Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1845. The American Missionary Society was amongst the leading advocates in the fight to denounce slavery. This text gives an informative insight into one of the most influencial anti-slavery organization, in additin to an historical statement of previous proceedings. Read More about Report of the Committee on Anti-Slavery Memorials
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Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851. First Edition. Reprinted from the North American Review, October, 1851. The author carefully issues that include “how far and how fast is the institution of slavery susceptible of change and amelioration - what are the prospects of its being removed - and..... Read More about Slavery In The United States: Its Evils, Alleviations And Remedies
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New York: R. G. Williams, 1836. First Edition. Deals exclusively with the effects of the British Abolition Act on the colonies in the West Indies. Read More about The Anti-Slavery Record Vol. 11. No. X1
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[Kenftfield, Ca.]: Printed and Published by Mallette Dean [Laid out and designed at the Allen Press], 1959. Dean, Mallette. One of 200 copies. Read More about The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Foreword by George P. Hammond
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New York: Dated December 3, 1931. Baruch was a great financier and governmental advisor, playing active roles as commissioner of the War Industries Board and chairman of the raw materials division of the Supreme Economic Council. Read More about One-page Typed Letter Signed (“B M Baruch”) to George P. Smith, on 120 Broadway stationery
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Hidden House Center Conway, NH: June 25, 1928. Reading in part: "It would give me great pleasure if I could contribute to the proposed Club Volume. Unfortunately I have made no trip which had as its object hunting, exploration or natural history. My advanced years for some time debarred me..... Read More about T.L.S. To George Bird Grinnell, Honorary President of The Boone & Crockett Club
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[Cranford, N.J: Allen Printing Co, 1935. First edition, Number 55 of 130 copies (with label on front pastedown giving limitation.). Signed by the author's wife, Laura Laurenson Byrne, on the dedication page and dated 21 December, 1935. The printed dedication indicates that Laura Laurenson Byrne wrote down these reminiscences as..... Read More about A Frontier Army Surgeon an Authentic Description of Colorado in the Eighties
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Georgetown, Ca: The Talisman Press, 1967. Edition of 250 specially bound signed and numbered copies, with facsimile maps and documents in rear pocket. Extensive biography of this legendary California figure. Read More about James W. Marshall. The Discoverer of California Gold. A Biography
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New York: Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America, 1877. First edition. Read More about Centennial Discourses. A Series of Sermons delivered in the Year 1876, by the Order of the...
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New York: John F. Trow, April 5-15, 1864. First appearance in any form. An occasional magazine issued by the Metropolitan Fair for the benefit of the U.S. Sanitary Commission (BAL 11186). Numbers 1-5, 8-10, contain the first appearance of Cooper’s last work, “New York”. This was Cooper’s introduction to his..... Read More about The Spirt of the Fair
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Havana: January 21, 1928. Reading in part: "We are charmed with Cuba. Our Eyes rest with delight upon the beauty of Cuba...We cherish the thought that Cuba in her liberty and indepedndence is the vindication of the idealism of the people of the United States." Read More about Typed Manuscript , Signed. A part of Chamber of Commerce Address on Cuba
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Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1952. From an edition of 310 copies, printed by Grant Dahlstrom. Delano went to California in 1849. Known as "Old Block," he was one of the leading humorists of the Gold Rush era. These letters provide his unique reportage of the overland trip to California..... Read More about Alonzo Delano's Correspondence. Being Letters Hitherto Uncollected from the Ottawa (Illinois)...
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898. Early edition. Read More about Lyrics of Lowly Life
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London: Waterlow & sons, 1878. First Edition. “Fictitious” — Ayer. Read More about Seven and nine years among the Camaches and Apaches. An Autobiography
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. First edition. Important for the information about making a living in the United States. Read More about Sketches of America. A Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and...
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N.p: n.d. [c. 1945]. The Poet of the Virgin Islands in Praise of FDR. This rare poetic broadside comes from an unusual American source: the poet of the Virgin Islands, José P. Gimenez, born on the Island of St. Thomas, (v. French, et. al., Afro-American Poetry & Drama 1760-1975, p...... Read More about Broadside poem, entitled “A Virgin Islands’ Tribute to the Memory of our Beloved President...
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New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1856. Read More about The Republican Court or American Society in the Days of Washington
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New York: Grolier Club, 1894. One of 312 copies on hand-made paper. Printed by the De Vinne Press. With pencil note on pastedown by “CF” that it was from the library of Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946); bought at Dauber & Pine from a collection of Pinchot family books. Gifford..... Read More about Facsimile of The Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for Their Majesties Province of New York...
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New York: Underwood & Underwood, n.d. [ca. 1922]. A touching image of the President whose administration holds the record as one of the most corrupt in American history. Docketed on the rear “He Loved Children”, and with the stamped copyright notice of Underwood & Underwood. Provenance: C.N. Thomas, principal of..... Read More about Photograph of the elderly Harding dandling a little girl on his knees, with her dog
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1929. No. 74 of 175 copies SIGNED BY HEYWARD and the designer JOSEPH SANDFORD. Signed by the Author and Designer. Read More about The Half Pint Flask
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Philadelphia: Herman Hooker, 1853. First Edition. An argument for the superiority of a policy of African colonization and the repatriation of Afro-Americans over one of mere abolition, which special attention given by the author to Liberia. Read More about Colonization and Abolition Contrasted [drop-title
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Atchison, Kas: Howe & Co, 1883. First edition. “Early life in Missouri” (Wright). Read More about The Story of a Country Town
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New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc, 1957. First Edition. The third of the Simple series, after Simple Speaks His Mind and Simple Takes a Wife. Read More about Simple Stakes A Claim
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Spanish Ranch, Calif: Nov. 26, '93. He is surprised that she is in the gold region again. O'Brien and White have bought the Plumas claim and water. Mother has died. This letter from Spanish Ranch, Plumas County in the Sierrra Nevada. Read More about A.L.S. To Mrs. Strite, "My Dear Sister." of Redding Calif
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1964. Dutchman was Jones’s first professionally produced play, the winner of the 1964 Obie Award. Read More about Dutchman And The Slave
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