History & Politics from Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB

[New York]: [Mail and Express Job Print], 1912. Stapled pamphlet. Octavo. 16 pages. Printed self-wraps bound with a single staple along spine. There is a slight dampstain at head of spine, visible more or less throughout the pamphlet. Otherwise fine.. Campaign piece from Theodore Roosevelt's unsuccessful bid for reelection to the Presidency in 1912. Here he confronts racial… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: E. Laub Publishing Co, 1943. First printing. Thin velvet-covered boards. Octavo. 159 pages. Bound in thin, flexible, red velvet-covered boards with upper board titled in gilt, which has darkened. Some shallow bumping to the Yapp edges of covers. Jacket has a few shallow edge wrinkles and light soil. Overall near fine in a near fine dust jacket..… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Havana}: (S.n.), 1960. Softcover. Oblong duodecimo. 41 unnumbered leaves. Black wrappers printed in green, quite worn with edge chips and rubbed wrinkles. Photographs inside are all in nice condition, with an occasional edge chip to scattered leaves but with no image loss.. Black and white photographs. Album commemorating the 1956 invasion of Cuba by revolutionaries under Fidel Castro… Saber más sobre este artículo

Fulton: Westminster College, 1946. Stapled wraps. Quarto. [24 pages]. Covers have a few slight extremity rubs, otherwise near fine.. Black and white photographs. Here is the rare first appearance of Winston Churchill's speech "The Sinews of Peace," in which he first used the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the Soviet Union's establishment of control over Eastern Europe immediately… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey, by Lang & Ustick, 1795. Unbound sheets tied with old thread. Octavo. 51 pages. A copy that apparently was never bound, but whose signatures are tied together in three places along spine with sturdy thread. Moderate soil to external leaves, a few edge chips to untrimmed fore and bottom edges.. This is a… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Printed for Philemon Stephens the younger, at the Kings-Arms, 1661. Marbled paper over boards with leather spine. Quarto. [24], 1-108, 1-96, 1-83, [9] pages. Bound in modern marbled paper over boards with leather spine with five raised bands. Gilt vertical rule to both boards, gilt ornaments and rules to spine, gilt lettering in red title blocks on spine,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 206 pages. Near fine. Bound in burgundy cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board, top edge gilt. Contemporaneous prior owner name neatly penned to front free endpaper. Light rubs to extremities with a few shallow bumps. Hinges sound. Clean and bright… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. First edition. Three quarter leather with pebbled cloth sides. Octavo. 356 pages. Near fine. 19th century binding of calf spine and fore corners with brown pebbled cloth sides, spine ornamented and ruled in black, red leather spine label titled in gilt. Rubs to extremities, a bit of chipping to title label on spine but… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: (New York American, Inc.), 1929. First edition. Publisher's cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, 397 pages. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.. Black and white illustrations. Anti-Prohibition book that looks at the American national reaction against the 18th Amendment by 1929. The $25,000 prize-winning plan by Judge Franklin Chase Hoyt is reprinted herein, followed by… Saber más sobre este artículo

Annapolis: Printed by J. Hughes, 1822. First edition. Modern quarter Morocco and cloth over boards. Octavo. 92 pages. Very good, with foxing to title page and a few following. Spine is titled in gilt. Comes in a custom marbled paper slipcase.. Two fold-out tables. Scarce report on the affairs of the Potomac Company in 1821, as investigated by… Saber más sobre este artículo

Washington: John L. Ginck, 1877. Original printed wrappers. Octavo. 29 pages. Printed salmon-colored wrappers over sewn binding. Some minor surface soil, a tiny chip along top edge of front cover, other minor extremity wear. Binding sound.. Liberia was founded in 1821 by freed American slaves. Commodore Shufeldt describes the Navy's role in the origins and preservation of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Washington, 1859. Sheets of stationery folded once to approximately 8" x 12 3/4. Near fine condition overall, with original fold creases and some minor toning to paper.. Three letters from Lord Napier to American attorney James Mandeville Carlisle while Napier was British Minister to the United States in Washington, DC. Two of the letters seek the advice of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hartford, Conn: Park Publishing Co, 1882. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [i-iii], iv-xx, [xxi-xxii], (13)-518 pages. Very good. Bound in rust colored cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and blind-stamped boards. Skillfully rebacked retaining original spine and endpapers. A handsome copy.. 18 engraved plates (2 steel, 16 wood). Frederick Douglass's third, final, and most complete autobiography. His earlier… Saber más sobre este artículo

Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1891. Limited edition, #84 of 250 copies. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall octavo. 111 pages plus 8 pages of publisher ads. Leather spine and fore corners with marbled paper sides, five raised bands. Spine titled and ornamented in gilt, both boards with gilt rules, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. A few tiny rubs… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia, 1795. Framed item. 16" x 25 3/8" overall. Document approximately 9 5/8" x 12 1/2. Fine. Not examined out of frame.. Robert Morris, the influential financier of the American Revolution and signer of the United States' three most important documents--the Articles of Confederation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution--here signs a stock certificate as President of… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxii, 307, [blank], viii pages. Bound in green cloth over boards with yellow and red title and illustration blocked on spine and upper board, pale yellow topstain. Old adhesive residue on front pastedown, mostly hidden by front jacket flap. Minor extremity rubs, quarter-sized dampstain to top edge of textblock.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: The Argonaut Press, 1928. Limited edition of 975 copies, this copy not numbered. Hardcover. Quarto. cvi, 182 pages. Bound in tan cloth over boards with vellum spine, integral ribbon bookmark. Ralegh's coat of arms stamped in gilt on upper board, spine titled in gilt. Some spotting at lower fore corners of both boards and at bottom of lower… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Daniel Boone Edition, #138 of 200 sets. Full leather over boards. Quartos. Over 1,500 pages. Near fine. All spines somewhat browned, a few light scuffs, otherwise a fine, sturdy, set of this spectacular edition.. Black and white plates, maps, some folding.. Roosevelt's historical account of the exploration and settlement of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Annapolis?]: (S.n.), 1832. Single sheet, folded in half to 7 5/8" x 12 1/4. Fine condition with old horizontal folds, no doubt for placement in a delegate's vest pocket. There is one clean 3/4" tear along the edge of one of these folds, otherwise nearly perfect.. Typeset and printed draft of a substitute bill which was adopted by… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Quarto. viii, [2], 10-444 pages. Bound in rust colored cloth over bevelled boards stamped in gilt and black, dark teal endpapers. Binding shows minor extremity rubs, shallow bumps to spine ends. Hinges and endpapers sound. Some light scattered foxing inside. Very handsome copy.. Engraved plates.… Saber más sobre este artículo