E-List #43

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Item #1444 Under Sail to Greenland: Being an account of the Voyage of the Cutter "Direction",...

Allen, Arthur S[amuel]., Jr. (1907-1929)

Under Sail to Greenland: Being an account of the Voyage of the Cutter "Direction", Arthur S. Allen, Jr., Captain, to Greenland in the Summer of 1929, together with the Log, letters and other memoranda

New York: The Marchbanks Press, 1931. Limited edition, 1 of 900 copies. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Hardcover. Tall octavo. 91 pages. Arthur S. Allen, Jr. was an experienced young sailor and student at M.I.T. when he set out on this voyage in June, 1929 with two companions. One..... More

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Item #1436 Fighting by the Southern Federals. Charles Anderson, arter

Anderson, Charles C[arter]. (1867-1946)

Fighting by the Southern Federals

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

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Item #1449 Tears (Signed). Angelica Balabanoff

Balabanoff, Angelica (1878-1965)

Tears (Signed)

New York: E. Laub Publishing Co., 1943. First printing. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Thin velvet-covered boards. Octavo. 159 pages. Poems of political struggle, published while Balabanoff was in exile in New York during World War II. She was a Russian-born Italian Jew who had worked with Lenin, Trotsky, and..... More

Price: $150

Item #1430 Tad Lincoln's Father. Julia Taft Bayne

Bayne, Julia Taft (1845-1933)

Tad Lincoln's Father

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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Item #1443 [The Sinews of Peace] Westminster College Bulletin, April, 1946. Winston S[pencer...

[Churchill, Winston S[pencer]. (1874-1965)]

[The Sinews of Peace] Westminster College Bulletin, April, 1946

Fulton: Westminster College, 1946. Black and white photographs. Stapled wraps. Quarto. [24 pages]. Here is the rare first appearance of Winston Churchill's speech "The Sinews of Peace," in which he first used the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the Soviet Union's establishment of control over Eastern Europe immediately following World..... More

Price: $1,500

Item #1445 Expedición y Desembarco del "Granma" [cover title: Album Expedicionarios del Granma]....

[Cuban Revolution]

Expedición y Desembarco del "Granma" [cover title: Album Expedicionarios del Granma]

[Havana}: (S.n.), [c.1960]. Black and white photographs. Softcover. Oblong duodecimo. 41 unnumbered leaves. Album commemorating the 1956 invasion of Cuba by revolutionaries under Fidel Castro in the yacht Granma. The album consists of individual photographs of the participants in the invasion, opening with the photographs of 27 men who were..... More

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Item #1435 Features of Mr. Jay's Treaty. To Which is Annexed a View of the Commerce of the United...

[Dallas, Alexander James (1759-1817)]

Features of Mr. Jay's Treaty. To Which is Annexed a View of the Commerce of the United States, as it Stands at Present, and as it is Fixed by Mr. Jay's Treaty

Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey, by Lang & Ustick, 1795. Unbound sheets tied with old thread. Octavo. 51 pages. This is a strong Jeffersonian-Republican argument against the Jay Treaty, then before Congress. The treaty was designed by Alexander Hamilton, negotiated by Chief Justice John Jay, and supported by President Washington..... More

Price: $500

Item #1440 Autographs for Freedom [The Heroic Slave]. Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, c

[Douglass, Frederick (c.1817-1895)]. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, et al.

Autographs for Freedom [The Heroic Slave]

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

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Item #1441 The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories. Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)

The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900. First printing. Black and white frontispiece and plates by E. W. Kemble. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [vi], 362 pages. fine collection of 20 short stories by pivotal African American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was first a poet. Dunbar deftly weaves in..... More

Price: $350

Item #1433 Report of the Select Committee Relative to the Soldiers' National Cemetery, together...

[Gettysburg Address] Everett, Edward (1794-1865) and Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Report of the Select Committee Relative to the Soldiers' National Cemetery, together with the Accompanying Documents, as Reported to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, March 31, 1864

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

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Item #1442 The Chinese Boy and Girl. Isaac Taylor Headland

Headland, Isaac Taylor

The Chinese Boy and Girl

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1901). First printing. Black and white photographs, illustrations. Cloth over boards with printed paper sides. Tall octavo. 176 pages. Beautiful depiction of child life in China, revealing something of their nursery's, school rooms, and playgrounds. Numerous photographs throughout, along with old prints, to illustrated..... More

Price: $350

Item #1446 Society as I Have Found It. Ward McAllister

McAllister, Ward (1827-1895)

Society as I Have Found It

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

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Item #1447 Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne, lan, lexander

Milne, A[lan]. A[lexander]. (1882-1956)

Winnie-the-Pooh

[New York]: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1926). First U.S. edition. Drawings by Ernest H. Shepard. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [xiv], 159 pages. The classic children's story of young Christopher Robin and his faithful anthropomorphic teddy bear and other toys. First American edition, with the illustrations by Ernest..... More

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Item #1431 Robert Fulton and the Submarine. Wm. Barclay Parsons

Parsons, Wm. Barclay

Robert Fulton and the Submarine

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

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Item #1448 Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena. William E. Robinson

Robinson, William E.

Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena

New York: Munn & Company, 1898. First printing. Numerous black and white illustrations. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. vi, 148 pages, + 2 leaves publisher ads. Fascinating book by a magician who worked with Alexander Hermann and Prof. Kellar. Robinson had been raised as a spiritualist but no longer acknowledged..... More

Price: $300

Item #1432 The Magic Island. Seabrook, illiam, uehler

Seabrook, W[illiam]. B[uehler]. (1884-1945)

The Magic Island

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

Price: $300

Item #1439 Text of a Speech Delivered By J. V. Stalin at an Election Rally in Stalin Electoral...

Stalin, J[oseph]. V[issarionovich]. (1878-1953)

Text of a Speech Delivered By J. V. Stalin at an Election Rally in Stalin Electoral Area, Moscow February 9, 1946

Washington: Information Bulletin, Embassy of the USSR, 1946. Stapled wraps. Octavo. 16 pages. An important speech by Stalin, just months after the end of World War II, wherein he reflects on the Allied victory, the performance of the Red Army therein, and the consequent validation of the stability of the..... More

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Item #1437 The Claims to the Oregon Territory Considered. Adam Thom

Thom, Adam (1802-1890)

The Claims to the Oregon Territory Considered

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1844. First printing. Unbound, tied with string. Octavo. iv, 44 pages. Thom was a British Crown judicial officer, and makes a very able argument in favor of British ownership of the Oregon Territory. He refutes the American claims advanced by Robert Greenhow in his 1840..... More

Price: $250

Item #1438 Six Seconds in Dallas: A Micro-Study of the Kennedy Assaassination. Josiah Thompson

Thompson, Josiah

Six Seconds in Dallas: A Micro-Study of the Kennedy Assaassination

[New York]: Bernard Geis Associates, (1967). First printing. Black and white photographs, sketches. Hardcover. Octavo. xx, 323 pages. One of the earliest and most credible refutations of the Warren Commission's conclusions. Thompson tackles the ample photographic evidence of the assassination, which includes the Zapruder film, films shot by three others..... More

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Item #1434 The Great Antichrist Revealed, Never yet Discovered. And Proved to be neither Pope,...

Williams, Gr[iffith]. (c.1589-1672)

The Great Antichrist Revealed, Never yet Discovered. And Proved to be neither Pope, nor Turk, nor any Single Person nor any one Monarch nor Tyrant in and Polity...

London: Printed for Philemon Stephens the younger, at the Kings-Arms, 1661. Marbled paper over boards with leather spine. Quarto. [24], 1-108, 1-96, 1-83, [9] pages. Controversial work by Anglican Bishop of Ossory, Griffith Williams, in which he identifies the Westminster Assembly of Divines as the "mystical soul" and the Long..... More

Price: $1,500

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