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‘It Was Not Luck, But Hard Work’

Typed letter signed "Thos. D. Schall" (Thomas D. Schall) to "S.H." (Seymour Halpern) in response to Halpern's inquiry regarding the...

n.p. (Washington, D.C): Feburary 8th, 1930. ‘It Was Not Luck, But Hard Work’. 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.....

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Hunting Notes : the Southwest Revisited; a Series of Letters of the second annual hunting expedition to Missouri, Kansas and...

Easton, Pa: Easton Free Press, [1876]. First edition. Second of Boutcher’s two hunting trips to the midwest beyond the Mississippi, quail and grouse shooting, and a further excursion to Colorado where the party organized buffalo and antelope hunts near Sand Creek, Colorado, with officers from Fort Lyon. These letters were.....

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“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master”

Typed Letter, signed (“Harold H, Burton”) to Harry Barnard of the Altgeld Centenary Committee of Illinois in Chicago, regarding the...

Washington, D.C: December 21, 1947. “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master”. “… 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.....

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Howard Lake, Minnesota, 1904

Legends of the Fishing Trip in Minnesota.

[Minnesota: privately printed, 1904. First edition. Howard Lake, Minnesota, 1904. Inscribed on the first blank leaf by the author, to Luther A. Brewer (American publisher, president of Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa). Dated in ink on the wrapper, July, 1904. Account in verse (to a Longfellow meter) of the fishing trip...

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Not in Bruns

Fishin' Poems and Others [Cover title].

Burlington, Iowa: Published by the Burlington Rotary Club, 1921. First edition. Not in Bruns. 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.

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The Chess Journal: Devoted to the Interests of Caissa. No. 1 August 1870; No. II, August 15th, 1870; No 3...

Dubuque, Iowa: O. A. Bronson Jr, 1871. With Photograph. 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.....

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Copperheads and Unconditional Unionists

Autograph Manuscript Subscription for copies of a speech made by Rep. George H. Pendleton Before the House on January 19...

Washington, D.C: 1862. Copperheads and Unconditional Unionists. 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.....

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With an Autograph Manuscript Leaf

The Writings.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, [ca.1906]. "Author's Autograph Edition" With an Autograph Manuscript Leaf. A handsome and finely illustrated set of Cooper's works, number 21 of 63 copies, with an original autograph leaf of 42 lines from the manuscript of Cooper's 1848 novel, "The Oak Openings;...

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Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. First edition. The memoir of Mrs. John A. Logan, widow of the Union General and politician. This copy generously extra-illustrated and extended to two volumes. The extra-illustrations include the following: Mrs. John Logan, ALS; Dollie Madison, free frank autograph; Richard Wallach, Mayor of Washington, D.C......

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Report of a Geological Reconnaissance Made in 1835 … By the Way of the Green Bay and the Wisconsin Territory...

Washington, D.C: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1836. Featherstonhaugh began his journey in Washington, D.C. and traveled via Pittsburgh and Cleveland before visiting Detroit, and travelling by canoe on Lakes Huron and Michigan to Mackinac and Green Bay, thence via the Fox and Mississippi Rivers to Saint Anthony and Fort.....

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The Syndicate.

[Kansas City, Mo: Smith Grieves Co.], 1916. First edition. Account of a summer camping and fishing trip by a group of eight friends in the “wonderful Leech Lake country” in northern Minnesota. Scarce.

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Hard Times for Congressman Garfield from Ohio

Autograph Letter, signed ("J.A. Garfield"), as Congressman from Ohio, to Ezra Booth Taylor of Warren, Ohio, acknowledging the receipt of...

Washington. D.C: 21 November 1869. Hard Times for Congressman Garfield from Ohio. 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...

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