THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO.
New York: Friendship Press, (1936). First edition. Former owner's name, address in ink on front endpaper. Near fine to fine, lacking dust jacket. Item #47701 More
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INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First edition. Very good with light rubbing overall, heavier rubbing to corners and spine ends, one corner rubbed through to board, and base of spine frayed. Name on front blank, endpapers show light soiling, and rear endpaper torn along top. Still, an attractive copy..... Item #51687 More
LIFE AND LETTERS OF GENERAL THOMAS J. JACKSON (STONEWALL JACKSON); By His Wife.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. First edition, presumed second issue or printing with date on title page but "Note" added at bottom page vi, following author's preface, crediting Margaret Preston for material appearing on pages 56-88 ("credit for use of these extracts was inadvertently omitted from the first edition..... Item #72001 More
A PATRIOT'S HANDBOOK: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love.
New York: Hyperion, (2005). First edition. SIGNED by Caroline Kennedy on the title page. A large assemblage of patriotic literature chosen by Ms. Kennedy. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #46811 More
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LINCOLN CALENDAR FOR THE YEAR 1920: Illustrated; [Monthly calendar].
(Boston: United Shoe Machinery Corporation), 1919. Second printing. Marketing ephemera issued "With Compliments of United Shoe Machinery Corporation." Prints facts on and quotes by Lincoln complied by Daniel S. Knowlton including a 5-page timeline of events in his life. 32mo brown stapled paperwraps printed in blue on front; illustrated with..... Item #51896 More
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X.
New York: Grove Press, (1965). First edition. “One of the 10 most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century” -- Time magazine. Haley’s first book, ghostwritten by him from the more than 50 in-depth interviews conducted from 1963 to Malcolm X’s assassination in February 1965. Covers Malcolm X’s life from..... Item #71991 More
THE LIFE OF REV. MICHAEL SCHLATTER: With a Full Account of his Travels and Labors among The Germans in Pennslvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia.
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1857. First edition. Howes H-178. Including his services as Chaplain in the French and Indian War, and in the War of the Revolution. 1716 to 1790. Frontispiece of author's home with tissue. About very good in decorative dark brown boards with gilt lettering on spine, rear..... Item #52586 More
FURROW'S END: An Anthology of Great Farm Stories.
New York: Greenberg, (1946). First edition. Edited by the publisher, David B. Greenberg, with an introduction by Louis Bromfield. Includes Jim Thompson's "Mr. Simpson Makes a Sale" from his second novel, HEED THE THUNDER, published by Greenberg the same year. Also includes William Saroyan, Leo Tolstoi, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, E...... Item #51531 More
REPORT ON THE BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA: With Special Reference to the Food-Habits, based on over Four Thousand Stomach Examinations.
Harrisburg: E. K. Meyers, State Printer, 1890. Second edition, revised and augmented. Illustrated with 100 plates after Audubon with all but the first in full color. (There were only 50 plates in the first edition). Compiled by Warren, Pennsylvania's State Ornithologist, just 2 years after the first edition was "exhausted"..... Item #71990 More
LETTER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY: In Answer to a Resolution of the Senate of the 18th Instant, in Relation to the Contracts Made With Robert L. Stevens for the Construction of a Steam Floating Battery.
[Washington, DC: Government Printing Office], 1862. First edition. 37th Congress, 2nd Session, Ex. Doc. No. 34. The Senate. March 24, 1862. Near fine, disbound. Item #51398 More
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