Charming scrapbook of 37 leaves filled with colorful chromolithographic images and some decorative trade cards. It was assembled by Esther Anderson (1871-1958) between 1885 and 1890 while her family was living in Brooklyn, New York..... More
circa 1850. A single sheet (13" x 14 ½") printed circa 1850 of the pew floor plan for the First Baptist Meeting House in Worcester, Massachusetts. The document is hand annotated with names, indicating the..... More
Swan Lake Splashes [six issues]. Sumner, Missouri: 1940-41. Six mimeographed issues in either pink or blue wrappers, stapled. Two issues with two holes punched near the left edge. Minor wear and dust soiling; otherwise very..... More
Two holographic letters written in 1857 concerning the procurement of turkeys to supply Boston during the forthcoming Thanksgiving holiday. While observed by various states, it was not until 1863 that Thanksgiving was made a national..... More
1948-1949. A remarkably crafted photographic album documenting the activities of a high school drum corps in Coffeyville, Kansas during the 1948-1949 school year. In addition to nearly 150 original photographs of the Tornado Drum Corps..... More
Five promissory notes made by Henry Clay Jr. (1811-47), the Kentucky legislator and soldier who was the third son of the U.S. Senator Henry Clay. Four of the loans totaling $900 were advanced in June..... More
An archive of photographs, ledgers, canceled checks, legal documents and other business and personal records from a Stillwater, New York family who feuded over the disposition of a lumber and coal business at the turn..... More
A handwritten letter, dated June 4, 1804, from Margaret Eustace to another woman concerning her troubles finding witnesses to support her in a legal matter. Eustace and her children were close to several U.S. founding..... More
University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. The standard biography of George Mifflin Dallas (1792-1864), the American politican and diplomat who, as the 11th Vice President of the United..... More
Philadelphia: C. and A. Conrad and Co., 1811. First Edition. Hardcover. Tipped in on a prefatory blank leaf is a later engraved portrait of Biddle and his signature, apparently clipped from a letter. Nicholas Biddle..... More
An archive of family letters written to Gratia Turnbull Fuller Blake during the mid-19th century covering a wide range of historic topics including the U.S. Civil War, slavery, yellow fever, and a legal dispute over..... More
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by E. Maurice Bloch on the front flyleaf in the first volume. A critical study of the stylistic development of the Missouri-born painter, with 198..... More
San Francisco: Privately Published, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 150 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Laudatory biography of James Phillips, Jr. (1848-1931), the Scottish-born American businessman whose distinguished career included successful ventures in..... More
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 416 p. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy. More
Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. This is number 276 of 1950 copies signed by Bumgardner. A splendid selection, which is divided into eleven categories: expansion, contemporary events, patriotism, education, criminals, religion, elegies..... More
New York: Butler Brothers, 1901. Wraps. George and Edward Butler founded the wholesale mail order company Butler Brothers in Boston in 1877 and opened a Chicago warehouse in 1879. The company focused on providing inexpensive..... More
Nashville, Tennessee: Clearbrook Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. "...explains how slavery was embedded in every level of Tennessee society; that many families which didn't own slaves leased..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 453 p. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. Internally crisp and clean. The dust jacket is sun faded along the spine, with some occasional..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. In addition to writing about innovative philanthropic and social action by individuals and corporations that effect change both down the street and across the globe, the..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by William P. Gibbons, 1833. First Edition. Pamphlet: 8 p. Stitched brown paper wrappers (4 ¼” x 6 3/8”). The lower corner of p.7-8 is unevenly trimmed (no loss of text). Some minor..... More
The courtship letters of a young man and woman from Illinois written at the turn of the last century. Charles Cunningham (1870-????), a shopkeeper, is courting Hattie May Eaton (1880-1973), a school teacher, in the..... More
Cincinnati, Ohio: Jeff Davis, 1944. Second Edition. Wraps. Signed by Jeff Davis on the title page. “Jefferson ‘Jeff’ Davis, a vaudeville performer and advocate for homeless workers, established another union in Cincinnati in 1908, called the..... More
Kenilworth, Illinois and Chicago: Published by the Author, 1934. Hardcover. Third printing. Beginning in early 1933, Dilling (1894-1966) spent twelve to eighteen hours a day for eighteen months researching and cataloging suspected subversives. Her sources..... More
1888. Leather bound. Holographic diary for the year 1888 of a young man who attended the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis. During harvest season, James L.N. Donnally (1864-1947) worked on the family farm in..... More
A one-and-a-half page holographic bifolium letter written in June 1827 by Edward Everett to J.R. Poinsett, the first U.S. Minister to Mexico, concerning a Mexican hieroglyphic manuscript he gifted to the American Academy of Arts..... More