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1856WRCAM50507Chicago 1856. 20pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards spine stamped in brown and gilt. Text trimmed close at fore-edge costing portions of words throughout. Good. A rare and important polemic "written in bitter hostility to the Hudson's Bay Company and exposing their operations on the Pacific Coast and among the Indian tribes and fur traders from the earliest times" Eberstadt. "Scripps author of an official life of Lincoln visited the Lake Superior Country in 1855 and upon his return made an extensive study of the region from the Great Lakes westward with special reference to the fur companies the inhabitants Hudson's Bay Company water courses and minerals. He also points out the economic advantages of the Northern region for the United States" - Decker. "Scripps who was editor and publisher of the DEMOCRATIC PRESS had visited the Lake Superior country in 1855. He discusses here primarily the area of western Canada from Lake Superior to the Pacific with comments on the Minnesota region south of the international boundary. He has a good deal to say about the fur trade and the Hudson's Bay Company. 'There can be little doubt but that the sole reason why the company maintains its posts in Oregon and Washington is to induce brother Jonathan to "shell out" liberally for them'" - Streeter. <br> <br> The Streeter copy sold to an order bidder for $200 in 1969. EBERSTADT 114:690. DECKER 39:360. STREETER SALE 3721. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 221. GRAFF 3717. HOWES S248 "aa." SABIN 78485. hardcover books
186034566New York: Horace Greeley & Co. 1860. 32pp caption title as issued printed in double columns. Stitched. Mild toning Very Good. <br/><br/> This "earliest Scripps biography" Monaghan was first printed in Chicago in July 1860. Our New York imprint was "printed from plates cast from the same type forms" as the Chicago edition Wessen. It touches the major events of Lincoln's life and career devoid of some of the more romantic mythology e.g. Ms. Rutledge but including the far-fetched notion that Lincoln deliberately lost the 1858 Senatorial race in order to enhance his presidential prospects. <br/> Howes calls it the "most authentic of Lincoln campaign biographies." Lincoln's short-lived career in Congress is reviewed including his opposition to the Mexican War and his support of the Wilmot Proviso. A 'must' for the Lincoln or Presidential campaign collection. <br/>Howes S247a aa. Monaghan 79. Miles 418a. Wessen 12. LCP 9235. Horace Greeley & Co. unknown books
1690173569London: J.M. for H. Herringman 1690. Hardcover. Good boards unattached pages foxed and browned but all pages readable. Marbled boards Riviere binding 54 2 pp no illustrations. An adaptation of the French Psyché by Molière P. Corneille and Quinault. Sometimes considered the first English opera was produced at the Dorset Garden theatre in 1674. A very rare book in readable condition. J.M. for H. Herringman hardcover books
19831325247Washington D.C.: NASA 1983. Softcover. Large Quarto; pp 264; G-/paperback; ivory spine with black text; covers show some soiling to exterior; few scratches and dings to exterior; chip to spine head edge; text block has mild wear to exterior edges; small stain to exterior fore edge; profusely illustrated; interior clean; thumbed corners; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders;. NASA SP-465;. 1325247. FP New Rockville Stock. NASA unknown books
201550898Chichester: Pallant House Gallery 2015. First edition. Softcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Chichester: Pallant House Gallery 2015. First edition. Signed by Charlotte Stokes. Abundantly illustrated with color and b/w photographs. 127 pp. Softcover. Small 4to. White illustrated stiff wrappers. A very good plus copy clean and square. Very good/No jacket issued. Pallant House Gallery paperback books
19739005324New York: Dodd Mead 1973. Eighth edition. Hardcover. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth. The dust jacket has one minor chip otherwise a fine book in a near fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead hardcover books
2003162096Montreal Quebec Canada: Musee D'art Contemporain De Montreal 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 189 pages. Catalog for the 2003 Venice Biennial. Text in English French and Italian. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A fine copy in black cloth boards in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Musee D'art Contemporain De Montreal unknown books
194835436.24New York 1948. 1st printing. Color illustrated wrappers with white title lettering printed to front wrapper. Small open tear to front wrapper. Withal a VG copy. 162 pp. Intratextural illustrations. 7-1/2" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> unknown books
1955W0408XPittsburgh PA: Historical Record Association 1955. Original maroon embossed and blindstamped leatherette with gold insets of coat of arms of Pittsburgh which for Vol. 3 is blackened. Some spine end crumpling and edgewear. The history of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County PA proceeds by chronicling individual and family stories. First Edition. Leatherette. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Trade. Historical Record Association Hardcover books
1981193630Chicago: Midwest Times 1981. Magazine. 64p. folded tabloid newspaper photos art stories ads services articles columns reviews lightly-worn LGBT magazine on newsprint with short tear at spinefold on cover. Palm Springs. Richard Locke first fiction publication. Special California Directory. Chicago. Reno Gay Rodeo. Midwest Times unknown books
196521498Brooklyn: Harvey Tucker 1965. First edition. Paperback. Good . Tall side stapled wrappers. The third issue of Tucker's small press mimeo magazine of poetry. Folded and stamped for mailing to poet Jackson Mac Low. A good copy with toning to covers and general light wear. With Leonard Deutsch's name and address written in pencil on the front cover. Scarce mag that has fallen through the cracks. Not listed in Clay & Phillips. <br/><br/> Harvey Tucker paperback books
196424705Crescent City: EPOS 1964. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Volume 16 Number 2 of this small press poetry journal edited by Tullos and Thorne. Notable for the inclusion of "Advice For Some Young Man In The Year 2064 A. D." a poem by Charles Bukowski plus work by Ammons John Dillon Husband Edith Weaver and more. A clean very good example in bound printed wrappers with ownership stamp on the front cover. EPOS paperback books
194835436.15New York 1948. 1st printing. Color illustrated paper wrappers with red title lettering printed to front wrapper. Wear to extremities light chipping. Withal a VG copy. 162 pp. Intratextural illustrations. 7-3/4" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> unknown books
1994011613Easthanptom: Adastra Press 1994. 1st Editions Limited. Soft cover. Fine. Six titles 1994 - 1996 each in fine condition Millrat slightly faded around edges. Each limited softcover edition each apparently unused unread. Adastra Press unknown books
1929245795New York: Privately Printed 1929. First. hardcover. good. Edited by Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel. Color Frontis. b/w Illus. and facsimiles. 2 Vols. 4to 1/2 tan cloth decorated boards leather labels edges of board corners worn on both volumes leather labels worn on both volumes page margins uncut. New York: Privately Printed 1929. Limited First Edition.<br/><br/> One of 300 numbered copies. Presentation copy from the editor. Pasted into volume II is a manuscript bibliography entry of Weems' George Washington written by Paul Leicester Ford before 1887. This set lacks volume one which is a bibliography of Weems' works by Paul Leicester Ford. This set of volumes II and III are complete in themselves. Mason Locke Weems was an Episcopal minister and author of many books including works on George Washington Benjamin Franklin William Penn and Francis Marion.<br/><br/> Privately Printed unknown books
181853870Philadelphia: printed for the author 1818. 8vo pp. 63 1; copper-engraved frontispiece 13 wood engravings in the text; removed from binding wrappers wanting; very good. The wood-engravings which appear here for the first time have been attributed to William Mason said to be the first wood engraver in Philadelphia; one signed 'G' on p. 32 is thought to be the work of Mason's student George Gilbert. The first edition was published in 1812 under title God's Revenge Against Drunkenness. See Sabin 102467; American Imprints 46749; Hamilton American Book Illustrators 1019. <br/><br/> printed for the author unknown books
18181710Philadephia: For the author 1818. Pamphlet octavo 63 pages. Sixth improved edition and the first illustrated edition. With an engraved frontispiece possibly by William Charles depicting a drunken rider felled by a low hanging branch. With thirteen woodcuts in the text by William Mason. The rare wrapper here with the front panel present only contains yet another woodcut likely also by Mason. A temperance tract by the famous Parson Weems inventor of the George Washington cherry tree incident. A series of well written cautionary tales often quite humorous. "As the wan countenance of the lust-worn harlot becomes still more dark and dismal at the sight of a young female fresh and blushing in all the charms of virgin innocence so does the soul of a filthy drunkard experience a quickened hell at the site of a gentleman well drest and breathing the cheerful air of cleanliness and sobriety." The pamphlet is worn with a small one-eighth inch hole in the engraved frontispiece and one page torn through the text due to a careless page separation. The illustrated wrapper panel is worn but the text and illustrations are unscathed. In all a decent survival. Shaw & Shoemaker 46749 MWA PPL; Hamilton 1019; Sabin 102467; American Imprints 46751. For the author unknown books
198434648Chapel Hill NC: Algonquin Books 1984. 1st edition. Blue cloth binding. Dust jacket. F/F. xii 158 pp including Index. Illustrated. 8vo. <br/><br/>The life of the man who concocted George Washington's "I cannot tell a lie." fable. Algonquin Books hardcover books
