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Typescript Draft of General Ely Samuel Parker’s Narrative, of the Surrender at Appomattox, Signed by Parker, and Dated New York, March 1894 by Parker, Ely Samuel (1828-1895)

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Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC

Title: Typescript Draft of General Ely Samuel Parker’s Narrative, of the Surrender at Appomattox, Signed by Parker, and Dated New York, March 1894
Author: Parker, Ely Samuel (1828-1895)
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: folio, 14 typescript – carbon pages, on rectos only, lacking the text of page one of Parker's account, accounting for 19 lines of text in the printed version, supplied here in facsimile, the last page is signed and dated by Parker. Typescript Draft of General Ely Samuel Parker's narrative of Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, written by Grant's military secretary who wrote out the official copy of the terms of surrender. Signed and dated by Parker in March 1894. The papers offered here contain the text of Parker's narrative describing the events of April 6 – 9th, 1865, the communications between Grant and Lee and the meeting between the two generals at the home of Mr. McLean and the discussion which led to the production of the document called "The Terms of Lee's Surrender," which ended the war, and which Parker himself copied in his own hand. There are also typescript copies of the correspondence between Grant and Lee arranging the meetings which led to the culminating event of, and the end of, the Civil War. The narrative's only printed appearance was in a Souvenir of the dinner, given at the Waldorf, on April 27th, 1893, commemorating the birth of General Grant., printed in New York in 1893. OCLC locates three copies of this souvenir: University Club Library, U. S. Military Academy, West Point, and Princeton. OCLC locates in addition, the copy of Charles H. T. Collis, the banquet's chairman, at George Washington University, specially bound, and containing additional mss material. We have not located any other draft of Parker's narrative in the online finding aids of institutional repositories of his papers, i.e. American Philosophical Society, the Newberry, et cetera. Ely Samuel Parker was born on the Tonawanda Reservation in New York State, the son of Seneca chief William Parker and Elizabeth Johnson. One of only a few formally educated Tonawanda Senecas, Parker served as an interpreter and tribal representative from age fourteen. He entered Cayuga Academy at Aurora, New York, in October 1845, to prepare for college; he left early in 1846 to accompany tribal leaders to Washington, D.C., for meetings with the president and other officials, one of many such trips he made on the tribe's behalf during a lengthy but ultimately successful fight to retain their reservation. Parker read the law but was prevented from practicing because, as an Indian, he was not recognized as a citizen of the United States. In 1849 he tried civil engineering. He was successful at this and was appointed first assistant engineer by the New York State Canal Board in 1851 shortly after the Iroquois Confederacy had installed him as a grand sachem of the Six Nations. By 1857 he was employed by the U.S. Treasury Department as a supervisor of construction of federal buildings in the Midwest where, in 1860, he met and became friends with Ulysses S. Grant. He lost his job to a political appointee in 1861 and returned to New York. Despite Parker's experience as an officer in the New York militia, his attempts to obtain a commission in the Union army during the early part of the Civil War were thwarted by racial prejudice and his noncitizen status. Finally in 1863 he was commissioned as a captain and sent to Vicksburg, Mississippi. There he soon was assigned to the personal staff of General U.S. Grant. As military secretary, he witnessed Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House and wrote out the official copy of the terms of surrender. In 1867 Parker married an eighteen-year-old white woman, Minnie Orton Sackett; their only child was born in 1878. While on Grant's staff Parker became involved in Indian affairs at the national level, serving on two Indian commissions and helping to negotiate treaties with several tribes. As president, Grant chose Parker to head the Office of Indian Affairs, thus making him the first Native American commissioner. In April 1869 Parker resigned his commission as brigadier general, U. S. Army, to assume his new position. Although he served ably as commissioner, successfully implementing Grant's Peace Policy, he was charged with defrauding the government in his purchase of Indian supplies. A congressional investigation cleared his name, but the criticism and challenge to his integrity deeply offended him. He resigned as commissioner effective 1 August 1871. Thereafter Parker enjoyed some success in the business world until bad investments and his insistence on making good the defaulted bond of an embezzler cost him most of his fortune. In 1876 he went to work for the Police Board of Commissioners in New York City, a job he held until his death in Fairfield, Connecticut. Parker apparently was subject to occasional drinking bouts, but they were not a significant factor in either his personal or professional life. A learned gentleman and a man of honor, Parker braved racial prejudice to achieve success in white society. – American National Biography, vol. 17, pp. 18-19. >https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/nyregion/ely-samuel-parker-new-york-native-american.html

APERTURE (104 bound isuues) by White, Minor (editor)

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Title: APERTURE (104 bound isuues)
Author: White, Minor (editor)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Milleron NY: Aperture, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A collection of 104 issues of APERTURE magazine, edited by photographer Minor White, Numbers 77 - 181 (lacking only numbers 83 and 84) running from 1967 to 2005. Bound, mostly by Tassamari Bros in West Springfield MA, in red cloth, gilt spine titles with bookplate of private school library. Internals fine, pretty as new really. A comprehensive record of late 20thC photography.

Wij maken Geschiedenis by Ziller, Robert

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Title: Wij maken Geschiedenis
Author: Ziller, Robert
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g
Description: Amsterdam: Het Hollandsche Uitgevershuis, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. g. Octavo. Unpaginated. Original 1/3 cloth over illustrated boards with gold lettering on spine. Publisher's device on title-page. Scarce and fascinating work being a fierce satyre of Hitler and his henchmen, profusely illustrated with 35 b/w caricatures of der Führer, Goering, Goebbels, Streicher, Himmler and numerous other Nazi big shots. Explanatory text on opposite page of each caricature. Sporadic foxing on covers and throughout. Text in Dutch. Binding and interior in overall good to very good condition.

Mr. Mulliner Speaking by WODEHOUSE, P. G.

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Title: Mr. Mulliner Speaking
Author: WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Blue publisher's cloth, stamped in blue on front and spine; [x],334pp; list of other Wodehouse titles at front; frontispiece. A straight copy, spine faded, extremities rubbed, endpapers foxed but text clean: Very Good. Preceded by the first UK edition. MCILVAINE A40b.

Waitresses Union, Local No. 48 [two items for one union member]

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Title: Waitresses Union, Local No. 48 [two items for one union member]
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: San Francisco: Waitresses Union, Local No. 48, 1937. Two 3.5x5.25 inch dues and membership booklets for Helen F. Walter issued in 1936 but includes due stamps through 1937, includes a paper sleeve and 12 dues receipts inlaid, some minor wear and soil, but overall very good.

New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1988

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Title: New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1988
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books. 1988. The uncorrected proof copy. Near fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine.

Price List 54 [Government Publications] Political Science. Government, Crime, Liquors, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, Un-American Activities by Superintendent of Documents

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Title: Price List 54 [Government Publications] Political Science. Government, Crime, Liquors, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, Un-American Activities
Author: Superintendent of Documents
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description: Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947. Softcover. Revised (30th) edition; stapled printed wraps; 6 x 9; pp. 44; few small nicks to fore-edge of front cover; few spots of foxing to wraps; minor crease line to lower corner of back cover; very good or better.A price list,descriptions, and binding (when applicable) of hundreds of documents and publications printed and sold by the Government Printing Office.The only copy in the trade.

The Salt City Source: June 15, 1984. 2 copies

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Title: The Salt City Source: June 15, 1984. 2 copies
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Salt City Source, 1984. Very Good. The Salt City Source: June 15, 1984. 2 copies. SLC: Salt City Source, 1984. 8pp. Newspapers. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed edges. Lightly yellowed edges. Contains articles and resources relating to the Queer/LGBTQ+ community..

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