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El Paso, Texas: W. H. Horne Co, 1912. Fine, in brown paper envelope Pass City News Co El Paso. Including 3 shots of Triple Execution in Mexico 3 and bodies of 3 men lying as they fell after being executed.

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1854. First Edition. 2 folding frontispieces, folding map, 14 tinted lithograph plates; 29 full-page woodcuts, plus numerous smaller text cuts throughout. xxii, 506; xvii, 624 pp. 2 vols. Tall 8vo. Modern calf-backed cloth boards. Repaired tears, foxing and staining. Provenance: Young Men's Mercantile Library, Pittsburgh (inked stamps). First Edition. 2 folding frontispieces,… Read more about this item

New-York: Published by E. Bliss... / Wm. A. Mercein, Printer, 1828. First edition, author's second published work. 16pp. 12mo. Covers and text are moderately foxed, creased at one corner, with early, light staining on front cover and top margin of a few leaves of text, else a very good copy, with original printed wrappers and text otherwise quite fresh… Read more about this item

Concord, N.H.: Printed and Published by White & Fisher, 1835. First Edition. Frontispiece and one other wood-engraved plate. 276pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Publisher's cloth, rebacked retaining the original spine. Foxing and browning. Library stamp on rear pastedown. First Edition. Frontispiece and one other wood-engraved plate. 276pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Early Account of Texas. Written on the eve of… Read more about this item

Norwood, Mass: Norwood Press, 1906. The Memorial Edition Number 6 of 100 Copies expressly printed for E. A. Groizier and signed by M.P. Curran on colophon page which is handcolored. 176pp. 4to. Bound in full blue morocco, with full red and blue morocco doublures and silk flyleaves, t.e.g., rest uncut. Fine. The Memorial Edition Number 6 of 100… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1852. First edition. Fifty-seven plates (some folding) and three folding maps (the two larger maps bound into a separate cloth portfolio as issued). 487, [1]pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's non-uniform cloth, some fading and wear. Scattered minor foxing, some separations to large folding maps. First edition. Fifty-seven plates (some folding) and three folding… Read more about this item

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company [Printed by J. J. Little & Co.], 1886. First edition. Illustrated. 584, 647, [1]pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's deluxe full black Turkey morocco, with blind stamped corner fillets and portrait medallions of Grant on front and rear covers; title stamped in gilt on spine, with additional gilt stamping to edges, with very… Read more about this item

[New York]: Compliments of Ernest L. Woodward, M.F.H. [privately printed by the Derrydale Press], 1932. First edition. "One Hundred Copies of the Hunting If have been printed by Eugene V. Connettt at the Derrydale Press in the Month of April 1932.. Printed in red and black on folded leaves. Sketches throughout text. Unpaginated. [12] leaves. 1 vols. Square 12mo.… Read more about this item

[Pittsburgh], 1893. Edited by F. H. Kindl. Illustrations. 8vo. Original wallet-style calf, with pocket in rear, some wear. Provenance: V. D. Allen, City Engineers Office, Columbus, OH (signature on front endpaper, with several folded manuscripts in rear pocket, including drawings of a skew portal and invoices for billing bolts). Edited by F. H. Kindl. Illustrations. 8vo. The first… Read more about this item

New York: George Dearborn, 1837. First edition. 240pp. Half-title. 8vo. Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Minor wear, chip to spine. Usual foxing. First edition. 240pp. Half-title. 8vo. The first literary interpretation with Pocahontas as the protagonist, and an important proto-feminist depiction of Native American women published anonymously by the noted utopian and abolitionist reformer Robert… Read more about this item

[Utica, NY: Horrocks-Ibbotson, 1936. Illustrated with photographs. [32] pp., with 7 pages of reminiscences by Zane Grey. 1 vols. 12mo. Pictorial self-wrappers. Back wrapper torn, with small losses in margin. In green cloth folding box. Illustrated with photographs. [32] pp., with 7 pages of reminiscences by Zane Grey. 1 vols. 12mo.

[London], 1805. [309]; [4], 46pp. Uncut. 2 vols. Folio. Disbound. [309]; [4], 46pp. Uncut. 2 vols. Folio. Two British Parliamentary papers on the slave trade, issued in the midst of the debates for its abolition. The first paper, organized by West Indian island, includes the correspondence between the British government and their West India colonies regarding slavery from… Read more about this item

London: Smith., Elder, 1835. First edition, half-titles in volumes 1-3 as called for, ads bound in at the rear as issued. Engraved portrait and 22 lithographed plates.[ iv], x, [ii], 49, [16, ads]; 2pp.; xiv, 492pp.; xvi, 474pp.; viii, 520pp. 4 vols. 8-7/8 x 5-1/2 inches (22.5 x 14 cm). Original green blind stamped marbled cloth, uncut (neatly rebacked… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1911. First edition. Frontispiece portrait, plates. 313pp. 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth, titled in gilt. Spine a bit faded, minor wear. First edition. Frontispiece portrait, plates. 313pp. 8vo. An important autobiographical work by Washington in which he detailed the creation and development of the Tuskegee Institute and "the educational methods which we are… Read more about this item

Caswell County, North Carolina, 1831. 1p. with integral docketing leaf. With endorsements by various clerks noting the registration of the deed. 4to. Usual folds. 1p. with integral docketing leaf. With endorsements by various clerks noting the registration of the deed. 4to. The gifting of a slave and "her increase" to John Tate Swift (1798-1867) the great-grandfather of William… Read more about this item

New York: George P. Philes [Printed by the Bradstreet Press], 1881. First edition, large paper copies of the first two vols. Four vols. in three. [viii], liv, [ii], 519; [vi], [i]-xl, 199, [6]; 102, [4]; 127, [1] pp. 3 vols. Thick 4to. Bound in three quarters brown calf, gilt spine. With wrappers bound in Bookplate of Ag. Casa "Bibliotheca… Read more about this item

[Argyle, NY], 1805. 6pp. Small 4to. Pinned together at an early date. Usual folds, minor foxing. 6pp. Small 4to. Much of the minutes of two meetings of the elders of the Argyle were taken up with the case of Joseph Wright who was accused of beating his wife. The minutes include the testimony of two female witnesses that… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. First edition. Folding map. 390pp. 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth, lettered in gilt, minor wear. Toning on title from mounted newspaper clipping on facing leaf. First edition. Folding map. 390pp. 8vo. Narrative of Washington's visit to Europe, for the purpose of investivating conditions among the lower classes. Blockson 367

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. First edition. Photogravure frontispiece portrait, plates and illustrations. 246pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original crimson cloth, lettered in white, spine faded, worn at extremities. First edition. Photogravure frontispiece portrait, plates and illustrations. 246pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The important sequel to Washington's autobiography Up from Slavery (1901). First printing, dated May 1904 on… Read more about this item

New York: Powerhouse Books, 2005. First edition. Unpaginated. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Burgundy cloth, upper cover stamped in blind. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the photographer on the title page. First edition. Unpaginated. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Signed.