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1902réf. 316828Boston: Joseph G. Martin 1902. Folio. Original sheets variously paged bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. Spine frayed hinges cracked contents toned and soiled some wear to fore-edge margins. Folio. A scarce compilation of annually issued sheets of "Stock Fluctuations in Bank Insurance Railroad and Manufacturing stocks Government Securities State City and Railroad Bonds and other Companies sold at the Boston Broker's Board and by Auction with the semiannual dividends paid by each." Comprises 30 annual issues covering the years 1870 through 1902 with exception of 1896-7 which were apparently never published recording annual price fluctuations on the Boston Stock Market. A rare piece preserving stock market ephemera from one of the most tumultuous periods of American financial history. Joseph G. Martin unknown books
1989réf. 50294London: Collins 1989. A first edition of an affectionate biography of a gifted humorous and endearing man. In fine condition in dust jacket. . London.: Collins. 1989. A first edition of an affectionate biography of a gifted humorous and endearing man. In fine condition in dust jacket. 23.5 cm.256 pp. b/w photographic portrait frontispiece. b/w illustrations throughout photographic drawn full and part page cartoon architectural caricatural and reproductions. . Collins unknown books
1805réf. 86618Boston: E. Lincoln Water Street 1805. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Sewn wrappers; 622pp final page a blank. Moderate foxing and discoloration to title page; text quite fresh with sewing intact - Very Good. Documentary account of the controversy surrounding the construction of the South Street Toll Bridge aka the Dover Street Bridge connecting Boston to Dorchester in the years 1803-05. The case was an early example in America of publicly-supported private development involving the annexation of much of what is now South Boston and the destruction of substantial existing property on the South Street side. Various petitions for and against the project are presented in the current pamphlet; these are signed in type by some of the principal players in the scheme including William Tudor and Gardner Greene for and multiple citizens under the signature of Edward Tuckerman opposing. The bridge was constructed later in 1805. S&S 8207. RINK 2618. SABIN 6598. E. Lincoln, Water Street unknown books
1907réf. 49117Boston: Boston Athenaeum 1907. Bound in publisher's black cloth boards w/ gilt lettering on spine and cover and gilt decoration on cover. Very good condition. . Boston: Boston Athenaeum 1907. Bound in publisher's black cloth boards w/ gilt lettering on spine and cover and gilt decoration on cover. Very good condition. Book on the influence and history of the . 22.5 cm. xiii 236 pp. b/w frontispiece. b/w plates . Boston Athenaeum hardcover books
2009réf. 85191Cedar Rapids Iowa: Sam's Dot Publishing 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo 21.5cm; orange pictorial paper wrappers; 89-693pp; illustrated frontispiece. A Fine copy. Collection of verse includes "Beyond the Clouds of Paradise" "Interstellar Tract" "Star Wars Report" and "The Amnesia Addict". 85191. Sam's Dot Publishing unknown books
1969réf. 47413Greenwich CT: New York Graphic Society 1969. Very good condition in publishers slipcase. Vol. 1 consists of text with Vol.2 contributing the corresponding plates. . Greenwich CT.: New York Graphic Society. 1969. Very good condition in publishers slipcase. Vol. 1 consists of text with Vol.2 contributing the corresponding plates. 20 X 26 cm. 2 Vols. Vol. 1. XII. 320 pp. Vol. 2. XV. B/W and Color Plates. . New York Graphic Society unknown books
1844réf. 56150Boston 1844-45. 1. MANN Horace Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Education; Together with the Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth 1844. First edition. Octavo 25cm. Original brown paper wrappers with printed title on front untrimmed; 1991pp. Inscribed "J. F. Bumstead Esq. / with best regards from / Horace Mann" on front wrapper. With a few contemporary pencil annotations. A fresh copy edges gently rubbed one or two small stains to wraps: Very Good or better. This copy presented by Mann to J. F. Bumstead-plausibly Josiah Freeman Bumstead 1797-1868 who authored primary school primers readers and spellers published by Ticknor and other Boston firms in the 1840s. 2. MANN Horace. The Common School Journal vol. VI no. 5; March 1 1844. Containing the "Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education to the Board of Education." PRESENTATION COPY FROM SAMUEL MAY TO ADIN BALLOU. Octavo 26cm. Original paper wrappers printed on front; 64-200pp. Inscribed to "Rev. Adin Ballou / with the best regards of / Sam J. May - / Let all that have eyes read / or all that have ears hear this / admirable document -" With one or two minor marginal pencil marks. Ex libris and discard stamp of Swarthmore College to final leaf. Textblock sound though rubbed but front cover detached rear cover lacking; some staining to outer leaves minor foxing: Good. Presentation copy from Samuel Joseph May 1797-1871 to Adin Ballou 1803-1890 founder of the Hopedale Community. May was one of Mann's allies in establishing the Massachusetts state school system and both he and Ballou were members of the New England Non-Resistance Society a peace organization founded by William Lloyd Garrison. 3. Association of Masters of the Boston Public Schools. Remarks on the Seventh Annual Report of the Hon. Horace Mann Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1844. Octavo 23cm. In original brown paper wrappers printed in black on front; 144pp. Inscribed "B. A. Gould" to front upper cover--possibly pioneering Boston astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould 1824-1896. With occasional marginal pencil marks. A fresh copy with one or two tiny chips to spine: Very Good or better. 4. MANN Horace. Reply to the "Remarks" of Thirty-One Boston Schoolmasters on the Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Boston: Wm B. Fowle and Nahum Capen 1844. Octavo 23cm. In original dark beige paper wrappers printed in black on front; 176pp. A sound copy with losses at head and tail of spine joints partly split but holding internally clean: Very Good. 5. ASSOCIATION OF THE MASTERS OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Barnum Field; Wm A. Shepard; S. S. Greene; Joseph Hale. Rejoinder to the "Reply" of the Hon. Horace Mann Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education to the "Remarks" of the Association of Boston Masters Upon His Seventh Annual Report. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1845. First edition. Octavo 22cm. Original beige wrappers printed in black on front; 55 1 56 40 64pp. Inscribed "The Misses Adams / 1 May 1922" on verso of title page. A sound fresh copy with split at front upper joint chip at tail minor dirt to wraps but internally clean: Very Good. Five pamphlets on Horace Mann's 1844 annual report to the Board of Education including two presentation copies of different editions of the report itself and three responses. Mann had toured Europe with his new wife Mary Peabody and friend Samuel Gridley Howe and studied schools in eight countries with special interest in the Prussian school system. His 1844 annual report comparing American and European school systems was received with great offense by Boston schoolteachers. "A group of thirty-one schoolmasters. . . published a sharply worded critique of his seventh Annual Report" targeting "Mann's recommendations for teacher training as well as his opposition to corporal punishment." However this group "soon faced Mann's wrath in the form of written rejoinders" and were ultimately vanquished when "Mann's allies were elected to the Boston School Committee." Despite the controversy Mann's efforts to "merge the best that he found in European educational systems with the principles of the growing American common school movement" saw remarkable success. Under his direction the Board of Education spent over $2 million on improved school buildings increased teacher salaries by over 50% opened fifty new high schools commissioned uniform school textbooks from Boston publishers and alotted time for student exercise-shaping the public school system as we know it ANB. All the titles in this collection are uncommon in the book trade. unknown books
1794réf. 58658Glasgow: J. and M. Robertson 1794. Small octavo 17cm. Full period calf with leather spine label; xvi1-4411pp. A few leaves from the first gathering have pulled loose from the sewing and there is faint scattered foxing but still a tidy copy the original binding well-preserved and the text generally clean and tight; Very Good. Early ink ownership signature "Thomas Johnston" to verso of title page undated. The best-known and most influential work by the Scottish Presbyterian pastor and theologian Thomas Boston 1676-1732. A classic work of Puritan exegesis The Fourfold State first published in 1720 focuses on the primacy of sin and the necessity of being "born again;" according to DNB it was "the most frequently reprinted Scottish book of the eighteenth century" being reprinted more than 50 times before 1800. The current edition though late is uncommon; OCLC notes just four locations of which only two in North America. ESTC T74877. J. and M. Robertson unknown books
1857réf. 50040Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son 1857. First Edition. Octavo 23.5cm.; tan wrappers printed within double rule; 19pp. Extremities toned and very slightly chipped faint ring stain to upper cover else Very Good and sound. Prospectus for a Society in Boston that the author proposed would supplement the foundations of the Smithsonian Institute and the diffusion of human knowledge. Contents include introductory remarks and four essays all signed "Franklin" at the end generally drawing on classical and European history as the source for the improvement of American government. The Society appears to have never been formed. Alfred Mudge & Son unknown books
1961réf. 50152Boston: Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston 1961. Broadside 17" x 11". Printed in blue ink on white wove stock recto only. Original vertical and horizontal folds; a few inconspicuous nicks to extremities; Very Good or better. The observance included performances by Cantor Gregor Shelkan and the Children's Chorus of the Y.L. Peretz School. Signed in type by the event's sponsors which included the Bessarabian Society of Boston the Jewish Labor Committee the United Shepetovker of Boston and the Workmen's Circle Arbeiter Ring. Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston unknown books
1916réf. 482401916. Fine Printing. Boston Legal History. Bar Association of the City of Boston. James Robert Dunbar: A Memorial. Boston: Privately Printed at the Merrymount Press 1916. 44 pp. Portrait frontispiece with tissue overlay. Original cloth gilt titles to spine and front board. Owner inscription to front free endpaper interior otherwise clean. $45. An elegant memorial volume celebrating the life and career of James Robert Dunbar 1847-1915 a towering figure of the Massachusetts legal establishment. Dunbar served with distinction as a two-term state senator and as a Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. The text compiles heartfelt elite contemporary tributes from his peers at the Boston Bar offering a deep window into early 20th-century New England jurisprudence. Beautifully printed on premium paper by D.B. Updike at the legendary Merrymount Press this volume is an excellent specimen of fine American typography. A scarce piece of legal history. unknown books
1785réf. 49566Boston 1785. A pilot for what is arguably the most historic harbor in the US the site of the Mayflower's landing. However owing to commerci . Boston 1785. A pilot for what is arguably the most historic harbor in the US the site of the Mayflower's landing. However owing to commercial development things changed over the years and further guidance was required. This is a reissue of a 1768 broadside published by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Our 1785 printing is rarer than the 1768 issue. OCLC shows 6 libraries holding copies. However only the Nichols Library at Faulkner University in Alabama the University of Florida and Simon Frazer University in Vancouver appear to hold actual hard copies. Bristol 6058 and Ford "Massachusetts Broadsides" also cite a copy of the 1785 issue at the Boston Public Library. Evans 10882 and Shipton Mooney 10882 list only the 1768 iteration. All the citations simply repeat the erroneous OCLC listing which gives the height of the broadside as 14 rather than 41 cm. Our copy is framed with old fold lines and several tears or pinholes professionally repaired one of which obscures two letters. Some foxing along top and bottom edges lighter tanning in a few spots. Generally very good condition. 33.5 x 41 cm. Printed in two columns. . unknown books
1973réf. UBOSOUR00acmfSimon and Schuster 1973. Good. Boston Women's Health Book Collective. Our Bodies Our Selves: A Book by and For Women. NY: Simon and Schuster 1973. 276pp. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Good with bumped and yellowed edges. Simon and Schuster paperback books
1803réf. 8213Boston. November 5 1803 and June 28 1809. With News of the Louisiana Purchase The earlier issue includes a brief biography of Lucien Bonaparte and various political notices most importantly regarding the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase its constitutional ramifications for the United States and the reluctance of Spain to recognize the sale of the territory by France to the United States. News of the purchase had become public on October 17. On November 30 Spain formally delivered the colony to the French colonial prefect who transferred the territory to William Claiborne and General Wilkinson the American commissioners on December 20. Vol. XL No. 2048 and Whole No. 2633. Two issues 4pp. each. Folio newspaper. Tanned old folds old ink signature and some wrinkling. Good. BRIGHAM I pp.277-79. unknown books
2009réf. 232596Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2009-05-15. Paperback. Very Good. 7x0x10. Trade Paperback in stiff wrappers. Externally Minor shelf wear mainly on the corners. Internally Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Prompt shipping. Jessica Kingsley Publishers paperback books
1984réf. UTHENEW00crTouchstone 1984. Very Good. The Boston Women's Health Book Collective. The New Our Bodies Ourselves: A Book By and For Women. NY: Touchstone 1984. 647pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Faintly creased spine. Rubbed and gently bumped. Touchstone paperback books
1887réf. 164541887. United Hospital and Dispensary advisory board papers 1887 document a Boston medical institution publicly offering women the option of receiving treatment exclusively from female physicians. The papers include an invitation to join the hospital's advisory board and an accompanying information sheet naming several women doctors among those associated with the institution. The hospital explicitly advertised that "women may be treated by competent female physicians exclusively if they so desire" placing women physicians in direct clinical roles at a time when medical education hospital appointments and professional advancement remained restricted for women. The advisory membership also includes Mary A. Livermore the journalist reformer suffragist and former Civil War relief organizer. Two documents relating to the United Hospital and Dispensary Baldwin Place Boston 1887: a typed signed letter and an informational sheet concerning the hospital advisory board. 1 United Hospital and Dispensary. Advisory board invitation letter. Boston May 18 1887. Typed signed letter inviting the recipient to join the hospital's advisory board. The letter records the institution's effort to enlist outside supporters in its administration and public work. 2 United Hospital and Dispensary. Advisory board information sheet. Boston 1887. Lists members connected with the advisory board including several women physicians and Mary A. Livermore and emphasizes the hospital's provision that "women may be treated by competent female physicians exclusively if they so desire." The statement documents an institutional response to women patients seeking medical care from practitioners of their own sex and identifies female doctors as active members of the hospital's professional structure. The papers date from a period in which women physicians were establishing hospitals dispensaries and professional networks partly in response to barriers within established medical institutions. Contemporary references confirm the United Hospital and Dispensary's operation in Boston and its employment of physicians in specialized departments. Very good condition. The two documents preserve specific evidence of women's participation in late nineteenth-century Boston medicine and of a hospital making female medical attendance an explicit option for its women patients. unknown books
1825réf. 102273Letter sheets 8" x 12" 3 pages plus integral address leaf. Extensive tape repairs to folds mostly archival tape but some regular tape too which has caused a little browning in areas long tear obscures writers signature but partially visible creased normal aging and browning remnant of wax seal; otherwise good or better. The letter is to Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy 1772-1864 a future head of Harvard and served eight years in Congress. It appears after becoming Boston's mayor he sent delegates to New York and Philadelphia to study fire fighting techniques in those cities. The author of this letter read about this mission and sent Mayor Quincy a lengthy letter on the subject. The probable author is Solon Robinson 1803-1880 although his signature is partially obscured by a tear. However on the back page a smudged docketed note identifies him as Solon Robertson or Robinson. Robinson was a writer and would become a well known Indiana pioneer. In any case the author would suggest a far more modern system for fighting fires than the existing practice of engines carrying water to fires which would become useless when the water ran out. he proposed putting lead aqueduct pipes "laid deep underground and leading to every part of the city." While her does not use the term fire hydrants the water would be accessed from locked iron covers that would serve that function. ABN. books
1779réf. List3711London 1779. Autograph letter signed Joseph Green to Boston merchant Samuel Eliot. Folded letter datelined "London Mar. 26th 1779" with "Rec'd 22nd Decr. 1779" docket on top flap. 7 x 9 ¼ inches 3pp. Some repairs with archival tape folded small tears at some folds. Excellent. A thoughtful Revolutionary-era letter written by Joseph Green the Boston clergyman poet satirist and wit whose verses made him one of the best-known literary figures in colonial New England. A graduate of Harvard College and member of Boston's mercantile elite Green maintained friendships with figures including Mather Byles and Benjamin Church. He is known for his satirical poetry and as a signer of the 1773 attestation supporting Phillis Wheatley's authorship of Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral. A Loyalist during the American Revolution and named in the 1778 Massachusetts Banishment Act Green departed Boston in 1775 and spent the remainder of his life in England. The present letter was written only a year before his death in London in 1780. Written during the period of British blockade and privateering that turned the Atlantic into a contested military space the letter survives as a rare example of communication successfully passing between a Loyalist exiled in London and a Boston merchant. Green repeatedly returns to the difficulty of maintaining contact noting that "all means of correspondence seem to be cut off" and explaining that he is able to write only because he has found "a particular friend in whom I can confide." The letter itself written in March and not received until December 1779 provides tangible evidence of the obstacles confronting transatlantic correspondence during the Revolution. Green writes: "Having now an opportunity of writing by a particular friend in whom I can confide I embrace it to let you and our niece know that your Aunt and I are both well and very solicitous to hear of your health and welfare. We think it no small unhappiness to be so far removed from so many of our friends especially at a time when all means of correspondence seem to be cut off; but when we consider what scenes of confusion and distress we have escaped and what repose and quiet we have enjoyed here we ought not to repine. "Notwithstanding we have been so long in Engl'd I have seen nothing of the country and your Aunt next to nothing of the town. I amuse myself in trolling thro' several parts of it where new objects are perpetually presenting themselves; and I am the fonder of this exercise as it contributes to health as well as amusement. "The climate here agrees well with my constitution. I enjoy better health than I did at home & my friends tell me I am younger. But I know better than to believe them in this because I think if I was to go about it I could prove I am near four years older than when I left Boston." Green's remarks describe the reality of transatlantic communication during the Revolutionary War when Loyalists abroad and their friends in America frequently depended upon trusted private carriers rather than regular postal channels. The letter's journey from London to Boston-requiring months to arrive and bearing Eliot's receipt docket of December 22 1779-illustrates precisely the obstacles Green describes. Green continues with observations on one of the great public controversies of wartime Britain the celebrated court martial of Admiral Augustus Keppel following his engagement with the French fleet off Brest. Green describes the intense public reaction and the partisan passions surrounding the affair: "We have had a forced and ostentatious display of joy on acct. of Admiral Keppel's acquittal. He has been try'd by a court martial on a charge brought against him by Admiral Palliser for misconduct in the engagement he had the last summer with the French fleet off Brest. This has been made a party affair and has been carry'd to a most extravagant height. The whole city has been illuminated three or four nights and there have been great rejoicings thro' the Kingdom. But the matter is now pretty well over and Palliser has ruin'd himself by it." Most affecting however is Green's reflection on the increasingly remote prospect of ever returning to Boston. He seems to realize that his exile may be permanent writing that "At the time I left Boston it was uncertain when I should return or whether I should return at all. But the improbability was not so great then as it is now. The door was then shut now it is bolted." Green's letter offers a moving account of Loyalist exile-separation from friends and family with hope for return fading. We find no other records of letters written by Green during this period in commerce or at auction. books
1924réf. 2171New York: The Artin Lithographing Co 1924. EPHEMERA ADVERTISING PREMIUM PAPER DOLLS HOLIDAYS CHRISTMAS JUVENILE. 13 5/16" x 9"; 13 5/16" x 26 ¾" with the 3 panels unfolded; stiff glazed color half-tone tri-fold paper toy with images to cut-out glue and form into a toy shop; printed recto and verso; gift inscription in pencil "Mery Xmas Ruth-From Esther" on rear panel; light soiling and rubbing of edges; very good. Not recorded. An engaging advertising premium paper toy from the Boston Store in Chicago once located at State Madison and Dearborn Streets. Titled "Xmas Toy Store Entire 11th Floor" the illustrations are to be cut-out and assembled into a tri-fold "Toy Shop" and "Doll Shop" including stand-up cut-outs of a Santa a Christmas tree two children and toys to fill the shop. The shelves of the store are labeled "Mechanical Toys" "Dolls" and Sports and Games." An ad for EFFanBEE Dolls "They Walk They Talk They Sleep" is featured on a banner over the dolls' shelves. The EFFanBEE doll company was founded by Flieschaker and Baum or F & B in 1910 and were known for their realistically proportioned dolls. Two of their dolls Patsy and DyDee Baby are still favored among today's collectors. Instructions for assembly of the toy store are printed on one of the panels. The back panel features a lithographic representation of the building in which the Boston Store was located. Founded in 1869 the architects Holabird and Roche oversaw the building of the 17-story department store between 1905 and 1917. The store closed its doors in 1948 but the building remains in Chicago. During the Boston Store tenure the building boasted 19 Otis elevators and many varied occupants including a post office Western Union a savings bank several soda fountains and restaurants a barber a cigar factory and an observation tower at the top. L-Stop Tours and Jazz-Age Chicago. The Artin Lithographing Co unknown books
1914réf. 206801914. Daniels John. In Freedom's Birthplace: A Study of the Boston Negroes 1914 presents an early twentieth century sociological examination of African American life in Boston grounded in extended field research and community engagement. Written by a social reformer affiliated with settlement work and urban social service institutions the study compiles nearly a decade of observation and consultation with Black Bostonians to document demographic patterns labor conditions class structure and institutional affiliations. The work situates Boston's Black population within a longer historical trajectory beginning with emancipation in Massachusetts in 1781 and continuing through the development of a free Black community closely tied to abolitionist activity in the nineteenth century providing a substantial empirical record for the study of race urban life and reform era social science. Daniels John. In Freedom's Birthplace: A Study of the Boston Negroes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1914. First edition. One volume. The text is organized in part through historical and analytical chapters with early sections addressing the formation of racial attitudes and subsequent chapters presenting data on employment property ownership and social organization including religious and political institutions. Daniels draws upon interviews local records and collaboration with numerous members of Boston's African American community whom he acknowledges collectively in the preface. Produced during the Progressive Era the study reflects contemporaneous efforts to apply social scientific methods to questions of race inequality and urban reform. Its detailed statistical and descriptive approach contributes to the broader development of American sociology and provides a foundation for examining the relationship between Black community formation and northern urban environments in the decades before the Great Migration. Minor edge wear to covers and spine ends; pencil inscription on front endpaper dated 1917; overall very good condition. unknown books
1925réf. 797Boston and Maine Transportation Company 1925. Document no binding. Very good. 9" x 11"; tri-fold title and half-tone illustration of a motor coach; fee and ticket information on rear panel; routes with time and a larger half-tone illustration of the motor coach to verso; a few pin holes from tacks some creasing; very good. Not recorded. Advertising brochure for bus service that ran from Boston through Newburyport Mass. Hampton Portsmouth N.H. then up into Maine through York Ogunquit Wells Beach Biddeford to Portland. This was a major tourist route and transverse "over the old Newburyport Turnpike the longest perfectly straight road in New England laid out years ago and now a splendid State highway". Boston and Maine Transportation Company unknown books
1767réf. 313300Boston: Printed by Mein and Fleeming 1767. 2 pp. prospectus printed recto and verso of a single sheet. 4to 10-1/2 x 8 inches. Damage at edges with loss to text month October missing from heading lower corner torn away with loss to"G" in Fleeming in imprint a few letters lost from right margin on recto and 12 lines affected on verso toned and stained. Signed "Mich. Franklin 1768" at top of recto. 2 pp. prospectus printed recto and verso of a single sheet. 4to 10-1/2 x 8 inches. Rare early American newspaper prospectus announcing publication of The Boston Chronicle a weekly Loyalist paper. "John Mein a bookseller was the publisher and John Fleeming the printer. With the beginning of the second year the size of the paper was enlarged to folio and it was publihsed every Monday and Thursday and was the first newspaper to be published twice a week in New-England. To avoid popular resentment of his political views Mein was forced to leave the country before the close of its second year and the paper was continued by Fleeming in the name of the firm until its publication ceased on the 25th of June 1770" Evans. The five "conditions" listed on the recto detail the general design of the paper - that it will be printed on high quality demy paper with specially designed type 8 pages in quarto priced at 6 shillings and 8 pence printed every Monday and delivered to subscrribers with care. The verso with text in three columns outlines a plan of the contents of the paper including coverage of current events and issues essays on moral subjects notices on newly published books poetry etc. Ford Broadsides 1418; Shipton-Mooney 41736; Bristol B2787 recording 4 copie; Evans 10565 for newspaper Printed by Mein and Fleemin[g] unknown books
1792réf. 228522Boston 1792. 1 pp pen and ink on paper. 7 x 4 inches. Old folds minor tears VG. 1 pp pen and ink on paper. 7 x 4 inches. A quaint record of Federal era Boston which includes a handwrtiien list of 17 artisan and craftsman on the verso reading in part: "Receipt to Mrs. Prentice Bot of John Carnes Junr for 3 Willow Hatts 3/9 L11.3 rec'd pay't for. Edward Holyoke" Edward Holyoke 1770-1802 was the son of famed Sale physician Dr. Edwrad Augustus Holyoke. John Carnes Jr. was a failed minster turned shopkeeper and one of George Washington's earliest spies of the American Revolution. unknown books
1966réf. vita5827Caldwell Idaho: The Caxton Printers Ltd. 1966. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo red cloth hardcover xix 333 pp. Good with cello tape to endpapers; in a like mylar protected dust jacket. Photographs gladly provided upon request. From dust jacket: The Civl War was in a sense a “musical war.” During the first year alone an estimated two thousand musical compositions were produced and the outpouring continued so that by the end of the conflict more music had been created played and sung perhaps than during all our other wars combined. Abraham Lincoln -- rail-splitter circuit lawyer preserver of the Union and emancipator of the slaves -- was no musician. Yet he was extremely fond of music and as President he probably heard more music than any other occupant of the White House. He heard the old patriotic tunes and the new songs of the Civil War period. He listened to bands choruses and soloists. He came to know the songs and the singers the bands and their leaders. He heard exuberant serenaders outside the White House and quiet singers within; he heard noisy bands in the streets of Washington and he listened to their soft strains at evening in many of the “hundred circling camps.” Here as told by Kenneth A. Bernard is an account of the music of the era and of Lilncoln’s relationship to it. Against a background of specific events Professor Bernard shows how the music of the war was inspired how it inspired and affected the soldiers and the folk back home and finally how it inspired and affected Lincoln himself. Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War presents a fresh approach to an understanding and appreciation of the emotional side of the great conflict. No President before or since has been sung to and played to as much as was Lincoln. No President enjoyed the sound and sentiment of music any more than did Lincoln. The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1966. hardcover books
