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Cosmos Crumbling; American Reform and the Religious Imagination

By: Abzug, Robert H.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 35994

ISBN: 0195037529

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 304 pages; Snugly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright dust jacket. Trace shelf evidence to jacket edges and front flap has the lower corner clipped. Feels unread. NF/VG++
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The History of Georgia, from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Lippincott's Cabinet Histories of the States

By: Arthur, T. S. & W. H. Carpenter

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Company: 1852

Seller ID: 34600

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

frontis; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 331 pages; 1st edition. In original green cloth with decorative borders and ruling in blind to boards and gilt paneling to spine. Soundly bound but a bit worn with a damp/spill stain to the lower spine corner of the cloth, showing with mild discoloration in the spine gutter area of the first 40 or so pages. Gilt at spine fading. Marbled paper pastedowns appear to have been added by a prior owner, with some offset glue toning to the first and last several leaves. Tissue guarded steel plate engraving and extra illustrated title page. 30 page catalog of Lipp...
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The History of the United States of North America; [In 3 Volumes] From the Discovery of the Western World to the Present Day

By: Bartlett, W. H. & B. B. Woodward

Price: $450.00

Publisher: New York & London, George Virtue & Co: 1856

Seller ID: 35765

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good-

Steel Plate engravings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 3 volumes, complete. Soundly bound in matching publisher's deluxe trade binding of full red pebbled calfleather with highly decorative borders and vignettes tooled in gilt to boards and decorative title desing sna flourishes gilt tooled to spines. [7], 698; 720; 726 pp. Some light to moderate scuffing and rubbing to leather at board edges; Vol I has a small piece of leather chipped from the crown and Vol III has shallow loss from leather at the tail of the spine. Tissue guarded steel engraved plates throughout, over 80 in total and including...
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Religion in the Quarters : A Study of Slave Preachers in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860

By: Dennard, David C.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, University Microfilms International :: Northwestern University: 1986

Seller ID: 33734

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 332 pages; Authorized facsimile reprinting of Dennard's 1983 dissertation submitted for a degree in Doctor of Philosophy. Hardcover soundly bound in blue cloth with titles in gilt to spine. A little tenderness in the joints; a small number of pages corner creased. Ex-library with expected but light institutional indications. G
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Campaigns in the West, 1856-1861: The Journal and Letters of Colonel John Van Deusen Du Bois

By: Du Bois, John Van Deusen & Joseph Heger (Drawings) & Durwood Ball (Intro. )

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Tuscon, Arizona Historical Society: 2003

Seller ID: 40006

ISBN: 0910037450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 121 pages; Oversize 4to in original color pictorial dust jacket. Reprints the Du Bois journals and letters from his campaigns in the US Calvalry. Issued originally in a Grabhorn printed limited edition, this reissue includes an enalrged set of Heger drawings and a new introduction. Snugly bound and generally neat, there is a trace ripple to the front edge of the first 30 or so leaves; light foxing to the blank reverse surface of the jacket. Otherwise splendid. Folding map in pocket at rear. VG++/VG++ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for ex...
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The True Republican, Containing the Inaugural Addresses, Together with the First Annual Addresses and Messages Of all the Presidents of the United States, from 1789 to 1845; Together with the Portrait of Each of the Presidents, Together with the Portrait of Each of the Presidents ...

By: French, Jonathan

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, W. A. Leary: 1846

Seller ID: 34840

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Engraved portraits; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 458 pages; Snugly bound in original slate blue cloth with pictorial emblem to cover and titles at spine brightly in gilt. Decorative borders and flourishes in blind to boards. 276; 182 pp. Appendix at rear includes text of the Constitutions of the United States and of 8 States. Mild fray to cloth at crown. Engraved portraits of the Presidents have some light to moderate foxing but the page block is bright and clean. Mild toning to cloth at spine. Originally issued in 1841, this edition enlarged and reissued to include the Inaugaral address of Polk...
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The Life and Public Services of James Buchanan... Including the Most Important of His State Papers

By: Horton, R.G.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York & Cincinnati, Derby & Jackson; H. W. Derby & Co.: 1856

Seller ID: 31231

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 428 pages; (Printed by George Russell; Stereotyped by W.H. Tisson) Derby & Jackson; New York & Cincinnati. HC 1st edition. Snugly bound in original decoratively blind stamped green cloth with gilt title desing to spine dulled as usually seen. Tight fresh copy with just slight shelf rub to cloth at extremities. Closed partial tear in the gutter of the front pastedown. Otherwise splendid. Uncommon in condition. VG++ to NF
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Harriet Lane, (Later Harriet Lane Johnston) Papers Read before the Lancaster County Historical Society Vol. 33, No. 6

By: Hostetter, Ida K.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Lancaster, Lancaster County Historical Society: 1929

Seller ID: 40605

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Later Harriet Lane Johnston; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 23 pages; 1929 Lancaster County Historical Society Journal Vol XXXIII, No. 6. Paperback in title lettered card covers and saddle stapled binding. 16 page paper on Buchanan's niece includes several illustrations. VG+
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

By: Howells, William Dean

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana University Press: 1960

Seller ID: 31423

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Reissue of the 1938 edition, a facsimile reproduction of the singular campaign biography of Lincoln by Howells held by the Illinoise State Historical Library, which includes Lincoln's pencil annotations and editorial marks. Snugly bound in original blue and gray boards with title lettering in gilt to cover and spine. Publisher's clear mylar dust jacket includes $6.00 issue price and editorial copy on the front flap. Jacket is lightly surface rubbed with slight toning top edge and a tiny chip missing from the crown. Uncommon. VG++/VG
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Changes in The Word; Reading Practices in Antebellum America

By: Lehuu, Isabelle

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, UMI Dissertation Services: 1996

Seller ID: 31803

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 329 pages; Facsimile printing of the author's PhD dissertation at Cornell. Tightly bound in blue card stock covers with title label to cover and spine unlettered, as issued. Feels and appears unread and as new. Fine
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Keeping the Secret : Underground Railroad Activity in Lancaster County and Beyond

By: Mennonite School, Hinkletown : Fourth and Fifth Grade Classes.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hinkletown PA, Village Press for Hinkletown Mennonite School: 2001

Seller ID: 38940

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 40 pages; Larger paperback in pictorial wraps. A primary grades reader and activity book with a focus on the Underground Railway. With puzzles, illustrations and pictures to color. This copy bright and neat with no marks and just mild shelf evidence to covers. VG+
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"Dear Master" Letters of a Slave Family

By: Miller, Randall M. (Ed. )

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Ithaca, Cornell University Press: 1978

Seller ID: 38267

ISBN: 0801411343

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

B&W reproductions and photos; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 281 pages; Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket is price clipped to front flap and has light shelf/handling rub at edges with a few short closed nicks. Illustrated with period b&w photos and reproductions. VG+/VG
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Figuring Authorship in Antebellum America

By: Newbury, Michael

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press: 1997

Seller ID: 30389

ISBN: 0804728585

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 251 pages; Tight bright and fresh in immaculate dust jacket. Crisp unmarked copy feels and appears about as new. F/F
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In Recognition of Their Prominence : a Case Study of the Economic and Social Backgrounds of an Ante-Bellum Negro Business and Farming Class in Lancaster County [In] Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, V. 72, No. 2

By: Oblinger, Carl D

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Lancaster, Lancaster County Historical Society: 1968

Seller ID: 32563

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 71 pages; Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, V. 72, No. 2. Oblinger's paper comprises the firsat 18 p. With several other papers included. Whole issue paged 65-135. Solid copy with 4 or 5 illustrations. Covers lightly toned. VG+
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Phelps's Travellers' Guide through the United States; Containing Upwards of Seven Hundred Rail-Road, Canal, and Stage and Steam-Boat Routes.

By: Phelps, Humphrey

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Ensigns & Thayer: 1849

Seller ID: 37404

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 70 pages; Small format volume in original polished red calf with orante pictorial title desing embossed in gilt to cover and in blind to rear board. Spine unlettered as issued. Lacking the map that was originally a feature of the publication. Otherwise clean and decent with light rubbing to leather at crown and board edges. Lacking also a free front endpage; expected light toning and foxing. Good thus
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Maps & Views to Accompany 1856 - 1857, Message from the President of the United States To The Third Session of the Thirty-Fourth Congress. Part III

By: Pierce, Franklin

Price: $165.00

Publisher: Washington: DC, A. O. P. Nicholson, Printer: 1856

Seller ID: 35513

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Folding maps and plans; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 12 pages; Bound set of twelve folding plates; 11 floding maps and 1 folding plan. In original brown cloth with titles in gilt and borders in blind. Cloth stressed and with moderate fray at spine ends. Includes all 12 maps called for. Large folding survey map of California is detached and laid in and is missing the top left corner area, about 1/8 of the total map area. Several of the maps have closed (mendable) tears from prior viewing. Expected light toning and spotting with some darkening along fold lines. Of particular note are the Indian ...
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Message of James Pollock, Governor of Pennsylvania, to the Legislature, 1856.

By: Pollock, James

Price: $29.50

Publisher: Harrisburg, A. Boyd Hamilton: 1856

Seller ID: 31720

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 16 pages; Slim paperback in original title lettered wraps. Pollock outlines the condition of the state finances, revenues, taxes and expense. Considerable portions of the address devoted to the state of railroads in the state, the government's role in some RR construction along with asylum facilities and care for the "lunatic" and "delinquent" members of the state. Prior ownership of Lancaster businessman Samuel Slaymaker in manuscript to the tope edge of the cover. Small sticker shadow to cover near the bottom edge and just very mild vertical stresse...
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Thaddeus Stevens: the Play

By: Rhoads, Don

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Lancaser, PA, Yurchak Printing: 2007

Seller ID: 36053

ISBN: 0976478021

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 109 pages; Trade sized paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Soundly bound and clean. "Revised Gettysburg Edition" - Light shelf handling wear to cover edges; mild curl to covers at front edge. VG-
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The Congressional Globe, Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the Second Session Of the Thirty-third Congress Vol XXX

By: Rives, John (Printer) & United States Congress

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Washington DC, John Rives: 1855

Seller ID: 31617

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good+

4to 11" - 13" tall; 1192 pages; Stout oversize Hardcover in half polished calf with marbled paper covered boards. Snugly bound and neat. Gilt title lettering brightly tooled in gilt to spine. December 7 1854 to March 3, 1855. 74 issues of the Globe - reporting in transcript the business of the US Congress - bound together in one volume. Mild shelf rubbing to leather at corners and mild rub to surfaces of paper covered boards. Here and there some tanning to short runs of pages; a few instances of offset toning to pages from print items which had been laid in. Prior ownership to front e...
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The Life of John Heckewelder

By: Rondthaler, Rev. Edward & B. H. Coates (Ed. )

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Townsend Ward: 1847

Seller ID: 37166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 149 pages; 1st edition. Snugly bound in original pebbled burgundy cloth with decorative borders to panels and rules to spine in blind. Title lettering brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Trace fading to cloth at spine; front coated endpage missing. Front and bottom edge of the text block with an old but not period gilt/bronzing. Illustrated with lithograph frontis portrait, lacking tissue guard. Light offset toning from the frontis to the title page. Text tightly bound and very fresh. 2 pages of Townsend ads at rear. Important biography of this Moravian missionary t...
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Category: American History : Antebellum