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Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Preston B. Plumb (a Senator from Kansas), Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, February 20 and March 19, 1892
Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1892. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blind-embossed black cloth, gilt. 184pp. Engraved frontispiece. Very good. Very minor edgewear; faint mark on front pastedown from bookplate removal. Tight and nice. First edition of this eulogy collection. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 12246
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 27.75 | £UK 23.75 | JP¥ 4720]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: Biography
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Ephraim King Wilson (a Senator from Maryland), Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, May 6 and July 2, 1892
Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1893. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blind-embossed black cloth, gilt. 89pp. Engraved frontispiece. Very good. Very minor edgewear; faint mark on front pastedown from bookplate removal. Tight and nice. First edition of this eulogy collection. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 12247
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 | £UK 15.75 | JP¥ 3146]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: Biography
Memorial Services in the Congress of the United States and Tributes in Eulogy of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Late a President of the United States
Washington, United States Government Printing Office, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth. xxxi, 285pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. Compilation of addresses, tributes, texts of eulogies and scriptural selections. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 1378
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 | £UK 15.75 | JP¥ 3146]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: PRESIDENTIAL Presidential
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of John Alexander Logan... Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, February 9 and 16, 1887...
Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1887. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with silver metallic decorations. 213pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Minor edgewear. Probable first edition -- an inconspicuous ex-library copy, with almost no markings except a small blind-embossed stamp on title page. Memorial services for this former Union general. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 5379
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.5 | £UK 27.5 | JP¥ 5506]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: CIVIL WAR Civil War
Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Lawrence H. Smith, Late a Representative from Wisconsin
Washington, United States Government Printing Office, 1958. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth. 94pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. Autographed by Eleanor J. Smith. Collection of eulogies, signed on the front flyleaf by the Wisconsin congressman's widow and dated Washington, 1958 November 10. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 908
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 | £UK 19.75 | JP¥ 3933]
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Keywords: ILLINOIS MIDWEST Illinois & Midwest
A Memorial Record of the New-York Branch of the United States Christian Commission, Compiled Under the Direction of the Executive Committee
New York, John A. Gray & Green, 1866. Hardcover. Small 4to. Original emerald green cloth, ornate gilt lettering. 103pp. Good plus. Though the original spine is present, it's quite rough and the inner hinges are cracked; internally, the text block is "Near fine" (bright, clean, pristine) and both boards are handsome, with lovely gilt. First edition, tight and decent despite poor spine, of this survey of the social services and religious activities of this organization that supported the Union cause during the Civil War. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 33446
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 69.25 | £UK 59 | JP¥ 11799]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: Civil War
Mexico in the Sixteenth Century
San Marino, CA, The Huntington Library, 1938. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff brown pictorial wrappers. 18pp. Illustrations. Near fine. First edition of this exhibition guide, handsomely printed by the Ward Ritchie Press in Los Angeles. From the private library of JOHN BEECHER (1904-80), noted social protest poet and fine press publisher. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 16683
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 | £UK 15.75 | JP¥ 3146]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: Colonial Americana
Michael Howe: The Last and Worst of the Bush Rangers of Van Dieman's Land
Hobert, Australia, Platypus Publications, 1966. Hardcover. 12mo. Grey buckram spine and yellow paper over boards. (3pp), 36pp. Decorative endpapers. Near fine. Inscribed by the publisher. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies and 30 presentation copies. This is one of the presentation copies, inscribed on the limitation page to "Mr. R.G. Newman / with the compliments / of the publishers." (Ralph G. Newman founded Chicago's famed Abraham Lincoln Book Shop.) Facsimile edition of the scarce 1818 "Narrative of the Chief Atrocities Committed by This Great Murderer and His Associates." Uncommon. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 17248
USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 37 | £UK 31.5 | JP¥ 6293]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: ODDS & ENDS Odds & Ends
The Miller Home
N.p. 1970. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff tan pictorial wrappers. (34pp). Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Collection of articles about the extraordinary Salt Lake residence of Mormon pioneer J.R. Miller. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 12556
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 2360]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: MORMONS Religion
The Million Charms of Empress Shotoku and Other Stories: A Collection of Tales About the Preservation of Rare Books and Documents for Your Amazement, Edification... And Enjoyment
Chicago, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1966. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 30pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight and attractive first edition of this collection of stories about rare books and documents restored by the well-known Chicago printer. Tipped to the front flyleaf is the signature of Ralph G. Newman (1912-98), founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, whose tale of finding a second Button Gwinnett signature affixed to the verso of a Gwinnett document he'd purchased is here recounted. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 36748
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 | £UK 15.75 | JP¥ 3146]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: Bibliography & Books About Books
Miniature Rooms: The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago
[Chicago], The Art Institute of Chicago and Abbeville Press, 1983. Paperback. Wide 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 168pp. Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations (most color). Near fine. Tight and attractive fourth printing of this fascinating guide. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 32861
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 2360]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: Art
Model Paper Dolls
Akron, The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1940. Paperback. Wide small 4to. Stiff red glazed pictorial wrappers. (4pp, rectos only). Numerous color illustrations. Very good. Front wrapper depicts one young man and young women in then-skimpy beachwear -- perforated for removal, though untouched; rear wrapper depicts one mutachioed young man with a polo saddle and polo mallet -- all also perforated, though none removed. The four leaves of garments intended to be cut out consist of formal wear, casual wear, etc. -- formal dresses, tuxedoes, hats, ties, cowboy duds, and so on. None have been cut out or removed, the sole flaw being the polo mallet on the rear wrapper, the handle portion (1") of which is absent. Remarkably clean, tight, untouched example. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 35849
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 | £UK 19.75 | JP¥ 3933]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: Children's
Modern Scientists and Authors
New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1980. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set in cloth-over-boards slipcase. Russet cloth with gilt lettering and brown pictorial stamping. x, 465pp; vii, 449pp; vi, 452pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/very good. Just the faintest bit of slipcase wear. Tight, handsome first of this edition, being a greatly expanded version of this publisher's 1968 "McGraw-Hill Modern Men of Science" 2-volume set. Hundreds of mostly one-page thumbnail biographies organized alphabetically, Volume 1 covering A-G, Volume 2 H-Q and Volume 3 R-Z. A superb trilogy, and NOT ex-library as are most sets. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 37782
USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 60 | £UK 51.25 | JP¥ 10226]
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Keywords: Science Engineering & Technology
The Modern Muse: Poems of to-Day British and American
London, English Association, 1934. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth. xx, 306pp. Errata slip. Very good. Tight, clean, attractive first edition of this noted anthology. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 6540
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.25 | £UK 39.25 | JP¥ 7866]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: Poetry
Montana, the Magazine of Western History
Helena, The Historical Society of Montana, 1962. Paperback. Small 4to. Color pictorial wrappers. 96pp. Numerous photographs, maps. Near fine. Volume 12, Number 2, the Spring 1962 issue with the cover story "The Civil War in the West. .
Main Street Fine Books & ManuscriptsProfessional sellerBook number: 1596
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.25 | £UK 8 | JP¥ 1573]
Catalogue: Books
Keywords: WESTERN AMERICANA Western Americana
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