![Item #48669 Speeches and Writings [Two Volume Set]. Abraham Lincoln](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48669.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1783187043)
New York: Library of America, 1989. Special Edition Privately Printed for the members of the libraries of Gryphon Editions. Two octavo volumes (20.5cm); publisher's full blue gilt-tooled goat, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; xix,[1],898; xxxiii,[1],787pp. Just About Fine. Volume I covers 1832 to 1858, including the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Volume II..... More
New York: Trent, Filmer & Co., [1865]. First Edition. Octavo; printed wraps with reversed "a" to title, per Monaghan; [12]ll. printed rectos only. Worn with chipping to wraps; binding sound; staining throughout; Good only. Includes the Springfield Farewell Speech, Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettyburg Address, and the Second Inaugural Speech. Uncommon in retail..... More
New York: Chas. Magnus, 12 Frankfort St., n.d. [but 1865]. Small broadside lithographed song sheet (20.5x12.5cm), top third adorned with an oval portrait of Abraham Lincoln mourned by a Union soldier. A fresh and Fine example. A popular song sheet disseminated in the wake of Lincoln's assassination by one of..... More
![Item #27307 The Long Night [Signed]. Andrew Lytle](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27307.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694952669)
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, [1936]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; 331pp. Cloth a bit scuffed at extremities, contemporary ex libris to front pastedown, rear hinge rather tight from repair, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound. Signed by the author on title page.The author's first work..... More
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2011. First Edition (stated). Octavo; xvi, 526pp. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with light rubbing at spine ends. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1894. Second Edition, "Revised and Corrected, with Appendix upon Treatment of Colored Prisoners of War." Octavo; publisher's black cloth boards stamped in gilt; dark topstain; xvi, 452pp.; halftone frontispiece with tissue guard, photographs, nine maps (five single-page and two folding) all present though Charleston map on p. 224..... More
Baltimore, MD: Published by the Author / Cushing & Company, Booksellers and Stationers, 1895. First Edition. Octavo. 165, (1) pp. Two photographic plates including frontis, complete. Original black pictorial cloth with floral endpapers. Minor bumping along edges with some mild bio-predation to rear. Binding is sound. Toning to endpapers and..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, the Knickerbocker Press, 1915. First Edition. Octavo; navy cloth boards stamped in gilt; dark topstain; 454pp. Very light edgewear; corners bumped with a couple stray scuffs; binding sound; occasional pencil markings and long closed tear to pp. 5-6, else unmarked and a Very Good copy. First..... More
New York: Vantage Press, 1962. First Edition, stated. Octavo (20.6cm); illustrated dust jacket with $3.95 price intact; boards in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine; 166pp; b&w photo frontis and 12pp photo plates at center. Spots of biopredation to jacket along much of rear flap fold and briefly to..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Published and for sale by Towar and Hogan, No. 255, Market Street, 1826. First Smart Edition. Octavo (22cm); full contemporary sheep, red gilt spine label; xxviii,394pp. Leather significantly dried, scratched and rubbed at margins, old repair to front hinge, uneven and at times quite heavy foxing throughout. Good..... More
![Item #33426 [Civil War Patriotic Cover] Uncle Sam sends his bird after Traitor Jeff. Civil War -...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33426.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750870783)
United States: n.d., ca. 1860s. Unused Civil War patriotic mailing envelope (7.5x14cm); upper panel adorned with a woodcut illustration printed in red. Light soil and wrinkling, else a Very Good, bright and unused example. Patriotic cover revisiting a popular Union theme: the unpopularity of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. The image..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, by King & Baird, Prs., 1864. First Edition. Octavo; purple cloth stamped in gilt; 283pp. Four plates + map. Ex-library though with no external institutional markings. Boards worn at extremities with chipping to spine ends and brief exposure to joints and corners; spine..... More
Chicago: C.E. Ellis & Co., 1883. First Edition. 12mo. 62 pp. Stitched, lacking original wrappers. Light edgewear with a few nicks and short tears, soiled along edges, a bit wrinkled from exposure to damp. Good.Scarce collection of Civil War songs including "John Brown," "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," "Slavery..... More
New York: Carleton, Publisher, 1863. First Edition. Octavo. 414 + 8pp publisher's advertisements. Publisher's green textured cloth with copper stamping to spine; brown endpapers. Boards rubbed along edges with a small nick to spine; corners bumped with brief exposure. Binding sound. Bookseller ticket to rear pastedown; interior else clean and..... More
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, [2003]. "Collector's Edition." Quarto (31cm); publisher's full blue bonded leather stamped in gilt, color plate mounted to upper cover, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers; xii,267pp.; full color illus. throughout. Tiny dents to front and rear fore-edges, else a Near Fine example. Signed by the artist..... More
[Philadelphia: Harper & Brother Company, 1905.] First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's grey pictorial card wrappers printed in dark blue; 26pp.; portrait frontispiece of Stonewall Jackson, five leaves of photographic plates. Light wear and toning to extremities, else Very Good and sound. Quite uncommon poetry collection. More
New York: Random House, 1937. Later Printing [*not* the Junior Library Guild edition]. Octavo; 281pp. Illustrations and map endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price on back flap. Bound in illustrated orange and beige boards. Front flap corner clipped, with jacket showing a few shallow tears along edges and folds..... More
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Small octavo; 93pp +14pp publisher's catalog. Tables and illustrations throughout. Publisher's blindstamped blue cloth with gilt lettering and anchor ornament. Boards edgeworn, with rubbing at corners and spine ends and some general scuffing and smudging to surface. Opens widely..... More
London: Macmillan and Co. 1863. First Edition. Two volumes bound in one; octavos; early 20th-century half navy morocco over cloth by Maurin with their rubber-stamp to front flyleaf verso, gilt spine in five compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; x,310; vi,326,[2]pp. Light wear and dryness to leather margins, small chip..... More
Louisville, KY: Press of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1886. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's dark green pictorial cloth embossed in gilt, floral endpapers; 288pp.; text illus. throughout. Corners and spine ends a bit scuffed, spine gilt quite dulled, textblock uniformly toned and slightly finger-soiled, else a Very Good, still..... More
![Item #32949 History of the Fortieth (Mozart) Regiment New York Volunteers [Signed]. Fred C. Floyd](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32949.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747925628)
Boston: F. H. Gilson Company, 1909. First Edition. Large octavo (24 cm); xvi; 468pp. 62 plates, including frontis, collated complete. Boards in bright blue cloth with gilt stamping to spine and blind decoration to front. Ex-library. Boards generally dust-soiled, bumped and rubbed with minor wear to spine ends and corners..... More
Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1989. First Edition. Octavo (23.6cm); illustrated dust jacket over black buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp overall, with a couple vertical creases down front flap and old National Capitol Parks price sticker on rear. Boards sturdy and square. Binding..... More
[Denver?]: [s.i.], 1907. First Edition. Octavo. 21 pp. Printed wraps. Chipping to top corners with toning along edges. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Dodge served as Grant's intelligence chief in the Western Theater of the Civil War, and in the later stages of the war was put in charge of..... More
![Item #29153 A Man Unafraid: The Story of John Charles Fremont [Signed and Inscribed by Wagner]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29153.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1712073067)
San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing Company, 1927. First Edition. Signed by Wagner on front free endpaper without dedication "With sincere good wishes to 'a soul remembering a good friend.' Harr Wagner, Dec. 17, 27." Octavo; 406pp. Two mounted color illustrations (including frontis) with 16 black and white plates, all present..... More
Hilton Head, SC: J. Rodger Horsey, n.d., ca. 2000? Quarto; white post-bound card wrappers; 120ll. printed on rectos only. Wrappers a bit worn and dust-soiled from handling, else Very Good.Screenplay for an unproduced Civil War film. J. Rodger Horsey was a member of the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild..... More