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Manuscript poll book by LINCOLN Abraham

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Manuscript poll book
Author: LINCOLN Abraham
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1860. (LINCOLN, Abraham). Manuscript poll book. New Salisbury, Indiana, November 6, 1860. Slim folio (8-1/2 by 14 inches), stitched, original self-wrappers; pp. 12. $4250.Fascinating 1860 poll book for New Salisbury, Jackson Township, Harrison County, Indiana used to record votes in the election of November 6, 1860.Democratic President James Buchanan pledged to serve only one term as president. Thus, the field was wide open in 1860. Senator Stephan A. Douglas, Buchanan's chief rival, decided to seek the 1860 Democratic nomination. However, the slavery issue that had been so divisive in 1860 became even more so by 1860. Southern Democrats refused to support Douglas and broke up the Democratic National Convention in Charleston, South Carolina. When the convention reconvened in Baltimore the following month, a majority nominated Douglas and Herschel Johnson of Georgia as the Northern Democratic ticket. Some delegates broke away and nominated John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky and Joseph Lane of Oregon as the Southern Democratic candidates. The Republican National Convention also met that year. On the first ballot, delegates pledged to various opponents of William H. Seward voted for their favorite candidates, denying Seward of the nomination. On the second and third ballots, many of them switched to Abraham Lincoln, giving him the nomination. Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was quickly selected as the nominee for vice president. The Constitutional Union Party Convention also met and nominated John Bell of Tennessee and Edward Everett of Massachusetts, in an attempt to bridge divisions over slavery.Although the election of 1860 was a four-way race among Douglas, Breckinridge, Lincoln, and Bell, sectionalism essentially turned it into a race between Lincoln and Douglas in the North and Breckinridge and Bell is the South. Ultimately, Lincoln won a plurality of 39.8%, due in large part to his antislavery stance. Lincoln also carried 17 northern and western states, including Indiana. In fact, Lincoln won 51.1% of the popular vote, essentially a landslide in a tight race. Moreover, Lincoln carried Jackson Townshipthe home of this poll bookwith nearly 75% of the vote (though this poll book from New Salisbury shows him with just 70 votes for Lincoln's electors versus 201 votes for Douglas' electors). Secession began just six weeks later, leaving Lincoln with the inevitable and unenviable destiny of become a wartime president. Front self-wrapper labeled in a contemporary hand: ""November Election 1860, Jackson Township Poll Book. Faint dampstaining along edges, toning to folding creases. A desirable piece of Americana.

A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary. With Some of Their Later Poems by [Abolition] [Women's Suffrage] Ames, Mary Clemmer

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Title: A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary. With Some of Their Later Poems
Author: [Abolition] [Women's Suffrage] Ames, Mary Clemmer
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1873. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding embossed in gilt, black, and blind (BAL green P. cloth). Blue coated endpapers. Complete with frontis and inserted plate. Clipped signature from the Cary sisters' niece pinned to page 6 by a previous owner. Spine a bit cocked; a bit rubbed, with most wear to the corners. Internally slightly toned but clean overall. Setting aside digital copies, it is surprisingly scarce institutionally, with OCLC reporting only 6 hardcopies of the first edition. Prolific poets who began publishing at a young age, the Cary sisters used their literature to promote the causes of abolition and women's rights. Alice, the first president of the first woman's club in America, was perhaps the most public in her activism; although Phoebe too was invested in these missions, serving as an assistant editor to Susan B. Anthony's suffrage newspaper The Revolution. Ohio-born, the sisters moved to New York in 1851, leaving behind the responsibilities of running their father's household and caring for their younger siblings. "Neither woman ever married, and they developed a symbiotic relationship. Alice was responsible for providing an income for the household" while Phoebe managed their home and assisted in running their Sunday salons, which were frequented by Horace Greeley and William Lloyd Garrison (ADNB). Critics have noted that the most interesting personae of the Cary sisters' poetry are the women. "A recurring figure is that of the unmarried but pregnant woman...Consistently they urge understanding, offering poverty as both an explanation and excuse that stands quietly on the woman's side. A second figure is the strong woman, who although she looks happily upon marriages retains her own identity" (Faust). Indeed, they depict a wide range of female experience; in Phoebe's poem A Woman's Conclusions, the female narrator looks back on an unmarried life without children, concluding "I am what I am, and my life for me is best." Their lives closely entwined, so too were the sisters' deaths: they passed within months of each other, in 1871, leaving behind a devasted network of friends and family. The present biography was composed by Mary Clemmer Ames, a fellow writer who resided with the sisters in New York while estranged from her husband. One of the highest paid women journalists of the age, Ames applies her training here: "months were consumed in writing to, and waiting for replies from, long time friends of the sisters" and working through "the mass of Alice and Phoebe's unedited papers." The result is a comprehensive memorial of the women's life, attempting to ensconce the sisters within the American literary canon as well as celebrating their activist contributions. BAL 2850. American Women Writers 99. Near Fine.

A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer: Major-General of Volunteers, Brevet Major-General U.S. Army, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh U.S. Cavalry by Frederick Whittaker

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Title: A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer: Major-General of Volunteers, Brevet Major-General U.S. Army, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh U.S. Cavalry
Author: Frederick Whittaker
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: New York: Sheldon & Co, 1876. Decorative Cloth. Very Good +. A solid, very presentable copy of the 1876 1st edition of this, the first biography written on General Custer, published only 3 months after his death at Little Big Horn in southeastern Montana Territory. Clean, tight and VG+ to Near Fine in its beautifully gilt-decorated and titled dark-green cloth, with very light spotting to the rear panel and along the preliminaries and pastedowns. Thick octavo, over a dozen steel-engraved plates complementing Frederick Whittaker's text. Section headings include: "The Captain", "The Michigan Brigade", "The Third Cavalry Division", "On the Plains", "The Last Campaign", "Personal Recollections", etc.

Sympathy for the Devil by Anderson, Kent

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Title: Sympathy for the Devil
Author: Anderson, Kent
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780385239431
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Doubleday, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 350pp. Beautiful Unread First Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($17.95), is fresh and bright with no creases or chipping. Very well-preserved. Signed by Anderson on the title page. A gorgeous collectable copy of the author's first book at a great price.

Prairie by ADAMS, Robert

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Title: Prairie
Author: ADAMS, Robert
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780914738138
Description: Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum, 1978. First edition. Small oblong softcover. Features brief text by Thomas N. Maytham and a foreword by Adams. Includes 33 black and white images by Adams. A very good plus copy in wrappers with some minor wear. An early book from this important American photographer who was featured in the landmark "New Topographics" exhibition put on by the George Eastman House in 1975.

War and Remembrance by Wouk, Herman

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Title: War and Remembrance
Author: Wouk, Herman
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. First edition. Leather bound. Very good. 1115 pp. Octavo. [23.5 cm]. Bound in black leather with elaborate gilt ornamentation to covers and spine. All edges gilt. Gilt title stamped on spine. Raised bands. Green satin ribbon pagemarker laid in. Green moire endpapers Some slight warping to pages. Noticeable indentation to spine. Fading at edges of moire endpapers. Some small marks on first 10 pages. Text block beginning to lift from head of spine. Some of the gilt edging has worn away. In this First Edition copy, Woulk delves into the nature of the human soul through his historical fiction of the events surrounding the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

THE LENGTH OF A MAN'S DAYS IS, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, IN HIS OWN HANDS. [cover title]

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Title: THE LENGTH OF A MAN'S DAYS IS, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, IN HIS OWN HANDS. [cover title]
Seller: Bartlebys Books (United States)
Description: [Bangor, ME?], 1885. Black lettered orange paper wraps, stapled. 22 cm. 32 pp. Some chipping to edges of wrappers; text printed on poor quality paper. A promotional pamphlet for Brown's Sarsaparilla, compounded from a formula developed by Dr. William Brown of Bangor, Maine. The pamphlet states that their product is not a "quack" preparation, nor a "patent medicine," but is a "scientific preparation, prepared for the Stomach, Liver and Kidney's, which are the fountain heads of nearly all the ills of mankind." Descriptions of the diseases it treats are accompanied by testimonials, including two dated 1885. One endorsement is from the Rev. Theodore Gerrish, pastor of the M.E. Church in Biddeford, Maine. Gerrish, whose image and brief biography are printed on the rear wrapper, was the author of several books, including one on his experiences during the Civil War. He assures the buying public that Brown's Sarsaparilla contains no alcohol in its preparations. A small printed ad for Brown's Sarsaparilla, "for sale to the trade by Smith, Kline & Co., French, Richards & Co., Roller & Shoemaker, and all jobbers, Philadelphia, Penn." appears in outer margin of the rear wrapper. OCLC lists three copies: NY State Lib.; Univ. of Rochester Med. Ctr.; National Lib. of Med.

Vittore Carpaccio: Catalogo Della Mostra by Zampetti, Pietro

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Title: Vittore Carpaccio: Catalogo Della Mostra
Author: Zampetti, Pietro
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: Good (Minor wear to extremities of dj.; One page detached from binding in middle of book; Pages slightly discolored around edges
Description: Venezia (Venice), Italy: Edizioni Alfieri, 1963. Hardcover. Good (Minor wear to extremities of dj.; One page detached from binding in middle of book; Pages slightly discolored around edges). Goldenrod-colored cloth over boards; White titling to spine and front cover; Color illus. dj.; 372 pp.; 66 color and bw plates; 48 bw figures. Text is in Italian; Accompanied an exhibition of the work of Venetian painter Vittore Carpaccio (1465-1520).

Utah Atlas and Gazetteer

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Title: Utah Atlas and Gazetteer
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: DeLorme, 2000. Very Good. Utah Atlas and Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme, 2000. 64pp. Illustrated. Folio. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light bumping.

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