![3730833] Highboy Rings Down the Curtain. [Limited Edition, Signed]. George Agnew Chamberlain,...](/pictures/thumb/3730833_1.jpg?v=1632404236)
Scarce American fiction, horses being the theme, in an interesting binding. This novelette was written by this Brazilian-born author who studied at Princeton, had a...... Read More about Highboy Rings Down the Curtain. [Limited Edition, Signed
![3731179] [Autograph Letter Signed by George Barker, Jr., British Artist and Picture Restorer who...](/pictures/thumb/3731179_1.jpg?v=1642439159)
Letter of introduction by artist George Barker, Jr. (1818–1883) who trained under his father, George Sr., as a picture restorer. George Jr. restored paintings for..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed by George Barker, Jr., British Artist and Picture Restorer who once...
![3730517] Speech of George Chambers, on the Judicial Tenure. Delivered in the Convention of...](/pictures/thumb/3730517_1.jpg?v=1621789983)
Speech given by jurist George Chambers (1786-1866) at Pennsylvania’s 1837-1838 Constitutional Convention. “In 1836 Chambers’s constituency asked him to represent Franklin County as a member..... Read More about Speech of George Chambers, on the Judicial Tenure. Delivered in the Convention of Pennsylvania,...
![3727575] The Trend of the Races. [Review Copy with Ephemera]. George E. Haynes](/pictures/thumb/3727575_1.jpg?v=1540332418)
Accompanying this book is a small 3pp., leaflet, in part, describing the work, thus: “A thoughtful attempt to show the relations between the white and..... Read More about The Trend of the Races. [Review Copy with Ephemera
![3727817] Slave Ships and Slaving. George Francis Dow](/pictures/thumb/3727817_1.jpg?v=1597693166)
An historical narrative of the African slave trade between the early 1500’s to 1859. Dow’s book “describes the warfare between tribes and the taking of..... Read More about Slave Ships and Slaving
![3732966] Letters from Labrador. (Association Copy, Signed by Wilfred Grenfell). George Francis...](/pictures/thumb/3732966_1.jpg?v=1674243914)
First edition of this privately-printed collection of five letters from the author’s time in Labrador with Sir Wilfred Grenfell. The final letter is signed in..... Read More about Letters from Labrador. (Association Copy, Signed by Wilfred Grenfell
![3732430] The Crown of Life. George Gissing](/pictures/thumb/3732430_1.jpg?v=1678223405)
First American edition. “A late and surprisingly romantic novel for Gissing, written at a period when his second marriage was falling apart ... As a...... Read More about The Crown of Life
![3731239] [9 Issues] Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Union League. [1866—1881]....](/pictures/thumb/3731239_1.jpg?v=1638428736)
Nine annual reports (4th–11th and 19th) from this Philadelphia political and social club founded in 1862 during the Civil War to support President Abraham Lincoln..... Read More about 9 Issues] Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Union League. [1866—1881
![3726056] 1850 Autograph Letter Signed by George Lyman of Wadsworth, Ohio, seeking to be Newspaper...](/pictures/thumb/3726056_1.jpg?v=1534362328)
Brief letter from George Lyman of Wadsworth, Ohio seeking summer employment as a subscription agent for a family newspaper: If you think proper to appoint..... Read More about 1850 Autograph Letter Signed by George Lyman of Wadsworth, Ohio, seeking to be Newspaper...
![3727705] Poems and Near-Poems. George M. Bilger](/pictures/thumb/3727705_1.jpg?v=1537471786)
Scarce collection of American poetry and essays with an unusual imprint: Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Punxsutawney, [Pennsylvania]: Press of the Spirit Publishing Company, 1912. 87pp. First Edition..... Read More about Poems and Near-Poems
![3731950] 1799 Autograph Letter Signed by George Pattison of Carlisle, Pennsylvania enquiring...](/pictures/thumb/3731950_1.jpg?v=1659034746)
Letter of enquiry asking about the character and family of “a yong ladie Miss Mary McConnel” of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Asking for a reply from..... Read More about 1799 Autograph Letter Signed by George Pattison of Carlisle, Pennsylvania enquiring about the...
![3729544] A History of the Freedmen’s Bureau. George R. Bentley](/pictures/thumb/3729544_1.jpg?v=1597517362)
Important history of the post-Civil War agency established in 1865 by President Abraham Lincoln to aid Black refugees and those formerly-enslaved. In 1872, Congress failed..... Read More about A History of the Freedmen’s Bureau
![3730605] Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature ... Philosophical Miscellanies, Translated from...](/pictures/thumb/3730605_1.jpg?v=1644595468)
Compilation of writings by three French philosophers edited and with notes by American Transcendentalist writer and critic George Ripley (1802–1880). Ripley was an original member..... Read More about Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature ... Philosophical Miscellanies, Translated from the...
![3729933] A letter containing remarks on Abbott’s Corner Stone by the Rev’d George Scott on...](/pictures/thumb/3729933_1.jpg?v=1610478494)
Fair copy of a letter reacting to a critical review of American writer, educator, and Congregational clergyman Jacob Abbott’s book The Corner-Stone (1834). The review..... Read More about A letter containing remarks on Abbott’s Corner Stone by the Rev’d George Scott on reading a...
![3731780] 1822 Kennebunk, Maine Legal Document Proving the Last Will and Testament of Ephraim...](/pictures/thumb/3731780_1.jpg?v=1677258374)
True copies of the will of Captain Ephraim Perkins (1748–1822) and the probate court document proving it, each attested to and signed by George Thacher..... Read More about 1822 Kennebunk, Maine Legal Document Proving the Last Will and Testament of Ephraim Perkins of...
![3728477] The Silent South together with The Freedman’s Case in Equity and the Convict Lease...](/pictures/thumb/3728477_1.jpg?v=1552931639)
Scarce first edition. One of 1500 copies printed. Noted work by this New Orleans native, discussing the “Negro Problem” and especially critical of the Southern..... Read More about The Silent South together with The Freedman’s Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System
![3728478] The Negro Question. [Provenance]. George W. Cable, J E. Bruce, 1844–1925,...](/pictures/thumb/3728478_1.jpg?v=1552931640)
First edition. Toward the end of his literary career, New Orleans-native and Southern author George W. Cable turned from popular novels—e.g. Old Creole Days, Madame..... Read More about The Negro Question. [Provenance
![3730101] A Brief Description of Phil-Ellena, the Country Seat of George W. Carpenter at...](/pictures/thumb/3730101_1.jpg?v=1620792373)
Description of the Greek Revival mansion—one of the largest in America, “Phil-Ellena,” designed by Philadelphia carpenter-architect William L. Johnston (1811-1849) for scientist and druggist George..... Read More about A Brief Description of Phil-Ellena, the Country Seat of George W. Carpenter at Germantown,...
![3732369] Testimony Against Gertrude Stein. [cover title]. Eugene Jolas Georges Braque, Tristan...](/pictures/thumb/3732369_1.jpg?v=1666802466)
“In later years Braque, Eugene Jolas, Matisse, Andre Salmon, and Tristan Tzara published jointly a Testimony against Gertrude Stein (1935), in which they denied her..... Read More about Testimony Against Gertrude Stein. [cover title
![3726135] First Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Georgetown Seminary. Georgetown,...](/pictures/thumb/3726135_1.jpg?v=1534362337)
Rare first catalog for the Georgetown Seminary located in Georgetown Township, Vermilion County. We find no material specific to this institution on OCLC. Byrd 1576..... Read More about First Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Georgetown Seminary. Georgetown, Illinois,...
![3732013] Flight and Rebellion. Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia. Gerald W. Mullin](/pictures/thumb/3732013_1.jpg?v=1659034749)
Mullin examines resistance by African Americans in Virginia during the 18th-century as the predecessor to the extraordinary slave revolt in 1800, the insurrection led by..... Read More about Flight and Rebellion. Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
![3732987] Four 1930s trade catalogs for “America’s Most Popular Boys Shoes” made by...](/pictures/thumb/3732987_1.jpg?v=1677619804)
Heavily-illustrated, a lovely collection of four manufacturer trade catalogs distributed to shoe stores by the Gerberich-Payne Shoe Company, soliciting orders. From “Little Gents’ Brown Elk..... Read More about Four 1930s trade catalogs for “America’s Most Popular Boys Shoes” made by Gerberich-Payne...
![3727547] The Disposal of Sewage of Isolated Country Houses. Wm. Paul Gerhard, William Paul](/pictures/thumb/3727547_1.jpg?v=1535567313)
An 1890 Providence, Rhode Island edition is noted in OCLC in two holdings, but this present edition is unrecorded within. Gerhard was a consulting engineer..... Read More about The Disposal of Sewage of Isolated Country Houses
![3731421] Veiled Aristocrats. Gertrude Sanborn, 1881–1928](/pictures/thumb/3731421_1.jpg?v=1675300067)
A novel of African Americans “passing” for white including an interracial romance; partly set in Chicago. Written by Gertrude Sanborn (1881–1928), the novel attacked racism..... Read More about Veiled Aristocrats
![3732227] Selected Writings Of Gertrude Stein. Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten](/images/noimage-req.png)
Edited and with an introduction by by Carl Van Vechten. With stamp to bottom margin of title page: “Erich Itor and Frida Kahn Collection.” Erich..... Read More about Selected Writings Of Gertrude Stein
