Our Country: Its Capabilities, Its Perils, and Its Hope. Being a Plea for the Early Establishment of Gospel Institutions in the Destitute Portions of the United States

New York, Executive Committee of the American Home Missionary Society, 1842. Paperback. 12mo. Original green printed wrappers. 60pp. Good plus. Some edgewear to wrappers; mild age toning and sporadic foxing. Fascinating, zealous exhortion to spread the Gospel, mainly westward: "Read it, Christian, read it, patriot, philanthropist, citizen of this republic, read it through.." The population projections are especially interesting -- their chart brings the population up to 275 million by the year 1940. Some Mormon content on pages 47-48. First edition. FLAKE 6022b. SABIN 57914. .

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Book number: 15877

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Keywords: Religion

Our Washington: A Comprehensive Album of the Nation's Capital in Words and Pictures

Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co, 1939. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green library buckram. 178pp. Illustrations, maps. Very good. Tight, clean and decent first edition of this volume in the Works Press Administration's admirable "American Guide Series" -- mild ex-library, with very few and mostly-removed markings. .

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Book number: 27795

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Keywords: Americana

Our Native Land: Or, Glances at American Scenery and Places, with Sketches of Life and Adventure

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1882. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown pebble-grain cloth with heavy black and gilt pictorial stamping. xvi, 615pp. All edges gilt. Numerous illustrations, decorative endpapers. Very good. Ownership signature on inner flyleaf; inner hinges a tad delicate but expertly, archivally strengthened. A handsome first edition, with front cover pictorial stamping bright and attractive. A difficult volume to find in such nice condition. .

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Book number: 32791

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Keywords: Americana

The Outbreak of the Rebellion in the United States 1861

New York, Kimmel & Forster, 1865. Lithograph. Approximately 21" X 26. Very good. Lightly, evenly age toned; blank margins either trimmed or edgeworn, for the cream mat goes to the image edge at the top and sides, while the bottom includes the full title line (mat opening 23" X 18¼"). First edition. Magnificent allegorical lithograph issued by the famed New York print publisher, who also produced a companion piece entitled "The End of the Rebellion in the United States 1865." A large figure of Columbia stands at center atop a huge splitting rock, looking to the viewer's right and clutching a waving flag in her right hand; meanwhile her other hand wags a pointing finger toward the viewer's left side. At her feet lie a whip and open shackles representing the abolition of slavery. To the viewer's right stands Abraham Lincoln, and indeed the entire right side represents the Republican cause. A stern General Winfield Scott stand behind Lincoln, and a crowd of young men strain forward, some offering up bags of gold, some bearing arms, all willing to join the cause; a woman in the foreground covers her eyes and is comforted by two children. The background on this side is horizon of mountains and a glorious sunrise. On Columbia's other side stands the figure of Justice without her usual blindfold, raising up her scales in one hand and sword in the other, glaring angrily toward all those at the left side of this hectic scene. James Buchanan's sleeps blissfully at the edge of the split rock, while next to him crouches his secretary of war, John B. Floyd -- who was charged with corruption -- eagerly scooping up gold coins into a large sack. Further back Jefferson Davis (clutching a ripped U.S. flag) and Alexander H. Stephens stand beside a palm tree with a huge snake coiling up its length and spitting at the scales of justice. An angry cluster of soldiers swirls around them. The background on this side is grim and muted, with battle scenes. A superb, handsome example of this famous Civil War allegorical print. .

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Book number: 33225

Catalogue: Prints & Photographs

Outremer: Historical Background, Rules of Play, Scenario Generation System, Scenarios and Character Advancement Tables

Kings Langley, U.K. Standard Games & Publications Limited, 1980. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 52pp. Illustrations, line drawings, charts. Very good. Probable sole edition. Handbook for this wargamers game, "a game of man-to-man combat set in the third crusade. .

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Book number: 27789

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Keywords: Military History

Overweight and Underweight

New York, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1930. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 32pp. Line drawings, charts. Very good. Slightest bit of outer wrapper wear. No printing indicated or suggested. A charming period piece. .

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Book number: 25118

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Odds & Ends

Palliser's New Cottage Homes and Details, Containing Nearly Two Hundred and Fifty New & Original Designs in All the Modern Popular Styles...

N.p. N.p. n.y. Paperback. Folio. Stiff mustard pictorial wrappers with opaque patterned laminate (as issued?). (Ca. 150pp). Extensive illustrations, line drawings, floor plans. Near fine. Tight and handsome, this modern facsimile reprint of the celebrated volume published in 1887 by Palliser, Palliser & Co. is the most cryptic of all facsimile reprints -- entirely free of publishing details and not the clearly-noted Da Capo Press, Dover Publications or American Life Foundation facsimile issued in recent decades, though seemingly of 1970s'80s vintage. A superbly done reproduction in sharp condition, in any case. .

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Book number: 46921

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Keywords: Architecture

Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs Accompanying the Annual Message of the President

Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1865. Hardcover. Part IV. 8vo. Original brown cloth. xvii, 470pp. Good. Edgeworn, with various degrees of age toning and mottling often seen in these, yet overall decent, with strong hinges. Fourth volume only, featuring interesting diplomatic correspondence between William H. Seward and various ambassadors. .

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Book number: 8439

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Keywords: Americana

'Pass It on': The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World

New York, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown and green buckram, dust jacket. 429pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Tight, attractive later (4th) printing. .

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Book number: 17660

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Keywords: BILL WILSON; ALCOHOLISM Medical

Peace River Land Recording Division

Victoria, B.C. Department of Lands, 1914. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff green printed wrappers. 48pp. Illustrations. Very good. First edition, tight and attractive, of this detailed study of this region of northeastern British Columbia. .

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Book number: 26327

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Keywords: Americana

Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking: A Collection of Time-Tested Recipes for Preparing Many of the Traditional Foods and Dishes Favored by the Pennsylvania Dutch

York, PA, Yorkraft, 1960. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 48pp. Illustrations. Very good. Ownership signature at top of front wrapper. Probable sole edition, tight and quite attractive. .

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Book number: 19685

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Keywords: Cooking

Perspectives Usa: Number Eleven (Spring 1955)

New York, Intercultural Publications, 1955. Paperback. (Number 11). 8vo. Stiff glazed wrappers. 188pp, (4pp ads). Illustrations (some color). Very good. Tight, clean and attractive issue of this distinguished quarterly, with contributors including Brendan Gill, Walter Prescott Webb, Tennessee Williams, Lewis Mumford, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kenneth Rexroth and Richard Weaver. .

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Book number: 27958

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Keywords: Literary Criticism

Perspectives on Human Deprivation: Biological, Psychological, and Sociological

N.p. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1968. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan pictorial wrappers. xii, 323pp. Good plus. A bit of edgeworn and with spine slightly sunned. Tight, decent first edition of this government-sponsored study. Pencilled ownership signature on title page of noted pediatric medicine professor and medical history scholar Ralph C. Gordon. .

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Book number: 34816

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Keywords: Medical

Peter Rabbitt

Springfield, MA, McLoughlin Bros, 1938. Hardcover. 16mo. Glazed pictorial paper over boards. (54pp). Numerous color illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear, mainly at head and tail of spine. A tight and nice little volume, quaintly illustrated. This publisher does not indicate edition in an ascertainable manner. Cover title: "The Story of Peter Rabbitt." Delightful addition: While this is NOT an ex-library copy, some child owner actually created a small brown craft paper pocket, neatly affixed it to the rear pastedown with paper strips, and made a miniature library check out card on yellow heavy stock, ruling it in pencil by hand and noting that it was loaned out to one of his friends! Absolutely charming. .

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Book number: 35717

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Keywords: Children's

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Phoenix over the Galilee

New York, Harper & Row, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth, dust jacket. ix, 268pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition of this Holocaust novel. .

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Book number: 4500

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Keywords: YEHIEL DE-NUR World Literature