Gering, NE: Courier Press, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. 288 pp. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Rubbing to gilt at spine and front and boards lightly worn at extremities. Binding sound. Ownership inscription of Robert L. Antsey dated 1940 to front free endpaper, and pages..... More
Philadelphia, P.H. Nicklin and T. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1830. Volume I, Third Edition. Octavo. 538 pages. Tan buckram with black leather spine label stamped in gilt. Ex-library [Library of Congress]. Ownership stamp of George S. Graham to front and rear pastedowns. Graham was a member of Congress from Pennsylvania..... More
Philadelphia: A.M. Smith, 1881. Fourth Revised Edition. Slim 12mo (19cm); 120pp. Illus. throughout with seven (7) full size plates. Thin boards with pink pictorial paper pasted to covers and leather spine. Front cover printed in black. Boards worn at extremities with minor loss to spine ends. Generally soiled and scuffed..... More
Spirit Lake, IA: Dickinson County Historical Society and Museum, 1990. Twelfth Edition. Octavo (20.3cm); publishers faux leather boards with gilt lettering and decoration; [4],iv,352pp; illus. Boards are clean and square with light rubbing at corners and spine ends. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Facsimile of the 1885 Mills..... More
New York: Office of the Anti-Slavery Reporter, 1834. First Edition. 12mo. 46 pp.; wraps, removed. Light soiling and rubbing to wraps. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. James Birney was a prominent Kentucky planter and slave owner who gradually grew enamored first of the concept of colonization..... More
![Item #31279 [Print] Presidents of the United States. Abraham Lincoln, Augustus Feusier](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31279.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1732127907)
[Philadelphia]: F. Bouclet, 1861. Original color lithograph (68x54cm). Mounted to matte backing; marginal tears and soiling; rubbing and a few scrapes around title; colors remain bright; a Very Good copy. This large, vibrant lithograph was issued to commemorate Lincoln's first inauguration, depicting the first sixteen Presidents, with George Washington..... More
![Item #27986 [Broadside] Proclamation of Emancipation. Names of Members of Congress who voted for...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27986.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699299777)
Denver, CO: Issued by Halsey M. Rhoads, [ca. 1900]. Later printing. Broadside with calligraphic portrait of Abraham Lincoln in which the script of the Emancipation Proclamation forms the image within a decorative frame, surrounded by the names of the members of Congress who voted for the amendment of the U.S...... More
New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey / E.P. Dutton, 1970. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in blue and white decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($6.95); [12],227pp. Light wear to jacket margins, else a Very Good or better, bright and sound copy. Signed by the author on half title page... More
Boston: S.G. Simpkins, 1843. First Edition. Octavo. 202 pp. Brown boards with paper label to spine. Boards worn at extremities with bumping and chipping to corners, split with loss to crown. Binding is sound. Bookseller ticket "Kowalczyk Bros" to rear pastedown, and "1800" in title scribbled over, but pages otherwise..... More
Newburyport, MA: From the Press of E.W. Allen / for Sale at the Bookstore of Thomas & Whipple, 1804. First Edition. Octavo; removed, old remnants of spine leather; 28pp. ([A]4 B-C4 D2, collated and presumed complete); woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Brief soil to title page (serving as upper cover), occasional..... More
![Item #46082 The Papers of Alexander Hamilton [Vols. I and II]. Alexander Hamilton, Harold C....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46082.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1763576070)
New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. First Edition. Two volumes; large octavos (24cm); publisher's cloth in matching price-clipped pictorial dust jackets; xvii,[5],627; xi,[5],710pp.; seven leaves of plates. Dust jacket quite rubbed and worn, top half of Vol. I rear flap fold split, old faint rubber-stamp price to front free endpapers;..... More
Portland, ME: Arthur Shirley, 1822. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 41pp. Some faint foxing to text block, contemporary ownership signature (illegible) at head of title page, neat 20th century ex libris to title page verso, else Very Good overall. Political pamphlet signed in text by Alford Richardson himself, regarding..... More
New York: The Bookery Publishing Company, 1914. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's red over green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; 512pp.; portrait frontispiece of Frederick Douglass with tissue guard. Light wear to edges; spotting to front board; a few scuffs and smudges; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. ... More
Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1855. First Edition. Signed by the editor (Amos' son) on flyleaf to his nephew with inscription "Amory A. Lawrence, From his aff. uncle William. Boston May 16th 1855" Octavo (9.5" x 5.75"); xii, 307pp. Three plates with tissue guards including portrait frontis, all present..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket by Maury Englander; xvii,[1],263pp.; halftone illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, top textblock edge dust-soiled, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Quite uncommon in the dust jacket. More
![Item #45888 The Hemingses of Monticello [Signed by Gordon-Reed]. Annette Gordon-Reed](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45888.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762199724)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Large octavo (24cm); illustrated dust jacket with $35.00 price intact; speckled tan boards with black cltoh spine and gilt lettering; 798pp; photos & illus.; timeline endpapers. Jacket rubbed at extremities with a small dampstain over front fold..... More
![Item #47643 American Fashion 1770–1976 [Original Handmade Scrapbook]. Anonymous](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/47643.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775496965)
United States: 1976. Handmade scrapbook (22x31cm); brown corduroy eyelet-bound with white string, titling fashioned out of white cloth letters affixed to upper cover; [18]pp. with manuscript and collages on versos only. Handwritten text, drawings, and magazine and book cutouts within. Boards bumped with some fuzz clinging to corduroy. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 276pp. Eight (8) illust. plates, collated complete. Boards full bound in robin egg blue cloth with blue and gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's illustrated jacket with price intact ($3.50). Jacket rubbed, scuffed and creased at margins..... More
Washington, DC: [n.p.], 1917. Two-page autographed letter signed on single sheet of Henry P. Blair's (son of the letter's author) office stationery. Light edgewear and toning; mail folds. Very Good. Henry W. Blair served as Senator from New Hampshire and here urges Brisbane to come interview him regarding Suffrage for..... More
Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Committee on Civilian Defense, 1941. Folio (57x42cm); single sheet, single-sided. Toning throughout. Creased horizontally at center due to previous folding. Several small tears throughout but no obstruction to text. Brittle. Very Good. Official notice by the Mayor of Baltimore and the city’s recently-convened Committee on..... More
Minneapolis, MN: Journal Printing Company, 1902. First Edition. Quarto; modern cloth with original pictorial wrapper mounted to front cover, new endpapers; [158]pp.; chiefly cartoons. Faint stains to original wrapper element, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good and sound example in a sturdy new binding. More
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1995. Stated First Edition, with full numberline. Octavo (22cm); illustrated dust jacket with $20.00 price intact; orange boards with black cloth spine and orange foil lettering; [x],277pp. Jacket shelfworn with bumping at head of spine and an old, faded UPC sticker to rear. Boards are..... 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
![Item #11128 The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot: The Fort Stevens Story [Signed]. Benjamin Franklin...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11128.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633029705)
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial boards, no jacket as issued; xv,[1],322pp.; illus., chiefly photographs. Just About Fine. Signed and dated in year of publication by the author on title page. History of the Battle of Fort Stevens in present-day Northwest Washington, D.C. More
New Haven, CT: Published by Maltby, Goldsmith, and Co. and Samuel Wadsworth, 1818. Reprint of volume I and first edition of volume II. Two octavo volumes. 563 pp., with final page of volume I mispaged "567" as called for by Sabin & 548 pp. with errata, collated and complete. Full..... More