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18642790Philadelphia: C.W. Alexander & Co 1864. First Edition. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and black 9.25 x 5.75 inches i-iv 21-30 31-32 39-52 53-54 61-74 75-76 85-100 pages i.e. 64 pages as published. Full-page woodcut illustrations included in the pagination. Copyright date on the title page of 1863; the dated preliminary text dated January 15 1864. Somewhat worn some staining and light foxing especially toward the rear; a good sound copy. Fact or fiction the present account celebrates the covert role of women as gatherers of military intelligence during the Civil War. The spectacular illustrated cover is given a full-page reproduction by Alice Fahs' in her "The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South 1861-1865" p. 243. The text is accompanied by a number of naive woodcuts and presents the account of "Maud Melville" the non-de-guerre of "Pauline D'Estraye" who is herself a fictional character invented by "Wesley Bradshaw" pseudonym of Charles Wesley Alexander. The layers of literary deceipt are appropriate for a spy-thriller such as this.<br/><br/>"There is little evidence that the author's Civil War characters were based on real people. However at the beginning of 'Pauline of the Potomac' 1862 Bradshaw hinted at the fact asserting that in the tale he had merged stories from real wartime incidents. Some believe that the character of Pauline D'Estraye was Pauline Cushman 1835-1893 actress and Union spy who was born in New Orleans to a Spanish political refugee and a Frenchwoman. At age 18 she went to New York to earn her living and was recruited there by the manager of the New Orleans Varieties for his show. She and her husband another performer toured throughout the country. When the Civil War erupted he enlisted in the Union army as a musician; she continued to perform until commissioned as a secret agent by the federal government in 1863 with instructions to penetrate as far south as possible. Apprehended by Confederate forces near Tullahoma Tennessee she was tried and sentenced to hang in June 1863. Fortunately for her she was left behind when the advancing army of General William S. Rosecrans forced the Confederates to retreat. Although her usefulness as a spy came to an end she returned to the stage lecturing throughout the North in a federal uniform to great acclaim. Cushman's glamorous but slightly shady profession in addition to her feats of espionage was ideal material for the dime novels of the day. "Maud of the Mississippi" is one of several such novels that appeared during the war years. The heroine Maud Melville gathers intelligence for General Grant as she performs as an actress in towns along the lower Mississippi River. <br/><br/>¶ Fact or fiction Gen. Grant's woman spy Maud Melville was a coquettish young woman with nerves of steel and a genius for military strategy. She is sent by Grant into Vicksburg as a spy; her efforts help the Union army capture the city. Hints that she has captured the affections of General Pemberton are offset by her evident piety; Maud meets with such success that the present account concludes with the promise "Her daring exploits during General Grant's subsequent campaign and her final discovery and capture by the rebels in Georgia which are far more exciting than her previous adventures will be published immediately in a second volume of the same style and price as this book."<br/><br/>Scarce: we have located only one copy in on the market since 2008 namely in M & S Rare Books Catalogue Eighty Four item 16 - this copy<br/><br/>REFERENCES: Women in the American Civil War ed. Lisa Tendrich Frank vol. I p. 99. Thomas Ruys Smith River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain p. 188. C.W. Alexander & Co unknown books
1890587790Atlanta Georgia: Franklin Publishing House 1890. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Introduction by Prof. W.S. Scarborough. Small octavo. 305pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author with his autograph in facsimile. Red cloth gilt. Small archival tape repair on the verso of frontispiece boards and corners scuffed and rubbed some scattered foxing a good copy of an uncommon title. Franklin Publishing House hardcover
1927019614New York: Longmans Green & Co. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner inscription on the half-title page. Near Fine lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Cloth. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED on the front endpaper "Sincerely/Amos Alonzo Stagg/December 1927." A scarce early inscription before his writing became shaky by one of the most important figures in American sports. Stagg the first to be elected to the Football Hall of Fame as both player and coach was active in the sport until the age of 98. He is credited with originating more plays and formations than any other man and among other developments is responsible for the forward pass the huddle and numbered uniforms. Stagg also invented the indoor batting cage and pioneered the headlong slide in baseball. In addition Stagg participated in the first public basketball game on 11 March 1892 scoring his team's only basket and the first intercollegiate basketball game on 18 January 1896. He is said to be responsible for the concept of five-man basketball. Of the Grand Old Man of the Game Knute Rockne once said "All football comes from Stagg." <br/><br/> Longmans, Green & Co. hardcover
1775WRCLIT66505Dublin: Printed by William Kidd for William Whitestone 1775. 67-311pp. Small octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Typographic decorative title border. Early ink name on half-title half-title neatly detached faint tanning and occasional minor spots but a very good copy printed on unusually heavy paper. First Dublin edition. A Limerick edition is tentatively dated the same year and the first London edition followed in 1776. Wesley's prefatory "Advertisement" is dated at Cork 8 May 1775 and refers to requests that the sermon be rendered in print before he left that city requests that he was unable to fulfill due to circumstance. Scarce: ESTC locates 7 copies 3 of them in North America and OCLC does not expand that count. ESTC T45856. BAKER 306. Printed by William Kidd, for William Whitestone unknown books
1762WRCLIT66501Dublin: Printed by S. Powell 1762. 111pp. 12mo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Slight tanning but a very good copy. First edition published in the same year as the London edition which is denoted the "Second Edition." An uncommon edition: ESTC locates four copies in North America and six in the British Isles 3 of them at Manchester. OCLC only adds a handful of additional possibilities. NCBEL cites only this edition. ESTC T16613. BAKER 211. NCBEL II:1632. Printed by S. Powell unknown books
189210386New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons "for private circulation" 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo 155pp. illustrated. A crisp clean copy very near fine in the publisher's navy cloth. Bottom corners bumped contemporary owner's name on the front free endpaper and again on the title page else a nice clean copy with a few pages unopened. Extremely scarce memoir of this Civil War General from Indiana who served as aide-de-camp to McClellan at the start of the war then being elected to Congress and later serving as Judge Advocate General of the US Army. During his time in the Indiana state Legislature and in the US Congress he was a vocal opponent of the expansion of slavery into the west and some of his speeches to that effect are included in this book. This privately printed volume was evidently produced in very small numbers; we count just two holdings in OCLC Indiana State Library App. State. Missed by Broadfoot Nevins etc. Untraced at auction. An elusive rarity among Indiana Civil War volumes. [G. P. Putnam's Sons ("for private circulation")] hardcover
058622Berkeley Ca: Pacific Editions / Arif Press 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Box. 36 Pp. #143 Of A Limited Edition Of 165 Copies Of Which 130 Were For Sale. Unique Rag Papers In Two Colors Commissioned From Twinrocker Paper Mill And Hand Bound In Gold Stamped Leater Gray Boards In A Custom Made Box Covered In Gold-Stamped Van Heel Cloth From Holland With A Printed Spine Label. Signed By Thomas And Goldyne On The Limitation Page. Fine. Also With The Prospectus 8 Pp Covers Also Fine. Box Fine But Small Bump To Lower Front Tip. With The Printed Folder Enclosed A Signed Color Print By Goldyne Apparently Issued Only With The 35 Copies Not For Sale. <br/> <br/> Pacific Editions / Arif Press hardcover
1953432413San Francisco: no publisher 1953. Softcover. Very Good. Legal brief. 14 Mimeographed folio leaves printed rectos only stapled at the top and folded in thirds. A little age-toning and small chips in a couple of margins final leaf detached but present sound and very good. Long brief by Charles R. Garry. Wesley Robert Wells was an African-American man convicted of minor crimes of theft and imprisoned but because of an altercation with a guard who was unhurt was given the death penalty. The attorney Charles R. Garry worked tirelessly to have the sentence commuted and after 40 years Wells was released from prison little more than a year before he died of a heart attack. Garry who eventually was central to the defense schemes of various Black Panthers referred to Wells as "The First Black Panther." This was obviously issued as part of some sort of public relations effort by Garry. Rare. OCLC locates a single copy. no publisher] unknown
194747667Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1947. First edition. About fine in near fine jacket. First printing of one of the most beloved horse stories ever told winner of a 1948 Newbery Honor - an exceptionally beautiful copy. Based on the true story of the charismatic island-dwelling ponies of Virginia and the people who care for them MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE brought attention to the curious lives of the feral horses. The story was adapted into a film in 1961 and the real Misty even attended the premier. This is a particularly nice copy of one of America's favorite horse stories rare to find in such a nice dust jacket. 9.5'' x 6.75''. Original blue cloth binding with yellow pictorial stamping. Original unclipped $2.50 color pictorial dust jacket. Color pictorial endpapers of a pony running across a sun-dappled wetland. Illustrated in black and white with color pictorial title page. 174 pages. Jacket with light edgewear one short closed tear to front panel; a bit of toning to spine. Binding with only mild shelfwear. Interior clean and bright. Rand McNally & Company unknown
191318002Berkeley: University of California Press 1913. First edition of the economist's magnum opus. Quarto bound in full green leather slipcase. With numerous charts and graphs throughout. In near fine condition with a small library blind-stamp to upper right corner of title page. One of the most prominent American Institutionalists Wesley Clair Mitchell almost singlehandedly constructed its concern with "business cycle" analysis. Mitchell was a professor at Columbia and one of the first directors of the New School for Social Research His magnum opus Business Cycles appeared in 1913. The Preface begins: This book offers an analytic description of the complicated processes by which seasons of business prosperity crisis depression and revival come about in the modern world. The materials used consist chiefly of market reports and statistics concerning the business cycles which have run their course since 1890 in the United States England Germany and France. University of California Press hardcover books
1747GT435Scotland: Various 1747. Original Printings . Hardback. Vg. small 8vo. Eleven rare 18th Century religious pamplets and sermons bound in a contemporary binding with a calf spine and marbled boards. All rare. 1. A SERMON by The Late Reverend Mr William Wilson Edinburgh 1742 Printed by David Duncan at sold at his House 48pp; 2. CALAMITY REPELLED AND FALSEHOOD DETECTED Being An Answer to A Pamplet Intitled 'Seceding Presbyterianison Delineated To The Reverend John Potts at Kelso by WILLIAM HUTTON Minister of the Gospel at Dalkeith Edinburgh 1753. 3. THE BABBLER Or The Fate of the faithful Ministers of Christ A SERMON Preached October 15th 1769 at The Ordination of the Reverend Mr Alexander Shanks. Jedburgh by Andrew Moir. Edinburgh 1761Sold by R. Fleming and J. Wood. 43pp: 4. JACOB WRESTLING WITH GOD 10th Edition Edinburgh 1765 by Thomas Taylor Pastor at Cambridgeshire xii preface 152pp: 5. A SERMON Preached in the West/Wall Seven Dialds on Sunday Nov. 24 1765. by John Wesley The fourth edition Newcastle 1766. 22pp: 7. A SERMON ON PSALM XCII.12 by Robert Shirra Minister to the Gospel at Kirkcaldy Willialm Smith Glasgow 1767. 48pp. 8. TWO SERMONS Preached on Sabbath and Monday at the Celbration of Sacrement of the Lord's Supper at Orwell August 6 1738 David Duncan Edinburgh 1747 73pp.: 9. A SERMON PREACHED TO THE MONAGHAN VOLUNTEERS September the 19th 1779 by Rev. Felix Quinn Of The New Direction Monaghan Dublin 48p: 10. DIALOGUES BETWEEN STUDENTS At The College which Contain a Defence of the Leading Doctrines of Christianity 104pp by John Rogers Pub. J. Brown Monaghan. 1787: 11. A SERMON Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. William McAuly at TULLYALLEN January 16th 1791 by Andrew Caldwell Monagham 1791 Printed by John Brown: at CLINTIBRET. 12 CHRIST'S WARNING TO THE CHURCHES TO BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS by Joseph Lathrop Pastor of a Church in West Springfield North America pub Edinburgh for Ross and Blackwood 64 North Bridge Streeet 1802.58pp. RARE SECCESSION CHURCH ITEMS The First Succession was an exodus of Ministers and members from the Church of Scotland in 1733. They formed the Associate Presbytery and later the United Secession Church. <br/> <br/> Various hardcover
1797060031London: G. Whitfield 1797. New Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. LONDON : 1797. New Edition. First published in 1780. A nice early edition; eighteenth century editions are hard-to-find. Hardback. Original calf-leather; gilt decoration to full spine not lettered; neatly professionally restored with original spine laid-down to matching calf; hidden. Original end-papers. Tight bright and clean. Minor wear only. Neat owner name; Edith Forest 1798. No internal markings. Tight bright and clean. Nice and attractive copy. VERY GOOD INDEED. 522 xvii pages. Indexes. Referenced by: English Short Title Catalog T124130. 8vo. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. London: G. Whitfield. SCARCE. <br/> <br/> G. Whitfield hardcover
2001Q-0198269498Oxford University Press 2001-11-15. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Oxford University Press hardcover
192892184<p>good condition with some wear & soiling to the covers- the covers are blank- there is some rusting at the staples - there are some pencil marks</p> Knights of the Ku Klux Klan paperback
1911mon0000142829The Macmillan Company 1911-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1911 copyright September 1917 printing The Macmillan Company hardcover
19932602H-97999A-63BSigma Pi Phi Fraternity 1993. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. This Hard to Find Collectible Book is in Very Good condition - 2 SMALL DOTS ON SIDE PAGE EDGES REST VERY CLEAN AND SHARP. See our picture for exact item you will receive. All items ship within 24 hours. Packaging is 100% Recyclable. Most items purchased from Charitable organizations. A portion of each sale is also donated to a monthly charity check your package for this month's charity. Reuse-Recycle-Rebook! Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity hardcover
1932130968Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1932. First Draft script for the 1932 pre-Code film though it is what would later be known as a revised shooting script as it was a rewrite issued during shooting. <br/><br/>AFI Catalog provides some context around the October 20 1932 date on the script revealing a somewhat troubled production that resulted in a fine film: "On 23 Sep 1932 HR announced that the script was being rewritten. According to a HR news item on 4 Oct 1932 Lowell Sherman walked off the set after a pay dispute and was replaced by Wesley Ruggles. Hopkins quit the production in early Nov 1932 claiming the role was not suitable for her. Gable was on loan from M-G-M for this film. Gable and Lombard were married in 1939. This was their only co-starring film."<br/> <br/>Based on the best selling novel "No Bed of Her Own" by Val Lewton. Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. While hiding out he meets lonely but somewhat wild librarian Lombard. The two get married after Lombard wins a coin flip and they move back to the city where Gable continues his grifting ways unbeknownst to his new wife. <br/><br/>Salmon self wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 1278 and MASTER FILE dated October 20 1932 with credits for story writers Goulding and Glazer screenwriter Watkins and continuity writer Anges Brand Leahy. Brief holograph annotations on the front wrapper mostly related to filing. Title page integral with front wrapper. PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 2 the second page of a summary. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine overall side-stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
12868London: Sold by Charles King in Westminster-Hall 1716. . 16pp. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece included in the pagination in three compartments see below the blank lower corner showing part of a red duty inkstamp. A couple of minor spots but an excellent copy in early nineteenth-century half calf. With the engraved armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Crewe on the front pastedown acquired by me from the Crewe books at Bernard Quaritch in the 1980s at which time I still occasionally inserted my own little book-label in books I planned to keep so it is also present here. First and only edition based on a real event although of course the conceit of the "consolatory epistle" from eccentric bookseller John Dunton is a fiction. Only a few months before the incident described in this poem Curll had been subjected by Alexander Pope to an "emetick" in his sherry an adventure described in Pope’s A Full and True Account of a Horrid and Barbarous Revenge by Poison on the body of Mr. Edmund Curll Bookseller. Unfazed Curll persisted in his piratical ways publishing without permission and also mangling the Latin a funeral elegy to the famous preacher Robert South composed by the head boy of Westminster school. The schoolboys invited Curll to visit on August 2nd and the bookseller unwisely complied. As the poem puts it: And couldst Thou Mun be such a Sot As not to smell a Powder-Plot . . . Perhaps thy Soul to Gain inclin’d Did gratis Copies think to find. . . No! let it ne’er by Man be said The Pirate’s frighted from his Trade: Tho’ vengeful Birch should flea his Thighs Tho’ toss’d from Blankets he should rise. . . . And so it was with Curll flogged tossed in a blanket and forced to beg on his knees for the head boy’s pardon. All three of these scenes are depicted in the three panels of the engraved frontispiece here. The author of the poem Samuel Wesley younger brother of John and Charles was an usher or assistant teacher at Westminster School. He shows himself fully conversant with Curll’s history not just publishing but also his recent experience at Pope’s hands: This tossing up and tumbling down so; And well thy Stomach might incline To spue without Emetick Wine. . . . The poem offers ironic sympathy at the end: Tho’ ’tis vexatious Mun I grant To hear the passing Truants taunt And ask Thee at thy Shop in jeer Which is the way to Westminster . . . Why Pope will write an Epick on’t! Bernard i.e. Lintot the publisher of Pope’s Homer will chuckle at thy Moan And all the Booksellers in Town From Tonson down to Boddington. . . . Foxon English Verse 1701-1750 W343. [London:] Sold by Charles King in Westminster-Hall, 1716. unknown
1891291050Sackett & Williams 1891. Map. Original color lithograph. 20.25 x 17.5 inches.<br/><br/> The Aleutian Islands are included as an inset in this unusual map of regional linguistic data. Special attention given to the West Coast. Henry Gannet produced the Seventh Annual Report for the Bureau of Ethnology. Repairs to original folds.<br/><br/> Sackett & Williams unknown books
199944686HEYNE WILHELM 1999. 1. softcover. Star Trek: Classic - Tag der Ehre HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
2003SONG1587200732Cisco 2003-12-22. 2nd. hardcover. Used: Good. 7.78x1.39x9.48. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Cisco hardcover
175511092London: William Bowyer. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Bound in the original brn leather; Covers . are plain but with slight catheral embosssing; spine is also plain with . five raised bands ; cover attached missing end pages and frontpiece but . has title page including errata pages at end; all cover edges rubbed some . leather missing; leather treated with Klugel G; ask for photos;. 1755. First Edition. Hardcover. No endsheets or frontipiece; text easily read; author was the well known Anglican cleric and theologian who with his brother Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield founded Methodism. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 765 pages . William Bowyer hardcover
elala5915Bristol: Printed by E.Farley 1758. First Edition. A 22-page 4th edition of a 1765 Wesley sermon ‘The Lord Our Righteousness’ is bound in at end title defective. 12mo. pp. 246. gathering K misbound before gathering I. woodcut ornaments & initials. modern calf lower edge closely trimmed sometimes cutting into footnotes - page references paper lightly embrowned 2 marginal repairs to R3 – no loss of text. elala5915 Bristol: Printed by E.Farley, 1758 unknown
1989161172Burbank CA: Jacmac Film 1989. Draft script for the 1991 film.<br /> <br /> Mario Van Peebles' directorial debut about a rising drug lord in Harlem during the crack epidemic of the late 1980s. Loosely based on a 1987 article "Kids Killing Kids: New Jack City Eats Its Young" written by former "Village Voice" investigative reporter Barry Michael Cooper.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in New York.<br /> <br /> White untitled wrappers. Title page present copyrighted 1989 with credits for screenwriters Barry Michael Cooper and Thomas Lee Wright. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Jacmac Film unknown
186653723Houston TX 1866. 4to 3 pages on integral leaves; approx. 9.75" x 7.75" legibly written with full typescript transcription provided some staining without affecting legibility minor insect damage on edges very good. Includes stamped cover with a Houston postmark. An interesting letter from the early Reconstruction period in the Southwest. J. W. Eckles John Wesley Eckles: 1839-1891 was born in Delaware. At the time of this letter he was a 1st Lieutenant serving in Houston a few months after a proclamation of peace with Texas was issued by President Andrew Johnson in August of 1866. He appears to have remained in Texas thereafter as a rancher until he was shot in a neighborhood dispute. Eckles writes to Major Lofland: "I am truly glad to know you came out number one in your late collision with Col. Mason. Although I never felt any doubt about the matter. I would think the Snub he got from Gen'l Sheridan with charges returned would put him out of the nature of preferring charges against anybody else particularly the Pay Dept. He told Maj. Lathrop that he never forwarded the charges I showed Lathrop a copy of Gen'l S's letter returning them you ought to have seen him laugh." General Philip Sheridan was appointed to supervise federal Reconstruction 1865-77 efforts in Louisiana and Texas; he rapidly earned a reputation as a harsh leader. The reference to "Col. Mason" probably refers to Bvt. Lieut. Col. Julius Wilmot Mason 1835-1882 from Pennsylvania. He participated in the 1863 Battle of Brandy Station where he earned a brevet to major for gallant and meritorious services. Mason served with Grant until August 12 1866 and commanded General Grant's escort until he was inaugurated as President in January of 1868. Mason then served in the same position for Gen. William T. Sherman until March 31 1870 when he was transferred to frontier service. We do not know exactly what the "charges" or the "late collision" with Major Lofland were that Col. Mason brought since they were returned by Sheridan but since they concerned the pay department they might have been related to issues involving the dispensing of soldier pay. Major James Rush Lofland was the recipient of this letter in New Orleans where he was engaged until 1867 in paying off the troops of Mississippi Louisiana and Texas. Lofland 1823-1894 was a Delaware College graduate and a lawyer. Eckles also refers to "about 1000 troops here arrived in Galveston during the last week. Gen'l Heinzleman has made his HdQtrs at Galveston & assumed command of this district . My opinion of the majority of those fellows at Galveston is.that it requires nine of them to make a man. They are all very honorable gentlemen & the d-l for taking up each others' quarrels." He recounts an attempt of "two youngsters" to waylay Lofland at a wharf over a perceived slight that was thwarted by cowardice. <br/><br/> unknown books
