stamp and signature of noted American psychologist and anthropologist Henry Guze a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and co-founder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex on the front fly else fine. Charles C. Thomas unknown books
1957réf. 461176Baltimore: Published for the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics by THE WILLIAMS & WILKINS COMPANY 1957. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 322pp. Printed blue wrappers. Ownership stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly very faint offsetting on the wrappers near fine. Includes much information on LSD-25 and mescaline. Published for the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics by THE WILLIAMS & WILKINS COMPANY unknown books
1865réf. 97261865. Kilburn Brothers. Abraham Lincoln Stereoview Photograph of Funeral Leaves circa 1865-1875 preserves an early visual expression of the memorial culture surrounding Abraham Lincoln after his assassination in 1865. Centered on a cross incorporating a small portrait of the sixteenth president and surrounded by skeleton leaves the composition places Lincoln within the visual language of nineteenth-century mourning combining Christian symbolism portraiture and ornamental natural forms. Comparable contemporary stereographs were explicitly issued as "Lincoln Memorial" images using "dissected leaves" demonstrating that this arrangement belonged to a recognizable genre of commemorative Lincoln imagery. Kilburn Brothers. Stereoview photograph Littleton New Hampshire circa 1865-1875. Approximately 3½ x 7 inches. The paired photographic views depict a memorial arrangement dominated by a cross bearing a small image of Lincoln surrounded by delicate skeleton leaves whose exposed vein structures produce an elaborate almost lace-like setting around the portrait. The stereoscopic format was intended to create an illusion of three-dimensional depth when viewed through a stereoscope placing this image within a form of domestic visual entertainment that became particularly popular in the United States after the Civil War. Benjamin and Edward Kilburn established their stereoscopic publishing business in Littleton in 1865 and became major producers of views distributed for home viewing; the company continued under the Kilburn Brothers name into the 1870s. Lincoln's death generated an extensive material culture of mourning in which photographs prints memorial compositions and household objects helped transform the assassinated president into a national commemorative figure. Here that remembrance entered the intimate setting of stereoscopic viewing: a purchaser could encounter Lincoln's portrait and funerary symbolism as a three-dimensional parlor image rather than solely through public monuments or printed biography. The survival of closely related "Lincoln Memorial Dissected Leaves" stereographs by other publishers further documents the circulation of this particular memorial vocabulary during the 1860s. Light evidence of handling if any with no specific defects reported; near fine. A compact example of nineteenth-century Lincoln mourning imagery that joins presidential history with the visual and domestic culture of post Civil War remembrance. unknown books
