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Washington: John C. Rives, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. An absolutely indispensable collection of primary documents suitable for students and historians of U.S. history. Faint white lettering of call number at spine and punched stamp are only signs of ex-library status (Hill Reference Library, Saint Paul). Marbled paper over boards, brown leather-backed, and with gilt lettering to spine, original boards present, attached, but joints cracked, held still by string, and leather scuffed at ends. Scuffing to extremities, some waffling to text-block but with no signs of mildew or odor. Some soiling to and foxing of especially endpapers, else remarkably clean and unmarked. lxi + 833-1192 pp. + Appendix + xix + 440 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Washington: John C. Rives, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. Faint white lettering of call number at spine and punched stamp are only signs of ex-library status (Hill Reference Library, Saint Paul). Marbled paper over boards, brown leather-backed, and with gilt lettering to spine, original boards present, attached, but joints cracked, held still by string, and leather scuffed at ends. Scuffing to extremities, some waffling to text-block but with no signs of mildew or odor. Some soiling to and foxing of especially endpapers, else remarkably clean and unmarked. lxxvi + 800 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Washington: John C. Rives, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. Faint white lettering of call number at spine and punched stamp are only signs of ex-library status (Hill Reference Library, Saint Paul). Marbled paper over boards, brown leather-backed, leather to tips, and with gilt lettering to spine, original boards present, attached, but loose, held still by string, and leather scuffed at ends. Scuffing to extremities, some waffling to text-block but with no signs of mildew or odor. Some soiling to and foxing of especially endpapers, else remarkably clean and unmarked. An indispensable item for U.S. historians and particularly for the study of primary documents. lxiv + 2049-3061 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Washington: John C. Rives, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. An absolutely indispensable item for U.S. historians and those interested especially in primary documents. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and still fairly sturdy, a quite scarce item in the trade. Call letter to spine bottom. Present but detaching front board, exposed to strings but still holding. John C. Rives, 1858. Half-leather bound with marbled paper over boards. Age-toning to text, some slight waviness thereto, foxing throughout, but yet still clean and unmarked. Includes Lands for the Landless debates, and the disposition of the public domain of the United States. lxiv + 1026-2048 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Washington: John C. Rives, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and fairly sturdy. Faint white lettering of call number at spine and punched stamp are only signs of ex-library status (Hill Reference Library, Saint Paul). Original boards present, attached, but loose, still hanging by string. Marbled paper over boards, brown leather-backed and over tips, and with gilt lettering to spine. Scuffing to extremities, some waffling to text-block but with no signs of mildew or odor. Some soiling to and foxing of especially endpapers, else clean and unmarked. Massively heavy, oversized volume. lxiv + 1569-2356 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Washington: John C. Rives, 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and fairly sturdy. Faint white lettering of call number at spine and punched stamp are only signs of ex-library status (Hill Reference Library, Saint Paul). Marbled paper over boards, brown leather-backed, and with gilt lettering to spine. Scuffing to extremities, cracking to joints (but still holding fairly sturdily) some waffling to text-block but with no signs of mildew, odor, or dampness. Some soiling to and foxing of especially endpapers, else remarkably clean. An indispensable item for U.S. historians and for those who study and collect primary documents. lxxiv + 785-1568 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Washington, D.C. : John C. Rives, The Office of John C. Rives. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Measures 9 1/2" x 11 3/4" in size, width and height, respectively. White call letter to spine, punched library name at title page, barely noticeable, and few additional signs of ex-library status (Hill Library in Saint Paul, Minnesota). Marbled paper over boards, brown leather-backed and at tips, and with gilt lettering to spine. Waffling to text-block but that is otherwise quite clean and unmarked. Scuffing to extremities, cracking to joints, but still holding pretty firmly. An indispensable Index for those perusing Congressional Globes for purposes of research into primary documents. lxxxi + 801-1600 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Springfield, Illinois: E.L. Merritt & Brother, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A First Edition, Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Illinois, convened at the City of Springfield, Tuesday, December 13, 1869, Volume I, having been recorded by the stenographers Ely, Burnham and Bartlett. Marbled paper over boards, brown cloth tips-backed, original boards present but scuffed and worn and with backstrip missing. Some predictable waffling to text-block, but with signs of neither mildew nor odor. Some soiling to and foxing of edges and endpapers, else clean and unmarked. Perfect candidate for rebinding. Triple-column text makes for easy reading. An indispensable item for students of Illinois. 1,076 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Washington, D.C: Peter Force. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Good. Elephant Folio 23" tall. Virtually certainly a reprint by the Peter Force who published enormous quantities of American and then U.S. historical documents, looking virtually identical to other reprinted documents of his dating to the 1830s. Single elephant folio-sized sheet, folded thrice, one fold about 3/4 split, some foxing thereto, but still completely and easily readable. "Captain William Stone's Resignation of the Government" begins on p. 38 and ends on p. 39, with "Witness my Hand the 20 of July, 1654 In Presence of William Stone, Thomas Gerrad, Thomas Hatton, and Ed. Scarburgh, the latter three (probably) being the three authors. "A Declaration Published in Maryland" is on p. 36 and p. 37, dated at Pauxent, Maryland, dated 15 of July 1654, by Richard Bennet and Will Claiborne.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize… Leer más

London: John Wiley & Sons, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Exceedingly scarce in any edition, this being the stated First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Brown linen cloth over boards, blind-ruled covers, still sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Harry de Berkeley (1862-1935) was a well-respected American civil engineer. Ten tables, 73 black-and-white illustrations and photographs of civil engineering projects to handle municipal waste around the world. x [1], 2-186 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Carter, Hendee and Col, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. An apparent First Edition, from 1833 (Howes), with multiple editions published again 1838, 1850, 1852, 1897, and 1928, at least. Bound in mottled, wrinkled thin leather over boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, rubbed and abraded paper label to spine, light chipping to spine head. Quite a didactic novel, in 156 pp., published anonymously, meant to point out shortcomings in public education in the rural hinterlands of early America. The author, Warren Burton, was a Harvard-educated Unitarian minister, mostly "at-large" but well thought of. The biographer of a Christian church-respite, Brook Farm, Lindsay Swift, notes that he spent about three years there, then left without notice in 1844 and disappeared. No front endpaper, previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for… Leer más

Washington, D.C: OERI Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Bound in brown printed, illustrated wraps. xvi, 287 p. Extensive catalogue of American textbooks 1775-1900, arranged by subject, with bibliography, author and subject index. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Double-column text, easy to use.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Washington, D.C: Atomic Energy Commission, 1950. Second Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Good condition in original light tan wraps, minor wear to and soiling of paper wraps, some crimping to a range of pages at book's end, clean, unmarked and tightly bound of interior. Paul J. Larsen provides the Colophon. Norris E. Bradbury, Director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. From the title page: "prepared for and in cooperation with the U.S. Dept. of Defense and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission under the direction of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, it is identical with the edition officially published by the government of the United States." Stated Second Edition, from September of 1950, the first edition having been published in the same year. The volume was aimed at the ordinary curious citizen and more specifically Civil Defense personnel throughout the country. ix, 456 pp. and with many, many score black-and-white photographs and illustrations of ships… Leer más

Williamsburg, Virginia: 18th Century Williamsburg, 1971. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 12mo 7" - 7. Stated facsimile reprint from 1971 of the Second Edition of this classic in medicine and social history. Original was printed by William Parker in Williamsburg, Virginia and Annapolis, Maryland. Decorative marbled wraps, saddle-stitched, clean and unmarked of interior. 56 pp. plus two-page Index. The full title is: Every man his own doctor, or, The poor planter's physician: prescribing plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production of this country."Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: The Free Speech League, 1916. Enlarged Edition. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED Presentation Copy, inscribed "To G. Legman with compliments of Theodore Schroeder, 3/16/44, and with ink bleeding through two following pages. Gershon Legman was a leading bibliophile, book-scout, erotophile and literary sleuth. Good-looking, structurally sound copy bound in light green linen weave cloth over boards, black lettering to spine. Spine head and tail bumped, light rubbing to extremities, moderate toning to endpapers and pastedowns, else a clean and unmarked and bright copy. Foreword to this Enlarged Edition, doubled in size from the original edition. Reprinted at frontis is the announcement of the founding of the Free Speech League who published the work. Ten republished essays on liberty of speech and press, principally from other works such as "Arena" and "Mother Earth," published originally between 1906 and 1915. "Lawless Suppression… Leer más

Toronto, Canada: Stoddart, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound set, complete in three volumes, bound in Imperial octavo hardcover format, big, massive, heavy, specifically bright and clean of interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jackets, illustrated, little worn but for crease to front inner flap of the third volume. From the publisher's blurb of Volume Three (1999), "This final work in Martin Gilbert's magisterial and critically acclaimed three-volume history of the century describes the dramatic events of the last fifty years with the same detail and richness to which his readers are accustomed." Volumes contain scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Volume One (1997, First Edition, xiii [1], 1-927 pp.); Volume Two (1998, First Edition, xxii [2], 3-1050 pp., with bumping to spine bottom, some edgewear to dust jacket spine bottom); Volume… Leer más

New York: Viking Press, 1986. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. With plentiful humor and social scientific insight, Witold Rybczynski examines issues of privacy, domesticity, efficiency, comfort, design, architecture and notions of ease. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Black-and-white illustrations of design and architecture, domestic scenes and children, relatives and pets. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x [1], 257 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New-York: Prior and Dunning, printed by Southwick & Pelsue, Printers, 1809. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. An apparent First Edition of this important State Paper, being an extraordinary record of correspondence between U.S. government officials and envoys and other representatives of the King of England and His Majesty's Council and French equivalents. Spine of the original publication is taped and then bound in to a sort of library binding of wallpaper over boards, brown paper-backed. Top-stained in blue, with some superficial markings to endpapers, a gnawed page, light waffling to paper, penned pagination at upper tips, else clean and unmarked. The tape at spine has an abraded title label. Some toning to text portion, else very good. [3], 4-88 pp. Comprised of the correspondence between Robert Smith, then Secretary of the U.S. Navy with representatives of the King, Erskine, Jackson and Pinkney, and with French notables such as Count Champagny, all about maritime… Leer más

Washington: Government Printing Office. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Index volume only. Undated, but circa 1841. Sturdy, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs. Leather-bound with some rubbing and scarring; bumping to spine head and foot with some loss of leather. Pages lightly toned with scattered foxing, damp-staining to final 50 leaves onto back panel, some light waffling to text-block, but not affecting readability. Full of tables and documents relating to the U.S. Government, including the legislatures of various states, appropriations for War, Navy and Treasury, Indian Affairs, etc. 1375 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, not price-clipped. From the publisher's blurb, "A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soilwhen Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKKThe Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as the first organized terrorist movement in American history, rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted many tens of thousands of members, no small number of them landowners, lawmen, doctors, journalists, and churchmen, as well as future governors and congressmen. And their mission was to obliterate the muscular democratic power of newly emancipated Black Americans and their white allies, often by the most horrifying means… Leer más