51. Sumner, Charles.

Two Pamphlets: “Our Claims on England” Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts delivered in executive session of the Senate, April 13, 1869 on The Johnson-Clarendon Treaty for the Settlement of Claims / AND: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner on the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty for the Settlement of Claims delivered in the U.S.Senate. With an Appendix.

Washington/Boston, Rives & Bailey/Wright & Potter, 1869/1870. 8°. 14, 69 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlets. The original speech of 1869 waterstained and with some tears and chips (unopened). The later printing with appendix: Original printed wrappers. Very good plus condition with some dogears and a small tear to front cover.

52. Sumner, Charles.

No Property in Man. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Proposed Amendment of the Constitution Abolishing Slavery Through the United States, in the Senate of the United States, April 8th, 1864.

New York, The Loyal Publication Society, 1864. 8°. 23 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure in near fine condition. [The Loyal Publication Society – No. 51].

53. [Kennedy, John Pendleton].

The Border States, their power and duty in the present disordered condition of the Country.

(Maryland), (1860). 8°. 46 pages. Softcover. This is an Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Not the Lippincott-publication, this must be a proof or a preprint of the publication. It contains several handwritten notes and markings in pencil by an old hand.

54. Hartz, Louis.

Three offprints: 1. The Reactionary Enlightenment: Southern Political Thought before the Civil War (1952) / 2. The Whig Tradition in America and Europe (1952) / 3. American Political Thought and the American Revolution (1952) //

Utah, University of Utah, / The American Political Science Review, 1952. 8°. 21, 20, 13 pages. Softcover. Three offprints in very good condition.

55. Dykeman, Wilma.

The French Broad [Signed]. Edited by Carl Cramer as planned and started by Constance Lindsay Skinner. Illustrated by Constance Lindsay Skinner.

First Edition of Wilma Dykeman’s first book ! New York / Toronto, Rinehart & Company Inc., 1955. Octavo. X, 371 pages. With a double-page map of the area in which “The French Broad River” flows. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Very rare in this signed version. [Rivers of America].

56. Beecher-Stowe, Harriet.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – A Tale of Life among the Lowly. With [106] original Illustrations [plus one Fronstispiece-Portrait] by Jenny Nystrom-Stoopendaal.

London / Paris / New York & Melbourne, Cassell and Company, 1905. Large Octavo (18 cm x 23 cm). Frontispiece – Portrait of Harriet Beecher-Stowe, XIV, 680 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth-binding in protective Mylar. The notoriously shaky publication was strengthened by our bookbindery and is now ready to be read and used without fear of handling. Old gift-inscription to slightly frayed endpaper. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The best version due to the large size of the book and the corresponding illustrations.

57. Lewis, Sinclair.

Fantastic Set of Sinclair Lewis’ Works which were published within the Library of America. [Both Volumes Books in “As New Condition” with Mylar applied]. Included are: I. Main Street – Babbitt (LOA Volume 59) / II. Arrowsmith – Elmer Gantry – Dodsworth (LOA Volume 133).

Mixed Editions (One in First and on in later printings). Two Volumes (complete set). [New York], The Library of America, c.1992-2002. Octavo. 2200 pages of Lewis. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition with all Volumes’ dustjackets expertly placed in Mylar.

58. Morison, Samuel Eliot.

The Maritime History of Massachusetts (1783 – 1860). With Illustrations.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company – The Riverside Press Company, 1941. Octavo. XI,420 pages with wonderful illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to the jacket (some fraying and loss to corners of the jacket only). The book is firm and due to the protected dustjacket in wonderful gift-condition.

59. [Wolff, Kurt, H.] / [Durkheim, Emile] Mestrovic, Stjepan G.

The Coming Fin de Siècle – An Application of Durkheim’s Sociology to Modernity and Postmodernism.

London/New York, Routledge, 1991. 8°. XIV, 232 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition. This book comes from the personal library of Kurt H. Wolff. Typed Letter Signed by author Stjepan G. Mestrovic to sociologist Kurt H. Wolff from the year 1991, loosely inserted. Mestrovic writes to Wolff in his letter: “It seems that you and I share some similar concerns about Sociology’s role in a world that seems to be on the brink of disaster, as well as an openness to pessimism as a counter-balance to boosterish optimism.” Mestrovic continues by consoling Wolff about the death of his wife and then talks about a meeting with american philosopher and sociologist David Riesman in which they talked about the role of the USA in the war with Iraq [First Gulf War]. He continues to say that “It seems that many of his [Riesman’s] observations on US foreign policy and mar-making tactics in his ‘Abundance for What ?’ still apply”.

60. [Conder, Josiah].

North America [and Canada] – Volume II / [this being Volume The Twenty-Fourth of “The Modern Traveller”– A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe – United States of America and Canada – Vol. II].

London, Printed for James Duncan, 1830. Duodecimo / 9 cm x 14.5 cm. IV, 335 pages. With a fold-out map of the United States and 4 black and white engravings showing: 1. Philadelphia / 2. The President’s House, Washington / 3. The Capitol, Washington / 4. Quebec. Original Hardcover, decorative full leather. Full leather with gilted ornaments to outer margins of interior boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Gilt ornament and raised bands on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding rubbed but firm. Spinelabel slightly loose. Minor foxing. Contains small ink stamp of previous owners name to front endpaper.

61. Corbyn, T.N. [Theophilus N. Corbyn from Philadelphia].

The Compounder’s Pocket Remembrancer – A Treatise on the Manufacture of Liquors, Syrups, Cordials, Bitters, Acids, Colognes, Bay Rums, Extracts, Concentrated Essences, Liquor Flavors, Hair Dyes, Hair Oils, Hair Tonics, Tinctures, Segar Flavors, Pomades, Etc. Including Instructions for making Cider, Champagnes, Punch Essences, &c. Comprising many useful Receipts for Barbers, Bakers, Confectioners, Druggists, Segar Makers, Liquor Dealers, Grocers, Mineral Water Bottlers, Fruit Preservers, etc. etc. [with 738 Recipes].

Original First Edition. [Philadelphia], Published by the Author Theophilus Corbyn, [1888]. Duodecimo. 206 pages with 738 Recipes and a thorough Index [Cutout on titlepage has removed year pf printing but was verified through Bibliography]. Private Hardcover of the mid-20th century with the original bookblock. Bookblock loosened. Lower part of the titlepage missing. Needs repair but pages are in very good condition. Extremely Rare, early Philadelphia Recipe-Book for Drinks, Essences and Perfmues, Hair-Products etc. !

62. [Quine, Willard Van Orman] Cherry, P. P.

The Western Reserve and Early Ohio.

Ohio, R. L. Fouse, 1921. 14 x 20 cm. 332 pages with 40 illustrations. Original blue cloth covered Hardcover-edition. Gilt lettering on spine and frontcover. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of logician Willard Van Orman Quine – with his ownership-stamp to the front free endpaper.

63. Anonymus.

An Historical Review and Directory of North America: Containing a Geographical, Political, and Natural History of the British and Other European Settlements, the United and Apocryphal States, the General State of the Laws, particularly those affecting Commerce, Foreign and British Debts; also, Strictures upon Lord Sheffield’s Treatise upon American Commerce to which is added “A description of the Interior Parts of North America, general Face of the Country, Mountains, Forests, Rivers and the most noted Towns, Cities, Seats and Public Buildings. A Plan of the Roads and a concise account of the different Indian Nations. A copious Index to American State Papers. With a Great Variety of Tables necessary to all Merchants in their Intercourse with North America. [With a concise Account of the Island of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, together with the Manners, Customs, Policies and Trade of the Inhabitants and a short account of the Whale Fishery]. By a Gentleman immediately returned from a Tour of that Continent.

Volume II (of II). Cork, Printed by W. Matthews, 38 North-Main-Street, 1801. 10 cm x 17 cm. IX, 377 pages. Original Hardcover (full calf). The original binding with some stronger signs of external wear. Corners bumped. Endpapers and pastedowns a little scruffy. Otherwise in very good condition.

64. Barnard, Melanie.

Cincinnati à la Carte [20 Great Restaurants [in Cincinnati] share their best Recipes [Including a Recipe Index]. Edited by Laura Pulfer and Lilia F. Brady. Design by Kay Walker and Barbara Bendall.

Cincinnati (Ohio), Published by Cincinnati, 120 West Fifth Street, 1980. Octavo. 128 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover (Cover illustration by Jim Schaefer). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely Rare !

65. Argentina – Vidal. E.E.

Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty=four Views: Accompanied with Descriptions of the Scenery and of the Costumes, Manners, &c. of the Inhabitants of Those Cities and Their Environs.

No.1987 of a limited edition. London, R.Ackermann, 1943. Quarto. XXVIII, 115 pages with 24 plates in colour (several of the folding out). Hardcover / De Luxe Edition of this Reprint in quarter leather with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Personalized gift-copy, signed by former co-workers of the recipient.

66. Viereck, Peter.

Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals – Babbitt Jr. vs. the Rediscovery of Values. [″A powerful, often violent, often eloquent, often bitterly sardonic attack on mushy liberalism” – Gilbert Highet in Harper’s].

First Edition – Second Printing. Boston, The Beacon Press, 1953. 8°. XVI, 320 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent FINE / FINE condition. From the library of american poet Peter Viereck. Signed by Peter Viereck on the endpaper.

67. Serrano, Andres.

America and other work.

Köln, Taschen, 2004. 37,5 cm x 28,5 cm. 352 pages. With over 100 photographic images, full page and with some double pages Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With full red cloth hardboards & spine and title embossed into cloth. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier ! The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

68. Morphy, Countess [Hincks, Marcelle Azra].

English Recipes – Including the Traditional Dishes of Scotland, Ireland & Wales. [Including loosely inserted a Recipe for “Danish Pastries” and “Savarin a la Pompadour”].

New York, Herbert Joseph Ltd. for Selfridge & Co. Limited, 1935. 13,5 cm x 21,5 cm. 224 pages. Modern Hardcover / Recently rebound in modern cloth with new endpapers. Bookblock firm but with some foxing and occasional staining. Otherwise in very good, now firm and restored condition.

69. [Olney, Peter Butler] McMillan, D.C.

The Elective Franchise in the United States.

New York, P. Putnam’s Sons, 1878. 18.7cm x 12.7cm. 181 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed / Signed by the author to american lawyer and politician Peter Butler Olney.

70. Koebel, W. H. (William Henry).

Central America: Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, and Salvador.

Second Edition. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1919. 23 cm. 382 pages. Illustrations, including frontispiece, portraits, fold-out map and tables, in black and white. Original Hardcover. ORIGINAL EDITION (NOT a Facsimile). Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some rubbing on spine at title, as well as some foxing on inside and selective pages. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. South American series ; [v.14].

71. Johnson, Andrew.

Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, on the State of the Union; delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 5 and 6, 1861.

Washington, The Congressional Globe Office, 1861. 8°. 28 pages. Softcover. Original brochure. Waterstained. Poor condition. Unopened original title-wrappers.

72. Howes, Wright.

U.S. IANA (1650-1950): A Selective Bibliography in which are Described 11,620 Uncommon and Significant Books Relating to the Continental Portion of the United States.

Revised and Enlarged Second Edition compiled by Wright Howes. New York, R.R. Bowker Company for The Newberry Library, 1985. 17.2 cm x 25.4 cm. 652 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor tanning to edges. Otherwise excellent, clean copy. Binding strong. From the library of former specialist Bookdealer ‘Codex Books’ – with their black ink stamp to front free endpaper.

73. Howard, Jacob M(erritt).

San Juan Island – Speech of Hon.Jacob M.Howard, of Michigan, delivered in executive Session of the Senate, April 16, 1869.

Washington, F.&J.Rives & Geo. A.Bailey, 1870. 8°. 13 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Inscribed by Howard on the frontcover “Compl(imen)ts of J.M.H.”

74. Fox, Gustavus Vasa.

Russian Account of the Official Mission to Russia of Hon.G.V.Fox in 1866.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1867. 8°. 38 pages. Softcover. Original brochure. Some light foxing only.

75. [Foster, Sir Augustus] / Beale Davis, Richard.

Jeffersonian America – Notes on the United States of America Collected in the Years 1805-6-7 and 11-12 By Sir Augustus John Foster, Bart.

San MArino / California, The Huntingdon Library, 1954. Octavo. Frontispiece – Portrait of Sir Augustus Foster, XX, 356 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. The dustjacket frayed and torn but most of it present (see images). The Volume itself in excellent, very clean condition.

76. Everett, Edward.

Address of the Hon. Edward Everett, delivered before The Boston Union Club, Thursday, April 9, 1863.

Liverpool, Printed at the “Daily Post” Steam Printing Works, 1863. 8°. 32 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Some rubbing fo front cover. As one of the most notable rhetorics of his time, Everett later that year gave his famous Gettysburg Oration. In his speech to the Boston Union Club, he addresses the struggle of the country due to the Civil War.

77. Editors Of Look.

Look at America – The Country You Know – And Don’t Know.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, [1930]. 23 cm x 30.9 cm. 341 pages. With many black and white photographs throughout. Features 8 colour photographs. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing and fading to edges. Very minor fading to gilt title on spine and front cover. Minor dampstain to page edges. With illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Impressive pictorial book with an intimate insight into American history, life and culture. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

78. Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt.

Socialism Today / Rejoice Not in Standing Still – A Negro speaks of the World.

First Edition. Chicago, Afram Books / Afro-American Heritage Association, [c. 1960]. Octavo. 12 pages (including printed wrappers). Portrait-Photograph of William Du Bois on cover. Original Softcover wrappers in Mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Extremely rare ! According to a foreword by Ishmael Flory “this is a first printed pamphlet issued by Afram Books”. Includes a short Bibliography of Du Bois’ publications, starting with mentioning his first article in Harvard Historical Studies in 1896 “The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America” to “Mansart’s World of Color” in 1960. It also lists “other EQUALITY Pamphlets by W.E.B.DuBois like “The Damnation of Women – Predictions on Fatherless and Dependenet Children”.

79. Dahrendorf, Ralf.

European Sociology and the American self – image.

Paris, European Journal of Sociology, 1961. Octavo. 42 pages. Original Softcover in protective Mylar. Inscribed and signed (initialed) by Dahrendorf.

80. Cooke, Jay.

How our National Debt can be paid. The Wealth, Resources and Power of the People of the United States. Prepared by Dr.William Elder, of the Treasury Department.

Philadelphia, Sherman & Co., 1865. 8°. 15 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Dogeared. Foxed. Extremely rare original pamphlet reflecting the costs, revenue possibilities etc. of the times previous, in and after the American Civil War.

81. Bemis, George.

Precedents of American Neutrality, in Reply to the Speech of Sir Roundell Palmer, Attorney General of England in the british Commons, May 13,1864.

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1864. 8°. VIII, 83 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Unopened. Upper corner dogeared. Elswise very good plus.

82. Fewkes, Jesse Walter.

Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National park – Cliff Palace.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1911. 23 1/2 cm. 82 pages with illustrations and plates as well as 1 double-folded plan. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bookblock slightly detached

83. Donham, Wallace B.

The Peace must be won at home.

Harvard Buisiness Review, 1943. 4°. 12 pages. Softcover. Original offprint. Some fraying and very minor damage to the upper spine.

84. Müller, Werner.

Glauben und Denken der Sioux – zur Gestalt Archaischer Weltbilder.

First Edition. Berlin, Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, 1970. 18.5 cm x 25.5 cm. XII, 413 pages with 66 illustrations and 5 maps. Softcover mit originalem Schutzumschlag. Very good, excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some pages unopened.

85. Kenny, Kevin.

The American Irish – A History.

Harlow / London, Longman, 2000. Octavo. XIX, 328 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

86. Kelly, Mary Pat.

Home Away From Home – The Yanks in Ireland.

Belfast, Appletree Press, 1994. 16.5 cm x24 cm. 164 Pages. Original Softcover. Dogear to rear cover. Otherwise in excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

87. Franklin, Benjamin / Wright, Esmond (editor).

Benjamin Franklin: His Life As He Wrote It.

London, The Folio Society, 1989. 16 cm x 25.5 cm. 260 pages. Original hardcover with slipcase. As new.

88. White, Theodore.

“Negro Violence – The Black and White Picture. A distinguished reporter analyses a gathering storm that civil rights and desegregation alone cannot contain, and that may transform the American way of life beyond recognition”.

Reader’s Digest ARticle, c.1966. Octavo. 6 pages. Extracted, stapled original pages from a Reader’s Digest publication. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. Disturbing, very ambivalent article by Theodore White, condensing his thought about the “biological anarchy” of collapsing Negro communities after the uprising and riots of 1964 and 1965; “Teenage Savages” (″Negroes and Puerto Ricans of the late teens and early 20’s. These teenagers are an element that no one knows how to handle. Denied love or dignity or patrimony or tradition or any culture but television, they rock around on the deck of an unstable society, their bread given to them by underpaid welfare workers, their hopes at zero, their mothers despised, their hearth the gutter, a sub-culture in a general American urban culture which itself does not know where it is going”).

89. Virga, Vincent.

Eyes of the Nation – A Visual History of the United States.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. 24 cm x 31 cm. 399 pages. With more than 500 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

90. Sprague, Marshall.

The Great Gates. The Story of The Rocky Mountain Passes. With illustrations and maps.

First Edition. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1964. Octavo. VII, 468 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. One corner of the rare dustjacket with small damage. Otherwise in near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

91. Shaw, Simon.

Frontier House. Simon Shaw with Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith. Photography by Audrey Hall.

New York a. o, Atria Books, 2002. 22cm x 28.5cm 232 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

92. Schlesinger, Rudi.

Die Zollpolitik der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika [USA] von der Beendigung des Weltkrieges bis zum Fordney-Mc-Cumber-Tarif [United States customs policy from the end of World War II to the Fordney McCumber Tariff].

German Edition. Jena, G. Fischer, 1926. 8°. X, 106 Seiten. Hardcover / Gebundene Ausgabe. Halbleinen mit eingebundener Originalbroschur. Sehr gut erhaltenes, ehemaliges Bibliotheksexemplar. [Finanzwissenschaftliche und volkswirtschaftliche Studien ; H. 6]

93. Schama, Simon.

Rough Crossings – Britain, The Slaves and the American Revolution.

London, BBC Books, 2005. 16 cm x 24 cm. 448 pages with illustrations. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding.

94. Riesman, David.

Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies in Character and Politics.

First Edition. New Haven, Yale U.P., 1952. 24cm x 16.2cm. xii, 751 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Fine in near fine dust jacket showing some darkening to spine. From the library of Martin S. Dworkin, with his discrete ownership-embossing to front free end paper. (Studies in national policy series).

95. Potter, Jean.

The Flying North.

Third Printing of the First Edition. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1965. Octavo. XIV, 261 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Unusual in this excellent condition.

96. Nevins, Allan.

Ordeal of the Union. Volume I – Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847 – 1852 / Volume II – A House Dividing – 1852 – 1857.

2 Volumes. New York, Scribner, [1992]. 24 cm. Volume I – XIV, 594 pages with numerous illustrations and maps / Volume II – VIII, 590 pages with many illustrations and maps. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only very minor signs of wear. Some mild signs of foxing only.

97. Morgan, Ted.

Valley of Death – The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War.

New York, Random House, 2010. 16 cm x 24 cm. XXII, 722 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Rare. Out of print.

98. Mills, C. Wright.

The New Men in Power – America’s Labor Leaders. With the assistance of Helen Schneider.

First Edition. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 323 pages. Several tables throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with obvious signs of external wear to the dust jacket and minor wear to the cover. Pages only slighty discoloured. Name in ink pen on endpaper. Annotations in pencil throughout.

99. Mead, Robert Douglas.

Journeys Down the Line – Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

First Edition. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. 15 cm x 22 cm. 609 pages with a Map to the pastedown and endpaper, totled “Alaska and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline”, showing the Route of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline between Prudhoe Bay and Valdez in the Gulf of Alaska. Original Hardcover andl illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled fore edge. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare.

100. Lord, Walter.

Day of Infamy: Pearl Harbour December 7th 1941.

First British Edition. London, Longmans, 1957. Octavo. 243 pages. Original Hardcover with vintage dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.