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The Compassion of Abraham Lincoln: In a Letter to his Judge Advocate General, He Directly Intervenes to Reinstate an Officer Who Had Been Dismissed From the Army for Being Derelict of Duty and Breaching Arrest by Abraham Lincoln

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Title: The Compassion of Abraham Lincoln: In a Letter to his Judge Advocate General, He Directly Intervenes to Reinstate an Officer Who Had Been Dismissed From the Army for Being Derelict of Duty and Breaching Arrest
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 01/09/1863. A powerful letter showing Lincoln's direct involvement with the chief judicial military officer, showing the merciful Lincoln at work, and showing his prioritizing retaining experienced veterans in the serviceThe Judge Advocate General of the United States Army is the senior officer of the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army. The position was abolished but then reinstated in 1849. In 1862, Lincoln appointed his first Judge Advocate General, Joseph Holt, only the second since 1783. He named Joseph Holt. Holt joined the Army as a colonel in 1862. As Judge Advocate General of the Army, Holt oversaw the expansion of military law to include the military prosecutions of citizens who were not in the military service. By the time he joined the Army, he believed that the only means to prevent treason from occurring again was to ensure that slavery was abolished for all time, and eventually equal treatment under the law enforced in the South.At the beginning of the Civil War, Joseph Carbery Lay had an office in Washington, D. C., as an agent for the transaction of all kinds of business, including procuring patents, pensions, back pay, purchase and sale of real estate, writing of deeds, releases and other instruments regarding settlement of accounts with and claims against the Government.He quickly enlisted in the 12th Infantry Regiment of the Regular Army as a lieutenant. During the Peninsula Campaign in the spring of 1862, the 12th Infantry distinguished itself in its first combat action at the Battle of Gaines Mill in June 1862, while sustaining fifty percent casualties. Lay was a captain at that time.Captain Joseph Carbery Lay was cashiered - dismissed - from the Army on July 21, 1862, for being drunk on duty and breach of arrest. Lay felt that an injustice had been done, and wanted the dismissal revoked. In 1863, the matter came to the attention of President Lincoln, who insisted on seeing the record of the case. He was always anxious to prevent injustice from being done, and even a case in which alleged drunkenness was involved was not beneath his notice.Autograph letter signed, as President, on Executive Mansion letterhead, Washington, September 1, 1863, to the Judge Advocate General, insisting that he receive the records in Lay’s case. “Sir: I am told that Carbery Lay, a Captain in the 12th. Regular Infantry, has been dismissed by a Court-Martial. Please get the record, and examine the case & report to me. Yours truly, A. Lincoln.”Lincoln prioritized retaining experienced veterans in the service, and sided with Lay, as is indicated by the fact that Lay was reinstated by being appointed a lieutenant in the Seventeenth Infantry on October 30, 1863, less than two months after this letter. While Lay was serving in that unit in 1863, it was present in engagements at Rappahannock Station and on Mine Run, and marched with it until going into winter camp. In 1864 the regiment took part in the Wilderness Campaign and the operations before Petersburg, inscribing on its colors Laurel Hill, North Anna, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor and Petersburg; while its records show in addition that it was also engaged at Spotsylvania Court House, and the battle of the Wilderness.Lay’s problems were not over, however, as in June 1864, he was accused of having returned to his home in Washington without leave. He came back to base soon after and made a statement that he had been ill and sent to hospital and then had a difficult time rejoining his regiment. Perhaps to avoid disciplinary action, he resigned from the Army a few months later on September 12, 1864.Over the years, we’ve had just a handful of letters showing the kindly, merciful Lincoln at work and none to Holt.

A Balloon Ascension! by Steiner, J H - AMERICAN BALLOON ASCENT BROADSIDE

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Title: A Balloon Ascension!
Author: Steiner, J H - AMERICAN BALLOON ASCENT BROADSIDE
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Near fine; some old folds; slight offsetting.
Description: Lebanon, PA: Lebanon Courier, 1857. First Edition. As issued.. Near fine; some old folds; slight offsetting.. Broadside, measuring 26 3/4 x 41 inches. A broadside advertising an unrecorded ascent by the noted American aeronaut J H Steiner. This November ascent came after his ill-fated attempt to fly to Canada across Lake Erie. This ascent is unknown to Crouch and his encylcopaedic history of American ballooning published by the Smithsonian in 1983. Absent from OCLC.

The Famous Boating Party by PATCHEN, Kenneth

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Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC

Title: The Famous Boating Party
Author: PATCHEN, Kenneth
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: A fine copy with two excellent Patchen paintings on the covers
Description: (N. Y.): New Directions, (1954). First edition, special (painted) issue. One of 50 copies with painted holograph colophon, signed by Patchen, this being copy no. 33. Morgan A22b. A fine copy with two excellent Patchen paintings on the covers. 8vo, frontispiece portrait, original cloth-backed boards with original paintings by Patchen tipped to the front and back covers. A fine copy with two excellent Patchen paintings on the covers.

THE VALIDITY OF PRESBYTERIAN ORDINATION ASSERTED AND MAINTAINED. A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT THE ANNIVERSARY DUDLEIAN-LECTURE, AT HARVARD- COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE NEW-ENGLAND, MAY 12. 1762. WITH AN APPENDIX, GIVING A BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE EPISTLES ASCRIBED TO IGNATIUS; AND EXHIBITING SOME OF THE MANY REASONS, WHY THEY OUGHT NOT TO BE DEPENDED ON AS HIS UNCORRUPTED WORKS by Chauncy, Charles

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Title: THE VALIDITY OF PRESBYTERIAN ORDINATION ASSERTED AND MAINTAINED. A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT THE ANNIVERSARY DUDLEIAN-LECTURE, AT HARVARD- COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE NEW-ENGLAND, MAY 12. 1762. WITH AN APPENDIX, GIVING A BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE EPISTLES ASCRIBED TO IGNATIUS; AND EXHIBITING SOME OF THE MANY REASONS, WHY THEY OUGHT NOT TO BE DEPENDED ON AS HIS UNCORRUPTED WORKS
Author: Chauncy, Charles
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Boston, 1762. 118pp. Half title present but detached. Disbound. Else Very Good. This is a seminal work, not only in Chauncy's long repertoire of publications, but also in Colonial Americans' struggle to prevent domination by the Episcopal Church and to nurture their own democratic religious institutions. As DAB notes, "Chauncy devoted nine years to contending against Episcopal claims, beginning with his Dudleian Lecture of 1762 [this piece]..." Here he tells his audience, "You are, by this time, at no loss to know the design of the present discourse; that it is to vindicate the New-England churches in their method of ordination..." Unlike the church in England, where people "scarce know what it is to have pastors of their own chusing...the New-England churches, blessed be God, possess and exercise the right of electing their pastors in the most ample manner of any in the whole christian world. May they ever 'stand fast in this liberty'...!" FIRST EDITION. Evans 9089. Sabin 12331. ESTC W29647.

Mark Rothko: The Exhibitions at Pace (Presentation Copy) by (ROTHKO, Mark). GLIMCHER, Arne

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Title: Mark Rothko: The Exhibitions at Pace (Presentation Copy)
Author: (ROTHKO, Mark). GLIMCHER, Arne
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: A near fine copy in burgundy cloth boards, in fine printed acetate jacket.
Description: New York: Callaway Arts & Entertainment, 2019. A near fine copy in burgundy cloth boards, in fine printed acetate jacket.. First Edition. Quarto. INSCRIBED by Arnie Glimcher and Rothko’s children, Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, to the book's publisher, Nicholas Callaway. A comprehensive monograph surveying Rothko’s 11 exhibitions hosted by Pace Gallery from 1978 to 2017, with texts from Pace founder Arne Glimcher, Bernice Rose, Irving Sandler, and Brian O’Dohery.

[CIVIL WAR] PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF P. H. SHERIDAN [2 VOLUMES] by P[hilip] H[enry] Sheridan

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Title: [CIVIL WAR] PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF P. H. SHERIDAN [2 VOLUMES]
Author: P[hilip] H[enry] Sheridan
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Two large 8vo. volumes; in publisher’s full calf with red and black labels to the spines; xiv, 500 pages, with portrait frontispiece protected with tissue guard, and with portraits and maps, some folded, throughout; xii, 486 pages,including the Index; with portrait frontispiece protected with tissue guard, and with portraits and maps, some folding.~~There is minor loss to the spine of Volume I; there is minor loss to the bottom of the spine of Volume II; the front hinge of Volume II is cracked but holding well.~~The Nevins bibliography considers the book “entertaining but somewhat superficial”. In Eicher, the memoirs is accorded higher praise -- “Sheridan’s works constitutes a military classic with occasionally surprising literary content. In Coulter’s Travels in the Confederate States it is noted that “[i]n the Spring of 1864 [Sheridan] was transferred to the war in the East and put at the head of the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac ... [in which capacity] he won his greatest renown, defeating and killing Stuart at Yellow Tavern and later ravaging the Shenandoah Valley and scattering Early’s army.” (Nevins II, 88; Eichar (1972), 572; Coulter, 414). Very Good binding.

Spalt Fountain Installations and Specification Date Arranged for . . Spalt Fine Fixtures Since 1868. Manufacturersa of Store Fixtures -- Soda Fountains -- Display Cases -- Cabinet Work

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Title: Spalt Fountain Installations and Specification Date Arranged for . . Spalt Fine Fixtures Since 1868. Manufacturersa of Store Fixtures -- Soda Fountains -- Display Cases -- Cabinet Work
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Albany, New York: George Spalt & Sons, Inc, 1930. Good. N.d., circa 1930. 4to. 28.5 by 22 cm. Unpaginated, 26 leaves, printing on only rectos. Four of these leaves or pages are solely text -- the first intro, entitled "Installation", and two pages listing its then recent installations. Otherwise, illustrations of some sort -- photographic or drawn -- dominate every page. These include photos of actual installations -- eight photos spread out on four pages -- drawings of designs -- six drawings on three pages -- photos of designs, seven in all, on three pages, and these include seating as well. There are 14 images of marble patterns and wood finishes, these in color, two per page. Finally seven more photos, on two pages, of display cases. The styles range from what we would regard as High Victorian to then cutting edge Art Deco, with sharp angles and pared down ornamentation. The wraps are heavily soiled as if a spritzer had blown up in the proximity of the catalogue, leaving cloud-like formations on the sides. While one could suspect mold, and there might have once been, we are certain there is no mold order or any live mold now. The edges of the wraps also have some roughness. The first and last leaves have some staining, which the other leaves are mostly to entirely free of. There is a gentle warp waviness to the leaves, this last being a minor issue as manifest in this brochure.

Why We Fought by HARTLEY GRATTAN, C.

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Title: Why We Fought
Author: HARTLEY GRATTAN, C.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969. First Thus. Revised and Reprinted edition of the 1929 first edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's deep blue cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 453pp. Clean and strong, minor shelfwear to extremities, a very good copy indeed. Internally clean, a little dusty around the page edges. An erudite and still extremely relevant examination of the reasons and methods by which the US entered WW1 and then the methodology through which it was eventually propelled towards WW2, the afterword was contributed by Hartley Grattan for this revised edition, allowing him a degree of 20/20 hindsight regarding US militarisation and the consequences of widespread propaganda upon a nation that was, at the time, 4 years deep into the disastrous mess of the Vietnam War.

Cosmic Engineers by Simak, Clifford D.

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Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA

Title: Cosmic Engineers
Author: Simak, Clifford D.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($2.50), faintly rubbed, soiled at the back panel. Blue cloth with yellow ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, one creased leaf, clean otherwise. The first book publication for Simak's story originally serialized in Astounding.

Phoenix Feathers: A Collection of Mythical Monsters by Silverberg, Barbara

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Title: Phoenix Feathers: A Collection of Mythical Monsters
Author: Silverberg, Barbara
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780525369851
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Edited by Barbara Silverberg. Illustrated with old prints. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.50), worn at the edges with some chips and short tears, some stains, scuffs, and holes at the surface. Orange cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, soiled at the top edge, clean internally. A collection of writings about mythical beasts such as griffins, krakens, dragons, unicorns, basilisk, and others.

Notes from Underground I. by BRYAN, John (editor)

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Title: Notes from Underground I.
Author: BRYAN, John (editor)
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: Some pale browning and light wear to front wrapper, but a generally clean copy
Description: San Francisco, 1964. Some pale browning and light wear to front wrapper, but a generally clean copy. 4to. 73, [1] pages. Stapled as issued in stiff card wrappers, with black cloth spine cover. A who's who of underground writers: Contributions by Kirby Doyle, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, John Rechy, Ron Boise, Alan Watts, Kenneth Patchen, Lenore Kandel, Charles Bukowski, David Meltzer, Bob Kaufman, Grover Lewis, and Anselm Hollo. John Bryan was the first to publish the poems of Charles Bukowski.

Afrika. Stammeskunst in Urwald und Savanne by Bamert, Arnold

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Title: Afrika. Stammeskunst in Urwald und Savanne
Author: Bamert, Arnold
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: vg
Description: Olten und Freiburg: Walter-Verlag, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. xii, 331pp. original illustrated dustjacket over red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Decorative endpaper maps. Profusely illustrated with magnificent color photographs throughout, often identifying the geographical origin in a b/w Africa map juxtaposed to the image. Many of the high quality images are published here for the first time. Text in German. DJ lightly rubbed. Starting at half-title. Blind stamp on title page. Light yellowing in margins, not affecting images. DJ in overall good+, binding and interior in good+ to very good condition.

The Seeds Of Treason by Allbeury, Ted

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Title: The Seeds Of Treason
Author: Allbeury, Ted
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Mysterious Press. Fine. 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Wraps. The Seeds of Treason is a gripping story of espionage and betrayal. It follows the intersecting lives of three people as they are drawn into a web of deceit and treachery. As the stakes get higher, they must choose between their loyalty to one another and to their country.This novel is full of twists and turns, and will keep you on the edge of your seat. It is a must-read for fans of espionage thrillers.; 8vo; $6.00 .

Collected Longer Poems by Auden, W.H.

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Title: Collected Longer Poems
Author: Auden, W.H.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: NY: Random House, 1976. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Printing. 356pp. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a very good hardback in a darkened and lightly rubbed jacket that has a small closed tear to the bottom of the front panel.

Wild Indigo by Ault, Sandi

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Title: Wild Indigo
Author: Ault, Sandi
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780425213698
Condition: Very good
Description: NY: Doubleday, 2006. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

ENGLISH LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: FORD LECTURES, 1903 by Stephen, Leslie

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Title: ENGLISH LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: FORD LECTURES, 1903
Author: Stephen, Leslie
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Duckworth and Co, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, publisher's polished, tan linen, gilt titles spine, beveled edges, 224p, Duckworth device blind-stamped rear cover. Some light fosxing largely at prelims and rears. Handsome book. Stephen, noted for his literary criticism and mountaineering, perhaps more famous as the father of Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Bell.

HABITACION DE ADENTRO

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Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC

Title: HABITACION DE ADENTRO
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Description: México D. F.: Galeria Pecanins, 1998. b/w plates, bio./chron., pict. wrps. A catalogue of an individual exhibit from this Mexican artist related to Anne Frank.

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The Tr by Cazelles, Raymond; Chantilly, Musee Conde; Longnon, Jean

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Title: The Tr
Author: Cazelles, Raymond; Chantilly, Musee Conde; Longnon, Jean
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
ISBN: 9780807612200
Condition: Near Fine
Description: George Braziller, Inc, 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8x0x11. Full red cloth, large 4to, 224 pages, profusely illustrated in color. Lightly shelf worn dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. Large and heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply.

GREEN RIVER RISING by Willocks, Tim

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Title: GREEN RIVER RISING
Author: Willocks, Tim
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780688135713
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NY: Wm. Morrow, 1994. First US edition, first prnt. Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards. Touch of shelfwear on spine cloth bottom edge; dustjacket with three spots on the dustjacket front panel. Unread copy in NearFine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Willocks' second novel. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The images are of the book described and not stock photos.

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