ca. 1883-1901. Gunn, a friend of William C. Whitney, McKinley, and Mark Hanna, was a wealthy Cleveland businessman... Read More about Collection of 36 Autograph Letters, signed, from Alexander Gunn to William C. Whitney, and 2...
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855. First edition. Read More about Minnesota and the Far West
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Jacksonville: Published by R. Goudy, 1834. This is the first edition of one of Peck's many publications regarding the state of Illinois and the adjacent country, derived mostly from his own personal experiences as a veteran traveller within and without the state. A useful guide for visitors as well as..... Read More about A Gazetteer of Illinois in Three Parts: Containing a General View of the State, a General View of...
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Washington, D.C: 1889. First Edition. Inscribed to His Daughter. Inscribed to his daughter in a Tipped in ALS. Read More about A Printed Letter to Some of My Friends
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Cincinnati: privately printed, 1957. First edition. Read More about The Slagle Story. A History of the Slagle Trout Club
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[Belleville,] Illinois: [Printed by B.H. Perryman and H.L. Davison], 1855. First edition. “Best picture of Illinois pioneer life” (Howes). "The book deals extensively with social, economic, and political conditions in the pioneer period and with the Black Hawk War... a good picture of frontier society" (Buck). Also contains several chapters..... Read More about My Own Times, Embracing also, the History of My Life
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Belleville, Il: 1852. "For his history of the early French communities and the settlement of the American Bottom, Reynolds relied on early pioneers still living" - Streeter. An important early history by a governor of the state who was in office at the time of the Mormon troubles and the..... Read More about THE PIONEER HISTORY OF ILLINOIS, CONTAINING THE DISCOVERY, IN 1673, AND THE HISTORY OF THE...
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Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin: E. Beeson, Book and Job Printer, August 1862. First edition. Lossing's copy. Owned by the distinguished historian Benson Lossing. This is exactly the sort of book one would have expected to find in his library. Read More about A National System of Finance, Suited to a War or Peace Establishment; Regulating Exchanges and...
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Chicago: Union Publishing Co, 1871. Chicago Fire. Read More about The Great Conflagration. Chicago: Its Past,Present and Future. Embracing a Detailed Narrative of...
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[Minnesota]: [circa 1862]. A rare image of the Ojibway chief Hole in the Day (The Younger) (1825-1868), chief of the Mississippi Band of the Ojibwe (Chippewa) of central Minnesota. During the Sioux Uprising of 1862, Hole-in-the-Day advocated joining forces with the Dakota and threatened to attack Fort Ripley. By late..... Read More about "Hole-in-the-Day" Chief of the Cubanys' / Crow Wing / Minnesota
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Washington: Printed at the Congressional Glove Office, 1854. First edition. Kansas-Nebraska Act. Primarily concerning the issue of slavery in the territories, this speech was part of the debates for the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The act, initiated by Douglas, ultimately repealed the Missouri Compromise allowed the local residents to determine whether the..... Read More about Speech of John M. Clayton, of Delaware, on the Bill to Organize Territorial Governments in...
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Blackbury: May 26, 1849. Mental Health. Reading in part: "Dear Brother I received yours of the 13 yesterday we are injoying tolerable good health ---health is good think her mind is not so steddy as it usd to be she is considered bymost of people to be inbtinely well She..... Read More about Autograph Letter, Signed
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Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Company, 1928. From a limited edition, signed and numbered by the author. This is copy no. 260. Narrative of the author's experiences in the Kansas Volunteer Calvalry, printing the diary he kept during the Wichita Campaign. With a complete list of the men in the regiment..... Read More about Campaigning with Custer and the Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry on the Wichita Campaign,...
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St. Louis: Graf Engraving Co, 1896. First edition. With a note on the last leaf that this book was printed and published only 6 days after the tornado. Read More about The Great Tornado at St. Louis on the evening of May 27th, 1896
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Montreal: July 2, 1921. Taft writes to Democratic Senator and fellow Ohioan Atlee Pomerene two days after being appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by President Harding: "I thank you sincerely for your kind telegram of congratulation. It was good of you to send it. I was much..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Wm H Taft"), to Senator Pomerene, two days after his...
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New Haven, Conn: November 16, 1914. Taft writes to former Ohio Lieutenant Governor Francis Treadway, thanking him for the "kind invitation which you extended to me sometime ago to address the Cleveland Bar Association. As you say, I shall be in Cleveland on November 21st, where I am to address..... Read More about Typed Letter Signed ("Wm H Taft"), to Francis W. Treadway
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Hot Springs, Virginia: July 30, 1908. "My dear Ban: The only disappointment I had in Cincinnati was in not getting a chance to talk with you and Charlie Clark, and I don't know what became of you...." The letter is dated the month after he received the Republican nomination for..... Read More about Typed letter signed ("Wm H Taft"), to Otto T. Bannard of the New York Trust Company
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Philadelphia: Published by Moses Thomas, 1819. First American edition. Read More about Reciprocal Duties of Parents and Children
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n.p [New York]: February 9, 1930. An autobiographical letter from the journalist turned playwright briefly sketching his interests as a school boy, to his transition to a professional playwright. Reading in part: “A great American has written that the man is only half himself, the other half is his expression..... Read More about Typed letter signed "Augustus Thomas" to "Seymour Halpern" in response to...
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London: Effingham Wilson, Waugh & Innes of Edinburgh and W.F. Wakeman of Dublin, N.d. [1835]. First edition. Mrs. Towers, "a writer of genuine ability" (Stuart M. Sperry) was the daughter of John Keats’s teacher, John Clarke, and the sister of Charles Cowden Clarke, Keats’s school-friend and mentor. Her husband, [George]..... Read More about Perils in the Woods, or, the Emigrant Family's Return; a Tale
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Aix-en-Provence [France]: 20 January, 1931. ‘I Have Had So Many Exciting Experiences…’. An anecdotal letter from one of the foremost travel writers of the first half of the 20th century.Reading in part: “I have had so many exciting experiences that I really cannot think of one I should put ahead..... Read More about Typed letter signed ("Harry A. Franck") to Seymour Halpern ("Mr. Halpern") ...
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Washington, D.C: Sept 18 (c.1931). "GOOD HEALTH AND ATTENTION TO DUTY" A no-nonsense reply from he 15th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Reading in part: “I do not attribute my accession to my present position to anything unusual, but mostly to good health (I did not have to retire) and..... Read More about Autograph Note, Signed "B.H. Fukker," to Seymour Halpern, in response to Halpern's...
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New York: Published for Thomas Green Fessenden, at E. Sargent's Bookstore, No. 39, Wall-street, August 30, 1806-September 20, 1806. First edition. Read More about The Weekly Inspector. Vol I: Numbers 1-IV
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[N.p. Logansport, Ind., Chronicle Printing Co: Privately printed], 1920. First edition. Sport in Indiana. Accounts of hunting and trapping in the Kankakee marshlands, deer and waterfowl.Werich was born in 1860 in a log cabin in Valparaiso, Indiana, not far from the river. “In the final chapter the author laments the..... Read More about Pioneer Hunters of the Kankakee
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Warsaw [Poland]: May 8, 1931. "INTELLIGENTLY GRASP YOUR OPPORTUNITIES" A reply from the automotive pioneer and statesman whose name will always be associated with the jeep that bore his moniker. Reading in part: "It is hard to answer and I do not think there is one thing that contributes to..... Read More about Typed Letter, Signed, "John N. Willys" to Seymour Halpern in response to Halpern's...
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