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1814WRCAM9583Washington 1814. 1151114pp. plus folding table. Modern cloth leather label. Tanned else very good. This government document attempts to explain away the reversals in the northern branch of the war. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 33307. HOWES M556. hardcover books
184730264Washington 1847. 29th Cong. 2d Sess. HED119. 454pp. Disbound Very Good. unknown books
1848236690Washington D.C.: Printed by Wendell and van Benthuysen 1848. United States Congress 30th 1st Session; Senate Ex. doc. no. 1. 16 folding maps of Mexican War battles and 5 folding tables; Index of Indian documents index to Mexican war dispatches. 1369; 249 pp. Appendix. Thick 8vo. Bound in contemporary half brown calf and marbled boards. Fine. United States Congress 30th 1st Session; Senate Ex. doc. no. 1. 16 folding maps of Mexican War battles and 5 folding tables; Index of Indian documents index to Mexican war dispatches. 1369; 249 pp. Appendix. Thick 8vo. Printed by Wendell and van Benthuysen unknown books
184737719Washington: Printed by Wendell & Van Benthuysen 1847. 1st edition. Modern quarter-bound brown leather spine with marbled paper-wrapped boards and gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Bindings - Fine. Textblocks - VG. 2 volumes: 810; 811 - 1369 1 blank 249 1 blank pp. Appendix last 250 pp of Vol. II. Text only lacks maps & folding tables. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/> Printed by Wendell & Van Benthuysen hardcover books
18481409730th Cong. 1st Sess.: SED72. 1848. 59pp Disbound light scattered foxing. Good or Very Good. All documents concerning the seizure of this commercial vessel by United States war ships off the coast of California. SED72. unknown books
182612480Washington D.C.: Gales & Seaton printers 1826. 8vo. 8 pp. <br><br>Messages from John Quincy Adams and James Barbour regarding the Cherokee claim to land in North Carolina. 19th Congress 1st session no. 21. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shoemaker 27215. Removed from a nonce volume. Brief inked notation on title-page; pages with small patches of light foxing. Gales & Seaton, printers unknown books
199852991NY:: Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0195106733 . Part of the Library of Latin America series. Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. Edited and with an introduction by Susana Rotker. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press, hardcover books
1873241555Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott & Co 1873. 521 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth decorated in black and gilt. Some wear at joints and head else fine Bookplate of James Torr Harmer. 521 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED. By the act of May 13 1846 the President was authorized to recruit volunteers to serve for a year or during this war Preface. Kenly met Polk volunteered to put together a company of volunteers from Baltimore and after this was accomplished was made a Captain in the Volunteer company known as "Baltimore's Own." The text is from his journal made during the war.<br/><br/>Inscribed "To Edmund Law Rogers/ with the regards of/ John R. Kenly/ Balto. Jan. 18 1873." Rogers was a prominent Baltimorean. Not in Sabin Howes or Streeter J. P. Lippincott & Co unknown books
176136901London: Chez D. Wilson T. Beckett & P. A. DeHondt 1761. First English edition. Pp. 2 60. Wanting half-title. 1 vols. 4to. Calf-backed marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. Some rubbing stitchmarks some light discoloration. Ink notation concerning first edition on title else very good. Provenance: John Carter Brown armorial bookplate with deaccessioned stamp on the bookplate and ink stamp on verso of title. First English edition. Pp. 2 60. Wanting half-title. 1 vols. 4to. Choiseul's narrative and commentary with the state diplomatic correspondence and papers relating to the treaty of 1762 dealing primarily with the areas of the cession of Canada the fisheries of Newfoundland Cape Breton and the West Indies and the limitation of Louisiana. Sometimes attributed to Jean François de Bastide. The London edition is considerably more scarce than the French first edition published the same year. Goldsmith's Kress 9718; Sabin 47516; Howes M-507 Chez D. Wilson, T. Beckett & P. A. DeHondt unknown books
1970243274New York: Student Mobilization Committee 1970. 8.5x11 inch handbill mimeographed text both sides very good condition. Columbia University student activist meeting. Outlines topics for the upcoming event including defense of the Conspiracy 7 in Chicago and the Panther 21. Student Mobilization Committee unknown books
1943262753London: His 1943. paperback. very good. 10 full page plates 9 in color. 88 pages. Slim 8vo stiff printed wrappers; ownership stamp on front cover and title page lightly worn. London: His Majesty's Stationary Office 1943. A very good copy.<br/><br/> His unknown books
002025Washington Government Ptg Office 1940. Manilla wrappers. Minor soiling. Illustrated with charts line drawings and photographs. Excellent section on mosquito control latrines food care. Washington Government Ptg Office 1940. unknown books
201031971NY: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010. First edition first prnt. Published in conjunction with El Leon Literary Arts. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Marlantes' heralded first novel. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. Atlantic Monthly Press Hardcover books
201031951NY: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010. First edition first prnt. Published in conjunction with El Leon Literary Arts. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Marlantes' first novel. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Atlantic Monthly Press Hardcover books
201081523NY: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010. First edition first prnt. Published in conjunction with El Leon Literary Arts. Signed by Marlantes on the title page. Backstrip ends lightly pushed; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Marlantes' first novel. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Atlantic Monthly Press Hardcover books
201041214NY: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010. First edition first prnt. Published in conjunction with El Leon Literary Arts. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Marlantes' first novel. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Atlantic Monthly Press Hardcover books
200323015NY: Da Capo Press. Fine. 2003. Paperback. 0306812800 . Illustrated. First printing paperback. Fine in illustrated wraps. . Da Capo Press paperback books
5174465. and RETURNED PRISONERS Report no. 67. Original cloth a very good copy. 8vo Pp. 12834 illustrations. This is the official report of the April 12 1864 Confederate "massacre" of the 557 mixed white and black Federal troops at Fort Pillow Tenn. 63% of the garrison were killed or wounded by the troops under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. unknown books
177520781.03<p>A scarce petition for pay listing 44 members of Captain Luke Drury's Company 27 of whom were Grafton Massachusetts-area Minutemen who had marched 36 miles to respond to the Lexington-Concord Alarm on April 19-21 1775. The list includes Fortune Burnee a Minuteman of African American and Native American heritage and his half-brother Joseph Anthony who enlisted on April 29th and died in service. Another of the Minutemen listed is the famous clockmaker Aaron Willard.</p> <b>REVOLUTIONARY WAR.</b>Manuscript Document Dorchester Massachusetts December 30th 1775 addressed to Massachusetts Treasurer Henry Gardner. 1p. 8 x 13 in. Likely Drury's retained copy from the time with the signatures all in one hand though some may be signed with marks & Jonathan Hemenway has signed himself.<p>Petition<i> "to pay Capt Luke Drury the Whole of our Wages as born on his Muster roll for our Services as Officers & Soldiers in his Company from the time of our inlistment to the first Day of August for which this shall be your effectual voucher." </i></p><p>Today the terms <i>minuteman </i>and <i>militiaman</i>are often used interchangeably but there was a distinction in the eighteenth century. Militia were men in arms formed to protect their towns from foreign invasion. They could designate up to one quarter of their force as minutemen a specially trained force required to be highly mobile and able to assemble instantly to a call to arms. It is difficult to categorize specific men into either of the two groups based on the surviving historical record. We apply the term here to all of those militia who responded April 19-21 1775 to the Lexington-Concord Alarm. </p><p>The 27 soldiers and officers listed here who were part of Luke Drury's Grafton Aaron Kimball's Grafton & John Putnam's Sutton April 19-21 Minutemen companies are: 1st Lt. Asaph Sherman Sgt. Nathan Morse Sgt. Shelomith Stow Sgt. Ebenezer Phillips Sgt. Jonah Goulding Cpl. William Walker Cpl. Joseph Leland Drummer Elijah Rice Fifer Zadock Putnam Matthias Rice Isaac Brigham Eliphalet Smith George Smith Peter Butler Thomas Pratt William Evans Elisha Aldrich Aaron Willard Eseck Dexter Moses Sherman Fortinatus Fortune Burnee signed with mark Edward Buttrick Ebenezer Leland Solomon Brooks Ebenezer Melendy Thomas Leland Sr. & Samuel Stearns.</p><p><b>Luke Drury</b>1734-1811 of Grafton Massachusetts joined the militia in 1757 during the French and Indian Wars. As captain of a company of Minutemen and Militamen he responded to the Lexington Alarm and later joined Colonel Jonathan Ward's regiment to fight at Bunker Hill. Drury and his men served in different areas during the war from West Point to Grafton where his company guarded military stores. He also supported the Continentals financially at one point giving £50 fifty pounds to enlist soldiers in Grafton.</p><p>In 1786-1787 Drury became deeply involved in Shays' Rebellion a tax revolt led by farmers in western Massachusetts. The uprising was quashed and Drury imprisoned as "a person dangerous to the state." He was eventually released on good behavior. Drury remained active in state and local politics serving terms as constable deputy sheriff tax collector assessor selectman and state legislator.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Usual folds small loss at bottom left corner affecting some marginal ciphering else fine condition.</p><p><b>Joseph Anthony</b> and <b>Fortune Burnee Jr.</b> half brothers were both part African-American and Hassanamisco Nipmuc Native American. Compared to records of white New Englanders we know relatively little about them but even so more information exists on these freedmen than is the norm. Several of the Anthonys and Burnees were recorded in the Grafton vital land and probates records the U.S. census neglected to record Native Americans from 1790-1890 and the Burnees have been discussed in recent historical and sociological literature: exploring the relationships both amongst marginalized peoples as well as with their white Yankee neighbors in eighteenth century New England; the definitions of race and identity; social mobility; Indian and black cultures; gender roles; Anglo-Nipmuc land dealings; and the remarkable preservation and history of an 190-acre tract of land in Grafton known as Hassanamesit Woods which is the site of a seventeenth-century "praying Indian" village with Nipmuc habitations that clung on into the mid-nineteenth century.</p><p><b>Joseph Anthony</b>was born in Grafton on December 24 1753 son of Joseph/William Anthony "Negro" and Abigail Printer Abraham "Indian." According to a Nipmuc leader and genealogist Anthony's ancestors include Hassanamisco Nipmuc Chief Anaweakin second in command in King Philip's War in 1675-6; along with Philip/Metacom Anaweakin was killed and his children sold into slavery; his father Noas Sachem of Hassanamesit forced into exile at the same time and died at Deer Island in Boston Harbor; and Nanapashemet Great Sagamore of the Massachuset Federation who was killed in battle in 1619 at Rock Hill Medford the year before Massachusetts was colonized by the English.</p><p>In 1728 seven Indian "Planters" or householders and 33 English re-divided the land at Hassanamesit to incorporate the town of Grafton. In 1739 Abigail Printer married Andrew Abraham Jr. "Indian Planter." Based on Abigail Printer's surname and the very small population left at Hassanamesit in the 1700s it is believed that she is a descendant of Rev. John Eliot's notable contemporary James Printer a Harvard student in 1645-46 who worked for Samuel Green printing Eliot's famous "Indian Bible" in 1663. Abigail and Andrew had three sons before he died in August 1746 after returning from service in the Port Royal Campaign.</p><p>Abigail married second November 14 1752 Joseph/William Anthony. Little is known of him other than his listing in town records as a "Negro." It appears he died circa 1756. Their son the signer of this document <b>Joseph Anthony</b> married Lydia Mercy Johnson. He enlisted in the army April 29 1775 and was reported missing July 6 1777 probably at the Battle of Ticonderoga and dead December 26 1777 possibly a prisoner of war on board an infamous New York City British prison ship. At the time he was a private in Capt. Blanchard's Company of Col. James Wesson's 9th Massachusetts Regiment.</p><p><b>Fortune Burnee Jr.</b> Grafton records spell his name a number of different ways. Dr. David R. Mandell believes there was one man of that name but we find that Electa Kane Tritsch's postulation that there was a father and a son of the same name makes more sense. Abigail again a widow married a third time January 27 1757 to Fortune Burnee Sr. described as "Negro" a veteran of one or more expeditions to Canada during the French and Indian War and widower of another Hassanamisco Sarah Muckamaug Whipple. Mandell writes that Burnee had changed his first name from William to Fortune based on his good luck but does not cite the source or anecdote: Fortune seems more likely a given slave name. He also claims that Burnee abandoned his first wife Sarah before her death but Tritsch has found no evidence for this: that statement may have been compounded with Sarah's first husband Aaron Whipple of Providence Rhode Island. It is thought that Burnee Sr. died about 1771. If so his son <b>Fortune Burnee Jr</b>. is the man who served under Capt. Luke Drury. It is as yet unknown if he is the son of Fortune Burnee Sr.'s second wife Abigail Printer Abraham Anthony Burnee who died in 1776 or his first wife Sarah Muckamaug Whipple Burnee who died in 1751 thus he is either Anthony's younger half-brother or older step-brother. It is interesting to observe that Burnee signs another Drury document with a mark while Anthony was capable of signing in full – whether that hints that Anthony was the younger brother with less responsibilities on the homestead and more opportunity for education is mere speculation. However Tritsch probably by process of elimination finding that Fortune Burnee Jr. does not appear in Sarah's estate papers assigns him as the younger a son of Abigail and half-brother of Joseph Anthony. Fortune Burnee Jr. marched on April 21 1775 in response to the Lexington-Concord Alarm. Marriage records then show that Fortune Burnee Jr. married July 31 1778 "Phylis…negro servant of Rev. Mr. Frost…of Mendon both are listed as "Negroes" and then November 8 1781 Sarah Hector of Sutton again both are listed as "Negroes". He died in 1795.</p><p>Without going into the complex history of Hassanamesit and the Hassanimisco praying Indians Reverend Ezra Stiles's 1761 impressions of the settlement are notable: "At Grafton…I saw the Burying place & Graves of 60 or more Indians. Now not a Male Ind. in Town & perh. 5 Squaws who marry Negroes." By 1770 the town selectmen reported "that there is but one male Indian left" – this man was in fact one of Sarah Muckamaug Whipple's bi-racial children Joseph Aaron. 87 years earlier in 1674 Daniel Gookin had noted that the Indian village had contained twelve families perhaps sixty souls – King Philip's War of 1675-76 and its lingering years of conflict played a major part in this population displacement and decrease.</p><p><b>African Americans & Native Americans in the American Revolution</b></p><p>Of the estimated 100000 men who served in the Continental Army at least 5000 were black. Most black soldiers fought in integrated units as in Massachusetts; some states like Rhode Island had segregated regiments while Connecticut seems to have had both segregated and integrated. Both enslaved and free African-Americans served in the army as soldiers laborers and servants. In some cases slaves were offered freedom for their services as soldiers though others remained enslaved fighting in place of their masters. Many states had been reluctant to arm the black population but had no other countermove to the British Lord Dunmore's offer of freedom to Southern black enlistees. A significant number of colonial blacks at this time were also partly of Native American ancestry – to take once state Massachusetts's eighteenth-century Indian population had two females to one male while the majority of the imported African slave laborers were male. Those figures coupled with their removal to neighboring outskirts of colonial society as well as the enslavement of many Indians in New England after King Philip's War did much to comingle the two ethnic groups.</p> books
19681108NY: Wm. Morrow 1968. Book Club edition. Inscribed by co-writer W.C Wilfred CharlesHeinz on the title page. "June 4 2004 To my friend Karen __ with admiration and thanks from half a Hooker Most sincerely WC Heinz." Additionally Heinz has written an aprx 275 word explanation about the collaboration with Hornberger/Hooker as well as his advice to Hornberger's agent and the eventual publication of the manuscript and its film and TV versions on both sides of the second front free endpage which he signed and dated "May 21 2004." Blue cloth board corners with minimal shelfwear and spine slightly cocked; dustjacket with beginning toning on spine wear and little loss on spine bottom edge and spine fold. Tight clean copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket. Heinz had a long and lauded career as a newspaperman and sports writer and wrote The Professional which Hemingway praised as "the only good novel. about a fighter" co-wrote with Vince Lombardi Run to Daylight edited boxing anthologies and had his war columns collected in When We Were One: Stories of World War II. Inscribed By Author with Note. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wm. Morrow Hardcover books
1964144494New South Wales: Embassy Pictures 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of Sophia Loren Marcello Mastroianni and Vittorio De Sica on the set of the 1964 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1964 play by Eduardo De Filippo titled "Filumena Marturano." Set during and immediately after World War II in Naples Italy. Filumena Sophia Loren is a prostitute who eventually moves in with Domenico Marcello Mastroianni a wealthy businessman and one of her long time johns. She is expected to care for his aging mother but after he plans to marry a younger woman Filumena feigns her own illness to persuade him to marry her and father her children one of which she had by him but he does not know which one. Nominated for two Academy Awards. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Embassy Pictures unknown books
1916WRCLIT75629Cambridge: At the University Press 1916. Gilt cloth t.e.g. Portrait. Spine extremities worn a bit of foxing but a good sound copy. Third expanded edition. This edition includes for the first time the section of "Illustrations in Prose" pp. 111-144. The Preface by W. R. Sorley is accordingly revised. The first edition appeared in January a second slightly enlarged edition appeared in February and was reprinted three times and this edition was published in October. Sorley was killed at the Battle of Loos in October of 1915. In its expanding iterations one of the most important volumes of verse of its generation. REILLY WWI p.299. At the University Press hardcover books
1965229274Detroit: DCEWV 1965. 8.5x11 inch handbill minor edgewear otherwise very good. Printed both sides. Illustrated with a press photo of a napalm-burned boy hugging his father. Seeks local demonstrators to join the national protests in DC organized by SDS and urges those who cannot travel to Washington to demonstrate in Detroit on the same day. DCEWV unknown books
1965229275Detroit: DCEWV 1965. 8.5x11 inch handbill minor edgewear a couple of smudged fingerprints in the field. Printed both sides. Illustrated with a press photo of a napalm-burned boy hugging his father. Seeks local demonstrators to join the national protests in DC organized by SDS and urges those who cannot travel to Washington to demonstrate in Detroit on the same day. DCEWV unknown books
196940033Washington D.C.: Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee 1969. 1st printing presumed. White printed paper. Modest wear age-toning to paper edges. A VG example. Single sheet folded once. Two b/w photographic images of a destroyed building and white graves printed to front. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>"The New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam is mounting a FALL OFFENSIVE TO STOP THE WAR STOP THE WAR MACHINE STOP THE DEATH MACHINE. It will culminate on November 15 in Washington and San Francisco in what we can make the most significant anti-war demonstrations in American history. Our efforts to end the war in Vietnam have reached a crossroads -- it must be ended or it will rise to new heights of horror and murder." OCLC only shows 1 institutional holding University of Kansas. Rare in the trade. Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee unknown books