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Available from Second Life Books
55 Quarry Road
Lanesborough, MA
Phone: (413) 447-8010
"LET US BEGIN ANEW"
STROBER, Gerald S., and Deborah H.
NY:: HarperCollins,, (1993). 8vo, pp. xiii, 540. Appendices, index. Top edge slightly spotted, o/w a nice copy in slightly creased dj. First printing..
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Available from Calvello Books
2141 Mission Street, Suite 301
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: (415) 205-4500
"NORFLEET": THE ACTUAL EXPERIENCES OF A TEXAS RANCHER'S 30,000-MILE TRANSCONTINENTAL CHASE AFTER FIVE CONFIDENCE MEN.
Norfleet, J. Frank ; White, William Franklin (ed.) .
Fort Worth, Tex.: W.F. White, 1924 Octavo in dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped title and image of Norfleet to front board; 4 p. l., 344 p. front., plates, ports. 22 cm. A Very Good(+) to Near Fine(-) copy with light edgewear.. First edition.
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Available from John King Books
901 W. Lafayette Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48226
Phone: 313 961 0622
"Speech of Hon. Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi in the Senate of the United States April 24, 1939 in the Congressional Record."
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np (Washington, DC), nd (1939) 11.5 x 9, self wraps, 24 pp, horizontal fold, minor wear else vg. Bilbo, a controversial Mississippi Democrat, advocated "Voluntary Resettlement of American Negroes in Africa," and includes, after his long-winded diatribe, a copy of Senate Bill 2232 which outlines his plan for the "resettlement" of the blacks in "The United States Territory of Greater Liberia," lands adjoining Liberia and purchased from England and France. Bilbo was an outspoken segregationalist, and the US Senate refused to seat him for his third term in office because of his views. Incredibly detailed plan.
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1776-1876. Memorial Hall International Exhibition
Philadelphia)
Philadelphia: Werner Itschner & Co., [1876?]. Silk ribbon/badge, 4 x 3 1/2" (5 3/4 x 3 1/2", with fringe), Memorial Hall pictured in green on white background. Very good. This was the first major international art exhibition held in the United States.
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Available from John King Books
901 W. Lafayette Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48226
Phone: 313 961 0622
1978-1979 BOOK OF CHAMPIONS (A Chronicle of Results and Records of Michigan High School Meets and Tournaments).
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Michigan High School Athletic Association: East Lansing, MI, 1979 Photos, 11 x 8.5, wraps, 170 pp, covers worn and creased, contents thumbed else a decent, usable copy for all of us 40-somethings who remember high school back in the late 1970s.
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Available from Bolerium
2141 Mission Street #300
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: (415) 863-6353
A American Law of Treason: Revolutionary and Early National Origins.
Chapin, Bradley
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964 viii, 172p., lightly shelfworn dj, bookplate (now loose) of Bill Powell, China-born San Francisco resident who was tried for sedition in 1959 for publishing allegations of US germ warfare in Korea.
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Available from John King Books
901 W. Lafayette Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48226
Phone: 313 961 0622
A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIAL OF GENERAL DANIEL BUTTERFIELD Including Many Addresses and Military Writings.
Butterfield, Julia Lorrilard (ed).
The Grafton Press: NY, 1904 Photos, facsimiles, 9.75 x 6.5, gilt decorated blue cloth, 379 pp with index, covers moderately worn, extremities bumped and fraying, spine moderately darkened, hinges loose, eps and edges lightly toned else a decent copy. LIMITED TO 400 NUMBERED COPIES "PRINTED FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION, inscribed "WITH COMPLIMENTS OF THE AUTHOR DEC. 12 1904;" also INSCRIBED "B. J. D. IRWIN, BRIG GEN. US ARMY, FROM . . ." AND SIGNED BY EDITOR JULIA L. BUTTERFIELD, GENERAL BUTTERFIELD'S WIDOW. With the BOOKPLATE OF BJD IRWIN. Butterfield was a Medal of Honor winner during the Civil War, and the US Treasurer under Grant. Irwin was also a Civil War hero, and a medical doctor.
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Available from John King Books
901 W. Lafayette Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48226
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A CHARGE TO KEEP.
Bush, George W.
Wm. Morrow & Co: NY, 1999 Photos, 9.5 x 6.25, two tone boards, very minor wear else a nice copy in very nice dust jacket of the FIRST ED, FIRST PRINTING. Though it comes with a Certificate of Authenticity (not from us!), this copy has a secretarial signature of Bush on half-title.
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Available from John King Books
901 W. Lafayette Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48226
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A Collection of 30 Printed Speeches and Addresses delivered by Lewis Cass, longtime 19th Century US Senator from Michigan concer
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np (Washington DC), nd (1830s - 50s Each approximately 8.5 x 5.5, removed, worn, toned, some foxed, edges rough, soiled, couple stained, several duplicates, some detachments, else a good, usable lot. Contains much on Oregon Territory & the 49th Parallel, California, slavery and Kansas/Nebraska, Mexican War (Wilmot Proviso), British bullying, etc.; includes letter from the Secretary of War (he was Jackson's) concerning Indiana's Harbor at Trail Creek, with two identical map present; also three copies of Cass' speech in the Senate on the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (concerning a proposed canal in Nicaragua), a couple on Cuba, etc. Interesting lot. Cass was a War of 1812 hero, Territorial Governor of Michigan, Secretary of State for Buchanan, Ambassador to France, and the Democratic nominee for the Presidency in 1848. Fantastic but fragile collection.
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Available from Bolerium
2141 Mission Street #300
San Francisco, CA 94110
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A Destroying Angel: The Conquest of Smallpox in Colonial Boston.
Winslow, Ola Elizabeth
Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1974 137p., lightly shelfworn dj, bookplate of Bill Powell, China-born San Francisco resident who was tried for sedition in 1959 for publishing allegations of US germ warfare in Korea.
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A discourse delivered at Bridgewater November 3, 1797, at the request of the members of Fellowship Lodge, on occasion of the con
HARRIS, THADDEUS MASON
Boston: Printed by Samuel Hall, 1797. 8 1/4 x 4 7/8". 20pp. (including half-title). Disbound. Half-title foxed, some light foxing in text.
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A discourse delivered at the public consecration of the Meridian Sun Lodge in Brookfield, September 12, A. L. 5798
HARRIS, THADDEUS MASON
Brookfield: Printed by E. Merriam & Co., 1798. 7 7/8 x 4 7/8". 15pp. Disbound. Some light foxing.
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A discourse on some events of the last century, delivered in the Brick Church in New Haven, on Wednesday, January 7, 1801
DWIGHT, TIMOTHY
New Haven: Printed by Ezra Read, 1801. 8 x 5". 55, [1]pp. Disbound. Light browning throughout. Former owner's name on title.
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A festive song / for the celebration of Washington's birth-day / in the / South Carolina College chapel, / MDCCCXLVIII [caption
Washington, George). LIEBER, FRANCIS
[Columbia, South Carolina?, 1848]. Broadside (9 3/4 x 7 7/8"), printed on light blue paper. A few creases in margins. Text beginning: "When the God who fosters freedom...." Small library stamp on verso.
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A full and authentic report of the testimony on the trial of Matt. F. Ward
Ward, Matthew F.). CRITTENDEN, JOHN J., and others
[Full title:] A full and authentic report of the testimony on the trial of Matt. F. Ward, certified to be correct by Thomas D. Brown, Clerk of Hardin Circuit Court; Wm. Alexander, former Commonwealth attorney for the Hardin District; and Judge Alex. Walker, of New Orleans. With the speeches of Gov. Crittenden, Gov. Helm, T. F. Marshall, Esq., and Nathaniel Wolfe., Esq., and the reply of Alfred Allen, Esq., Attorney for the Commonwealth. Reported by A. D. Richardson. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1854. 8 1/2 x 5 5/8". [2]ff., [7]-176pp. Disbound. Light browning throughout, upper outside corner bumped.
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Available from William Reese Company
409 Temple Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Phone: (203) 789-8081
A FURTHER EXAMINATION OF OUR PRESENT AMERICAN MEASURES AND OF THE REASONS AND THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THEY ARE FOUNDED. BY THE A
[Robinson, Matthew, Baron Rokeby]:
Bath. 1776., [2],256pp. Modern blue wrappers, paper label. Scattered foxing, else internally clean. Very good. Lacks the half title. A continuation of the author's previous publication and an important work of Revolutionary Americana. The author concedes American independence, calls for peace, and emphasizes old ties between the Americans and the British: "All the old and the mutual ties, the union, the conjunction between Great Britain and our ancient North-America are now cut, severed and dissolved...but what ought most nearly to concern us, we have parted with a people who have for ages past been to us most cordial, as countrymen, most affectionate, as friends...." AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 76-134. SABIN 72154. GEPHART 3222. HOWES R373 "a"..
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A gazetteer of Delaware
GANNETT, HENRY
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. 9 x 5 3/4". 15, [1], iiipp. Original wrappers sunned. Fair, sound copy. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Bulletin no. 230, Series F, Geography, 38.
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A history of the struggle for slavery extension or restriction in the United States, from the Declaration of Independence to the
GREELEY, HORACE
Mainly compiled and condensed from the Journals of Congress and other official records, and showing the vote by yeas and nays on the most important divisions in either house. New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 1856. 8 5/8 x 5 5/8". iv, 164pp. Disbound. Collated and complete. History of slavery in the United States, Missouri struggles, annexation of Texas, Wilmot Proviso, Oregon, compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska
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A letter to William E. Channing D. D. on the subject of religious liberty. Third edition
STUART, MOSES
Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1830. 9 1/2 x 5 3/4". 52pp. Original wrappers, chipping at head and foot of backstrip, edges browned. Some foxing. Fair copy. Examination of Channing's "Discourses, reviews, and miscellanies" and his election sermon read before the Massachusetts legislature "which contain charges, expressed or implied, against the denomination of Christians in Massachusetts who are called Orthodox or Trinitarians."
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Available from Burke's Books
936 South Cooper Street
Memphis, TN 38104
Phone: (901) 278-7484
A More Perfect Union: Documents In Us History, Since 1865
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Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S: Houghton Mifflin College Div, 1995 Lightly thumbed but tight.
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