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Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. xiii, (3), 238 pages; Philadelphia: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1951. Land of the Free Series; xiii, (3) , 238 pages; Contents clean and secure in original cloth binding (light brick) in very nice dustjacket (Not clipped) . This wonderful book… Read more about this item

n.p.: General Assembly of South Carolina. Very Good. 1835. First Edition. Hard Cover. (3), 4-87 pages; Booklet in original self wrappers, contents clean and secure in a modern binding of red polished buckram with gilt lettering at spine; cream endpapers; minor ex-libris markings - small bookplate and LC surplus duplicate release stamp on rear ep;… Read more about this item

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. x, 544 pages; As new in very good dustjacket (one crease to inside flap). The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I-and a new understanding of one of the great… Read more about this item

New York: The Century Co. Very Good. 1908. Pictorial Cloth. x, (2), 236 pages; Contents clean and secure in original green cloth pictorial binding showing a moon rising over a triangular garland of vine leaves. Image and lettering faded at spine The story is set in New Orleans and features orphaned Philip and Toinette, the… Read more about this item

Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1854. First Edition Thus. Pamphlet. 33d Congress, 1st Session, Senate Mis. Doc. 72; 16 pages; Clean and complete in original self wrappers, stitched at left fold; small faint stain at lower outer corner of first two leaves; foredge curled on a few leaves (unevenly opened); two one word pencil notations in… Read more about this item

Boston: Published for the Use of the Members (Printed by Alfred Mudge and Son). Near Fine. 1862. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 118 pages; Publisher's dark green diced cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with a gilt stamped decorative depiction of the Old South Church, Boston on the front cover. Chocolate brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Printed… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Issued by W.S.B.. Very Good. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 87 pages; Contents clean and secure in original binding of brown cloth spine with brown boards, printed paper titles label on front board. Some wear to cloth at spine ends, corners rounded. William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite (1878 – 1962) was an African-American writer, poet, literary … Read more about this item

Washington DC: G.P.O. & House District of Columbia Committee. Very Good. 1941 & 2. Hardcover. Folio volume, maroon leather spine over black fabric covered boards, spine lettered in gilt,. The front free endpaper has the rubber stamp, in red ink, of the US House Committee on the District of Columbia. Above this is a clipped… Read more about this item

New York: Atlantic-Little, Brown. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. x, 422 pages; Clean and secure in original blue cloth binding in very good dustjacket. Here is a devastating expose of the most powerful conglomerate of wealth in America: the oil industry. Rand, a Persian and Arabic expert as well as… Read more about this item

Washington: United States Information Service. Near Fine. 1968. Paperback. 28 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers with image of MLK on front cover. OCLC 464221527 The author Thomas C. Clemens was a veteran Washington writer who followed closely developments in the struggle by Martin Luther King, Jr. and others for equal rights… Read more about this item

Washington: Congressional Globe Office. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 7, (1) pages; Very good condition in original self wrappers; pages unopened. Original owner's name signed in pencil on front wrapper -- "J. Whitcomb". Text printed in two columns. OCLC 83113204 (listing mistakenly labels as printed in 1857). This report presents the… Read more about this item

Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Removed Document. 34th Congress, 1st session, House Mis. Doc. No. 101; 3 pages; Removed document, clean and complete. OCLC 733579437 Excerpt: "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assemblyconvened, That the recent act of Congress, entitled 'A bill to organize the Territories of … Read more about this item

Washington: Congressional Globe Office. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8 pages; Very good condition in original self wrappers; pages unopened. Text printed in two columns. OCLC 9578021 ; OCLC 84271361 This speech addresses the Committee's report on the Kansas Question, including the Lecompton Constitution which would admit Kansas as a slave-holding state, … Read more about this item

Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Removed Document. 34th Congress, 1st session, House Mis. Doc. No. 100; 3 pages; Removed document, clean and complete. OCLC 1065564008 Excerpt: "Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be further instructed, and our representatives requested, to use their best endeavors to secure the passage of laws … Read more about this item

Washington: Buell & Blanchard, Printers. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 16 pages; Very good condition in original self wrappers; pages unopened, small stain at upper right corner of front wrapper. OCLC 43906948 This Minority Report of the Select Committee of Fifteen on the Kansas Question, particularly their opinion on the Lecompton Constitution… Read more about this item

Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Removed Document. 34th Congress, 1st session, House Mis. Doc. No. 119; 2 pages; Removed document, clean and complete. OCLC 163586660 Excerpt: "Resolved, That this outrage [when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist… Read more about this item

Washington: Buell & Blanchard, printers. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 20 pages; Very good condition in original self wrappers, Pages roughly opened, some foredges curled. Original owner's name signed in pencil on front wrapper -- "J. Whitcomb". Text printed in two columns. OCLC 191225439 This speech addresses the Kansas Question, including the… Read more about this item

Boston: T. R. Marvin. Very Good. 1853. First Edition. Paperback. 40 pages; Clean and complete in original peach colored wrappers; wrappers separating at spine, chipped at corners. Stitched at left edge. OCLC 430519058 Includes an address by J. H. B. Latrobe in addition to the usual reports on emancipations and repatriations, etc. … Read more about this item

Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Removed Document. 34th Congress, 1st session, House Mis. Doc. No. 120; 2 pages; Removed document, clean and complete. OCLC 80248143 Excerpt: "Resolved, That as the intrigues to thrust slavery upon Kansas have been growing more desperate ever since the repeal of the Missouri prohibition, until the… Read more about this item

Washington: Buell & Blanchard, printers. Very Good+. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8 pages; Very nice condition in original self wrappers, unopened along top folds. Text printed in two columns. This speech addresses President Buchanan's support for the Kansas Lecompton Constitution which would admit Kansas as a slave-holding state. Dawes fervently argues that the President had… Read more about this item