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19501895Girard Kansas: Halderman-Julius 1950. Paperback. Very Good. Signed on cover by author. 20pp of drawings; articles by Carl Van Vechten Arnold Genthe et. al. Special section on Fascism & anti-war. <br/><br/>Walkowitz is known for his drawings of Isadora Duncan. They have been collected in various institutions. Halderman-Julius paperback books
1955D7425London et al: Oxford University Press 1955-1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. All volumes: blue cloth gilt-stamped lettering on spine. Volumes I III and V in dust jackets. All volumes VG or better some light rubbing here and there the occasional ownership marking on FFEP but all text blocks bright clean and unmarked. Dust jackets a bit wrinkled creased dust-soiled; some light chipping along the edges; price-clipped. A copious reference with extensive notes and bibliographies. An excellent working set -- but heavy and may require additional shipping. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover books
1762WRCAM47563Boston: S. Kneeland 1762. 228pp. Lacks half title. Dbd. Minor soiling. Very good. Sermon preached on the occasion of "the election of His Majesty's Council for said Province." Abraham Williams was the pastor of the church in Sandwich Mass. EVANS 9310. ESTC W29217. S. Kneeland unknown books
16873053Oxford: Printed at Oxford 1687. First edition. 4to.12260pp. Cont. tooled paneled calf a bit worn surfaces pitted extremities of spine chipped front hinge split but still holding. Calf spine label listing the author as "Walker" chipped. Woodcut title page portrait. Minor worming at top blank margins text unaffected. The first four parts alluded to in the title were separate works published during Woodhead's lifetime. "Part V" is based on unpublished manuscripts found after his death in 1678. Wing W3440. Printed at Oxford unknown books
1960215156Jerusalem: Bamberger & Wahrman 1960. First edition. Double column text. xi English xx Hebrew 208 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket with loss on back panel. First edition. Double column text. xi English xx Hebrew 208 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Bamberger & Wahrman unknown books
182855054Albany NY 1828. First edition 8vo pp. 16; self-wrappers unopened and uncut very light rubberstamp in the bottom margin of the first leaf a few pencil marks and edgewear all else very good. A complaint that the erection of the Albany Pier was effectively a deprivation of property against the subscribers who's access to the canal became limited. American Imprints 35521; NYPL only in OCLC. <br/><br/> unknown books
18041188409New York: The Shakespeare-Gallery 1804. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. Approx. 4.5" x 7" VG marbled sandy brown hardcover with no text on spine or cover. Rubbing to corners and spine ends of boards. Mild foxing to edges of text block. Hinges starting at front pastedown which opposes first of two title pages one for each discrete section of this directory. Old hand-calligraphed swooping names penned to first title page. A few internal chips and tears to each title page subtly affecting text of Astronomical Calculations subtitle; and a 1.5" x .25" chip to July/August 1804 astronomical charts with resulting loss to a few calculations across a couple of categories. Foxing throughout; binding remains tight. Shelved in Case 13. 1188409. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Shakespeare-Gallery hardcover books
1319616th President of the United States. Original oil painting of the famous image of Lincoln seated in a chair. Canvas size about 20" x 24". A beautiful hand painted oil painting on canvas not a machine made reproduction. This painting is 100% hand painted This is a 20th century with good brush stroke detail oil paint color and brightness are excellent and in very fine condition with no damage to the canvas or paint surface. unknown books
1687289634Zug. : Muosischen Druckerey. 1687. Contemporary vellum. . Good covers soiled front hinge split old repair to preliminaries at gutter moderate foxing throughout old library marking to preliminaries a little light mostly marginal dampstaining. . 4to. 20.5x15.5 cm. . German text. Uncommon Zug edition of a popular work. Woodcut frontis with arcane illustration of demons dancing around a hanging Judas. Muosischen Druckerey. hardcover books
186522051Boston MA 1865. No binding. Fine. Photograph. Lincoln funerary stereoview. c. April 1865 E.F. Smith photographer Boston Mass. This double card from a stereopticon shows a large room with tables a globe and two men sitting. Mourning bunting reads ""A Nation Mourns Him Who Has Honored It."" unknown books
1802WRCAM50572Hartford: John Babcock 1802. 166pp. Dbd. Faded library stamp and light foxing to titlepage. Scattered toning throughout else very clean. Very good. A pamphlet by this staunch Connecticut Republican discussing the continued practice of the dominance of religious institutions in New England government and the consequences in respect to the authority of the Federal government and the right to freedom of religion as put forth by the First Amendment. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 1907. SABIN 5597. John Babcock unknown books
179129150New York: Printed by W. Durell 1791. viii 9-95 1 blank pp. Stitched and disbound. Lightly foxed and worn. Good.<br/><br/> The first American printing issued from New York in 1765. Hellenbroek was a Dutch Reformed Minister who died in 1731. <br/>Evans 23438. NAIP w036492 5. Printed by W. Durell unknown books
18661007628vo original dark brown pebbled and blindstamped cloth front cover decoratively lettered in gilt steel engraved frontispiece portrait of Lincoln 69 pp. Binding with some edge wear and chipping to spine missing about two inches of lower spine hinges a little weak but still firm ends and corners bumped a little soiling pencil signature of previous owner; else very good. George Bancroft who at one time was Secretary of the Navy deliverd this memorial address to both houses of Congress on February 12 1866. This pamphlet was also published in New York but that issue lacked the portrait. Sabin 3132 Government Printing Office hardcover books
1864011649Union League of America. Very Good. 1864. Pamphlet. An 1864 pro-Lincoln pamphlet for the presidential election. Disbound with rough binding edge and loose pages light soil and a few chips. Contains many of Lincoln's statements on slavery dating from 1858 to1864.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 16 pp . Union League of America unknown books
1953291062New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1953. hardcover. very good. Edited by Roy P. Basler. Black & white illustrations facsimiles. 9 volumes. Thick 8vo grey cloth blue spine labels. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1953-5. History Book Club Edition. Very good .<br/><br/> Rutgers University Press unknown books
186536081Philadelphia: Jas. B. Rodgers Printer 52 & 54 North Sixth Street 1865. 1st printing Monaghan 757. Limited to 750 cc. INSCRIBED by the author at the top of the front wrapper. Printed grey paper wrappers. Age-toning to wrappers. A VG copy. 19 1 blank. 9-1/16" x 5-7/8" <br/><br/> Jas. B. Rodgers, Printer, 52 & 54 North Sixth Street unknown books
1956008837Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press 1956. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Folio. 20 page booklet with color front cover illustration with text printed and illustrated in red an black. Booklet is signed and inscribed by Rattner "To Herbert L. Sterrett my best wishes and compliments signed Abraham Rattner." Twenty four loose folio plates are included of which six are printed in color plates are not signed by the artist. Booklet and plates measure 16.75 inches in height and are in excellent condition with only minor offsetting to verso of plates not affecting images and are protected in the original clamshell box. The box is illustrated in red and black and is moderately to heavily worn rubbed and soiled with minor splitting at several seams remaining intact attractive and functional. University of Illinois Press Paperback books
193730470NY 1937. Vol. 2 # 1- 12 240 pp. index. Bound in pubisher's black cloth. A very good tight copy. Includes articles by Margaret Sanger Alan Guttmacher Norman Himes Hannah Stone clinic reports and much more. Stone was the husband of Hannah Stone the doctor who ram Sanger's clinic. As Sanger notes:"She had a sympathetic response to mothers in distress and a broad attitude towards life's many problems.These qualities have kept her with us all this time one of the most beloved and loyal workers that one could ever hope for." Autobiography 1938 pp. 360-361. Indeed she came to be known as "the Madonna of the clinic." Emily S. Mudd Interview Schlesinger Library Oral History Project on Women in Family Planning May 21-August 3 1974. unknown books
11717Stereopticon slide of Ford Theater. Full color stereoview 6 x 3" "Old Theater Where Lincoln Was Assassinated Washington D.C." This is a later view of the Ford Theater adapted from a photograph of the time period when the slide was made. Printed descriptive remarks on reverse. Minor wear on edges otherwise in very good condition. unknown books
179955365Providence: printed by Brother Bennett Wheeler 1799. First edition 8vo pp. 15 1; 20th-century brown cloth-backed marbled boards gilt-lettered direct on spine; title page guarded small stain in the top gutter margin throughout; all else very good. On the verso of the last leaf: "Benjamin J. Sheffield his book bought December 23 AD 1799 price P. 4½." This discourse by a clergyman indicates the comfort of the clergy with Masonry at the turn of the century. Alden 1614; Bartlett p. 77-8; Evans 35310. <br/><br/> printed by Brother Bennett Wheeler 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
1772007772London: Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols : For T. Cadell in the Strand 1772. Two volumes Very Good Plus in contemporary full calf back with gilt devices and rules leather label with gilt lettering covers with gilt rule later end papers which are stamped S & S light toning light rubbing to edges of covers overall a quite pleasing set. With preface and notes by the editor Bishop Hurd and a life of the author by T. Sprat. . Second Edition. Full Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols : For T. Cadell, in the Strand Hardcover books
16556641Leyden: Apud Franciscum Hackium 1655. Full vellum. Very Good. 12mo. 860527pp. Index. Copper engraved title-page by Cornelis Cl. Dusand. Cont. vellum with yapped fore-edge a bit soiled. Repaired paper flaw on final text leaf and one leaf of index partially obscuring a few words. Ownership signature at top of front free endpaper dated 16 July 1703. See Willems 1185. Half of this edition was printed for Elzevir and has their imprint the other half was printed for Hackium. Apud Franciscum Hackium hardcover books
1863027103Washington D.C.: Executive Mansion 1863. Small Octavo. 4 page folded pamphlet issued to military. The large number of desertions in the Civil War was becoming epidemic. Previously they might go home to bring in a harvest to visit a wife or girl friend or simply be tired of either war or what often seemed like endless waiting for something to happen. This offered soldiers amnesty if they returned before April 1 1863. Their only penalty would be the forfeiture of pay and allowances during their absence. After that date they will be arrested as "deserters and punished as the law provides." Pages 2-3 lists 36 places where they can report. Besides those near the places of conflict it includes locations as far away as Fort Vancouver Washington Territory Fort Randall Dakota Territory Salt Lake City and San Francisco. Executive Mansion unknown books
031249New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. History Book Club Edition. 1953-1955. The Abraham Lincoln Association Springfield Illinois. Roy P. Basler editor. 9 vols. complete b/w illus. original grey cloth. Contents: v. 1 1824-1848. v. 2 1848-1858. v. 3 1858-1860. v. 4 1860-1861. v. 5 1861-1862. v. 6 1862-1863. v. 7 1863-1864. v. 8 1864-1865. v. 9 Index. Rutgers University Press unknown books