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2008126509Durham New Hampshire: Museum of Art University of New Hampshire 2008. Softbound. VG copy may have left gutter crease light edge wear. Color pictorial wraps French flaps x 62pp 20 color plates 13 color figures. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition featuring works by New York artist Gabriel Laderman 1929-2011. Catalog includes several essays annotations to the plates and a biography. Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire unknown books
1716WRCLIT66710London: Printed by Joseph Downing 1716. 373pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Small early ink indexing number in top margin of title otherwise a very good crisp copy. First edition printing in octavo format. There was another printing from the standing type in quarto format. Pages 33-37 consist of "An Abstract Of the Account of Charity Schools" and the verso of the last leaf bears a form for making a monetary pledge of support. ESTC T6571. Printed by Joseph Downing unknown books
607094"Lincoln Chase" in black fountain pen ink on Songwriters Agreement March 28 1957 New York New York. 8 1/2" x 11" 3 pages 2 leaves recto and verso one blank. Very good. Also signed by a representative for Meridan Music Corporation. Agreement between Lincoln Chase and Meridian Music Corporation for Chase's song "Beat Out A Patter Now". Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
20071318642New York: The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group 2007. Advance Reading Copy. Softcover. Octavo; VG/Paperback; Mostly yellow spine with black lettering; Cover has minimal shelf wear and smudges; Text block clean small stain on last page; 307 pp. 1318642. FP New Rockville Stock. The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group unknown books
6446Historic Newspaper. Harper's Weekly June 24 1865 New York. Cover has large illustration of General Grant meeting with General Scott at West Point. Inside are numerous Civil War illustrations including a whimsical portrayal of Lincoln as a marble bust with female personifications of liberty justice and victory or possibly the union around him. Liberty has her foot on the back of what appears to be a white slaveholder. To Lincoln's left a slave is in the act of rising up while broken shackles lie at his feet. Great content articles on the civil war throughout. Minor stains and very small tears around the edges. In very good condition and still very strong for a paper of this age. unknown books
186559257NY: New York Tribune 1865. Folio folded good copy. Includes an article on a Day of Fasting called by President Johnson after the death of Pres. Lincoln notes that Mrs. Lincoln gave Lincoln's cane to Frederick Douglas Jefferson Davis is still being held at Fortress Monroe and much more. New York Tribune unknown books
186424202<p>Two tickets to the Great Central Fair in Philadelphia. One admitted a pupil of the public schools of Philadelphia and was used on Saturday June 11 according to the stamp on the verso. The other is an apparently unused "Season Ticket" that admitted the bearer "<i>To All Parts of the Fair</i>" except the Children's Exhibitions but was "<i>Forfeited if Transferred and Not Good unless Endorsed</i>." The verso includes the oath "<i>I hereby promise that this Ticket shall be used to obtain admission to the Fair by myself only</i>" and a blank line for a signature.</p> <b>CIVIL WAR. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Great Central Fair Tickets June 1864. Pair of passes for the Great Central Fair held in Philadelphia June 7-28 1864. One ticket is for one day's admission for a public school student. The other is a season ticket. 1 p. each 3½ x 2¼ and 3½ x 2 in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>During the Civil War several northern cities hosted sanitary fairs between 1863 and 1865 to raise money for the care of wounded soldiers. The Great Central Fair held at Logan Square in Philadelphia in June 1864 was a fundraiser for the United States Sanitary Commission and was one of the largest fairs. The main exhibit building constructed in forty working days by local volunteer skilled labor enclosed 200000 square feet. It featured nearly one hundred departments offering a broad range of displays from Arms and Trophies to Fine Arts to Umbrellas and Canes. Curiosities included a $1000 doll house a recreated parlor of William Penn with Penn artifacts the boat used by Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane and George Washington's carriage.</p><p>Over three weeks the fair welcomed more than 400000 visitors. The season ticket offered here cost $5 a week's pay for a day laborer or a domestic and several days' wages for skilled workers. The fair served more than 9000 meals per day in its restaurant and had a daily newspaper with descriptions of the various departments. During its existence the fair raised approximately $1 million for the Sanitary Commission second only to New York City in money raised.</p><p>President Abraham Lincoln attended the fair with his family on June 16. He also donated forty-eight signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation printed under the auspices of George Boker of the Union League which were sold for $10 each.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Both have glue discolored on the reverse sides. The smaller card has a 1" edge tear on the right side neatly repaired with archival tape.</p><br /> books
1862WRCAM54585Washington D.C.: War Department Adjutant General's Office 1862. Three volumes with over 300 individual imprints. 12mo. Uniformly bound in contemporary three- quarter roan and marbled boards gilt leather labels. Wear to leather and edges boards somewhat rubbed front hinges tender. Contemporary ownership inscriptions and binder's tickets on front endpapers of second and third volumes; later bookplate on front pastedown of first volume. Light toning in places otherwise internally clean. Very good. A uniformly-bound set of General Orders issued by the Adjutant General's Office of the War Department in Washington D.C. previously owned by Brig. Gen. John Pope Cook. The orders cover 1861 and 1862 and comprise a nearly complete run of orders for the Union Army during the first two years of the Civil War. Undoubtedly the most significant General Order in this collection is a preliminary printing of the Emancipation Proclamation. <br> <br> A handful of the orders are signed in ink by the various adjutant generals. The Emancipation Proclamation bound in the third volume is as follows: <br> <br> GENERAL ORDERS No. 139. THE FOLLOWING PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT IS PUBLISHED FOR THE INFORMATION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE ARMY AND ALL CONCERNED: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION caption title. Washington D.C.: War Department Adjutant General's Office ca. September 24 1862. 3pp. This work is one of the earliest printings of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued to regimental commanders in the field during the Civil War in the week after President Lincoln's official manuscript version was finished. Here the third paragraph rings out with Lincoln's timeless words: "That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty- three all persons held as slaves within any State or designated area of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then thenceforward and forever free." <br> <br> Following the Seven Days Battle and Gen. McClellan's retreat from the Peninsula at the end of June 1862 President Lincoln realized that there would be no early end to the war and found himself "as inconsolable as it was possible for a human to be and yet live." Anxious for news from the army and needing to escape the constant interruptions at the White House he frequently visited the telegraph office in the War Department building to await dispatches. It was during one such visit early in July that he asked the chief of the telegraph staff Maj. Thomas Thompson Eckert for some paper to "write something special" and began the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation completing it in a few weeks. <br> <br> Lincoln had long hoped to resolve the slavery issue through a congressional act of emancipation compensating slave owners for their loss of "property" but that approach was roundly rejected by representatives from the border states leaving the President who had decided upon the necessity of emancipation with a presidential proclamation as the only option. The extraordinary document he conceived would announce the liberation on January 1 1863 of all slaves in those states still in rebellion against the Union and promised compensation to slave owners in those states that returned to the fold before that time if they adopted "immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery." This proclamation would be followed by a final proclamation issued on the 1st of January identifying those states still in rebellion and confirming the liberation of all slaves therein. <br> <br> On Tuesday July 22 Lincoln presented his draft to the Cabinet telling them that he had resolved firmly upon the course of action it specified and asking them not for advice but suggestions. The only observation he had not anticipated came from Secretary of State Seward who proposed that it might be best to wait for a military victory before issuing the Proclamation as it could otherwise seem like "the last measure of an exhausted government." Immediately recognizing the wisdom of the suggestion Lincoln held back. On September 17 after an anxious wait of nearly two months he received the victory he needed at the bloody Battle of Antietam. Completing his final draft Lincoln presented it to his cabinet for refinement on September 22. Following the meeting Seward took the amended draft with him to the State Department where a formal manuscript copy was made then signed by Lincoln and Seward. <br> <br> The first edition of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation Eberstadt #1 a small three-page circular intended for distribution within the government and to the local press was likely printed on September 22. At the time that Charles Eberstadt published his study of the Proclamation 1950 he was able to locate only one copy which he himself owned and as nearly as we have been able to determine no other copies have come to light since then. <br> <br> Eberstadt #2 is a supposed second edition no copy of which Charles Eberstadt was able to locate whose existence he inferred from the standard State Department practice of printing a folio edition consisting solely of the text of the proclamation followed by another printing consisting of the text of a letter of transmittal from the Secretary of State as well as the text of the proclamation. While there may be a copy of Eberstadt #2 in the National Archives as he speculated it is not recorded in their online catalogue nor have we been able to find a copy in any other online catalogue including OCLC the Library of Congress and the Abraham Lincoln Library. <br> <br> Eberstadt's third printing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation is without a doubt the earliest obtainable printing. It consists of Secretary of State Seward's one-page letter of transmittal addressed "To the Diplomatic and Consular Officers of the United States in foreign countries" and the text of the proclamation. Eberstadt located a total of only five copies in institutions at the Library of Congress the National Archives Yale the Clements Library and Brown. OCLC does not record any additional copies nor is it recorded in Monaghan. This firm sold a copy several years ago. <br> <br> The present copy of GENERAL ORDERS No. 139 is Eberstadt's fourth printing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation dated in print on September 24. Charles Eberstadt surmises that this field order printing could have been accomplished as late as September 29 or 30 and produced in as many as 15000 copies. It is however rather uncommon in the market and this is the first copy of this printing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation offered by this firm. <br> <br> "From the first days of the Civil War slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically. As a milestone along the road to slavery's final destruction the Emancipation Proclamation has assumed a place among the great documents of human freedom" - National Archives. "The proclamation has been called by responsible persons one of the three great documents of world history ranking with Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence" - Eberstadt. <br> <br> Besides including about 300 orders on all manner of Union military activity at the outset of the Civil War the present collection also contains the 1861 printing of REGULATIONS FOR THE UNIFORM AND DRESS FOR THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. Set out in GENERAL ORDERS No. 6 this twenty-four-page printing of the Army dress regulations was the first to set out uniform requirements for the Union during the conflict. The first sentence of the first section requires officers to "wear a frock coat of dark blue cloth." Thus the Blue and the Gray begins. <br> <br> This set was collected and bound by John Pope Cook who began the Civil War as a colonel in command of the 7th Illinois Volunteer Regiment. He was promoted to brigadier general after his troops played a key role in the Union victory at Fort Donelson early in 1862. After his promotion he was transferred to a command in the Department of Iowa and Dakota Territory where he remained until early 1863 conducting campaigns against the Sioux from his base in Sioux City Iowa. These orders must have been bound near the end of this period since contemporary labels note the binder one William F. Kiter as being from relatively close by Council Bluffs. <br> <br> A very early printing of one of the most important political acts in the Civil War and indeed in American history contained in a set of General Orders contemporaneously assembled by a significant Union Army commander. EBERSTADT LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 4. War Department, Adjutant General's Office hardcover books
1865018675Clarion PA: Clarion Extra 1865. Book. Very good- condition. Unbound. First Edition. Quarto 4to. Issued the day President Lincoln died as he succumbed to the assassin's bullet. A one-sheet publication no place of publication listed but thought to be Clarion PA issued in haste as it has numerous typographical errors. Folded into fourths moderately foxed with one corner torn off affecting a few letters of text. It reads: CLARION EXTRA. FROM WASHINGTON. Pres. Lincoln Assassinated! Sec. Seward Assassinated! Seward's Son Dangerously Wounded! THE NATION MOURNS. Curiously the final line of text reads: The latest despatch states that Booth the supposed assassin has been captured. - Ed. Measures 5.5 inches width by 12.75 inches height. . Clarion Extra Paperback books
1993264868San Diego: Sunshine Co 1993. Magazine. 104p. includes covers 5.25x8 inches erotic stories b&w and color explicit photos from gay video companies very good digest size magazine in stapled glossy pictorial wraps. Gay one-hander magazine filled with stories stills from explicit gay videos sex ads personals etc. Sunshine Co unknown books
1987UCOLDEC00LAWBallantine 1987. Good. Collier Christopher. Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787. Collier James Lincoln. NY: Ballantine 1987. 432pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with rubbed edges and soft creasing in front joint and spine. Former owner's name penned on half title page and notes penciled on last few pages and inside rear cover. Ballantine paperback books
1987UCOLDEC00AGGBallantine 1987. Very Good. Collier Christopher. Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787. Collier James Lincoln. NY: Ballantine 1987. 432pp. Indexed. Bibliography. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with bumped and rubbed edges and previous owner's name on first page. Ballantine paperback books
19899019857New York: Oxford University 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is worn at the head and heel. <br/><br/> Oxford University hardcover books
1989017704NY: Oxford. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. . Oxford hardcover books
1989008631NY: Oxford. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. John S. Wilson's copy with his markings in the text. Fine in fine dust jacket. . Oxford hardcover books
1987298817New York: Oxford University Press 1987. hardcover. very good/very good. 340 pages thick 8vo black paper backed blue cloth pictorial d.w. New York: Oxford University Press 1987. Pages toned else a very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Oxford University Press unknown books
198789650New York: Oxford University Press 1987. hardcover. very good/very good. Illustrated. viii 340pp. 8vo cloth d.w. NY: Oxford University Press 1987. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.<br/><br/> Oxford University Press unknown books
1973016812NY: Four Winds Press. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. A history of jazz for young adults fine in near fine dust jacket with tiny tears at head of spine. . Four Winds Press hardcover books
1993297783New York: Oxford University Press 1993. hardcover. near fine/very good. 326 pages 8vo cloth-backed boards d.w. New York: Oxford University Press 1993. Several small spots along top edge still a near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Presentation copy signed by the author.<br/><br/> Oxford University Press unknown books
1993UCOLJAZ00TMOxford University Press 1993. Good. Collier James Lincoln. Jazz: The American Theme Song. New York: Oxford University Press 1993. 326pp. Indexed. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with bumping and rubbing. Previous owner's sporadic underlining drawing and notes throughout. Oxford University Press paperback books
1993006999NY: Oxford. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. . Oxford hardcover books
2004UCOLEMP00FPBloomsbury 2004. Very Good. Collier James Lincoln. The Empty Mirror. New York NY: Bloomsbury 2004. 192pp. 12mo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Rubbing to extremities. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Light rubbing to edges. Bloomsbury hardcover books
1977017817NY: Four Winds Press. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. A Young Adult title. Fine in fine dust jacket monoprints y Robert Andrew Parker. . Four Winds Press hardcover books
198825224Brooklyn College: Institute for Studies in American Music. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps near fine but for very discreet brackets at a few paragraphs. This copy belonged to jazz critic and scholar Chadwick Hansen co-editor with Art Hodes of Selections from the Gutter and it contains his few marks but the book is not identified as such and does not contain his name. In this short work Collier refutes in detail two jazz myths: 1 Americans were horrified by jazz when it first burst onto the scene of popular music and 2 jazz was more appreciated in Europe than it was at home in the US; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 93 pp . Institute for Studies in American Music paperback books
199142545NY: Oxford University Press 1991. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. ix 295pp index. Very good hardback in a slightly tanned jacket. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover books
