New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912. First printing. Frontispiece map. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 408 pages. Anderson presents a detailed review of military actions fought on behalf of the Union by southerners, including 296,570 white soldiers living in the South, 137,676 black soldiers, and approximately 200,000 men living..... More

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

London: Sampson Low, Son & Co.; and John Cassell, 1853. First British edition. Three quarter leather with marbled paper sides. Sixteenmo. [i]-viii, [9]-192 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..... More

Harrisburg: Singerly & Myers, State Printers, 1864. First printing. Frontispiece map, lithographed plan of cemetery. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [1-6], 7-108, [109-111] pages. An early printing of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, although buried on the second-to-last page of this report to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. The volume includes official reports..... More

New York: Cassell Publishing Company, (1890). First printing. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xvi, 469 pages. Ward McAllister was a popular arbiter of social taste during the Gilded-Age in New York. He coined the phrase "The Four Hundred" to denote the fashionable people in New York, declaring that..... More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1922. First printing. Black and white plates. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. xiv, 154 pages. An account of Robert Fulton's pioneering work on submarines, based on a manuscript and drawings he had done for the British government. This manuscript, which had been recently rediscovered at..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1929). First printing. Black and white drawings by Alexander King. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 336 pages. This is the book that introduced zombies into American pop culture. Just three years after its publication Hollywood released "White Zombie," the first of many zombie movies..... More