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005620Seattle WA: Don Mills Book. Near Fine. No Binding. First Edition. Includes "Win With Willkie" bumper sticker 3 1/2" x 5" no backing paper "We Want Willkie" campaign button set of 8 Wendell Willkie portrait stamps each 1 1/2" x 2" and a pack of 100 "Win With Willkie -Vote Republican !" postage-size stamps. No Date 1940. Wendell Willkie did not run in the 1940 presidential primaries but positioned himself as an acceptable choice for a deadlocked convention. He sought backing from uncommitted delegates while his supporters many youthful enthusiastically promoted his candidacy. He was nominated on the sixth ballot over Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft. Don Mills unknown
1940005617New York 1940. n his personal stationery dated November 25 1940. The letter written 20 days after Willkies loss to FDR in the 1940 presidential election thanks a supporter for her good will and also ".a heartening faith in the principles for which I stand". Near Fine folded twice to fit into envelope. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. One PageFolded Twice. Near Fine. 8 1/2" x 11". Paperback books
005620Seattle WA: Don Mills Includes "Win With Willkie" bumper sticker 3 1/2" x 5" no backing paper "We Want Willkie" campaign button set of 8 Wendell Willkie portrait stamps each 1 1/2" x 2" and a pack of 100 "Win With Willkie -Vote Republican !" postage-size stamps. No Date 1940. Wendell Willkie did not run in the 1940 presidential primaries but positioned himself as an acceptable choice for a deadlocked convention. He sought backing from uncommitted delegates while his supporters many youthful enthusiastically promoted his candidacy. He was nominated on the sixth ballot over Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft. . First Edition. Near Fine. Don Mills unknown books
364p. Printed bookseller's label for H.C. Holmes, 1149 Markat St., San Francisco, Cal. Stamped ownership of Peter O'Connor and Visitation Convent, St. Paul, MN. Early inked ownership of J. E. Campbell. 12mo. Original full publisher's cloth binding, embossed and decorated in blind, with a center cypher and "New Orleans". Spine decorated with gold flowers. Hardbound. Very good. A wonderful account of travels in New England and New York. Included are (sometimes extensive) observations on: life; manners; etiquette; scenery; Daniel Webster; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Thomas Hart Benton; Edgar Allan Poe; Grace Geenwood; Cape Cod; the Delaware River; Lake Mahopac; railroads; steamships; hotels; etc. Much on girls, women and society. Nathaniel Parker Willis(1806-1867), was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest paid magazine writer of his day. For a time, he was the employer of former slave and future writer Harriet Jacobs. His brother was the composer Richard Storrs Willis and his sister was a popular writer, under the name Fanny Fern. NEW ENGLAND BOX 1
18402020506London: George Virtue 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small quarto 333 pages extra-gilt publisher's cloth with variant elaborate covers and spine rebacked with original spine laid down new endpapers some foxing. <br/><br/>These letters by Willis were written above the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. The 9 illustrations are by W. H. Battlett plus a portrait of Willis as a frontispiece. George Virtue hardcover
Gallimard, Du Monde Entier, 1951, 362 pp., broché, exemplaire défraîchi.
17760087821776. Near Fine -. 1 handwritten document of 4 pages 39 x 25 cm. folded. On 12 Dec. 1776 William Rowan of Fawn Township York Co. Pa. yeoman mortgaged 245 acres in Fawn Township to Beulah Paschall of the city of Philadelphia spinster for 300 pounds of Pennsylvania due by 12 Dec. 1783 with interest paid yearly. Signed by William Rowan; witnesses Peter Miller and Abraham Shoemaker; Philadelphia Supreme Court Justice Thomas Willing; and York County Recorder Samuel Johnston. Embossed paper stamp of Pennsylvania. The mortgagee was Beulah Paschall 1732-1793 a Philadelphia Quaker and owner of Cedar Grove. Thomas Willing 1731-1821 was a highly successful merchant and real estate developer as well as a Philadelphia Supreme Court Justice from 1767 to 1776. He served as the first president of both the Bank of North America and the Bank of the United States and supported the American Revolution. York County Recorder Samuel Johnston on the other hand had come to York County from England as an official representative of the Penn family. He held a variety of county offices at various times in addition to that of recorder of deeds: clerk of courts prothonotary and register of wills. When he refused to take the oaths of allegiance to Pennsylvania during the Revolution he had to relinquish all public offices. However he did not opposed the Revolution. Two of his sons-in-law served as colonels in the American militia and two of his sons were privates. By 1786 Johnston lived in Maryland and was admitted as an attorny in Baltimore County. In Near Fine- Condition: just starting to separate along folds; minor soiling; otherwise bright and solid. unknown
197544158Cherokee Publishing Company. VG-/G. 1975. Hardcover. 0877970319 . Hardback first edition in blue cloth covers that remain clean bright; hinges sound uncracked; pages tight clean. Textblock edges lightly foxed. DJ moderately worn with foxing to white portions and to underside with light chipping small edge tears soil. Not library discard. ; . Cherokee Publishing Company, hardcover
196134704Atlanta:: Privately Issued. 1961. Hardcover. Covers and contents clean bright; DJ worn with small tears chipping light soil. ; . Privately Issued, hardcover
19500022885Vidalia Georgia: Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas Jr. 1950. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/None as Issued. VG/1st ed./Signed by Previous Owner. Very nice copy with just a touch of wear at the corners. No break to the navy blue cloth over boards; gold lettering on front panel and spine. No soiling exterior or interior no foxing no markings. Not ex library or remainder copy. This copy was owned by historian Virginia Steele Wood and was signed on the front pastedown. Ms. Wood has written several books about Coastal Georgia over the last 10 years. 638pp. a couple of pictures of important historical homes in Abbeville and an Alphabetical Index. Comes to you in an acid free document bag. I can drop it in the mail to you tomorrow. <br/> <br/> Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas Jr. hardcover
Broché. 364 pages. Rousseurs.
1991033211Bowie: Heritage Books 1991. Four Volume Set complete. Clean tight and unmarked. 660pp. in two parts; and 795pp. in two parts. Facsimile Reprint Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Heritage Books Paperback
192919781Argonaut Press 1929. Roy. 8vo. First Edition thus on Japanese vellum with a folding map as frontispiece title-vignette in blue and black and 12 maps; original blue buckram ivory buckram back lettered in gilt uncut brown silk marker covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good bright clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1050 NUMBERED COPIES THIS COPY OUT-OF-SERIES. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front free endpaper half-title and title. The seventh publication of the Argonaut Press printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press Cambridge. The title-vignette is by William Monk. Argonaut Press, hardcover
1952011672Washington DC: Combat Forces Press 1952. 494pp/Illustrations. Index. A comprehensive work on the Winchester gun - its history and development and ithe place of the manufacturer in the financial picture of a growing industry. Clean Scarce. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Combat Forces Press Hardcover
146p. Xerox from Microfilm Positives. 4to. Stiff wraps. PA PAMPH 20_6 BX2
485 p. Bookseller's label. Tall 8vo. 210mm. Original full cloth binding. Poetry by Civilian poets and American and English enlisted men. POETRY BX 1 / 3
17p. XLib. First page soiled and age stained. Tall 8vo. Original printed wraps. Henry P. Halstead, merchant, a resident of Wyoming County, purchased accident insurance from the Travellers' Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut. When he arrived in New York he fell from the window of his hotel and died. Mr. Harding deposited the insurance money in the First National Bank of Scranton and paid the insurance money to Mr. Halstead's creditors instead to the wife. PA PAMPH 19_21 BX1
pp. (16) [including blanks], 60. Wide margins. Uncut. Mildly XLib. Title page printed in red and black. Inked manuscript presentation to: "John A. McAllister, Esq. with the compliments of the Hamilton Club, March 31, 1865". 8vo. Original plain brown wraps with printed paper label. Hamilton Club Series No. 1. This is the 1865 reprint of the 1804 Boston edition. Very Limited Edition. Number 15 of only 40 copies in 8vo. Very Scarce. "The most careful search has failed in the discovery of a copy [of the 1804 ed.] and I am of the opinion that it is a fraudulent title, Mr. Hoffman having probably reprinted the life from some newspaper of the period." - Ford, Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana, 1886, p. 87. ** This example belonged to John A. McAllister (1822-1896) owner of Philadelphia's leading optical supply house, photographic pioneer, and one of the greatest collectors of historic ephemera in American history. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AMERICANA BOX 9
54p. + Full page color studies by Charles H. Stephens. Tall 8vo. Original color pictorial wraps, slightly soiled. PA PAMPH 20_11 BX5
pp. 97-129. Illustrated. Uncut and unopened. Small 4to. Original printed wraps. Very nice copy. PA PAMPH 20_4 BX3 + 2nd c. worn
18393884Providence: Published by the Author 1839. Hardcover. Small 8vo.Modern grey cloth rebind with gilt spine lettering. viii 312pp. Steel engraved frontispiece. Very good. Ownership inscription on frontispiece verso; faint age toning to text block; binding somewhat soiled. First edition in an attractive tight binding. Somewhat scarce. HOWES W 448. Published by the Author hardcover
1980004732Columbia Missouri U.S.A.: Univ of Missouri Pr 1980. 165pp. A study of the Prince Hall Freemasons tracing the long efforts of one segment of the black middle class to deal with exclusion from the American dream. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Univ of Missouri Pr hardcover
1982600356NY: Helen m Cardamone 1982. Green cloth cover with gold lettering on the spine. "Canal Country follows the route of the Chenango Canal through a delightful and historic swathe of nearly 100 miles from Utica to Binghamton." Illustrated throughout with beautiful black & white photos by Helen Cardamone. Autographed by both Williams and Cardamone on front endpaper. Very clean crisp copy. Signed by Author and Photographer. First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Very Good/Good. Illus. by Photos By Helen Cardamone. 9"x12". Helen m Cardamone
187012997Rutland Vermont: Tuttle & Co. Very Good. 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Original 1870 booklet bound in hardcover with gilt lettered brown leather spine over cloth brown boards. Text tight clean & intact. Celebration includes Addresses historical papers and poems. Bookplate of Hall Park McCullough who was a noted collector of Americana. Nice copy. New England; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 122 pages . Tuttle & Co hardcover