AMERICANA from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

Vista, Calif: The author, 1967. First edition. Publisher's wrappers, 160 pp., 18 cm., illustrated. Near fine. Jones's memoir of his travels around the U.S. for more than 30 years, preaching non-discrimination, promoting civil rights and peace. He was frequently arrested and imprisoned, at one time held two months for eating in a Black restaurant, and another time eight months… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. Inscribed by the author to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Original cloth, spotted, worn at extremities. With the bookplate of W. Alfred Cave, Rector of St. Mary's Episcopal in Nebraska City, Iowa, who (according to an article in the Circleville, Iowa Herald, for March 7, 1929, which describes this book), possessed a private library… Read more about this item

Declining an invitation to lecture at the Dover, N.H. Lyceum. 12 lines, excellent condition.

Washington: Byron S. Adams, 1909. First edition. Two volumes, viii, 731;xii, 311 maps. Green buckram,very good, War Dept. Document No, 324.

Lynn, Mass: Published by Dr Asa G. Eddy, 1881. Third edition revised. Two volumes, original green cloth, gilt. Extremities rubbed (v. 1 more than v. 2) but a very good copy, internally fresh. Pencil ownership signature of Elizabeth F. Williamson. This scarce third edition contains a chapter titled "Demonology," (greatly expanded from the second edition) in which the author… Read more about this item

Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1796. First edition. Original sheep, with leather label, rubbed, front hinge cracked but cords holding, light browning. A graduate of Yale College, Strong was Pastor of the North Presbyterian Church in Hartford, and editor of the Hartford Selection, a popular and influential hymnal. Evans 31246.

Sheet size 10 1/4 inches x 14 inches, fully margined beyond the plate mark, except the bottom edge, which is trimmed to the plate mark, a few tiny worm holes toward the right margin and lower left. The drawing has been attributed to Richard Brookshaw and the German engraver Johann Elias Haid made his own mezzotint from the same… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1946. Dean, Mallette. Small folio, cloth backed boards, usual offset to endpapers, fine copy , one of 280 printed by the Grabhorn Press. Cover design, initials and decorations by Mallette Dean.