Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1931. First edition. Black and white photographic plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xiv, 206 pages. Julia Taft and her two young brothers were often in the White House as playmates of the two youngest Lincoln boys, beginning soon after President Lincoln's inauguration in 1861..... More
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Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1853. First Edition. Three wood-engraved plates with tissue guards. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. viii, 263 pages. Important collection of anti-slavery testimonies by eminent authors. Includes facsimile signatures of most contributors, which include Horace Mann, William Seward, Charles Sumner, Annie Parker, Gerrit Smith, Miss..... More
[Boston?]: [1908]. Manuscript. 6.25" x 8" This is an endearing letter from the aged social activist, suffragist, and poet just days before her 89th birthday. Julia Ward Howe is perhaps best known as the writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," but was also a prominent abolitionist and women's..... More
Boston: Alfred Mudge & Sons, Printers, 1864. Woodcut mastheads, occasional other woodcuts, and a map of the Fair venue laid in. Cloth over boards. Folio. 80 pages. The complete run of 10 issues of this newspaper from the National Sailors' Fair in Boston. The Fair ran from November 9 to..... More