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183611582Philadelphia: Seyfert & Phillips. Philadelphia Seyfert & Phillips 1836. First Edition. First Impression. Paperback. A good copy. Notable for containing the editor's tale 'The Victim Bride.' An early werewolf story. The tale tells of a king who having been bitten by a wolf is warned to never drink alcohol. However he has a little drink on his wedding day and becomes a wolf seemingly in spirit not form - he is referred to as a lycanthrope and eats his new wife's heart. The tale is subtitled A Tale of the Otranto School. Full contemporary calf. Some chipping and wear to the corners and edges Spine darkened and flaky. Foxing to the prelims and edges. Burlington Lyceum presentation plate to the front pastedown. Rear endpaper creased. 11582 Hyraxia Books. . Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 1836. Seyfert & Phillips paperback
186096<p>THE SPEECHES IN THE CELEBRATED CAMPAIGN of 1858 in Illinois. Including the preceding speeches of each at Chicago Springfield etc.; and the 2 great speeches of Mr Lincoln in Ohio in 1859. As carefully prepared by the reporters of each party.</p><p>Octavo 268pp brown embossed cloth boards gilt stamping light foxing throughout heavier at the title page and first few proceeding pages Rebacked with original spine laid on small dog-eared corner chip right corner FFEP mended; pencil notations in upper front endpaper edgewear corners bumped loight sopiling to boards. Straight and tight.</p> FOLLETT, FOSTER AND CO. hardcover
1948133464New York: William Sloane Associates 1948. First edition of this work praised by Einstein himself. Octavo original cloth illustrations by Anthony Sadoro. Presentation copy warmly inscribed by the author to Anne Goodman on the front free endpaper "For Anne Goodman- who was on the receiving end of the first interview this reporter ever gave and the pleasantest one he ever participated in- Gratefully Lincoln Barnett New York City- March 3 1949." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by William Meek. Foreword by Albert Einstein. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. In the century since the publication of the special theory of relativity there remains a tendency to venerate Einstein's genius without actually understanding his achievement. This book offers the opportunity to truly comprehend the workings of one of humanity's greatest minds. Acclaimed by Einstein himself it is among the clearest most readable expositions of relativity theory. It explains the problems Einstein faced the experiments that led to his theories and what his findings reveal about the forces that govern the universe. The concepts of relativity and the fourth dimension unfold with all the vivid excitement of research into the unknown in language anyone can readily understand. William Sloane Associates hardcover
19382102240114Museum of Modern Art 1938-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. One of the most influential photo books of the 20th century First edition First printing one of 5000 copies printed. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Printed spine label. Includes facsimile dust jacket in mylar. Very good binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. 195 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm. Includes errata slip. Museum of Modern Art hardcover
1937039423Los Angeles: Merle Armitage 1937. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good /No Jacket. 132 Pp. First Printing. Red Cloth Gilt; Contents Completely Identical To The Commoner Grey Cloth Stamped In Black With The 1937 Date Except Spine Panel On This Red Binding Is Stamped "Dance Of Martha Graham / Merle Armitage" Without The Date And Cover Lettering On This Red Binding Has Smaller Letters And An Additional 12 Gilt Stars Lacking In The Grey Cloth Binding. The First Book About Martha Graham Printed In An Edition Of 1000 Copies. Near Fine Slight Rubbing And Corners And Slight Fading To Spine Cloth All Gilt Brilliant But A Few Emphasis Marks And Underlines In Ink And Pencil With Previous Owner's Signature Carolyn Hoyt On Front Endpaper. Signed By Armitage On The Copyright Page At Front And Dated In 1946. <br/> <br/> Merle Armitage hardcover
192833124Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1928. 4 volumes. LIMITED First Edition the MANUSCRIPT EDITION and one of only 1000 hand-numbered copies with a leaf from the original Beveridge manuscript bound in. Illustrated throughout with a profusion of plates in each volume. Tall royal 8vo publisher’s original binding for this special issue of half dark blue ribbed cloth with light blue labels gilt ruled and lettered over blue paper-covered boards. xxvi 297; vi 310; vi 361; vi 381 including index. A fine set well preserved internally very fine and essentially as pristine with no spotting toning or evidence of use the text-blocks all very fine the hinges all firm and strong. The paper-covered boards with some very slight toning and a minor bit of rubbing to the corners as is normal the cloth spines very slightly mellowed and with occasional very small unobtrusive spots from age. SCARCE FIRST EDITION AND THIS FROM THE LIMITED ISSUE WITH A LEAF OF AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT INCLUDED. Beveridge known also for his great biography of Chief Justice Marshall spent many years researching the available materials for this work. He made ongoing investigations questioning what had been published by others and trusting no agent without verifying the work. He made journeys to the Lincoln country sifted the the many traditions which have grown wherever the family rested and sought to see for himself how far the neighborhood could influence the man. He was tireless in reading collections of papers still unpublished in carefully going through files of newspapers journals and books. The result of his labours presented itself in the form of this fine four volume work on Lincoln in the years leading up to the presidency. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1964149828New York & Tokyo: New Directions; John Weatherhill Inc. 1964. First edition first printing E. M. Forster's presentation copy inscribed on the first blank "For Morgan from Lincoln August: 1964" and with a typed letter signed from the founder and general director of New York City Ballet Lincoln Kirstein. This is a great association copy with a lovely insight in the dynamic of the Greenwich Village friends' group. Dated December 1949 the letter is addressed to Forster and comments on an exhibition of Paul Cadmus's paintings noting "George Tooker spluttered and stuttered and said if there was one thing that one never thought about in Paul's paintings it was their SIZE". Kirstein goes on sharing news about his ballet projects a poem reading by W.H. Auden at a concert of Stravinsky's music and signs off "with love from all of us". Kirstein "was 15 when he went to London met John Maynard Keynes E.M. Forster Lytton Strachey and the Sitwells and went every night to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes" NYTM. A press cutting of Kirstein's obituary is loosely inserted. This copy was later gifted by Forster to his friend Eric Fletcher who had met him when he was an undergraduate at King's College between 1945 and 1948. The 68 year old Forster was by then firmly settled into Cambridge college life living the life of a traditional bachelor don ".he was looked after; he was among friends; he knew the way of life and loved the city and it's buildings. and at his age it was convenient" Furbank and modestly put up with his great fame finding his enormous daily post a nuisance but enjoying a stream of visitors many of them young men who looked on him as a mentor or sage. One of these young men was Eric Fletcher. They immediately struck up a warm friendship and embarked on a correspondence of "several hundred letters of gossip affection and advice" Furbank which would continue until Forster's death. Quarto. Original black half calf brown boards spine lettered in gilt brown endpapers. With dust jacket. A near-fine copy in very good jacket minor nicks to extremities light scuffing to spine panel else fresh. P.N. Furbank E M Forster: A Life vol.2 1978 pp. 277-8; The New York Times Magazine Lincoln Kirstein: A Life in Art June 20 1982 p. 24. hardcover
1864377694Philadelphia: Published by Mason & Co 1864. 16pp. 16mo. Publisher's wrappers with a portrait of Lincoln on the front and advertisements for political emblems badges pins etc. on the verso. Minor staining. Housed in a morocco backed slipcase. 16pp. 16mo. A pocket songster printed to support Lincoln's reelection campaign in 1864 featuring a rather youthful portrait of the president on the front wrapper and twelve spirited pro-Union songs. The titles largely military in theme include such works as "Give us Noble Leaders" "The Veteran Volunteer" "Cast Your Votes for Abraham" "For Lincoln or McClellan you'll be called on to decide/ The one to save the union the other to divide" and "We are Coming Father Abraham 600000 More." <br /> <br /> The advertisements on the rear wrapper encourage readers to purchase a wide variety of Lincoln campaign badges emblems pins and photographs from the publishers. Despite Lincoln's overwhelming electoral victory in 1864 the race was rather close in Pennsylvania where this was printed - Lincoln took Philadelphia County by a scant few percent and actually failed to secure a majority in neighboring Montgomery and Bucks counties. Monaghan 323; Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print p. 199 Published by Mason & Co unknown
1864101729Np New York: For sale by all News Agents. Price $1 per 100. 1864. 4to. Broadside text in two columns; creased from prior folding and split at creases some toning and paper clip rust staining. Republic campaign broadside reprinting an interview with Lincoln by former Wisconsin State Assemblyman Joseph T. Mills and former state Governor Alexander Williams Randall. Lincoln vigorously defends the use of Black soldiers in the Union Army against Democratic candidate McClellan's strategy of leniency towards Southern States rejoining the Union: "The slightest knowledge of Arithmetic will prove to any man that the rebel armies cannot be destroyed with Democratic strategy. It would sacrifice all the white men of the North to do it. There are now in the service of the United States near 200000 able-bodied colored men most of them under arms defending and acquiring Union territory. The Democratic strategy demands that these forces be disbanded and that the masters be conciliated by restoring them to slavery. Will you give our enemies such military advantages. to get them back into the Union Abandon all the posts now garrisoned by black men take 200000 men from our side and put them in the battle-field or corn-field against us and we would be compelled to abandon the war in three weeks. . There have been men base enough to propose to me to return to slavery the black warriors of Port Hudson and Olustee and thus win the respect of the masters they fought. Should I do so I should deserve to be damned in time and eternity. My enemies pretend I am now carrying on this war for the sole purpose of abolition. So long as I am president it shall be carried on for the sole purpose of restoring the Union. But no human power can subdue this Rebellion without the use of the emancipation policy and every other policy calculated to weaken the moral and physical forces of the Rebellion." This is the first separate printing of the interview which was first published as "The Loyal Road to Peace and the Disloyal Road to Ruin President Lincoln on Democratic Strategy" in the Wisconsin Grant County Herald August 1864. The broadside also prints Grant's letter to E.B. Washbourne "The Rebels have now in their ranks their last man. The little boys and old men are guarding prisoners guarding railroad bridges and forming a good part of their garrisons for entrenched positions " and a poem by Bayard Taylor on the Democrats' presidential nominating convention. REFERENCE: Sabin 41157; Weinstein Against the Tide 141 For sale by all News Agents. Price, $1 per 100. unknown
OTF-S-9780440219835Laurel Leaf. New. BRAND NEW GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER! Laurel Leaf unknown
199347088Norwalk CT: Easton Press 1993. Ten volumes. 8vo. Approx. 4500 pp. Titles in red & black. Frontispices to each vol. numerous plates. Uniformly bound in full brown morocco elaborately gilt decorated covers spines red & gilt morocco spine labels a.e.g. silk moire endpapers Fine set. First Easton Press edition of this invaluable reference to one of our most important Presidents. The Easton includes the two supplements combined into one volume. Easton Press, unknown
19341276113Milwaukee WI/Mundelein IL/Washington DC: The Bruce Publishing Company/Canon Law Digest St. mary of the Lake Seminary Chicago Province/Canon Law Society of America 1934. Hardcover. Good. Set of Volumes 1-11. A set of eleven hardcover books bound in brick-red cloth. Ex-library hardcover books. Library stamps/labels on endpapers and title pages; residue on spines where shelf labels removed. Text clean and tight unmarked pages. Good to very good condition overall. Volumes 1 through 11 of this series of documents on the Catholic Code of Canon Law. Text is in English. Publication dates span 1934-1991. These volumes cover documents issued from 1917-1985. The Bruce Publishing Company/Canon Law Digest, St. mary of the Lake Seminary, Chicago Province/Canon Law Society of America hardcover
043393Harrogate Tennessee: Lincoln Memorial University. Twelve clean tight blue cloth hardcovers in very good condition; lightly bumped corners and light shelf wear. No DJs as issued. NOTE: twelve volumes; no priority or overseas Amazon orders. . Very Good. Hardcover. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover
190027986Denver CO: Issued by Halsey M. Rhoads 1900. Very Good. Denver CO: Issued by Halsey M. Rhoads ca. 1900. Later printing. Broadside with calligraphic portrait of Abraham Lincoln in which the script of the Emancipation Proclamation forms the image within a decorative frame surrounded by the names of the members of Congress who voted for the amendment of the U.S. Constitution. 48 x 37 3/4 cm. A few tears to edges with tape mend to verso top edge; folds; minor edge wear; paper residue to verso from previous mount; overall Very Good. <br /> <br /> The original design was by W.H. Pratt in 1865 with just portrait and border and the names to the outside added to later printings. Halsey Rhoads was publisher of the Rocky Mountain Herald and a well known and prominent Denver citizen--even his bout with appendicitis in 1901 treated with leeches and ice garnered several writeups in contemporary newspaper accounts. <br /> This broadside scarce in any printing. <br /> <br /> See Eberstadt 42. Issued by Halsey M. Rhoads unknown
186139392Springfield: Charles H. Lanphier 1861. 4 pp. Folio. 16-1/4" x 23-1/2.". Lightly chipped blank inner edge. Each page printed in six columns each separated by a rule. Very Good.<br /> <br /> The Register no friend of Abraham Lincoln was a Democratic Paper supporting the Crittenden Compromise. Reporting on State and National issues the Register notes "The Crittenden Resolutions have strong friends but the ultra republicans will not take them." Lincoln had insisted that his allies hold firm against Crittenden's Compromise. The Register rebukes Lincoln for his famous declaration that "the Union could not endure permanently part slave and part free." Developments in the fracturing Union are reported. <br /> Lincoln had been elected President nearly three months before the appearance of this issue. His inauguration would occur five weeks later. Paid advertisers include John McClernand and John Stuart who advertise their legal services in the first column of page 1. The large number and variety of advertisements for an array of medical complaints about four columns are surprising- - and a little disturbing. <br /> This issue also reports an incident involving the John Brownites at Boston who were snubbed by British Lord Brougham after inviting him to attend a convention discussing the abolition of slavery. Charles H. Lanphier unknown
1862100336Newspaper folio unbound 8pp. Dampstained browned at edges with some foxing early owner's ink stamp on top margin some small tears and chips along edges and a little creasing. Still in decent shape overall. This is one of the earliest printings of the Emancipation Proclamation which was issued on September 22 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation declared freedom for all slaves in any Confederate state that didn't return to the Union by January 1 1863. Although this executive order did not actually free a large number of slaves it set the stage for the freedom of all slaves. Coverage of the Emancipation in this newspaper begins in the middle of the first page. This newspaper article represents important coverage of a very significant event in American History. archives government exhibits emancipation website
1997__1852787651Edward Elgar Pub 1997. Hardcover. New. 1152 pages. 10.00x7.25x3.75 inches. Edward Elgar Pub hardcover
2014mon0003249943The Easton Press 2014. Hardcover. Very Good. . 8 vols. Extremely scarce number 127 of only 800 sets. Full brown leather with gilt lettering and embellishments. Minor edge wear may be present due to storage. Otherwise NF set appears unread. The Easton Press hardcover
1863175681863. 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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
1860158491860. Lincoln Abraham. The Lincoln and Douglas Debates 1860 printed record of the seven public debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas during the 1858 Illinois Senate campaign a pivotal series of political confrontations over slavery and the future of the United States. The debates addressed the expansion of slavery into western territories and the constitutional implications of the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision. Lincoln used the campaign to articulate a moral and political critique of slavery's expansion including the position he expressed in his earlier convention speech that "a house divided against itself cannot stand." Although Lincoln lost the Senate race to Douglas the debates established him as a leading national figure within the Republican Party and played a major role in shaping the political arguments that led to his presidential election in 1860.<br /> <br /> Lincoln Abraham. The Lincoln And Douglas Debates. A Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois. Columbus: Follett Foster and Company 1860. First edition third issue identified by the numeral "2" on page 13 and the presence of the publisher's advertisement. Octavo volume containing 268 pages. Bound in publisher's original olive green textured cloth with blind stamped borders and spine lettered in gilt.<br /> <br /> The Lincoln Douglas debates represented one of the most influential series of political exchanges in nineteenth century American history addressing the central constitutional and moral questions surrounding slavery in the years immediately preceding the Civil War. Douglas defended the doctrine of popular sovereignty arguing that territories should decide the legality of slavery for themselves while Lincoln challenged the compatibility of that doctrine with the Dred Scott decision and emphasized the moral consequences of the institution. Although Douglas retained his Senate seat Lincoln's articulate presentation of the issues drew national attention and positioned him as a major political figure within the emerging Republican Party. Slight chipping to the head of the spine fading to boards and gilt minor damp staining with light foxing and toning consistent with age. Overall good condition. unknown
1904058810New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1904. First Edition First Printing . Cloth Gilt. Very Good. 377 Pp. Top Edge Gilt. Volume Ii Of 2. One Of 2000 Copies Of The First Printing The American Printing Precedes The British Printing. Gilt Strong Cloth Sunned On Spine Light Even Soil. Ownership Signature "Macveagh" At Top Of Front Endpaper; This Appears To Be Consistent With The Signature Of Lincoln Macveagh Who Was With Henry Holt Publishers 1919-1923 Then Later Founded The Dial Press Which Published Henry James 1943-1950. <br/> <br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
2015274N.P.: by the artist 2015. Original. Framed and matted. Fine. Lucas Richardson. Framed in black wood and matted in charcoal gray: overall size 18 1/2" x 15 1/2" / image displayed: 7 7/8" x 4 7/8". Lucas Richardson graduated valedictorian from DuCret School of Art in 2002. He has a double major in graphic design and fine art illustration. He continued to study with Peter Caras who had been instructed by Frank Reilley James Bama and Norman Rockwell. As a portrait artist Richardson has undertaken commissions in oil & charcoal mediums. He is also actively engaged in digital design.<br/> <br/> A STRIKING Portrait! by the artist unknown
185013208Washington DC: Office of Printers to the House of Reps 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Good . Octavo 626pp. illustrated plus six plates. A good or better copy in contemporary 3/4 black leather and marbled boards. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and small private library label to front paste-down else unmarked. Mild foxing to first and last few leaves. Extremities rubbed and scuffed and the joints tender but sound. An important volume in the pantheon of presidential books which chronicles on pp. 57 and 262 the award of a patent to then-Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln. Having twice been aboard a riverboat which got stuck on shallow shoals he developed a concept for a bellows fixed under the hull of a riverboat which could be inflated to lift the boat over the obstruction and then retract. Lincoln had been a patent lawyer in the mid-1840s and was closely familiar with the laborious patent application process. <br /> <br /> To this day Lincoln is the only president to have been awarded a patent a fact which contributes to his enduring legacy as an uncommon genius and polymath. As such this tract while unrelated to politics is an essential volume in any substantial Lincoln collection. Uncommon in the trade. Not listed in Monaghan. Office of Printers to the House of Reps hardcover
1993SET55155<p>Easton Press 1993. Leatherbound. Near Fine. WE SHIP DAILY. Books shows very little to no use. Extra postage will be needed. PROMPT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!</p> Easton Press hardcover
199309776Easton Press. Near Fine. 1993. Hard Cover. 10 Volume-set including index and supplement. Bound in publisher's original dark brown leather with four raised bands on the spine. Title and decorations on spine and covers in gilt with all edges in gilt and a bookmarker ribbon bound into each volume. All volumes are tight clean and crisp. This set would be described As New if it wasn't for one minor flaw: Previous owner had his bookshelf repainted and unfortunately put back the books before the paint was completely dried leaving minimal traces of white paint to bottom of boards of some of the volumes - only visible if the books are held upside down - otherwise the books appear unread and look New. ; 8vo . Easton Press hardcover
