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Finley vs. Walls. Papers in the Case by FINLEY Jesse J. WALLS Josiah T.

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Finley vs. Walls. Papers in the Case
Author
FINLEY Jesse J. WALLS Josiah T.
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1876. First Edition. WALLS, Josiah T., FINLEY, Jesse J. Finley vs. Walls. Papers in the Case of Jesse J. Finley vs Josiah T. Walls, Second Congressional District of Florida. (Washington, (D.C.): Government Printing Office, 1876). Octavo, recent full speckled sheep gilt, red morocco spine label; pp. 196. $3800.First edition of the official printing of the House of Representative record in an opponent's dispute over the election of Josiah Walls to the 44th Congress, with Walls, born enslaved and a veteran of Black Civil War regiments, having earlier survived an assassination attempt in his initial election to Congress in 1871, where he declared in his ""first major floor speech… 'I believe that the national government is the guardian of the liberties of all its subjects.'""""Black leaders in the early days of Reconstruction… were notable precisely for their unwillingness to acquiesce silently to the conservative race policies of the Republican Party. Ranging in background from Robert Brown Elliot, college-educated in England, to Josiah T. Walls, a former slave, the Black elite of Reconstruction generated and sustained a steady flow of criticism aimed at the Republicans' lack of commitment to racial progress"" (Klingman, Geithman, Negro Dissidence, 172). Walls, who served in the Union Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) and as first sergeant in the 35th regiment USCT, began his political career representing Alachua County in the 1868 Florida constitutional convention… the following fall, he was elected to the state senate and took his seat as one of five freedmen in the 24–man chamber in January 1869."" Walls would then become ""the first African American to serve his state in Congress. The only Black Representative from Florida until the early 1990s, Walls was unseated twice on the recommendation of the House Committee on Elections. When he was not fiercely defending his seat in Congress, Walls fought for internal improvements for Florida… compulsory education and economic opportunity for all races"" (U.S. House of Representatives).Amidst escalating KKK violence, southern white Republicans feared ""Democrats would capture the election in the absence of the black votes"" and nominated Wells to face ""former slave owner and Confederate veteran Silas Niblack, who argued a 'former slave was not educated enough to serve in Congress.'"" Walls, who struggled against cautious Republicans and often violent Democrats in his congressional tenure, countered Niblack's racism in debates and at political rallies. ""The campaign was violent; a would–be assassin's bullet missed Walls by inches,"" but in 1871 he emerged victorious, to be sworn in as a member of the 42nd Congress as ""the first African American to serve his state in Congress. The only Black Representative from Florida until the early 1990s… [he] advocated compulsory education and economic opportunity for all races: 'We demand that our lives, our liberties and our property shall be protected by the strong arm of our government.'"" When Niblack fought the election, claiming voting intimidation, Walls noted he lost more votes due to KKK intimidation, but he was said to lack evidence and Niblack was belatedly named winner. Nevertheless Walls was later elected as one of ""the two At-Large seats in the 43rd Congress"" and returned in 1873.In the 42nd and 43rd Congresses, Walls ""sought funding to improve Florida's harbors and rivers and to create a land–grant state agricultural college."" He made education the issue of ""his first major floor speech on February 3, 1872: 'I believe that the national government is the guardian of the liberties of all its subjects… Can [African Americans] protect their liberties without education… can this be done without the aid, assistance, and supervision of the General Government? No, sir, it cannot.'"" When he defeated his white opponent Jesse Finley by a slim 51 percent margin to be elected to the 44th Congress, Finley challenged the vote as is documented in Finley vs. Walls. When the debate moved to the House Floor, ""not one of Walls' six Black colleagues was allowed to speak, although Walls briefly took the floor in his own defense."" The year after he was unseated by the Democrat-controlled House Committee on Elections, Reconstruction ended in Florida. Walls subsequently won a seat in the Florida state senate but, increasingly discouraged at the failure of Reconstruction, he took a permanent leave of absence in 1879. Walls would declare: ""I reluctantly confess, after so many years of concessions, that unless partisan and sectional feeling shall lose more of its rancor… fundamental law will be disregarded, overthrown and trampled underfoot, and a complete reign of terror and anarchy will rule supreme."" In 1890, at his defeat in another bid for the state senate, Walls ""took charge of the farm at Florida Normal College (now Florida A&M University)"" until his death in 1905 (U.S. House of Representatives). First edition: with stated: ""January 25, 1876—Ordered to be printed… 44th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Mis. Doc. No. 58."" Without fragile original paper wrappers. Not in Blockson. Text very fresh with only small gutter-edge paper repair not affecting text. Handsomely bound.
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Comic Almanack by CRUIKSHANK George

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Comic Almanack
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CRUIKSHANK George
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1871. CRUIKSHANK, George. The Comic Almanack… With Many Hundred Illustrations by George Cruikshank and Other Artists. First Series, 1835-1843; Second Series, 1844-1853. London: John Camden Hotten, circa 1871. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter green morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $1600.Later edition, with hundreds of illustrations, some folding, and humorous pieces by Thackeray, Mayhew, and others. Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf.""Cruikshank attained great celebrity as an artist of rare talents, both in humour and pathos"" (Allibone, 456). ""In 1835 Cruikshank issued the first number of the 'Comic Almanack,' with a dozen 'right merrie' cuts (etchings) 'pertaining to the months' by himself, and a few minor embellishments. Sometimes the letterpress was supplied by distinguished contributors"" (DNB). This two-volume set is the complete run from 1835 to 1853. Cohn 184 (note). Spines evenly toned to brown. A fine pair of volumes.
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Fantasmagorie by CARROLL, Lewis; PARISOT, Henri, tr

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
Fantasmagorie
Author
CARROLL, Lewis; PARISOT, Henri, tr
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Paris, 1939. Original printed wrappers, preserved in glassine. Presentation inscription from the translator on note card laid in. In very good condition. First edition of the first French translation of Carroll’s longest poem, one of an edition of only 155 copies. The text is divided into 7 cantos of discussion between a human narrator and a ghost. Each canto is comprised of 5-line verses with a variable rhyme scheme. For words that do not easily translate to French but are necessary to the content of the poem, such as Poltergeist and Banshee, the translator included vocabulary footnotes. This book represents an important moment in the reception and cross-cultural appeal of Lewis Carroll’s work. OCLC locates only one copy in the U.S., at UVA.
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Psychologies by ROSS, Sir Ronald

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
Psychologies
Author
ROSS, Sir Ronald
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: John Murray, 1919. FIRST EDITION. With 1 page publisher’s advertisements. Original blue publisher’s cloth, in the original dust-jacket; some browning to end-papers. First edition of this collection of five short single-scene plays. “These five studies are parts of a series of which I hope to publish more examples at a later date.” The first two, Otho and The Triumph, appeared in the September and December 1913 issues of The Nation. The last, The boy’s dream, contains passages from a drama published in Madras in 1883 entitled Edgar. The marsh was intended to be a melodrama; however at the time of publication, the music had not yet been developed.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Title
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
Author
Thackeray, William Makepeace
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B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854-1855. Two volumes. Illustrated with wood and steel engravings by Richard Doyle. First editions, first printings. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt, decorated in blind, pale yellow endpapers. An attractive set with light rubbing, corners bumped, former owner signature to front pastedowns; vol I with some wear to the upper spine and light toning to spine. Overall, a very good set, free of any repairs or restoration. Shepherd 121. Set in England in the decades following the action of Vanity Fair (1848), The Newcomes follows the lives of several members of the upper-middle class English family, the Newcomes. Like Vanity Fair, this novel is celebrated for its panorama presentation of daily life and social norms in Victorian England. Notably, The Newcomes is narrated by Thackeray's alter ego, the fictional English gentleman Arthur Pendennis, who is credited as the "editor" of this text. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
A Sword of the Old Frontier: A Tale of Fort Chartres and Detroit, Being a plain account of sundry adventures befalling Chevalier Raoul de Coubert, one time Captain in the Hussars of Languedoc, during the year 1763.

A Sword of the Old Frontier: A Tale of Fort Chartres and Detroit, Being a plain account of sundry adventures befalling Chevalier Raoul de Coubert, one time Captain in the Hussars of Languedoc, during the year 1763. by Parrish, Randall

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A Sword of the Old Frontier: A Tale of Fort Chartres and Detroit, Being a plain account of sundry adventures befalling Chevalier Raoul de Coubert, one time Captain in the Hussars of Languedoc, during the year 1763.
Author
Parrish, Randall
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B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
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Fine
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New York: A. L. Burton & Company, 1905 Early reprint. Publisher's decorative mustard yellow cloth with an illustration of three figures framed by a rectangular background stamped in black, orange, and white to front board beneath the title and author lettered in black, ruled in orange, lettered in black to spine, with a black and white frontispiece and six pages of publisher's ads after text. About fine with some light toning to text block edges and a few tiny spots to rear endpapers; lacking dust jacket. This historical fiction novel tells the story of Raoul de Coubert, a former French soldier who is approached by a military leader to come to the country's aid in breaking the pact of peace between France and England. A journalist and author, Parrish began his career working for the Associated Press and related newspapers, later to devote his work to novels, many of which were bestsellers.. Hard Cover. Fine.
Deed of Sale of Land: Nathaniel F. Draper to Philo T. Barnum

Deed of Sale of Land: Nathaniel F. Draper to Philo T. Barnum

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Deed of Sale of Land: Nathaniel F. Draper to Philo T. Barnum
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
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Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut: November 16, 1853. Pro-forma broadside, approx. 13½" x 8½" filled out in manuscript, signed by Nathaniel F. Draper, Isaac Sherman, Stephen Hawley (Justice of the Peace). and with a small seal; previous folds, docketed and recorded on the verso; very small hole at fold, small tear at fold, no loss. Philo Fairchild Barnum (1806-1878), the purchaser of this lot in Bridgeport, was the half-brother of showman and politician Phineas T. Barnum. Philo was one of Barnum's children by his first wife, Polly Fairchild. The deed shows the sale of a lot bordering land of Mary Thorp on Lafaitte (?) Street near Chester Russell and Elijah Wood. The lot was sold for three thousand dollars, subject to a mortgage of $1500 from the Bridgeport Savings Bank. The seller of the land was Nathaniel Fletcher Draper (1826-1871) who was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. A grocery merchant, he spent a year in Bridgeport, later founding a firm called Blanchard & Draper in Plymouth, Massachusetts, for the manufacture of gloves. The signed witness, Isaac Sherman, was likely the Isaac Sherman (1788-1863) who was the owner of several vessels employed in the Boston and West Indies trade. Sherman was also a local historian, having prepared a series of historical notes on Stratford and Fairfield.
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COMMERCIAL TARIFFS and regulations, resources, and trade, of the several states of Europe and America, together with commercial treaties between England and foreign countries. Part the fifteenth: United States of America

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COMMERCIAL TARIFFS and regulations, resources, and trade, of the several states of Europe and America, together with commercial treaties between England and foreign countries. Part the fifteenth: United States of America
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
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London: Charles Whiting, 1846. 2 volumes, small folio, pp. x, 960 (continuous pagination); orig. green cloth; joints split, covers nearly loose on vol. I; ex-MHS. With long sections on the manufactures, agriculture, fisheries, whale fishery, m ining, climate, population, etc. of the U.S.A.
Annals of Tryon County; or, The Border Warfare of New-York, during the Revolution

Annals of Tryon County; or, The Border Warfare of New-York, during the Revolution by Campbell, William W

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Annals of Tryon County; or, The Border Warfare of New-York, during the Revolution
Author
Campbell, William W
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
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Very Good
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New York: J. & J. Harper, 1831. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition (Sabin 10275; Howes C-103). Includes folding frontispiece map and fold-out facsimile of Brant letter. Minor wear to corners, fore edge corner of rear board discolored, front and end matter a bit foxed. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked. 1831 Full-Leather. 191, 78 pp. An account of raids on New York's borders by Tories and Native Americans goaded by the British during the Revolutionary War. Sabin 10275: "Includes a letter to John Brant from Thomas Campbell, in regard to the mention of Brant's father in Gertrude of Wyoming.
[AMERICANA] [CAPITOL BLDG.] MORRISON’S STRANGER’S GUIDE AND ETIQUETTE, FOR WASHINGTON CITY AND ITS VICINITY

[AMERICANA] [CAPITOL BLDG.] MORRISON’S STRANGER’S GUIDE AND ETIQUETTE, FOR WASHINGTON CITY AND ITS VICINITY

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[AMERICANA] [CAPITOL BLDG.] MORRISON’S STRANGER’S GUIDE AND ETIQUETTE, FOR WASHINGTON CITY AND ITS VICINITY
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Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good binding
Description
Washington: W. H. and O. H. Morrison, 1864. Sixth Edition. Very Good binding. 24mo in brown cloth in a fine hexagonal grain, over flexible boards; embossed in blind, with titling in gilt to the upper board. Illustrated with 3 folding plans of the Capitol, and 27 plate, 3 of which are folding, [Note: The LOC copy notes 28 plates, 3 of which are folding]. “Illustrated with wood and steel engravings, entirely re-written and brought down to the present time.” There is minor loss to the brown cloth.~~Morrison’s Stranger’s Guides were first issued in 1842, “with a head of Washington never before engraved”, and was issued in many variants through the remainder of the 19th century. Among the many plates in this issue is an image of the Washington Monument showing a “Pantheon Base” noting that it was part of the plan originally selected “but it is now highly probable that it will be dispensed with”. Also has three folding floorplans for the three levels of the Capitol, the presence of which has a piquancy given recent events. This 1864 edition is one of the less common issues.~~Etiquette books of the period are generally with charm, and the section on Washington etiquette is no exception. Of interest are the etiquette rules with regard to the President: “The President is accessible to private individuals who desire to see him on business”. ~. Very Good binding.
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Wie's am Tage geht; 48 Originalzeichnungen in Farben by Wilhelm Claudius, illustrator. Verse by Jul. Lohmeyer

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Wie's am Tage geht; 48 Originalzeichnungen in Farben
Author
Wilhelm Claudius, illustrator. Verse by Jul. Lohmeyer
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Dresden: C. C. Meinhold & Sohne, 1884. First Edition. Good. With 17 color plates, including one on front board. Notwithstanding the title suggesting 48, the volume appears complete, and the 48 in the title seems to refer in actuality to the number of illustrations within the text proper. Wegehaupt II 2046. Regardless, the chromolithographic plates are delightful, redolent as they are of an idyllic German village life that may never have been so pretty. The hinges are cracked in several places. The paper pastedowns are chipped along the edges. Light soiling here and there.
The Old Devils [Signed Limited Edition]

The Old Devils [Signed Limited Edition] by Kingsley Amis

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Title
The Old Devils [Signed Limited Edition]
Author
Kingsley Amis
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
London: Hutchinson, 1986. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Hutchinson, 1986. Limited First Edition of 250 copies, this being number 87. Octavo (22.2cm); glassine dust jacket; marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine and gilt lettering;[xii],294pp. Jacket chipped at head with rubbing at corners and edges. Boards sturdy and square. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author without inscription on limitation page at front. Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize.
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ANIMA by Balog, James

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ANIMA
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Balog, James
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J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
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28 color photos of chimpanzees
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WHITE WAVE -A CHINESE TALE / PICTORIAL POSTER by Wolkstein, Diane & Young, Edward

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WHITE WAVE -A CHINESE TALE / PICTORIAL POSTER
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Wolkstein, Diane & Young, Edward
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description
WHITE WAVE -A CHINESE TALE, / PICTORIAL POSTER, Thomas Y Crowell, 1979, Illustrated by Ed Young, first printing, measuring approximately 11" by 17" and most suitable for framing. A fine copy.
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ROMANZA by ( Wright, Frank Lloyd ) Gebhard, David

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ROMANZA
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( Wright, Frank Lloyd ) Gebhard, David
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
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ROMANZA, Chronicle Books, 1988, first edition, fine in like dust-wrapper. Profusely illustrated with full color photos on virtually every page with a focus on Wright's California architecture.
A Dog's Purpose

A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

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Title
A Dog's Purpose
Author
W. Bruce Cameron
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780765326263
Condition
Fine
Description
First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, with only slight rubbing to the jacket edges, else as new and unread. An outstanding copy of this title, the first of many in the series; uncommon in the first printing. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

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