Yonkers, N.Y: Printed at the Office of the Semi-Weekly Clarion, 1862. Sewn, lacking wrappers. 23 cm. 32 pp. Fremont's Republican party campaign document. Previously published in No. 3 of the Crisis Papers. More
Worcester, MA: published by the Society, 1922. First separate edition, reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for April, 1921. 8vo. 21 pp. Series of letters written to Samuel Swarthout, primarily during Jackson's campaign for the presidency in 1824; Swarthout (1783-1856), soldier, merchant, speculator, and politician, was an..... More
Boston [MA]: Printed for the Author, by Homer & Palmer, Congress Street, 1835. First edition. Two volumes. 22 cm. 96; 97-172 pp. Original printed paper wrappers on each part. Part one ends in mid-sentence, and commences with the rest of the sentence in part two, as intended by the printer..... More
NY: Lith. of Wm. Endicott & Co., nd [ca.1850?]. Broadside (laid down), 65 x 43 cm., depicting Robert Mills' original design for the Washington Monument, including a terrace and pantheon around its base, C.G. Crehen (lithographer?). A horse-drawn chariot decorates the pantheon's terrace roof, the obelisk is decorated with a...... More
New York: Johnson, Fry, (c1867). First edition in Spanish (published in English the previous year). 4to. 230 pp. 17 steel engraved portraits, one for each of the presidents from Washington to Johnson, extra-engraved title-page illustrated from a painting of the White House. Not in Sabin (cf. Sabin 21500 for the..... More
Np: Privately printed, (at the De Vinne Press), 1910. 8vo. 413 pp. Includes a long essay on the capture of Jefferson Davis as the Civil War ended. Complimentary slip from the compiler, Burton Harrison, tipped to front endpaper. Gilt-stamped red cloth (some edgewear, rubbing). Very good. (. More
Richmond, (VA): Garrett and Massie, 1931. First edition. 4to. 139 pp. Illustrated, plates, plans. Gilt-stamped decorated blue cloth (rubbed, some speckling to cloth), illustrated linen dust jacket (somewhat worn, frayed at the edges). More
Newburyport, (MA): Printed by Edmund M. Blunt, 1800. First edition. 8vo. 61 pp. With the half-title. Sabin 25980. Evans 37477. Some foxing, else very good. Disbound pamphlet. (#7524). More
Indianapolis, (IN): Bobbs-Merrill, (c1941). First Edition, 1/250 copies (this #44) of the Illinois Edition, signed by the author. 8vo. 334 pp. Illustrated from old paintings and drawings, plates, portraits, maps. Biography of the American general and future president through the end of the Mexican War; a native of Virginia, Taylor..... More
New York: Lith & Pub by N Currier, 2 Spruce St., NY, nd [early 1840s]. Color lithograph portrait of William Henry Harrison framed by a thin double-rule, 11 1/4 x 9 inches on a larger sheet, 18 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches, the president seated at his writing desk, quill..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Griff & Elliot, 1840. First edition. 8vo. 96 pp. Illustrated from lithographs, frontispiece portrait, plates. Anonymous campaign biography written for Harrison before his successful run for the Presidency against the incumbent Martin Van Buren. Howes H-246. Sabin 30585. Thomson, p. 151. Hinges strengthened with cloth tape, bookplate on..... More
Charlottesville, (VA): U. Press of Virginia, (c1999). First edition (paperback original). 4to. x, (2), 81 pp. Illustrated from photographs, old art, and line drawings, facsimiles, maps & plans. Original color illustrated wrappers. Very good. More
Hartford, (CT): Belknap & Hamersley, 1836. Second edition. 12mo. xvi, (2), [13]-372, (2), (10) pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Van Buren. Errata leaf, five leaves of testimonials for the first edition. Inscribed by the author in 1837 to Emily W. Ellsworth, Noah Webster's eldest daughter. Contemporary calf, gilt, wide gilt..... More
[Washington, DC]: (GPO, 1932). Broadsheet, 10 1/2 x 8 inches, announcing the certain public lands, as listed here, be "temporarily withdrawn for classification as to their suitability for migratory bird refuge purposes." The lands are listed by section number in the Willamette Meridian." Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Very good..... More
New York: Huntington Press, 1930. First edition, 1/990 (this #331). 8vo. viii, 41 pp. Plates, initial letters printed in green, vignette on title page printed in green. Inscribed by the President on the rear endpaper to angling book author Richard C. Hunt, with Hoover's typed note signed thanking Hunt for..... More
(Troy, NY): Troy Budget -- Extra, 1828. 8vo. 16 pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched; punch holes from binding with other pamphlets, some browning to text but a very good copy. First edition. The convention was particularly exercised by the Adams administration's wasteful spending. OCLC cites five copies (Boston Athenaeum, Yale..... More
New York: Lith & Pub by N Currier, 2 Spruce St., NY, nd [late 1830s]. Color lithograph portrait of Andrew Jackson framed by a thin double-rule, 11 3/8 x 9 inches on a larger sheet, 18 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches, the president seated at his desk, his right hand..... More
[Boston?] District Court of Massachusetts copyright: E. Bailey, 1836. Complete text of Andrew Jackson's first inaugural address, engraved throughout, printed in miniature on white glazed heavy card stock, 16 1/2 x 12 cm., enclosed in a decorative leaf border. Vignette portrait of Jackson, plus a paragraph of biographical information, centered..... More
Washington, (DC): Globe - Extra [printed at head of sheet}, [edited] by F.P. Blair, 1831. Broadside newspaper extra, 23 x 15 inches, large display type for "Globe - Extra." Jackson's 1831 state of the union message. A rosy picture of affairs, with plentiful crops and commerce, amicable relations with nations..... More
[NP]: American and Herald Extra, Saturday, July 14, 1832. Newspaper broadside, in six columns, 56 x 39.5 cm. Rebacked with slight damage showing along old folds. Inscribed on verso to Capt. S.T. Northam, Newport R.I., from a person (name illegible), likely also a resident of a city in R.I. Northam..... More
Richmond, VA: Bailie & Gallaher, printers, 1837. Broadside printed on silk, 33 1/4 x 27 inches, the head in bold capitals, the whole enclosed within an ornamental border. The address closes with a warning: "It is from within, among yourselves -- from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate..... More
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Washington, [DC]: National Intelligencer--Extra. Tuesday, December 8, 1835. Large folio broadsheet, six columns on the recto and five on the verso. Browned, some spotting, old fold lines, with some small breaks at folds, slight loss to a few words. Pres. Jackson's State of the Union address extolling being debt free..... More
Tuscaloosa [AL]: Wiley, McGuire and Henry, Prs. nd [1832]. Broadside printed on silk, 60 x 49 cm, first line of title in bold capitals, the text enclosed within a wide ornamental border. Old staining to margins, partly into text, but all legible, damage and some loss to upper margin of..... More
Paterson, New Jersey: Alexander S. Gould, Printer, [1832-3?]. Broadside, printed on silk. 66 x 51 cm. Seven columns of text. A few pieces missing along outer margins of border, a few tears within text. Jackson attacks the South Carolina Convention that passed the nullification ordinance, denounces nullification as treason and..... More
NP: np, nd [1829?]. Broadside printed on silk, 13 x 10 1/2 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, the text enclosed within a wide ornamental double-rule. This printing apparently not in American Imprints. Not in "Threads of History." Not recorded on OCLC (which does locate a single copy..... More
