Marching toward freedom; the Negro in the Civil War, 1861-1865, illustrated with contemporary prints & photographs
New York: Pantheon Books, 1967. Hardcover. 181p., dj. European American historian. Living history library. More
Cat.No: 18268
Civil War
Fragments of the ark
New York: Pocket Books, 1994. Hardcover. 342p., first printing, dj. Civil War novel by the African American author of DADDY WAS A NUMBERS RUNNER. More
Cat.No: 10304
Unknown Friends: A Civil War Romance; Letters of My Father & My Mother
Chicago: A. Kroch & Sons, 1948. Hardcover. 110p., decorations, foreword, facsimile letters, photos, lengthy personal inscription signed by Morse datelined 1951, "the daughter", very good first edition in blue cloth boards gilt and with red and gilt panel on cover, mild rubbing and wear. More
Cat.No: 213328
The last political writings of gen. Nathaniel Lyon, U.S.A. with a sketch of his life and military services
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1861. 275p., tissue-guarded frontis portrait (steel-engraved), first edition black cloth boards titled gilt and panelled blind. Badly edgeworn casing; head and tail are missing quarter-inch strips of cloth rim, upper joint begun to split, turned corner tips, cardstock exposed along edges, discolorations from handling; textblock..... More
Cat.No: 169150
The old man, John Brown at Harper's Ferry
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. Hardcover. 304p., first edition, dj shows some tearing at edges, creasing to front flap. More
Cat.No: 7920
War elections, 1862-1864. The struggle for national unity in the free states during the critical years of the Civil War, and the triumph of the coalition forces in the re-election of President Lincoln
New York: International Publishers, [1944]. 48p., wraps with minor shelf wear else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 55410
Our fiery trial; Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, and the Civil War era
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979. Hardcover. ix, 150p., bit rubbed dj. More
Cat.No: 84479
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A Shower of Stars: the Medal of Honor and the 27th Maine [signed]
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966. Hardcover. 269p., bibliography, notes, index, illustrations, warm personal inscription signed by the author on the flyleaf, very good first edition stated in cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 248307
The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865
Austin: The University of Texas, 1922. Paperback. 213p., covers a bit soiled with wear to edges. wraps. University of Texas #2205. More
Cat.No: 71328
The fugitive slave law and Anthony Burns: a project in law enforcement
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975. Paperback. ix, 103p., first printing, somewhat soiled wraps. More
Cat.No: 99665
The freshness of fanaticism: Abby Kelley Foster: an essay in reform. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy; supervised by Herbert Gutman.
Rochester / Ann Arbor: The University of Rochester / University Microfilms, Inc., 1969. Hardcover. Unpublished thesis; vii, 276p., photocopied rectos only and cased into utilitarian buckram boards spine-titled. One instance of neat underlining on p.137, an otherwise very good copy. Foster was a force in the anti-slavery lecture circuit from..... More
Cat.No: 175015
Journey into America; With Illustrations in Color by Lynd Ward
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. Hardcover. 276p., color endsheets and title page; hardbound first edition casebound in red cloth boards titled dark blue., mild external signs of handling and age (faint dust, faint dampstain along the cover joint), wartime paperstock a bit toned, titlepage and several adjacent leaves bear a small..... More
Cat.No: 194459
Notes on ordnance of the American Civil War 1861 - 1865
Washington: The American Ordnance Assoc. 1959. [20p.] 8.5x10 inches, foreword, illustrated with drawings of ordnance and tables, very good in original stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 123217
Cornelius Cole California pioneer and United States senator, a study in personality and achievements bearing upon the growth of a commonwealth
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, Printer, 1929. Hardcover. vii, 379p., inserted plates and facsimiles throughout, some folding, small thick quarto of marbled paper over boards, some loosness or bubling to the cloth, white leather label and gilt titles, untrimmed, and some pages unopened, no colophon or notice of limitation but..... More
Cat.No: 213545
The kidnapped and the ransomed
New York: Negro Publication Society of America, 1941. Hardcover. 315p., first NPSA edition, very good hardcover in dj. The European American writer's story of the two black brothers was originally published in 1856 Series I, History, #1. More
Cat.No: 18281
New masters; northern planters during the civil war and reconstruction
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. Hardcover. xiv, 253p., last page before endpapers is creased along its length. DJ shows slight wear, else very good. More
Cat.No: 85765
The Negro in the Civil War
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. Hardcover. xvi, 379p., book club edition. edgeworn and spine-sunned dj, else very good. African American historian. More
Cat.No: 9713
Diary of a Christian soldier; Rufus Kinsley and the Civil War
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Hardcover. xxi, 281p., review sheet laid in,dj. The white Vermonter became and officer in the Second Louisiana Corps d'Afrique, and kept a diary of the campaigns, which Ranking annotates. More
Cat.No: 89210
Race & politics; "Bleeding Kansas" and the coming of the Civil War
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1969. Hardcover. xvi, 304p., very good first edition, bit rubbed and soiled price clipped dj. European American historian. Critical periods of history. More
Cat.No: 25736
Horace Greeley a biographical sketch. Prepared for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, at the request of its publishers
no city: no publisher, 1879. 29p., sewn signatures in paste-fastened plain printed wraps, cover and several leaves dust-soiled with some hazy old mildew (no mustiness), flecks (of iron? food?) here and there within with offsetting, a sound but slightly repulsive copy. More
Cat.No: 174702
Country Before Party. The Voice of Loyal Democrats.
Washington DC: Weed, Parsons & Co., Printers, [1864]. Pamphlet. 16p., sewn pamphlet in 8.5x5.5 inch self-wraps, somewhat foxed with small light pencilled numerals in one corner, free of any other markings and quite sound, a very good copy. Union Campaign Docs., No. 4. More
Cat.No: 189943
Pilgrim's letters; bits of current history picked up in the West and the South, during the last thirty years, for the Independent, the Congregationalist, and the Advance
Boston: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, 1888. 310p., preface, index, very good first edition in green cloth and gilt. Pencil notes on endpaper by previous owner, Albert Salisbury who was an early settler of White Water, Wisconsin and who is mentioned on page 278. Signed by him in pencil. More
Cat.No: 155976
The diary of Edmund Ruffin; edited, with an introduction and notes, by William Kauffman Scarborough, with a foreword by Avery Craven
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972 and 1976. Two volumes, very good in djs. Volume I: Toward independence, October 1856-April 1861, xlviii, 664p., small closed tear in dj; volume II: The years of hope, April, 1861-June, 1863, xxxv, 706p. More
Cat.No: 118544
The Negro in the Armed Forces; His Value and Status-Past, Present, and Potential
Washington: The Associated Publishers, 1945. Hardcover. ix, 84p., slightly stained dj with some discoloration to lower edge of rear board, generally very good. More
Cat.No: 157065
Dollars over dominion; the triumph of liberalism in Mexican-United States relations, 1861 - 1867
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. Hardcover. xx, 316p., first edition cloth boards in a slightly worn dj. More
Cat.No: 58518