American History

VG+/no Dustjackets as issued, no dj History University of State of NY Albany 1920 1st (scarce) Hardbound 8vo, 326 + 336 pp, indexed Important record of early Dutch New York inlcuding Indian negotiations, land settlements etc. Light extremity rubbing only; clean and solid with bright gilt spine titling.

1853 1st ed Missouri Underground Railroad Military Prison Life SLAVERY Abolition

George Thompson was a 19th-century British abolitionist who was one of the most important anti-slavery proponents in the United Kingdom. His lecture tour carried him to the United States where he was met with staunch opposition. However, with the support of other abolitionists Alanson Work and James Burr, Thompson began aiding slaves across the Mississippi River in Missouri. This act put him in prison for twelve years – an event that would yield a book entitled 'Military Prison Life and Reflections'.
This work is a foundational account of brutal prison life in the Midwest and the corruption of the justice system when it came to slavery in America.

Item number: #12154
Price: $499
THOMPSON, George
Prison life and reflections, or, A narrative of the arrest, trial, conviction, imprisonment, treatment, observations, reflections, and deliverance of Work, Burr, and Thompson
Hartford : A. Work, 1853. First edition.… Read More

1878 1ed Onondaga County New York Revolutionary WAR Indians Syracuse Illustrated
Onondaga County, New York was an important county in the history of New York, particularly in relation to the city of Syracuse. W.W. Clayton published one of the best accounts of the county in 1878, a work which describes:
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the establishment of the city of Syracuse and the University
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notable political figures
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colonial pioneers and interactions with Indians
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the effects of the Revolutionary War in New York
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early American architecture
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and much more

Item number: #12287
Price: $499
CLAYTON, W.W.
History of Onondaga County, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers
Syracuse, N.Y. : D. Mason, 1878. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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iv, 430
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215 illustrations
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
· Size: ~12in X 9.25in (30.5cm x… Read More

Syracuse, NY: Printed At the Journal Office. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, edges soiled.. 1871. Hardcover. Original brown blindstamped cloth. Illustrated ads throughout. Folding frontispiece map of Columbia County. Histories of the towns and villages in Columbia County, nestled between the Hudson River and Massachusetts and Connecticut borders. No other copies listed for sale in the trade at the time of listing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 337 pages .

1888 1st ed Civil War General Sheridan Personal Memoirs Union Native Americans

"When the battle waged hottest, Sheridan was at his best—cool, exact, self-possessed, the dashing and brilliant leader of men willing to follow him anywhere."

A rare, first edition of the "Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan". General Sheridan is often considered to be one of the foremost Union commanders in the United States (Mullins 82). Sheridan writes of his military service in important Civil War battles as well as his role in the Indian raids and battles. He also writes of his role as the commander of the United States army at the end of his career. These fascinating contents are depicted by the 17 steel engraved plates and 27 maps.
Item number: #18107
Price: $550
SHERIDAN, Philip Henry
Personal memoirs of P.H. Sheridan, General United States Army, in two volumes.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1888. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
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Vol. I – xiii, [1], 500… Read More

1864 1ed Color-Guard LOUISIANA Civil War Account Hosmer Slavery Camp Life CSA
James Kendall Hosmer was a Civil War-era American historian who is remembered for books on American politics and the development in the American south. One of his best works was 'The Color-Guard' which, according to Nevins, is
"an excellent and even-tempered memoir of Army life in Louisiana'.
In it, Hosmer describes Confederate and Union camp life, descriptions and observations of the carnage of war, the role of the negro in various troops, and various strategies used in combat.

Item number: #18448
Price: $499
HOSMER, James K
The color-guard: being a corporal's notes of military service in the Nineteenth army corps
Boston: Walker, Wise, and Co., 1864. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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xii, 9-244
· References: Nevins I, 107; Sabin 33105
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Tan cloth
· Size: ~7.25in X 4.75in (18.5cm x 12cm)
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Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1963. First edition. Octavo. Original cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor scuffing and edgewear to dust jacket with chips to head and tail of spine; two-inch closed tears to jacket hinges; bump to bottom of boards. Near-fine in a very good dust jacket, which is uncommon for this book.. First edition of Willmoore Kendall's (1909-1967) The Conservative Affirmation, which offers a collection of his most important essays and reviews on conservatism. Kendall was an influential leader in the founding of modern American conservatism-and he remains one of the movement's most interesting thinkers. Born in Oklahoma in 1909, Kendall graduated from high school at age thirteen, from the University of Oklahoma at age eighteen, and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1932. Like other founding fathers within the movement, including James Burnham and Whittaker Chambers, he was an early Trotskyist, but Kendall would eventually disclaim Communism following… Read More

The News Printing Office, Tidioute, 1902. Very Good. Livingston Legrand Hunter history, biography, reminiscences, memorial address and more. From FamilySearch: "When Livingston Legrand Hunter was born on 10 January 1861, in Tidioute, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Jahu Hunter, was 30 and his mother, Margaret Rebecca Magee, was 24. He married Lillian Acomb on 6 January 1887, in Tidioute, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Deerfield Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 20 April 1902, in Turner Landing, Ballard, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Tidioute Cemetery, Tidioute, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States." Includes 8 full-page photos. Excellent genealogical resource. Bound in burgundy pebbled cloth with gilt lettering to front panel. Rare. 40 pp. 8 3/4" x 6". Tight, unmarked copy with minimal… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Wendell Minor (Cover Illustration). A signed, unread seventh printing of David McCullough's massive biography of the "most American of Presidents." Bright blue papered boards with "Truman" stamped to the front cover. Quarter bound in dark blue cloth with silver titling to the spine. Includes more than 90 b&w photos on plates in three sections. Bibliography and Index. Fine. Very minor shelf wear and a bit of waviness to the first leaves. Otherwise square tight and, excepting the autograph, unmarked. The dust jacket has been price clipped. Remains a wonderful, giftable copy. An additional postage charge will likely be needed to ship this thick, heavy book.

Bismarck-Mandan Genealogical and Historical Society, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Massive, detailed history of Burleigh County, North Dakota. Histories of businesses, churches, schools, over 1600 family histories, several thousand photos and much more. All 47 townships represented, each with a full-page plat map. Limited printing: No. 510 of 3,000 copies printed on coated paper. 628 numbered pages. 12 1/4" x 9 1/2". Tight, unmarked copy with minimal shelf wear and small tear to head of spine panel. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

The Battle Cry, A New Collection of Temperance and Prohibition Songs by H S Taylor and Dr J B Herbert. Cincinnati: Fillmore Bros Publishers. Sold with original WCTU ribbon from the State Convention, Kearney, Nebraska, October 4 - 8 1897.
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New York: Scribner, 2016. Signed by the author on the first page following the end-paper. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, beige paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

NY : E.J. Hale & Son, 1878 Alexander Means was an inventor, physicist, poet and a past Emory College president at the original campus in Oxford GA. Many say he was the father of modern electricity. His famous light bulb experiment preceded Tesla and Edison by decades. This is a very rare first edition (1878). The book is in sound condition. Blue cloth cover intact as well as binding. Minor cloth fray on spine and damp stain on rear cover. What is most remarkable about this book is that it is inscribed by one of his former slaves after his freedom. The inscription reads " Susie , Accept this cluster of Poems by one of my old masters from your affecionate husband A.F.P Decatur Ga, Apr 1878. A most precious inscription to a valuable 19th C book.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Cumming GA, The Cottonpatch Press, 2011, hardcover, xviii-766 pp, First Edition stated, Signed and dated by the Author without inscription "11/25/11 Don L. Shadburn" on the front endpaper, Fine condition, no dustjacket as issued. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings, tiny stain to textblock fore-edge. An in-depth look in 27 chapters of the history and genealogy of many of the mixed-blood Cherokee families and Indian countrymen primarily in the Carolinas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Virginia, Tennessee, and Texas, with over 200 contributors. Family names include: Adair, Bean, Bell, Benge, Boyd, Brown, Burgess, Bushyhead, Cameron, Childers, Choate, Cochran, Fields, Foster, Gann, Goss, Grant, Guess, Hawkins, Hleton, Henson, Hildebrand, Hodges, Holt, Horn, Hughes, Hulsey, Huss, Jones, Kell, Keys, Landrum, Langley, Ledbetter, Lynch, Maney, Martin, Matoy, Mayes, McCallister, McClure, McDaniel, McDonald, McIntosh, Rains, Ralston, Raper, Ridge, Rogers, Ross, Rowe, Russell, Sanders,… Read More

1885 Civil War 1ed Memoirs of Union General Ulysses S. Grant Illustrated MAPS 2v
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and keep moving on."
– Ulysses S. Grant
An important historical memoir of the Civil War, arguably the most important, and the best thing that Grant ever wrote. General Norman Schwartzkopf has recently called this the finest memoir of war experiences that has ever been penned. As such, it is valuable in its scope, its plain and clear analysis and language, and its broad conclusions about the conduct of the war.
Item number: #30711
Price: $950
GRANT, Ulysses S
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885-86. First edition.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
o Vol. I – 584
19 illustrations
o Vol. II – 647, [1]
31 illustrations
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Green cloth
· Size: ~9.75in X 6.25in (24cm x 16cm)
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