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Washington, D.C: Farnham, 1857. Second Edition. Inscribed on the half-Title: "Edmund Flagg Esq./ with the regards of/ C.C. Andrews." Second edition is printed in same year as the first. Read More Item Details for Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the North-West, in 1856 Add to Wish List
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Cincinnati: [October 2, 1919]. Although the pre-printed lineups are for the first game, the original owner has filled in the scorecards as per game 2, which the Reds won 4-2. White sox pitcher Lefty Williams, normally known for his control, was uncharacteristically wild during the game, an argument used by..... Read More Item Details for Golden Jubilee Cincinnati Reds Champions 1869-1919. Official Souvenir Score Card. World's Series Games. Redland Field 1919 [cover title] Add to Wish List
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Perry, Iowa: Chief Printing Co, 1905. Read More Item Details for Way Back in '61. An Original Play in 4 Acts Add to Wish List
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Hanover, Ind: Published by Joseph G. Monfort Hanover College Press, 1835. Read More Item Details for Oxford Addresses: Being the Inaugural Address, and Address to the Graduates of Miami University Add to Wish List
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n.p. (Washington, D.C): Feburary 8th, 1930. A plucky letter from the first blind US Senator. Reading in part: “Through an electric shock I lost my sight. Then it was the beginning all over as a blind man to make myself into a successful blind lawyer. It was hard luck but..... Read More Item Details for Typed letter signed "Thos. D. Schall" (Thomas D. Schall) to "S.H." (Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the key to success in life Add to Wish List
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Akron, Ohio: circa 1930. Advertises the 19-year-old African American fighter under the management of Harry "Ping" Auber as available for cards, with an impressive 62-3 records, with 20 by way of knockout. Tragically, in a fight against Mickey Duris in March 1931 Harris was unable to come out in the..... Read More Item Details for Sensational Sammy Harris. Akron's Lightweight Contender Add to Wish List
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Detroit: September 18, 1764. An important document, giving Sinclair the orders which would result in the founding of Fort Sinclair, i.e. present day Port Huron, MI. Bradstreet writes: "You are hereby reuired & directed to take under your care and command His Majesty's Schooner Gladwin with the provision & stores..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed, to Lt. Patrick Sinclair, ordering him to take provisions via the Schooner Gladwin to the garrison of Michilmicnack and to take detailed soundings from there to the entrance of Lake Huron "for the erecting a Port there," i.e. what would beceome Fort Sinclair Add to Wish List
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Washington, D.C: December 21, 1947. “… I am glad to know that Mr. Justice William O. Douglas of this Court will speak at the public dinner to be held in observance of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of John Peter Altgeld, the late Governor of Illinois, and a leadiing..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter, signed (“Harold H, Burton”) to Harry Barnard of the Altgeld Centenary Committee of Illinois in Chicago, regarding the selection of Justice William O. Douglas as guest speaker at the public dinner in Altgeld’s honor Add to Wish List
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Burlington, Iowa: Published by the Burlington Rotary Club, 1921. First edition. Five of the twenty-four poems concern fishing; the illustrations of a Mississippi slough ("pronounced in the middle west, 'sloo' not 'slou'") include a lengthy caption discussing local fishing. This edition unknown to both Bruns and Heller. Read More Item Details for Fishin' Poems and Others [Cover title] Add to Wish List
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Dubuque, Iowa: O. A. Bronson Jr, 1871. First volume of this chess journal. The early volumes were called “Dubuque Chess Journal” and “Brownson's Chess Journal,” then in 1876 the title was changed to “The American Chess Journal ”and then in 1877 returned to “Chess Journal.”¶ The portrait photograph is inserted..... Read More Item Details for The Chess Journal: Devoted to the Interests of Caissa. No. 1 August 1870; No. II, August 15th, 1870; No 3, September 1st, 1870 Volume I [Second edition]; No. IV, September 15th 1870; No. V. October 1st, 1870; No. 6 October 15th, 1870 [Second edition]; No. VII November 1st 1870; No. VIII November 15th 1870 Add to Wish List
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Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co, 1899. McCutcheon, John T. Reprint of the 1896 edition; cover issue date states August 18, 1897, but this edition [stated; ninteenth thousand] was actually issued later. George Ade (b.1866 - d.1944) was an American humorist who was well known for his column in the..... Read More Item Details for Artie. A Story of the Streets and Town. [Stone's Quarterly, No. 1] Add to Wish List
Item #346187
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Chicago: Jevne & Almini, 1866-1867. First Edition. A marvelous collection of views of Chicago - drawn, described, and published by Chicagoans - providing the best visual description of the city before the destruction wreaked by the Great Fire of 1871. The scarce prospectus for the work, present here, asserts that..... Read More Item Details for Chicago Illustrated. 1830. 1866. Literary Description by James W. Sheahan Esq. Illustrations by the Chicago Lithographing Co [wrapper title] Add to Wish List
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Washington, D.C: 1862. This compelling, historical manuscript was penned during the contentious and hostile political environment that was pervasive during the Lincoln Administration. The subscription is for a speech by Pendleton arguing the constitutionality of the proposed “Legal Tender Act,” authorizing the government to issue paper money, popularly known as..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript Subscription for copies of a speech made by Rep. George H. Pendleton Before the House on January 19, 1862, Signed by 56 Members of the US House of Representatives Add to Wish List
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Cleveland: Maurice Joblin, Publisher. Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., Printers, Hearld Office, 1869. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Cleveland Past and Present: Its Representative Men Comprising Biographical Sketches of Pioneer Settlers and Prominent Citizens...[Photographically Illustrated by E. Decker. A. Valendar] Add to Wish List
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New Haven: by Thomas and Samuel Green, 1795. With an untitled poem on page 38. Read More Item Details for The Heavenly Mansions. : A Sermon preached May 14, 1795, in the City of New-Haven, at the Interment of the Reverend Ezra Stiles, D.D. LL.D. President of Yale-College, who died on the 12th. of that month, in the 68th. year of his age, and 18th. of his Presidency. By James Dana, D.D. Pastor of the First Congregational Church in said city Add to Wish List
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Decatur, Ill: 1910s. Showing mostly women sports (Field hockey) and sorority life probably at Millikin College founded in 1901. Read More Item Details for Decatur Illinois College Album Add to Wish List
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Cincinnati, O: Sportsman’s Review Publishing Co, 1918. First edition. Read More Item Details for Trapshooting. The Patriotic Sport. A Book of Ready Reference, Giving a Brief History of the Sport, It’s Appliances, Record, Rules, etc. [Foreword by Will Wildwood] Add to Wish List
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[Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan: Printed at the Old Hand-press Printing Shop], Feburary 11, 1934-January 25, 1934 (i.e. 1935). Published by the Children of the Edison Institute. The name "Hearld" was taken from a paper that Thomas Edison used to print and publish on the train between Detroit and Port Huon..... Read More Item Details for Herald. Vol. ! Number 1-Number 26 Add to Wish List
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St. Louis, Missouri: 1935. Written by T.S. Eliots's Uncle by marriage. Read More Item Details for The History of Washington University Add to Wish List
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Washington. D.C: 21 November 1869. Ezra B. Taylor, a Republican lawyer and judge from Garfield's home state of Ohio, was elected Republican Representative to the 46th Congress to fill the vacancy created by Garfield's resignation to seek the Presidency. Taylor served several terms in Congress thereafter. In this letter to..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed ("J.A. Garfield"), as Congressman from Ohio, to Ezra Booth Taylor of Warren, Ohio, acknowledging the receipt of $500 Add to Wish List
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Philadelphia: Chas. C. Rhodes, 1857. First edition. Read More Item Details for Geary and Kansas. Governor Geary’s Administraion in Kansas: With a Complete History of the Territory Until 1857… Add to Wish List
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London & New York: G. Routledge & Co, 1858. Second edition, after the first of the previous year. The author's impressions of Bloody Kansas during the mid-1850s. The folding map shows Kansas Territory. Read More Item Details for Kansas; or, Squatter Life and Border Warfare in the Far West Add to Wish List
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np: 1950. Inscribed on title-page by C.N.Hickman to Margaret Stoddard This narrative was first published in the Danville Gazette in 1944 detailing a trip from Indiana to Texas in 1878 by way of sending along the better wagons and horses from Lizton, Indiana to a new one in Brasos country..... Read More Item Details for The Open Road With Supplement by C.N. Hickman Add to Wish List
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New York City: Hankin & Son, Publishers, Office of the "New York Home Gazette." 1869. Second and best edition. Read More Item Details for Dakota Land; or the Beauty of St. Paul. An Original Illustrated historic and romantic work on Minnesota and the great North-west Add to Wish List
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