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Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Removed Document. 34th Congress, 1st session, House Mis. Doc. No. 100; 3 pages; Removed document, clean and complete. OCLC 1065564008 Excerpt: "Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be further instructed, and our representatives requested, to use their best endeavors to secure the passage of laws prohibiting slavery in the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and all territory embraced in the Missouri Compromise, and re-establishing the original American policy as declared in the regulation proposed by Thomas Jefferson, in 1784, for the exclusionof slavery from all territory ceded, or to be ceded, and of such other laws as shall best fulfil the high duty repeatedly acknowledged by the people of Ohio, of using all power clearly given by the terms of the national compact, to prevent the increase, to mitigate, and finally eradicate the evil of slavery ..." .

Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Removed Document. 34th Congress, 1st session, House Mis. Doc. No. 119; 2 pages; Removed document, clean and complete. OCLC 163586660 Excerpt: "Resolved, That this outrage [when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts], in connexion with the acts of violence just perpetrated in Kansas, admonish us that a determination exists on the part of those now wielding the power of the general government to crush the advocates and upholders of freedom in free territory by force, bloodshed, and civil war; and that the perversion of the power delegated by a free people for the preservation of their freedom to purposes of injustice, tyranny, and oppression, demands the union and active co-operation of all who deserve to enjoy the blessings of liberty for the purpose of placing the government in… Read More

London: Elliot Stock. Very Good. 1892. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 331 pages; Clean and secure in original light brown cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front board. Image of Liberian flag in gilt on front board. Some minor rubbing to lower corners and spine ends, cloth faded along outer portion of rear board. xxi, (3), 331 pp. Quite scarce. OCLC: 1468414 The author Frederick Alexander Durham was the son of schoolmaster George H. Durham of Santa Cruz and later of Trinidad, where he became a cocoa planter. Frederick was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1892 and published this "extraordinary criticism of imperialism and racism" The Lone Star of Liberia in the same year. In the last chapter Durham recommended emigration to Liberia for African Americans and for those suffering from a lack of opportunities and from imperial governments in the colonies. A fascinating examination of attitudes and culture in the late 19th century including… Read More

Washington: Buell & Blanchard, printers. Very Good+. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8 pages; Very nice condition in original self wrappers, unopened along top folds. Text printed in two columns. This speech addresses President Buchanan's support for the Kansas Lecompton Constitution which would admit Kansas as a slave-holding state. Dawes fervently argues that the President had taken the wrong position. OCLC 228709401 Henry Laurens Dawes (1816 – 1903) was an attorney and politician, a Republican United States Senator and United States Representative from Massachusetts. He is notable for the Dawes Act (1887), which was intended to stimulate the assimilation of Native Americans by ending the tribal government and control of communal lands and alloting tribal lands to individual households of tribal members and by granting them United States citizenship. This also made them subject to state and federal taxes. In addition, extinguishing tribal land claims in this territory… Read More

New York: Atlantic-Little, Brown. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. x, 422 pages; Clean and secure in original blue cloth binding in very good dustjacket. Here is a devastating expose of the most powerful conglomerate of wealth in America: the oil industry. Rand, a Persian and Arabic expert as well as former oil industry employee who has lived in the Middle East, understands the situation as few do. Combining rigorous reseach with knowledge acquired firsthand, his hard hitting analysis shows that the oil crisis, far from being a recent phenomenon, was years in developing. .

Washington: United States Information Service. Near Fine. 1968. Paperback. 28 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers with image of MLK on front cover. OCLC 464221527 The author Thomas C. Clemens was a veteran Washington writer who followed closely developments in the struggle by Martin Luther King, Jr. and others for equal rights for the American Negro. An excellent survey of King's work for equality illustrated with many inspiring photographs of the days. Uncommon. .

Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1856. First Edition. Removed Document. 34th Congress, 1st session, House Mis. Doc. No. 101; 3 pages; Removed document, clean and complete. OCLC 733579437 Excerpt: "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assemblyconvened, That the recent act of Congress, entitled 'A bill to organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas,' deserves, as it has received from the people of Connecticut, an unqualified condemnation. ... Resolved that Connecticut will never consent to the extension of slavery over the common domain of the United States; but, on the contrary, believing that the free institutions, which an experience almost coeval with the life of the republic has proved to be good for her. are, and will be good for all future commonwealths, she will strive, to the best of her ability, to exclude the relation of human bondage from the national Territories." .

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Original owner's name on ffep (dated 1927), toning to endpapers and foxing to foredge of pages. Dustjacket has some foxing and is toned at spine. The dustjacket has shallow chipping along top edge, corners and base of spine, faint stain at spine, tiny scratch at bottom of Ford Madox Ford's name on spine of dustjacket. Very scarce in dustjacket. A thirty-ish newspaperwoman from Dakota is assigned to cover the activities of Crystal Clemente after only one day on the staff of a Chicago newspaper. Through Crystal, a delightfully decadent socialite with an over-imaginative mother, the reporter is introduced to all that is chic and show in Chicago society. Taking place in the 1920s, One Crystal and a Mother is a tongue-in-cheek interpretation of the newly liberated Jazz Age woman. Wonderful review by Ford Madox Ford excerpted on DJ -- "Taylor's book is entirely admirable and… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean and tight in original plum cloth binding; dustjacket has some minor shallow chipping at spine ends, otherwise bright and fresh. Very scarce in dustjacket. A thirty-ish newspaperwoman from Dakota is assigned to cover the activities of Crystal Clemente after only one day on the staff of a Chicago newspaper. Through Crystal, a delightfully decadent socialite with an over-imaginative mother, the reporter is introduced to all that is chic and show in Chicago society. Taking place in the 1920s, One Crystal and a Mother is a tongue-in-cheek interpretation of the newly liberated Jazz Age woman. Wonderful review by Ford Madox Ford excerpted on DJ -- "Taylor's book is entirely admirable and absolutely astonishing. I have been reading manuscripts for ages past and I certainly never came across a first, or an early, novel that had one half its brilliance, its insight into… Read More

New York: Judge Company. Very Good. 1908. First Edition. Print. 1 pages; Image clean and clear, with bright white matting. Image measures 13 X 9.25 inches; matted measures 22 X 14 inches. Full page cover of JUDGE magazine for May 11, 1901 depicting an older gent dressed as a child seated on a train and addressing an African American porter "JUDGE to the PORTER: 'Now don't forget to put me off at Buffalo.' " The Pan-American Exposition was a World's Fair held in Buffalo, New York, United States, from May 1 through November 2, 1901. The event was organized by the Pan-American Exposition Company, formed in 1897. When the Spanish–American War broke out in 1898, plans were put on hold. Buffalo was eventually chosen as the site because it had a large population and better railroad connections, a day's rail journey for over 40 million people. The "Pan American" theme was carried throughout the event with the slogan "commercial well… Read More

Boston: Published for the Use of the Members (Printed by Alfred Mudge and Son). Near Fine. 1862. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 118 pages; Publisher's dark green diced cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with a gilt stamped decorative depiction of the Old South Church, Boston on the front cover. Chocolate brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Printed in black and red throughout. Fine copy, showing just a faint trace of rubbing at the corners and spine ends, and a portion of binding cloth missing along the top border of the front cover -- (the size of a grain of rice). A superb copy, with an inscription from the subject of this memorial on the front free endpaper: "Francis Mohun / with the kind regards of / his friend / [signed] Geo. W. Blagden." George Washington Blagden (October 3, 1802 – December 17, 1884) -- was born in Washington DC, educated at Yale and Andover Theological Seminary. After two previous pastoral postings in Boston, he was installed at the Old… Read More

Boston: James Munroe and Company. Very Good-. 1839. First Edition. Paperback. 91 pages; Textblock unmarked and securely stitched, original rear wrapper present; lacks front wrapper; scattered foxxing; first two leaves chipped at top outer edge. OCLC 1086623573 William Ellery Channing (1780 – 1842) was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews Norton (1786–1853), one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. Channing was known for his articulate and impassioned sermons and public speeches, and as a prominent thinker in the liberal theology of the day. In later years Channing addressed the topic of slavery although he was never an ardent abolitionist. Channing wrote a book in 1835 entitled Slavery. This pamphlet he wrote in response to a speech delivered by Henry Clay in the U.S. Senate on February 7, 1839 defending the rights of the southern states to determine the status of slavery for themselves. Although… Read More

Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton. Very Good-. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. 143 pages; Contents complete and secure in original brown cloth with faded gilt lettering at spine. Cloth worn at corners and spine ends, floral patterned endpapers chipped and starting at front hinge. Illustrations include fifteen portraits (mostly from photographs), one view of the college (drawing) and two illustrations of buildings. Offsetting to last portrait (perhaps a news clipping), otherwise illustrations are in very good condition with an occasional spot of marginal foxing. Text unmarked, pages show an occasional dusty fingerprint or spot. A complete, but worn copy of this scarce work by African American author William Frank Fonvielle, a graduate of Livingstone College, North Carolina, describing the earliest years of this historically black college. OCLC: 27468412 Author: In 1885 W.F. Fonvielle entered the Zion Wesley Institute (later Livingstone College) and witnessed much of its earliest… Read More

Boston: R. F. Wallcut. Good. 1862. First Edition. Self Wrappers. (3), 4-24, 37-48 pages; Two signatures, rudely stitched at left edge. Faint stain/tidemark at lower left corner, foxing to front wrapper/titlepage; last page has a tear at lower inner corner with a missing piece of the margin (quarter size). Eccentric pagination (3), 4-24, 37-48, but complete. [Per AAS "Pages 25-36 misnumbered p. 37-48." Complete contents also correspond to the digital version of the copy held by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagn.] OCLC 316533005 Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 4026. Extracts from southern newspapers, speeches, etc., compiled by William Lloyd Garrison. Cf. Halkett & Laing. "This tract is supplemental to a tract ... entitled 'The spirit of the South towards northern freemen and soldiers defending the American flag against traitors of the deepest dye' ..."--Preface. .

Washington: Buell & Blanchard, printers. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 20 pages; Very good condition in original self wrappers, Pages roughly opened, some foredges curled. Original owner's name signed in pencil on front wrapper -- "J. Whitcomb". Text printed in two columns. OCLC 191225439 This speech addresses the Kansas Question, including the Lecompton Constitution which would admit Kansas as a slave-holding state, President Buchanan's support for it and presents a detailed argument against it describing the slavery policies promulgated earlier and during the previous four years in particular. Jacob Collamer (1791 – 1865) was an American politician from Vermont, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives, as Postmaster General in the cabinet of President Zachary Taylor, and as a U.S. Senator (1855-1865) . Collamer was elected to the Senate as a Republican in 1855, shortly after the formation of the new party. He became a respected voice… Read More

Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8 pages; Very good condition in original self-wrappers, light scattered foxxing, unopened along top folds. Text printed in two columns. OCLC 191271934 This speech addresses the Kansas Lecompton Constitution which would admit Kansas as a slave-holding state and criticizes its invocation, decrying slavery and questioning sovereignty principles. Francis Preston Blair Jr. (1821 – 1875) was an American jurist, politician and soldier. He represented Missouri in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and was active in preventing the State of Missouri from being absorbed into the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War. A personal and political friend of Thomas Hart Benton, he became known for his views opposing slavery and strong advocacy of free soil politics, though he was a slaveholder himself. He was an outspoken Free-Soiler and was elected as a Republican to the… Read More

Washington: Congressional Globe Office. Very Good. 1858. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8 pages; Very good condition in original self wrappers; pages unopened. Text printed in two columns. OCLC 9578021 ; OCLC 84271361 This speech addresses the Committee's report on the Kansas Question, including the Lecompton Constitution which would admit Kansas as a slave-holding state, President Buchanan's support for it and presents Collamer's arguments against it, detailing why he must vote against the proposed bill. Jacob Collamer (1791 – 1865) was an American politician from Vermont, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives, as Postmaster General in the cabinet of President Zachary Taylor, and as a U.S. Senator (1855-1865) . Collamer was elected to the Senate as a Republican in 1855, shortly after the formation of the new party. He became a respected voice against slavery and a prominent supporter of the Lincoln administration during the American Civil War. An advocate of… Read More

New York: The Century Co. Very Good. 1908. Pictorial Cloth. x, (2), 236 pages; Contents clean and secure in original green cloth pictorial binding showing a moon rising over a triangular garland of vine leaves. Image and lettering faded at spine The story is set in New Orleans and features orphaned Philip and Toinette, the Creole woman raising him. Toinette encourages Philip's development and ensures that above all else he is kind of heart. Philip is content with his simple life until a stranger asks about his parents. When Philip questions Toinette, it is clear that there are secrets she is not ready to reveal. As Philip finds his own place in the world, he is faced with numerous challenges but always remains pure of heart and gentle in nature. Jamison's writing transports the reader to the sounds and sights in the streets of 19th century New Orleans. The dialogue in the text is peppered with African American / Creole dialect. Wonderful illustrations by Reginald Birch,… Read More

Boston: T. R. Marvin. Very Good. 1853. First Edition. Paperback. 40 pages; Clean and complete in original peach colored wrappers; wrappers separating at spine, chipped at corners. Stitched at left edge. OCLC 430519058 Includes an address by J. H. B. Latrobe in addition to the usual reports on emancipations and repatriations, etc. John Hazelhurst Boneval Latrobe (1803–1891) was an American lawyer and inventor. Latrobe was a long-time supporter of the effort to establish a home in Africa for emancipated slaves. Succeeding Senator Henry Clay, Latrobe served as president of the American Colonization Society from 1853 until his death in 1891. .

Boston: Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-room Companion. Very Good. 1854. Engraving. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-room Companion; Wood Engraving; 1 pages; A beautifully hand-colored engraving of Tower-Rock, on the Mississippi, from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-room Companion. Image measures 6.5" x 9.75" (11" x 14" matted). Matted in white stock with clear mylar. From the text: A view of this famous landmark between St. Louis and the mouth of The Ohio. It is a column about fifty feet in diameter, rising fifty feet high above the ordinary surface of the water, crowned with a luxurious growth of stunted trees and shrubs. A steamboat, three river barges and rowboat on the River. .